Dimitrios Itoudis PBC CSKA Moscow 20171027 (cropped)

Dimitrios Itoudis (alternate spelling: Dimitris) ( gr, Δημήτριος Ιτούδης, born September 8, 1970) is a Greek professional

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, who is the current head coach of Fenerbahçe Beko of the

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and the EuroLeague. He also coaches the

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Coaching career

Itoudis began his coaching career in 1990, when he began coaching

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's Under-18 team in

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. In 1992, he became an assistant coach with the senior men's team of Zagreb. In 1995, he became an assistant coach with the

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club PAOK. He then became the

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of PAOK in 1996. He was an assistant coach with the Greek club

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, during the 1996–97 season, before becoming the head coach of the Greek club, Philippos Thessaloniki, from 1997 to 1999. After that, he was the head coach of the Greek club

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. He then became the assistant coach of

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, with the Greek club

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. He worked as Panathinaikos' assistant, from 1999 to 2012. While he was Panathinaikos' assistant coach, he was a part of 5 EuroLeague championship teams (2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011), 11 Greek League championship teams (2000, 2001, 2003–2011), and 7

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winning teams (2003, 2005–2009, 2012) Itoudis became the head coach of the

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club

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in 2013. In June 2014, he became the head coach of

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, signing a two-year deal. In his first season working with the team ( 2014–15), CSKA Moscow won the

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, after eliminating

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with a 3–0 series sweep in the league's finals series. In his second season with CSKA Moscow ( 2015–16), he became the first Greek basketball coach to win the EuroLeague championship with a foreign (non-Greek) club. On June 3, 2016, he re-signed with CSKA for three seasons. In July 2016, he was named the EuroLeague Coach of the Year, for the 2015–16 season. He left CSKA Moscow in June 2022, with one year remaining on his contract. On 19 June 2022, he signed a 3-year-deal with Fenerbahçe.

Coaching record

EuroLeague

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, align="left" , 2014–15 , 30, , 26, , 4, , , , align="center", Won in 3rd place game , -! style="background:#FDE910;" , align="left" , 2015–16 , 29, , 24, , 5, , , , align="center", Won EuroLeague Championship , -! , align="left" , 2016–17 , 35, , 26, , 9, , , , align="center", Won in 3rd place game , - , align="left", 2017–18 , 36 , , 27 , , 9 , , , , align="center", Lost in 3rd place game , -! style="background:#FDE910;" , align="left" , 2018–19 , 36, , 29, , 7, , , , align="center", Won EuroLeague Championship , - , align="left", 2019–20 , 28 , , 19 , , 9 , , , , align="center", ''Season cancelled'' , - , align="left",

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Domestic Leagues

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, align="left" , 2019–20 , 19, , 15, , 4, , , , align="center", ''Season cancelled'' , - , align="left" ,

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, align="left" , 2021–22 , 31, , 24, , 7, , , , align="center", , -class="sortbottom" , align="center" colspan=2, Career, , 84, , , 64, , , 20, , , ,

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