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ALL-TIME EUROLEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME APPEARANCES - COACHES (1958-present)

12*.- Zeljko Obradovic (Partizan 1992; Joventut 1994; Real Madrid 1995;
Panathinaikos 2000, 2001*, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011; Fenerbahce 2016, 2017, 2018)

9.- Ettore Messina (Virtus Bologna 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002; Benetton 2003; CSKA 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

7.- Pedro Ferrandiz (Real Madrid 1962, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1975)

6.- Alexander Gomelskiy (ASK Riga 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; CSKA 1971, 1973)

5.- Lolo Sainz (Real Madrid 1976, 1978, 1980, 1985; Joventut 1992)
Bozidar Maljkovic (Split 1989, 1990; Barcelona 1991; Limoges 1993;Panathinaikos 1996)

5*.- Pini Gershon (Maccabi 2000, 2001*, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Pablo Laso (Real Madrid 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022)

4.- Aleksandar Nikolic (Varese 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973)
Sandro Gamba (Varese 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977)
Ralph Klein (Maccabi 1977, 1980, 1982, 1988)

3.- Evgeny Alekseev (CSKA 1961, 1963, 1965)
Zvi Sherf (Maccabi 1987, 1989, 2008)
Aito Garcia Reneses (Barcelona 1990, 1996, 1997)
Ioannis Ioannidis (Olympiacos 1994, 1995; AEK 1998)
Ergin Ataman (Anadolu Efes 2019, 2021, 2022)

* European basketball had two top-level competitions in 2000-01. Kinder Bologna won the Euroleague title in a five-game playoff series against Tau Ceramica. AEK Athens and Fortitudo Bologna reached the semifinals. Maccabi Tel Aviv won the SuproLeague in a Final Four that also featured Panathinaikos, the other finalist, CSKA Moscow and Efes Pilsen.

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