The head coach is the one slot in EuroLeague Fantasy that almost nobody researches. You get ten players and one coach, and most managers pick the coach last, out of whatever credits are left over.
That is a mistake, and the official rules encourage it. The EuroLeague site says a coach win is worth 20 points and a loss is worth nothing. That is not how it works. The operator’s own rules run a six-tier table based on the margin of the result, and the difference between the top tier and the bottom tier is 45 points in a single game.
Across 38 rounds, the gap between the best coach on the board and the worst is worth more than most managers gain from an entire season of clever trades. Here is the mechanic, the full price list, and who we are buying.
How Head Coaches Score Points
The coach earns points on the result of his club’s game, not on anything he personally does. He collects 100 percent of his score, the same as your starting five and your sixth man, and he keeps scoring even if he is suspended, absent, or has been fired, as long as his club plays.
| Result | Margin | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Win | By 20 or more | +25 |
| Win | By 11 to 20 | +20 |
| Win | By 1 to 10, or in overtime | +10 |
| Loss | By 1 to 10, or in overtime | -5 |
| Loss | By 11 to 20 | -10 |
| Loss | By 20 or more | -20 |
Two things stand out immediately from that table.
A coach whose team wins by 21 is worth two and a half times a coach whose team wins by 9. And a coach whose team loses by 21 costs you more than two comfortable wins. The coach slot is the only place in your squad where a single bad night can go negative by 20.
The official EuroLeague page describing this rule is wrong. It states a flat +20 for a win and 0 for a loss. The operator’s published rules, which the game actually runs on, use the table above. If you have been building around the flat version, you have been valuing the whole slot incorrectly.
What That Scoring Actually Rewards
It rewards blowouts, not winning percentage. Consider two coaches with the same record. One wins 20 games, all of them by six or seven points, and loses 18 by single digits. His season lands near 200 minus 90, so roughly 110 points. The other wins the same 20 games but half of them by more than 20, and his losses are also heavier. His wins alone are worth close to 350.
That is the entire question for this slot. Not who the better coach is, and not even whose team finishes higher. Who coaches a team likely to bury weaker opponents and unlikely to be buried itself?
Two practical consequences follow.
The first is that the deep, top-heavy rosters are where coach points live. A club with eleven rotation players who can hold a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter converts a +20 into a +25. A club that empties its bench and lets a lead slip converts the same game into a +10.
Second, the bottom of the table is genuinely dangerous. A coach at 4.2 credits is not free. He is a slot that can post minus 20 in a round and then do it again next week.
All 20 Head Coach Prices for 2026-27
Prices and coaches last checked October 5, 2026
| Coach | Club | Price | 2025-26 | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgios Bartzokas |  Olympiacos | 9.9 | 26-12 | Champions |
| Zeljko Obradovic |  Panathinaikos | 11.1 | 22-16 | 7th, playoffs |
| Pedro Martinez |  Real Madrid | 8.1 | 24-14 | 3rd, runners-up |
| Sarunas Jasikevicius |  Fenerbahce | 9.4 | 24-14 | 4th, Final Four |
| Dimitris Itoudis |  Hapoel Tel Aviv | 8.3 | 23-15 | 6th, playoffs |
| Aleksander Sekulic |  Barcelona | 8.1 | 21-17 | 9th, Play-In |
| Xavi Pascual |  Dubai | 7.9 | 19-19 | 11th |
| Pablo Laso |  Anadolu Efes | 7.0 | 12-26 | 19th |
| Tomas Masiulis |  Zalgiris | 7.0 | 23-15 | 5th, playoffs |
| Giuseppe Poeta |  Milano | 6.4 | 17-21 | 14th |
| Ibon Navarro |  Crvena Zvezda | 6.5 | 21-17 | 10th, Play-In |
| Xavi Albert |  Valencia | 7.9 | 25-13 | 2nd, Final Four |
| Joan Penarroya |  Partizan | 7.2 | 16-22 | 15th |
| Oded Kattash |  Maccabi Tel Aviv | 5.2 | 18-20 | 12th |
| Dusan Alimpijevic |  Besiktas | 5.7 | EuroCup | EuroCup final |
| Tony Parker |  ASVEL | 5.1 | 8-30 | 20th |
| Alex Mumbru |  Virtus Bologna | 4.7 | 14-24 | 17th |
| Anton Gavel |  Bayern Munich | 4.3 | 17-21 | 13th |
| Maxime Lefevre |  Paris | 4.4 | 15-23 | 16th |
| Paolo Galbiati |  Baskonia | 4.2 | 13-25 | 18th |
The Premium Tier
Georgios Bartzokas, Olympiacos, 9.9. The champion, the best record in the league at 26-12, and a roster deep enough to keep winning margins wide when the game is already decided. If you want the highest floor on the board, it is here. The problem is not the quality, it is that you are spending a tenth of your budget on one slot.
