Aleksandar Matović
Serbian basketball coach (born 1978)
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Aleksandar Matović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Матовић; born 3 January 1978) is a Serbian basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for Partizan Belgrade of the Serbian League (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague.
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| Position | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Serbian League ABA League EuroLeague | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 January 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||||||||
Coaching | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Superfund | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | AEK (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Budućnost (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | Partizan (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017; 2018 | Partizan (interim) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Partizan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Partizan (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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As assistant coach:
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Coaching career
Matović started his coaching career as a youth coach for Borac Čačak and Partizan. Later, Matović was the head coach of Superfund.[1]
In August 2015, Matović became an assistant coach of AEK under Dragan Šakota.[2][3] In July 2016, he became an assistant coach for Budućnost under Vlado Šćepanović.[4]
Individually through the years, Matović was a player development coach for many NBA players, such as Klay Thompson, Mychel Thompson, Goran Dragić, Zoran Dragić, Semih Erden, Sasha Vujačić, Andris Biedriņš, and Vladimir Radmanović.[2]
Partizan (2017–present)
In summer 2017, Matović became an assistant coach for Partizan NIS under Miroslav Nikolić.[5][6] In mid-December 2017, Matović was the interim head coach for Partizan following departure of coach Nikolić.[7] On 13 December, he coached the Partizan team in a 83–67 loss to RETAbet Bilbao Basket.[8] On the next day, Matović joined staff of Nenad Čanak who was hired as the new Partizan head coach.[9]
In October 2018, Matović was named the interim head coach for Partizan following departure of coach Čanak.[10] On 31 October, Matović had a 77–72 loss to Turk Telecom.[11][12] Matović finished his second stint as the interim head coach with one lost when new head coach Andrea Trinchieri was hired on 1 November, joining his coaching staff as assistant.[13][6]
On 8 March 2021, Partizan NIS hired Matović as their new head coach for the rest of the 2020–21 season.[14][15] Two days later, he made his official debut in a 75–70 loss to Metropolitans 92.[16][17] Following this lost, Partizan was eliminated in the Top 16 stage of the 2020–21 EuroCup season.[18] He left the head coach position in June 2021, following arrival of the new head coach Željko Obradović.[19] In August, he was named back as an assistant coach for Partizan under Obradović.[20]
National teams
In June 2021, Matović was added to the coaching staff of Serbia men's national team under Igor Kokoškov as a player development coach.[21][22]
Career achievements
- As assistant coach
- Serbian Cup winner: 3 (with Partizan: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20)
- ABA Super Cup winner: 1 (with Partizan: 2019)
- Adriatic League champion: 2 (with Partizan: 2022–23, 2024–25)
- Serbian League champion: 1 (with Partizan: 2024–25)