# List of KK Crvena zvezda head coaches

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 home matches in Belgrade Arena.
There have been 43 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. Dejan Radonjić, Bratislav Đorđević, Duško Ivanović and Ioannis Sfairopoulos 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, Tomić and Sfairopoulos 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), while Sfairopoulos did the same in the 2023–24 season. Coach Aleksandar Nikolić won the only European-wide competition in the club's history, the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup in 1974.
Aleksandar 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 Ivanović, Slovenian Zmago Sagadin and Greek Sfairopoulos were the other foreign head coaches. Head coaches Vladislav Lučić and Aleksandar Trifunović were hired three times.
Head coaches Nebojša Popović, Aleksandar Gec, Milan Bjegojević, Đorđe Andrijašević, Aleksandar Nikolić, Nemanja Đurić, Strahinja Alagić, Dragiša Vučinić, Zoran Slavnić, Vladislav Lučić, Stevan Karadžić, Aleksandar 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.

## Key

| GC | Games coached |
| W | Wins |
| L | Losses |
| Win% | Winning percentage |
| # | Number of coaches |
| † | 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 |

## Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the start of the 2024–25 season.
| # | Name | Nationality | Period | GC | W | L | Win% | Trophies |
| 1 | Nebojša Popović * | Yugoslavia | 1946–1955 | 184 | 155 | 29 | .842 | 10× Yugoslav champion |
| 2 | Aleksandar Gec | Yugoslavia | 1956–1959 | 37 | 24 | 13 | .649 | None |
| 3 | Milan Bjegojević | Yugoslavia | 1960–1970 | 242 | 142 | 100 | .587 | Yugoslav champion |
| 4 | Đorđe Andrijašević | Yugoslavia | 1970–1971 | 26 | 19 | 7 | .731 | Yugoslav Cup winner |
| 5 | Bratislav Đorđević | Yugoslavia | 1971–1973 | 78 | 56 | 22 | .718 | Yugoslav champion Yugoslav Cup winner |
| 6 | Aleksandar Nikolić † | Yugoslavia | 1973–1974 | 41 | 29 | 12 | .707 | FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup winner |
| 7 | Nemanja Đurić | Yugoslavia | 1974–1976 | 50 | | | | Yugoslav Cup winner |
| 8 | Strahinja Alagić | Yugoslavia | 1976 | 20 | | | | None |
| – | Bratislav Đorđević | Yugoslavia | 1976–1979 | 70 | | | | None |
| 9 | Dragiša Vučinić | Yugoslavia | 1979 | 7 | | | | None |
| 10 | Mile Protić | Yugoslavia | 1979 | 8 | | | | None |
| 11 | Ranko Žeravica * | Yugoslavia | 1979–1986 | 265 | 160 | 105 | .604 | None |
| 12 | Vlade Đurović | Yugoslavia | 1986–1988 | 72 | 42 | 30 | .583 | None |
| 13 | Zoran Slavnić | Yugoslavia | 1988–1991 | 111 | 64 | 47 | .577 | None |
| 14 | Duško Vujošević | Yugoslavia | 1991–1992 | 32 | 20 | 12 | .625 | None |
| 15 | Vladislav Lučić | Serbia and Montenegro | 1992–1994 | 99 | | | | 2× Yugoslav champion |
| 16 | Veselin Matić | Serbia and Montenegro | 1994 | 2 | | | | None |
| – | Zoran Slavnić | Serbia and Montenegro | 1994–1995 | 32 | | | | None |
| 17 | Mihailo Uvalin | Serbia and Montenegro | 1995 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1.000 | None |
| 18 | Borislav Džaković | Serbia and Montenegro | 1995–1996 | 45 | 27 | 18 | .600 | None |
| 19 | Mihailo Pavićević | Serbia and Montenegro | 1996–1997 | 33 | 14 | 19 | .424 | None |
| – | Ranko Žeravica * | Serbia and Montenegro | 1997 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | None |
| 20 | Tom Ludwig | United States | 1997 | 13 | 9 | 4 | .692 | None |
| – | Vladislav Lučić | Serbia and Montenegro | 1997–1998 | 28 | | | | None |