Zeljko Obradovic, Panathinaikos, 11.1. The same price as the champion for a team that finished seventh at 22-16, needed the Play-In to survive, and then lost a playoff series 2-3 to Valencia. Obradovic is Obradovic, and Panathinaikos will be better than seventh. But you are paying champion money for last season’s Play-In record, and Panathinaikos plays a lot of close games, which is the worst profile for this slot.
Pedro Martinez, Real Madrid, 8.1. He took Valencia to second place at 25-13 and a Final Four, and he now has the roster that went 24-14 and reached the final. The ceiling is enormous. The caution is that this is a new coach installing a new system at a club with no patience, and the first six rounds of a system change are exactly where coach points go missing.
Sarunas Jasikevicius, Fenerbahce, 9.4. Continuity, which nobody else in the premium tier has. 24-14, fourth, a playoff series won 3-1 before losing the semifinal to Olympiacos. Same coach, same system, deep roster. If you want a premium coach without the transition risk that comes with Martinez, this is the one.
Dimitris Itoudis, Hapoel Tel Aviv, 8.3. 23-15 and sixth in Hapoel’s breakthrough season, then a 1-3 playoff exit against Real Madrid. 8.3 is steep for a club that has not yet proved it can blow anybody out.
The Value Tier
Xavi Albert, Valencia, 7.9. This is the pick of the entire board. Valencia finished second at 25-13, beat Panathinaikos in a five-game playoff series, and reached the Final Four. Albert was promoted from within the club when Martinez left for Madrid, so the system does not change, only the name on the bench. You are getting the second-best record in the league for three credits less than the champion. The price is set on the coach’s name, not on the team’s results, and that is exactly the inefficiency you want to find.
Tomas Masiulis, Zalgiris, 7.0. 23-15 and fifth, a playoff berth, and a Kaunas crowd that turns home games into the kind of blowouts this slot rewards. The best record-to-price ratio above 7.0.
Aleksander Sekulic, Barcelona, 8.1. Barcelona went 21-17, finished ninth, and went out in the Play-In. Eight credits for a team that did not reach the playoffs is the weakest price-to-record ratio in the top half of the board.
Xavi Pascual, Dubai, 7.9. Dubai went 19-19 and eleventh in their first EuroLeague season, which is a genuinely good debut. But 7.9 is priced on the club’s spending and Pascual’s reputation, not on a result that has happened yet.
Pablo Laso, Anadolu Efes, 7.0. Efes went 12-26 and finished nineteenth. Laso is new, and the rebuild is real, but 7.0 credits for a team that lost 26 games is a bet on a transformation, not on a record.
Ibon Navarro, Crvena Zvezda, 6.5. Zvezda went 21-17, finished tenth, and lost their Play-In opener. Navarro is new. Belgrade produces the home blowouts this slot likes, but it also produces road losses that bite.
Giuseppe Poeta, Milano, 6.4. Milano went 17-21 and fourteenth, and Poeta is a first year EuroLeague head coach at a club in transition. Seven credits is optimistic.
Oded Kattash, Maccabi Tel Aviv, 5.2. 18-20 and twelfth. Fairly priced, and that is the problem. Nothing here is mispriced in your favor.
Joan Penarroya, Partizan, 7.2. Partizan went 16-22 and finished fifteenth last season, and Penarroya arrives from Barcelona. Belgrade’s home floor matters. Fifteenth place is worth less.
The Floor Tier
One coaches sit at the minimum price of 4.2, and the difference between them is not the price; it is how badly their clubs lose.
Anton Gavel, Bayern Munich, 4.3. The best of the four by record, 17-21 and thirteenth. Bayern loses, but it loses close, and that is the whole argument for a floor-priced coach. If you are spending 11.1 elsewhere and need the cheapest coach that will not bleed you, this is it.
Maxime Lefevre, Paris, 4.4. 15-23 and sixteenth. Paris plays fast, which cuts both ways here. Fast teams produce wide margins in both directions.
