Ioannis Sfairopoulos

Ioannis Sfairopoulos
Personal information
Born (1967-03-21) March 21, 1967
Thessaloniki, Greece
Nationality Greek
Career information
NBA draft 1989 / Undrafted
Playing career 1985–1988
Position Point guard
Coaching career 1986–present
Career history
As player:
1985–1988 Apollon Kalamarias
As coach:
1986–1994 Apollon Kalamarias (Cadets, Juniors)
1994–1997 Apollon Kalamarias
1997–2005 PAOK (assistant)
2001 PAOK
2001–2004 Greece (assistant)
2005–2008 Olympiacos (assistant)
2008–2011 Kolossos Rodou
2009–2010 Greece (assistant)
2011–2012 CSKA Moscow (assistant)
2012 Houston Rockets (assistant)
2012–2014 Panionios
2014–2018 Olympiacos
Career highlights and awards

As head coach

Ioannis Sfairopoulos (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Sferopoulos) (Greek: Γιάννης Σφαιρόπουλος; born March 21, 1967) is a Greek professional head basketball coach.

Playing career

Sfairopoulos began playing basketball in the youth system of Apollon Kalamarias at the age of 12. After playing 2 years in the Greek 2nd Division, with the senior men's team of Apollon Kalamarias, as a player-coach, he retired from playing club basketball, at the age of 21, to become to a full-time basketball coach.

Coaching career

Clubs

After Sfairopoulos retired from playing club basketball, at the age of 21, he immediately began his basketball coaching career, within the same Apollon Kalamarias club system in which he was a player. He worked as a coach with the club, from 1986 to 1997. He coached in the club's cadets, juniors, and senior men's teams. He coached the Apollon Kalamarias senior men's team, which he took over in 1994, in both the Greek 4th Division, and the Greek 3rd Division.

He was then an assistant coach with the Greek Basket League club PAOK, from 1997 to 2005, and also was PAOK's head coach during the 2000–01 season. He then worked as an assistant head coach with Olympiacos, from 2005 to 2008, under head coaches Pini Gershon and Panagiotis Giannakis.

In 2006, he worked as an assistant coach with the NBA club Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA Summer League team. From 2008 to 2011, he was the head coach of Kolossos. In 2011, he became an assistant coach with the Russian League club CSKA Moscow, under head coach Jonas Kazlauskas.[1] He then worked briefly as an assistant coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets.[2]

He became the head coach of the Greek EuroCup team Panionios in 2012.[3] He became the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague team Olympiacos in 2014.[4][5] In 2015, he extended his contract with Olympiacos, through the 2017–18 season.[6][7] After he lost to Panathinaikos in the Greek League Finals, 2–3, Olympiacos announced Sfairopoulos and the club would separate ways.[8]

Greek national team

Sfairopoulos was an assistant coach with the senior men's Greek national basketball team from 2001 to 2004, under head coaches Kostas Petropoulos, Giannis Ioannidis, and Panagiotis Giannakis. He was an assistant coach on the Greek national team that competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also worked as assistant coach for the Greek national team from 2009 to 2010, under head coach Jonas Kazlauskas.

He was an assistant coach with Greece at the EuroBasket 2009, and the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Coaching record

Legend
G Games coached W Games won L Games lost W–L % Win-loss %

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

EuroLeague

Team Year G W L W–L% Result
Olympiacos 2014–15 26188.692Lost in the final game
Olympiacos 2015–16 241410.583Eliminated in Top 16 stage
Olympiacos 2016–17 372314.622Lost in the final game
Olympiacos 2017–18 342014.588Eliminated in quarterfinals
Career1217546.620

Awards and accomplishments

Greek national team

Pro clubs

Pro clubs

References

  1. ↑ Giannis Sferopoulos added to CSKA coaching staff.
  2. ↑ Career Notes.
  3. ↑ PANIONIOS finds new leader in Sfairopoulos.
  4. ↑ Olympiacos tabs Sferopoulos as head coach.
  5. ↑ Ioannis Sfairopoulos returns to Olympiacos.
  6. ↑ Olympiacos, coach Sfairopoulos together until 2018.
  7. ↑ Head-coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos extends with Olympiacos until 2018.
  8. ↑ "Olympiacos and Sfairopoulos part ways". Eurohoops.net. 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
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