| – | Mihailo Pavićević | Serbia and Montenegro | 1998 | 5 | 4 | 1 | .800 | Yugoslav champion |
| – | Borislav Džaković | Serbia and Montenegro | 1998 | 9 | | | | None |
| 21 | Jovica Antonić | Serbia and Montenegro | 1998–1999 | 35 | 23 | 12 | .657 | None |
| 22 | Momir Milatović | Serbia and Montenegro | 1999 | 4 | | | | None |
| – | Vladislav Lučić | Serbia and Montenegro | 1999–2000 | 21 | | | | None |
| 23 | Stevan Karadžić | Serbia and Montenegro | 2000–2001 | 40 | | | | None |
| 24 | Miroslav Nikolić | Serbia and Montenegro | 2001 | 9 | | | | None |
| 25 | Zoran Krečković | Serbia and Montenegro | 2001–2002 | 8 | 4 | 4 | .500 | None |
| – | Miroslav Nikolić | Serbia and Montenegro | 2002 | 20 | | | | None |
| 26 | Aleksandar Trifunović | Serbia and Montenegro | 2002–2003 | 52 | 36 | 16 | .692 | None |
| 27 | Zmago Sagadin | Slovenia | 2003–2004 | 65 | 41 | 24 | .631 | Serbian Cup winner |
| – | Aleksandar Trifunović | Serbia and Montenegro | 2004–2005 | 50 | 30 | 20 | .600 | None |
| 28 | Dragan Šakota | Serbia | 2005–2007 | 102 | 63 | 39 | .618 | Serbian Cup winner |
| – | Stevan Karadžić | Serbia | 2007–2008 | 71 | 44 | 27 | .620 | None |
| 29 | Milan Škobalj | Serbia | 2008 | 12 | 6 | 6 | .500 | None |
| 30 | Svetislav Pešić * | Serbia | 2008–2009 | 56 | 37 | 19 | .661 | None |
| 31 | Aleksandar Petrović | Serbia | 2009 | 18 | 9 | 9 | .500 | None |
| – | Aleksandar Trifunović | Serbia | 2009–2010 | 37 | 18 | 19 | .486 | None |
| – | Mihailo Uvalin | Serbia | 2010–2011 | 28 | 9 | 19 | .321 | None |
| 32 | Saša Nikitović | Serbia | 2011 | 14 | 6 | 8 | .429 | None |
| – | Svetislav Pešić * | Serbia | 2011–2012 | 50 | 25 | 25 | .500 | None |
| 33 | Milivoje Lazić | Serbia | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | None |
| 34 | Vlada Vukoičić | Serbia | 2012–2013 | 44 | 31 | 13 | .705 | Serbian Cup winner |
| 35 | Dejan Radonjić | Montenegro | 2013–2017 | 326 | 239 | 87 | .733 | 3× Serbian champion 3× Serbian Cup winner 3× Adriatic champion |
| 36 | Dušan Alimpijević | Serbia | 2017–2018 | 69 | 40 | 29 | .580 | None |
| 37 | Milenko Topić | Serbia | 2018 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | Serbian champion |
| 38 | Milan Tomić | Serbia | 2018–2019 | 75 | 56 | 19 | .747 | Serbian champion Adriatic champion ABA Supercup winner |
| 39 | Andrija Gavrilović | Serbia | 2019 | 11 | 5 | 6 | .455 | None |
| – | Dragan Šakota | Serbia | 2019–2020 | 35 | 20 | 15 | .571 | None |
| 40 | Saša Obradović | Serbia | 2020 | 26 | 14 | 12 | .538 | None |
| – | Dejan Radonjić | Montenegro | 2020–2022 | 127 | 83 | 44 | .654 | 2× Serbian champion 2× Serbian Cup winner 2× Adriatic champion |
| 41 | Vladimir Jovanović | Serbia | 2022 | 12 | 5 | 7 | .417 | None |
| 42 | Duško Ivanović | Montenegro | 2022–2023 | 69 | 50 | 19 | .725 | Serbian champion Serbian Cup winner |
| 43 | Ioannis Sfairopoulos | Greece | 2023– | 67 | 43 | 24 | .642 | Serbian champion Serbian Cup winner Adriatic champion |

## Head coaches with 100 games coached

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 | Dejan Radonjić | 2013–2017, 2020–2022 | 453 |
| 2 | Ranko Žeravica * | 1979–1986; 1997 | 275 |
| 3 | Milan Bjegojević | 1960–1970 | 242 |
| 4 | Nebojša Popović * | 1946–1957 | 184 |
| 5 | Bratislav Đorđević | 1971–1973; 1976–1979 | 148 |
| 5 | Vladislav Lučić | 1992–1994; 1997–1998; 1999–2000 | 148 |
| 7 | Zoran Slavnić | 1988–1991; 1994–1995 | 143 |
| 8 | Aleksandar Trifunović | 2002–2003; 2004–2005; 2009–2010 | 139 |
| 9 | Dragan Šakota | 2005–2007; 2019–2020 | 137 |
| 10 | Stevan Karadžić | 2000–2001; 2007–2008 | 111 |
| 11 | Svetislav Pešić * | 2008–2009; 2011–2012 | 106 |