Sašo Filipovski (born 6 September 1974) is a Macedonian-Slovenian professional

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coach.

Coaching career

His coaching career started back in 1996 when he was an assistant coach of

Union Olimpija Košarkarski klub Olimpija () was a men's professional basketball club based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Olimpija has won 23 National League championships, including eight consecutive titles between 1992 and 1999. They have played in two differen ...

for seven seasons until 2003. He then became a head coach of the team for two seasons. Over the 2005–06 season, he once again served as an assistant coach of the team. In 2006, Filipovski signed a contract with the Polish team

Turów Zgorzelec Turów Zgorzelec (officially PGE GiEK Turów Zgorzelec for sponsorship reasons) is a Polish a basketball team based in Zgorzelec. The club played in the Polish Basketball League, Polish League (PLK) and won the Polish championship once, in the 2 ...

, with whom he was a runner-up in the Polish League championship in the 2006–07 and 2007–08 season. In December 2008, after an altercation between Filipovski and a fan after a game between Turów and

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, Filipovski received a three-month suspension and a 60 000 złoty fine. Therefore, he parted ways with Turów in January 2009. Over the period from 2009 until 2011, Filipovski had short stints working with the Russian teams

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and as an assistant coach at

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, before being the head coach in

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back in 2011. In 2011, he returned to Union Olimpija, coaching them for two seasons. On 11 November 2014, Filipovski was named the new head coach of the Polish team

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. In his first 2014–15 season with the team, he won the Polish League championship after 4–2 win in the final series over his former team Turów Zgorzelec. On 19 June 2015, he signed a two-year extension with the club. On 28 June 2018, Filipovski signed a two-year contract with

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of the French

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. On 5 November 2020, Filipovski was named the head coach of the Serbian team Partizan. On 8 March 2021, Partizan parted ways with him. In the 2023-24 campaign, he led the

Würzburg Baskets FIT/One Würzburg Baskets (formerly known as Würzburg Baskets and s.Oliver Baskets) is a German professional basketball club located in Würzburg. After one year of absence from the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the club has returned to first di ...

to the German

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semifinals, despite having one of the lower budgets in the Bundesliga. In the 2024-25 season, he managed another Bundesliga semi-final appearance with the Würzburg team.

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Coaching career

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