Željko Zečević

Željko Zečević
AS Salé
Position	Head coach
League	Division Excellence
Personal information
Born	October 21, 1963 (age 61); Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Coaching career	1992–present
Career history
As coach:
1992–1993	KK Porec
1995–1997	Cantú (assistant)
1997–1999	La Maddalena Basket
2000	CUS Catania
2000–2002	Udine (juniors)
2001–2002	CUS Catania
2003–2004	Potenza
2004–2005	Udine (assistant)
2004–2005	Olimpia Melfi
2006–2008	Scafati (assistant)
2009	Egypt
2009–2010	Sagesse SC
2010–2011	Craiova
2010–2014	Wydad AC
2015–2017	Chabab Rif Al Hoceima
2017–2018	US Monastir
2018–2019	Al Hala
2019	AS Salé
2019–2023	SLAC
2021–present	Guinea
2023–present	AS Salé
Career highlights and awards
	As head coach: Moroccan League champion (2013);

Željko Zečević (Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Зечевић; born 21 October 1963) is a Serbian professional basketball coach, who is the current head coach of AS Salé of the Moroccan Division Excellence. He is also the head coach of the Guinea national team since 2021.

Coaching career

Born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia), Zečević started coaching youth teams in 1988 in his hometown.^[1]

Zečević started coaching in Italy in 2000, as coach of the Amatori Sniadero Udine junior team. In the 2003–04 season, he made his debut with Potenza of the C-1.^{[citation needed]}

From 2015 to 2017, he was the head coach of Chabab Rif Al Hoceima in the Moroccan Division Excellence.^[2]

In 2009, he left Italy to coach for Sagesse SC in Lebanon. In 2010, Zečević signed with Wydad AC, his first African club.^{[citation needed]} He would later spend time as the head coach of several teams on the continent.

In 2019, Zečević signed as head coach of SLAC of the Guinean Ligue 1. He coached SLAC to their first-ever qualification for the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in 2022.^{[citation needed]}

For the 2023–24 season, he signed with AS Salé of the Moroccan Division Excellence, returning after four years for a second stint.^[3]

National team coaching career

Zečević coached the Egypt national team at the 2009 FIBA AfroBasket and 2011 FIBA AfroBasket.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2021, Zečević took over as head coach of the Guinea national team.^[4] He coached the team in the 2021 AfroBasket.

Head coaching record

BAL

Legend
Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW–L %	Playoff win–loss %


Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	PW–L%	Result
SLAC	2022	5	2	3	.400	4th in Sahara Conference	1	0	1	.000	Lost in Quarterfinals
SLAC	2023	5	1	4	.200	5th in Sahara Conference	DNQ

References

^ "Zeljko Zecevic - Official (2021)". www.localgymsandfitness.com. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
^ "Zeljko Zecevic". Le360 Sport (in French). Retrieved 16 December 2021.
^ Ndour, Papa Lamine (1 September 2023). "Basket - Guinée : SLAC, tout un projet à refaire ? - A la une". Sport News Africa (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2023.
^ "With new coach, some of Guinea's best talents return for last shot at AfroBasket Qualifiers". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 16 December 2021.

External links

Zeljko Zecevic at Asia-basket.com
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[fitness-1] "Zeljko Zecevic - Official (2021)". www.localgymsandfitness.com. Retrieved 16 December 2021.

[2] "Zeljko Zecevic". Le360 Sport (in French). Retrieved 16 December 2021.

[3] Ndour, Papa Lamine (1 September 2023). "Basket - Guinée : SLAC, tout un projet à refaire ? - A la une". Sport News Africa (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2023.

[4] "With new coach, some of Guinea's best talents return for last shot at AfroBasket Qualifiers". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 16 December 2021.

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