Miodrag Perišić (basketball)

Miodrag Perišić
	Perišić in 2022
Shabab Al Ahli Club (basketball)
Position	Head coach
League	UAE National Basketball League; West Asia Super League
Personal information
Born	28 August 1972 (age 52); Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Listed height	194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Coaching career	1999–present
Career history
As coach:
1999–2001	Avala Ada
2001–2002	KK Nova Pazova
2002–2004	Avala Ada
2005–2007	Cluj-Napoca
2008–2009	Otopeni
2009–2011	Zamalek
2011	Egypt men's national basketball team
2011–2012	Anibal Zahle
2012–2015	Sibiu
2015–2016	Tadamon Zouk
2016–2017	Manama
2017	Tadamon Zouk
2017–2018	Byblos
2018	Timișoara
2018–2020	Beirut Club
2020–2022	US Monastir
2020–2022	Qatar
2022	Al Ittihad Alexandria
2023	US Monastir
2023-2024	Al Wasl SC
2024–present	Lebanon
2024-present	Shabab Al Ahli Club (basketball)
Career highlights and awards
	As head coach: BAL champion (2022); Tunisian League champion (2022); Tunisian Cup winner (2022); Bahrain Basketball Supercup (2016); Lebanon Basketball Cup (2012); Dubai International Basketball Championship (2012);

Miodrag Perišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Перишић; born 28 August 1972) is a Serbian^[1] professional basketball coach, who currently serves as the head coach of Shabab Al Ahli Club (basketball) in the UAE National Basketball League and West Asia Super League, and head coach of Lebanon national team.

Coaching career

Born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia), Perišić started coaching Crvena zvezda youth system.^[2] In 1999, he became the first head coach of newly established club Avala Ada.^[3] In 2004, Perišić became the head coach of U Cluj-Napoca in Romania.^[4]

Between 2004 and 2018, Perišić coached number of clubs from Romania, Egypt, Lebanon, and Bahrain.

On January 2019, Perišić signed with Beirut Club of the Lebanese Basketball League. He led the team to the finals of the Arab Club Basketball Championship. In 2020, Perišić signed to become the head coach of US Monastir of the Tunisian Championnat National A and the Basketball Africa League (BAL). On 28 May 2022, he won the 2022 BAL Finals with Monastir.^[5]^[6]

Perišić signed with Al Ittihad Alexandria in Egypt in June 2022.^[7] After Al Ittihad was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 2022 Arab Basketball Championship, he rejoined US Monastir.^[8]

In 2023, Perišić moved to the United Arab Emirates and started coaching Al Wasl SC. In December 2024, Perišić is appointed as head coach of Shabab Al Ahli Club (basketball).

The first national team coaching experience for Perišić was in 2011, when he coached Egypt national team at AfroBasket 2011. In 2020, Perišić coached the Qatar national team,^[9]^[10] a position he held until 2022. In May 2024, he became the head coach of Lebanon national team, starting his tenure with the 2024 FIBA Olympic qualifications.^[11] Under Perišić's leadership, Lebanon was among the first national teams qualifying for 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.

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
2022	Monastir	4	4	1	.800	2nd in Sahara Conference	3	3	0	1.000	Won BAL Championship

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