KK Crvena zvezda is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Crvena zvezda is a part of the Adriatic Basketball Association and competes in the ABA League, EuroLeague and in the Basketball League of Serbia. The Crvena zvezda squads have played in three different National Leagues since 1945, including the Yugoslav First Federal League (1945–1992), the First League of Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006), and the Serbian League (2006 onwards). The team plays domestic home matches in the Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, and the EuroLeague or EuroCup home matches in Štark Arena. Since November 2022, the head coach has been Duško Ivanović.
There have been 42 head coaches in the club's history. Montenegrin coach Dejan Radonjić is the all-time leader in both official games coached and wins. Nebojša Popović won ten National Championships, while Radonjić won five National Cups and he is the only head coach who has won multiple Cup tournaments. Radonjić and Bratislav Đorđević won both national titles, a Championship and a Cup. Also, Crvena zvezda won five Adriatic Leagues under Radonjić and an Adriatic Super Cup under Milan Tomić. Coaches Radonjić and Tomić won the Adriatic Championship and the National Championship in the same season. Furthermore, Radonjić recorded three titles (Serbian League, Adriatic League, and Serbian Cup) in a single season four times (2014–15, 2016–17, 2020–21, and 2021–22), of which the lasest were back-to-back. Coach Aleksandar Nikolić won the only European-wide competition in the club's history, the FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup in 1974.
Nikolić, Ranko Žeravica, and Svetislav Pešić are members of FIBA Hall of Fame as coaches, while Nikolić is a member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. American coach Tom Ludwig, hired in 1997, was the first foreign head coach and the only non-European. Montenegrins Radonjić and Duško Ivanović, and Slovenian Zmago Sagadin were the other foreign head coaches. Head coaches Vladislav Lučić and Aleksandar Trifunović were hired three times.
Head coaches Popović, Aleksandar Gec, Milan Bjegojević, Đorđe Andrijašević, Nikolić, Nemanja Đurić, Strahinja Alagić, Dragiša Vučinić, Zoran Slavnić, Lučić, Stevan Karadžić, Trifunović, Milenko Topić, and Saša Obradović were also Crvena zvezda's players. Popović and Vučinić were player-coaches, while Popović, Bjegojević and Topić won the National Championships both as the players and head coaches.
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
Win% | Winning percentage |
# | Number of coaches [a] |
† | Elected into the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach |
* | Elected into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
Spent entire head coaching career with Crvena zvezda |
Note: Statistics are correct through the start of the 2022–23 season.
# | Name | Nationality [b] | Period | GC | W | L | Win% | Trophies | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nebojša Popović * | ![]() | 1946–1955 | 184 | 155 | 29 | .842 | 10× Yugoslav champion | |
2 | Aleksandar Gec | ![]() | 1956–1959 | 37 | 24 | 13 | .649 | None | |
3 | Milan Bjegojević | ![]() | 1960–1970 | 242 | 142 | 100 | .587 | Yugoslav champion | |
4 | Đorđe Andrijašević | ![]() | 1970–1971 | 26 | 19 | 7 | .731 | Yugoslav Cup winner | |
5 | Bratislav Đorđević | ![]() | 1971–1973 | 78 | 56 | 22 | .718 | Yugoslav champion Yugoslav Cup winner | |
6 | Aleksandar Nikolić † | ![]() | 1973–1974 | 41 | 29 | 12 | .707 | FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup winner | |
7 | Nemanja Đurić | ![]() | 1974–1976 | 50 | Yugoslav Cup winner | ||||
8 | Strahinja Alagić | ![]() | 1976 | 20 | None | ||||
– | Bratislav Đorđević | ![]() | 1976–1979 | 70 | None | ||||
9 | Dragiša Vučinić | ![]() | 1979 | 7 | None | ||||
10 | Mile Protić | ![]() | 1979 | 8 | None | ||||
11 | Ranko Žeravica * | ![]() | 1979–1986 | 265 | 160 | 105 | .604 | None | |
12 | Vlade Đurović | ![]() | 1986–1988 | 72 | 42 | 30 | .583 | None | |
13 | Zoran Slavnić | ![]() | 1988–1991 | 111 | 64 | 47 | .577 | None | |
14 | Duško Vujošević | ![]() | 1991–1992 | 32 | 20 | 12 | .625 | None | |
15 | Vladislav Lučić | ![]() | 1992–1994 | 99 | 2× Yugoslav champion | ||||
16 | Veselin Matić | ![]() | 1994 | 2 | None | ||||
