List of EuroCup-winning head coaches

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The list of EuroCup-winning head coaches shows all of the head coaches that have won the EuroCup championship. The EuroCup is the European-wide 2nd-tier level men's professional basketball club competition. The competition was founded under the name the ULEB Cup.

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Key

Elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
*Elected into the FIBA Hall of Fame
*Member of both the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

List

SeasonHead CoachWinning teamRef.
2002–03 Flag of Spain.svg Paco Olmos Flag of Spain.svg Pamesa Valencia [1]
2003–04 Flag of Israel.svg Sharon Drucker Flag of Israel.svg Hapoel Jerusalem [1]
2004–05 Flag of Slovenia.svg Tomo Mahorič Flag of Lithuania.svg Lietuvos rytas [1]
2005–06 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Dušan Ivković* Flag of Russia.svg Dynamo Moscow [1]
2006–07 Flag of Spain.svg Joan Plaza Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid [1]
2007–08 Flag of Spain.svg Aíto García Reneses Flag of Spain.svg DKV Joventut [1]
2008–09 Flag of Lithuania.svg Rimas Kurtinaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg Lietuvos rytas [1]
2009–10 Flag of Croatia.svg Neven Spahija Flag of Spain.svg Power Electronics Valencia [1]
2010–11 Flag of Russia.svg Evgeniy Pashutin Flag of Russia.svg UNICS [1]
2011–12 Flag of Lithuania.svg Rimas Kurtinaitis Flag of Russia.svg Khimki [1]
2012–13 Flag of Russia.svg Evgeniy Pashutin Flag of Russia.svg Lokomotiv Kuban [1]
2013–14 Flag of Croatia.svg Velimir Perasović Flag of Spain.svg Valencia Basket [1]
2014–15 Flag of Lithuania.svg Rimas Kurtinaitis Flag of Russia.svg Khimki [1]
2015–16 Flag of Turkey.svg Ergin Ataman Flag of Turkey.svg Galatasaray Odeabank [1]
2016–17 Flag of Spain.svg Joan Plaza Flag of Spain.svg Unicaja [1]
2017–18 Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Israel.svg David Blatt Flag of Turkey.svg Darüşşafaka [1]
2018–19 Flag of Spain.svg Jaume Ponsarnau Flag of Spain.svg Valencia Basket [1]
2019–20 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
2020–21 Flag of Montenegro.svg Zvezdan Mitrović Flag of France.svg AS Monaco [1]
2021–22 Flag of Italy.svg Sergio Scariolo Flag of Italy.svg Virtus Segafredo Bologna
2022–23 Flag of Slovenia.svg Jaka Lakovic Flag of Spain.svg CB Gran Canaria
2023–24 Flag of Finland.svg Tuomas Iisalo Flag of France.svg Paris Basketball

Multiple winners

NumberHead CoachWinning team(s)FirstLast
3 Flag of Lithuania.svg Rimas Kurtinaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg Lietuvos rytas, Flag of Russia.svg Khimki (2)20092015
2 Flag of Spain.svg Joan Plaza Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid, Flag of Spain.svg Unicaja 20072017
Flag of Russia.svg Evgeniy Pashutin Flag of Russia.svg UNICS, Flag of Russia.svg Lokomotiv Kuban 20112013

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