Basketball Champions League Best Coach

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The Basketball Champions League (BCL) Best Coach, or FIBA Champions League Best Coach, is in an annual award of the Basketball Champions League, which is along with the EuroCup, one of the two secondary level European-wide professional club basketball leagues, that is given to the league's best head coach of the season. The award is given by FIBA. The award began with the league's 2017–18 season.

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Winners

Key
Coach (X)Name of the coach and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
W%Win percentage (not including qualifying rounds)
*Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame
Denotes head coach whose team won championship that year
SeasonHead CoachNationalityClubRef.
2017–18 John Patrick Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Flag of Germany.svg MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg
2018–19 Roel Moors Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Telenet Antwerp Giants
2019–20 Oren Amiel Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Flag of the Czech Republic.svg ERA Nymburk
2020–21 Zoran Lukić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Flag of Russia.svg Nizhny Novgorod
2021–22 Pedro Martínez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Flag of Spain.svg Baxi Manresa
2022–23 Tuomas Iisalo Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Flag of Germany.svg Telekom Baskets Bonn
2023–24 Vassilis Spanoulis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Flag of Greece.svg Peristeri Athens [1] [2] [3]

Awards won by nationality

CountryTotal
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 1
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 1
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 1

Awards won by club

ClubTotal
Flag of Germany.svg Riesen Ludwigsburg 1
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Antwerp Giants 1
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Nymburk 1
Flag of Russia.svg Nizhny Novgorod 1
Flag of Spain.svg Baxi Manresa 1
Flag of Germany.svg Telekom Baskets Bonn 1
Flag of Greece.svg Peristeri Athens 1

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