– | Zoran Slavnić | ![]() | 1994–1995 | 32 | None | ||||
17 | Mihailo Uvalin | ![]() | 1995 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1.000 | None | |
18 | Borislav Džaković | ![]() | 1995–1996 | 45 | 27 | 18 | .600 | None | |
19 | Mihailo Pavićević | ![]() | 1996–1997 | 33 | 14 | 19 | .424 | None | |
– | Ranko Žeravica * | ![]() | 1997 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | None | |
20 | Tom Ludwig | ![]() | 1997 | 13 | 9 | 4 | .692 | None | [upper-alpha 1] |
– | Vladislav Lučić | ![]() | 1997–1998 | 28 | None | [upper-alpha 2] | |||
– | Mihailo Pavićević | ![]() | 1998 | 5 | 4 | 1 | .800 | Yugoslav champion | [upper-alpha 3] |
– | Borislav Džaković | ![]() | 1998 | 9 | None | [upper-alpha 4] | |||
21 | Jovica Antonić | ![]() | 1998–1999 | 35 | 23 | 12 | .657 | None | [upper-alpha 5] |
22 | Momir Milatović | ![]() | 1999 | 4 | None | [upper-alpha 6] [1] | |||
– | Vladislav Lučić | ![]() | 1999–2000 | 21 | None | [upper-alpha 7] | |||
23 | Stevan Karadžić | ![]() | 2000–2001 | 40 | None | [upper-alpha 8] | |||
24 | Miroslav Nikolić | ![]() | 2001 | 9 | None | ||||
25 | Zoran Krečković | ![]() | 2001–2002 | 8 | 4 | 4 | .500 | None | |
– | Miroslav Nikolić | ![]() | 2002 | 20 | None | ||||
26 | Aleksandar Trifunović | ![]() | 2002–2003 | 52 | 36 | 16 | .692 | None | [upper-alpha 9] |
27 | Zmago Sagadin | ![]() | 2003–2004 | 65 | 41 | 24 | .631 | Serbian Cup winner | [upper-alpha 10] |
– | Aleksandar Trifunović | ![]() | 2004–2005 | 50 | 30 | 20 | .600 | None | |
28 | Dragan Šakota | ![]() | 2005–2007 | 102 | 63 | 39 | .618 | Serbian Cup winner | [upper-alpha 11] |
– | Stevan Karadžić | ![]() | 2007–2008 | 71 | 44 | 27 | .620 | None | [upper-alpha 12] |
29 | Milan Škobalj | ![]() | 2008 | 12 | 6 | 6 | .500 | None | |
30 | Svetislav Pešić * | ![]() | 2008–2009 | 56 | 37 | 19 | .661 | None | |
31 | Aleksandar Petrović | ![]() | 2009 | 18 | 9 | 9 | .500 | None | [upper-alpha 13] |
– | Aleksandar Trifunović | ![]() | 2009–2010 | 37 | 18 | 19 | .486 | None | |
– | Mihailo Uvalin | ![]() | 2010–2011 | 28 | 9 | 19 | .321 | None | [upper-alpha 14] |
32 | Saša Nikitović | ![]() | 2011 | 14 | 6 | 8 | .429 | None | |
– | Svetislav Pešić * | ![]() | 2011–2012 | 50 | 25 | 25 | .500 | None | |
33 | Milivoje Lazić | ![]() | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | None | [upper-alpha 15] |
34 | Vlada Vukoičić | ![]() | 2012–2013 | 44 | 31 | 13 | .705 | Serbian Cup winner | [6] |
35 | Dejan Radonjić | ![]() | 2013–2017 | 326 | 239 | 87 | .733 | 3× Serbian champion 3× Serbian Cup winner 3× Adriatic champion | [7] [8] |
36 | Dušan Alimpijević | ![]() | 2017–2018 | 69 | 40 | 29 | .580 | None | [9] [10] |
37 | Milenko Topić | ![]() | 2018 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | Serbian champion | [11] [12] |
38 | Milan Tomić | ![]() | 2018–2019 | 75 | 56 | 19 | .747 | Adriatic champion ABA Supercup winner Serbian champion | [13] |
39 | Andrija Gavrilović | ![]() | 2019 | 11 | 5 | 6 | .455 | None | |
– | Dragan Šakota | ![]() | 2019–2020 | 35 | 20 | 15 | .571 | None | |
40 | Saša Obradović | ![]() | 2020 | 26 | 14 | 12 | .538 | None | |
– | Dejan Radonjić | ![]() | 2020–2022 | 127 | 83 | 44 | .654 | 2× Serbian champion 2× Serbian Cup winner 2× Adriatic champion | |
41 | Vladimir Jovanović | ![]() | 2022 | 12 | 5 | 7 | .417 | None | |
42 | Duško Ivanović | ![]() | 2022–2023 | 69 | 50 | 19 | .725 | Serbian champion Serbian Cup winner | |
43 | Ioannis Sfairopoulos | ![]() | 2023–2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | None | |
43 | Darko Plavsic | ![]() | 2024– | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | None |
This list includes all head coaches who have coached at least 100 games in all competitions.
Note: Statistics are correct through the start of the 2022–23 season.
# | Name | Period | Games |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 2013–2017, 2020–2022 | 453 |
2 | ![]() | 1979–1986; 1997 | 275 |
3 | ![]() | 1960–1970 | 242 |
4 | ![]() | 1946–1957 | 184 |
5 | ![]() | 1971–1973; 1976–1979 | 148 |
![]() | 1992–1994; 1997–1998; 1999–2000 | 148 | |
7 | ![]() | 1988–1991; 1994–1995 | 143 |
8 | ![]() | 2002–2003; 2004–2005; 2009–2010 | 139 |
9 | ![]() | 2005–2007; 2019–2020 | 137 |
10 | ![]() | 2000–2001; 2007–2008 | 111 |
11 | ![]() | 2008–2009; 2011–2012 | 106 |
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