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- Role
- Head Coach
- Team
Panathinaikos- Nationality
- Serbia
- Born
- 9 Mar 1960
Zeljko Obradovic has won the EuroLeague nine times. No one else has won it more than four. He is the Panathinaikos head coach, back at the club he left in 2012. He was born in Cacak on 9 March 1960.
He won his first one in his first season on the bench. Partizan, 1992, with a team that could not play at home because of the war. He was thirty-two. Eight more have followed, at four different clubs.
Between Athens and Athens there were fourteen years. Fenerbahce took him in 2013 and he won a ninth title there in 2017. Partizan brought him home in 2021. He resigned in November 2025, and Panathinaikos called in June.
FAQ About Zeljko Obradovic
Which clubs has Obradovic won the EuroLeague with?
Four. Partizan in 1992, Joventut Badalona in 1994 and Real Madrid in 1995, then five with Panathinaikos, in 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011, and a ninth with Fenerbahce in 2017. He has won it in four countries and in four different decades.
What did he win as a player?
More than most coaches ever do. He was a point guard at Borac and then Partizan, where he won the Yugoslav league in 1987 and the Korac Cup in 1989. With Yugoslavia he took Olympic silver in 1988 and won the World Championship in 1990.
Has he coached a national team?
Yugoslavia, from 1996 to 2000, and later Serbia and Montenegro. He won EuroBasket in 1997 and the World Championship in 1998, took Olympic silver in 1996 and a European bronze in 1999. Four medals in four years.
Coaching record
- Zeljko Obradovic takes over Panathinaikos on a 3-year dealCoaching Change
Partizan and Zeljko Obradovic part waysReleased
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