Alex Mumbru, Virtus Bologna, 4.7. 14-24 and seventeenth.
Paolo Galbiati, Baskonia, 4.2. 13-25 and eighteenth. The heaviest loss profile of the four.
Dusan Alimpijevic, Besiktas, 5.7. The only coach on the board with no EuroLeague record from last season. Besiktas came up through the EuroCup, where they lost the final 0-2 to JL Bourg. A newly promoted club takes heavy losses in its first EuroLeague season more often than not, and every one of those is minus 20. Six credits for that risk is not a bargain.
Tony Parker, ASVEL, 5.1. ASVEL finished last at 8-30. Parker, the club’s president, has taken over as head coach himself, and this is his first job on a bench. Six credits for the worst record in the league under a first-time coach is the clearest win on this page.
What We Are Doing in Round 1
Xavi Albert at 7.9. Second-best record in the league, no system change, three credits cheaper than the two coaches at the top. If we are wrong about anything on this page, it is not this.
If you want the safe version, Bartzokas at 9.9 and accept that you are five credits lighter everywhere else.
Finally, if you are building a squad that needs every credit, Gavel at 4.3 is the floor-priced coach least likely to post minus 20.
What Five Credits Actually Buys
The spread between the most expensive coach and the cheapest is 6.9 credits. That is not an abstract number. In the current price list, five credits is the difference between a forward priced around 10.4 and one priced around 15.5, which in practice is the difference between a rotation piece and a player you captain.
So the question is never whether Bartzokas outscores Galbiati. He will. The question is whether he outscores him by more than the upgrade those five credits buys in your starting five. Over a full season, with the margin table above, that is a much closer call than the price gap suggests.
Track It Every Round
Coach points move with margins, and margins move with matchups. We publish fixture difficulty for all 20 clubs before every round, and the head coach pick sits inside each round page. If your coach’s club is facing a bottom-four opponent at home, that is a +20 or +25 week, and it is the week to make sure he is in your squad.
FAQ About EuroLeague Fantasy Head Coach Prices
How many points does a head coach score in EuroLeague Fantasy?
It depends entirely on the margin. A win by 20 or more is worth 25 points, a win by 11 to 20 is worth 20, and a win by 10 or less, or in overtime, is worth 10. Losses subtract: 5 points for a defeat by 10 or less or in overtime, 10 points for a defeat by 11 to 20, and 20 points for a defeat by 20 or more.
Is it true that a coach win is worth 20 points and a loss is worth nothing?
No, and this is the most common mistake in the game. The official EuroLeague page describing the coach slot says exactly that, but it contradicts the operator’s own published rules, which run the six tier margin table above. If you have been valuing the slot on a flat win bonus, you have been valuing it wrong.
Does the coach score full points or half?
Full. The head coach collects 100 percent of his score, the same as your starting five and your sixth man. Only the four players on your bench are halved.
Does a coach still score if he is fired or suspended?
Yes. The rules are explicit about it. Even in the event of dismissal, absence or disqualification, the coach still receives his score as long as his club plays that round.
How much of my budget should the coach take?
You have 100 credits for eleven slots, and coaches run from 5.0 to 10.0. The most expensive coach is a tenth of your whole budget, and the spread between the cheapest and the most expensive is five credits, which is roughly the difference between a rotation forward and a starter you would captain.
Does trading the coach use up one of my trades?
Yes. You get four trades per round, and the rules count the coach as one of them. You can trade three players plus the coach, or four players.
Who is the most expensive head coach in 2026-27?
Georgios Bartzokas of Olympiacos and Zeljko Obradovic of Panathinaikos share the top price at 10.0 credits.
Who is the cheapest head coach in 2026-27?
Four coaches sit at the minimum of 5.0 credits: Alex Mumbru at Virtus Bologna, Anton Gavel at Bayern Munich, Maxime Lefevre at Paris and Paolo Galbiati at Baskonia.
Is a cheap coach a safe way to save credits?
Not automatically. A coach at a club that loses heavily can post minus 20 in a single round, so the cheapest slot on the board is also the one that can actively cost you points. Among the coaches at 5.0, the one whose club loses by the narrowest margins is the safest place to save.
Should I change my head coach during the season?
Only for a reason that will last. A coach is one of your four trades, so swapping him for a single favorable matchup costs you a move you may want for an injury the same week. Change him when the club’s form or schedule shifts for a stretch of rounds, not for one night.