The Basketball Bundesliga Coach of the Year (German: Trainer des Jahres) is an annual Basketball Bundesliga award that goes to the league's best coach. The award was handed out for the first time in 1989–90 season, to Dirk Bauermann. Bauermann holds the record for most awards won, with four.

Winners

Svetislav Pešić was a 3 time Basketball Bundesliga Coach of the Year (1996, 1998, 1999).

Aíto García Reneses was Basketball Bundesliga Coach of the Year in 2018.

Key
Coach (X)	Name of the coach and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
§	Denotes the club were Bundesliga champions in the same season

Season	Coach	Nationality	Team	Ref(s)
1989–90	Dirk Bauermann	West Germany	Bayer Giants Leverkusen
1990–91	Dirk Bauermann (2×)	Germany	Bayer Giants Leverkusen
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96	Svetislav Pešić	FR Yugoslavia	Alba Berlin
1996–97
1997–98	Svetislav Pešić (2×)	FR Yugoslavia	Alba Berlin
1998–99	Svetislav Pešić (3×)	FR Yugoslavia	Alba Berlin
1999–00	Stefan Koch	Germany	Skyliners Frankfurt
2000–01
2001–02	Emir Mutapčić	Bosnia	Alba Berlin
2002–03	Dirk Bauermann (3×)	Germany	Brose Baskets
2003–04	Dirk Bauermann (4×)	Germany	Brose Baskets
2004–05	Stefan Koch (2×)	Germany	Gießen 46ers
2005–06	Sarunas Sakalauskas	Lithuania	Eisbären Bremerhaven
2006–07	Silvano Poropat	Croatia	EnBW Ludwigsburg
2007–08	Achim Kuczmann	Germany	Bayer Giants Leverkusen
2008–09	John Patrick	United States	MEG Göttingen
2009–10	John Patrick (2×)	United States	BG Göttingen	^[1]
2010–11	Chris Fleming	United States	Brose Baskets §	^[2]
2011–12	Thorsten Leibenath	Germany	ratiopharm ulm	^[3]
2012–13	Sebastian Machowski	Germany	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	^[4]
2013–14	Silvano Poropat (2×)	Croatia	Mitteldeutscher	^[5]
2014–15	Saša Obradović	Serbia	Alba Berlin	^[6]
2015–16	Gordon Herbert	Canada	Skyliners Frankfurt	^[7]
2016–17	Thorsten Leibenath (2×)	Germany	ratiopharm Ulm	^[8]
2017–18	Aíto García Reneses	Spain	Alba Berlin	^[9]
2018–19	Pedro Calles	Spain	Rasta Vechta	^[10]
2019–20	No award was given, due to the shortened season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[11]
2020–21	John Patrick (3×)	United States	Riesen Ludwigsburg	^[12]
2021–22	Tuomas Iisalo	Finland	Telekom Baskets Bonn	^[13]
2022–23	Tuomas Iisalo (2×)	Finland	Telekom Baskets Bonn	^[14]

References

External links

Basketball Bundesliga

Basketball Bundesliga
Seasons	1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Playoffs	1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
2023–24 clubs	Brose Bamberg Alba Berlin Telekom Baskets Bonn Löwen Braunschweig Niners Chemnitz Crailsheim Merlins BG Göttingen Veolia Towers Hamburg USC Heidelberg Riesen Ludwigsburg Mitteldeutscher BC Bayern Munich Baskets Oldenburg Rostock Seawolves Tigers Tübingen ratiopharm Ulm Rasta Vechta s.Oliver Würzburg
Awards	Most Valuable Player Finals MVP Coach of the Year Most Improved Player Best German Young Player Best Offensive Player Best Defensive Player All-BBL Team Most Effective Player Top Scorer
Other articles	Basketball in Germany German Cup German Supercup List of German basketball champions BBL All-Star Game German League System
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