KK Crvena zvezda is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Crvena zvezda is a part of the Adriatic Basketball Association and competes in the ABA League, EuroLeague and in the Basketball League of Serbia. The Crvena zvezda squads have played in three different National Leagues since 1945, including the Yugoslav First Federal League (1945–1992), the First League of Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006), and the Serbian League (2006 onwards). The team plays domestic home matches in the Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, and the EuroLeague or EuroCup home matches in Štark Arena. Since November 2022, the head coach has been Duško Ivanović.

There have been 42 head coaches in the club's history. Montenegrin coach Dejan Radonjić is the all-time leader in both official games coached and wins. Nebojša Popović won ten National Championships, while Radonjić won five National Cups and he is the only head coach who has won multiple Cup tournaments. Radonjić and Bratislav Đorđević won both national titles, a Championship and a Cup. Also, Crvena zvezda won five Adriatic Leagues under Radonjić and an Adriatic Super Cup under Milan Tomić. Coaches Radonjić and Tomić won the Adriatic Championship and the National Championship in the same season. Furthermore, Radonjić recorded three titles (Serbian League, Adriatic League, and Serbian Cup) in a single season four times (2014–15, 2016–17, 2020–21, and 2021–22), of which the lasest were back-to-back. Coach Aleksandar Nikolić won the only European-wide competition in the club's history, the FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup in 1974.

Nikolić, Ranko Žeravica, and Svetislav Pešić are members of FIBA Hall of Fame as coaches, while Nikolić is a member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. American coach Tom Ludwig, hired in 1997, was the first foreign head coach and the only non-European. Montenegrins Radonjić and Duško Ivanović, and Slovenian Zmago Sagadin were the other foreign head coaches. Head coaches Vladislav Lučić and Aleksandar Trifunović were hired three times.

Head coaches Popović, Aleksandar Gec, Milan Bjegojević, Đorđe Andrijašević, Nikolić, Nemanja Đurić, Strahinja Alagić, Dragiša Vučinić, Zoran Slavnić, Lučić, Stevan Karadžić, Trifunović, Milenko Topić, and Saša Obradović were also Crvena zvezda's players. Popović and Vučinić were player-coaches, while Popović, Bjegojević and Topić won the National Championships both as the players and head coaches.

Note: Statistics are correct through the start of the 2022–23 season.

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#	Name	Nationality[b]	Period	GC	W	L	Win%	Trophies	Ref.
1	Nebojša Popović *	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1946–1955	184	155	29	.842	10× Yugoslav champion
2	Aleksandar Gec	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1956–1959	37	24	13	.649	None
3	Milan Bjegojević	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1960–1970	242	142	100	.587	Yugoslav champion
4	Đorđe Andrijašević	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1970–1971	26	19	7	.731	Yugoslav Cup winner
5	Bratislav Đorđević	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1971–1973	78	56	22	.718	Yugoslav champion Yugoslav Cup winner
6	Aleksandar Nikolić †	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1973–1974	41	29	12	.707	FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup winner
7	Nemanja Đurić	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1974–1976	50				Yugoslav Cup winner
8	Strahinja Alagić	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1976	20				None
–	Bratislav Đorđević	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1976–1979	70				None
9	Dragiša Vučinić	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1979	7				None
10	Mile Protić	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1979	8				None
11	Ranko Žeravica *	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1979–1986	265	160	105	.604	None
12	Vlade Đurović	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1986–1988	72	42	30	.583	None
13	Zoran Slavnić	Yugoslavia[SRB]	1988–1991	111	64	47	.577	None
14	Duško Vujošević	Yugoslavia[MNE][lower-alpha 1]	1991–1992	32	20	12	.625	None
15	Vladislav Lučić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1992–1994	99				2× Yugoslav champion
16	Veselin Matić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1994	2				None
–	Zoran Slavnić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1994–1995	32				None
17	Mihailo Uvalin	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1995	4	4	0	1.000	None
18	Borislav Džaković	Serbia and Montenegro[BIH][lower-alpha 1]	1995–1996	45	27	18	.600	None
19	Mihailo Pavićević	Serbia and Montenegro[MNE]	1996–1997	33	14	19	.424	None
–	Ranko Žeravica *	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1997	10	10	0	1.000	None
20	Tom Ludwig	United States	1997	13	9	4	.692	None	[upper-alpha 1]
–	Vladislav Lučić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1997–1998	28				None	[upper-alpha 2]
–	Mihailo Pavićević	Serbia and Montenegro[MNE]	1998	5	4	1	.800	Yugoslav champion	[upper-alpha 3]
–	Borislav Džaković	Serbia and Montenegro[BIH][lower-alpha 1]	1998	9				None	[upper-alpha 4]
21	Jovica Antonić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1998–1999	35	23	12	.657	None	[upper-alpha 5]
22	Momir Milatović	Serbia and Montenegro[MNE]	1999	4				None	[upper-alpha 6][1]
–	Vladislav Lučić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	1999–2000	21				None	[upper-alpha 7]
23	Stevan Karadžić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	2000–2001	40				None	[upper-alpha 8]
24	Miroslav Nikolić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	2001	9				None
25	Zoran Krečković	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	2001–2002	8	4	4	.500	None
–	Miroslav Nikolić	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	2002	20				None
26	Aleksandar Trifunović	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	2002–2003	52	36	16	.692	None	[upper-alpha 9]
27	Zmago Sagadin	Slovenia	2003–2004	65	41	24	.631	Serbian Cup winner	[upper-alpha 10]
–	Aleksandar Trifunović	Serbia and Montenegro[SRB]	2004–2005	50	30	20	.600	None
28	Dragan Šakota	Serbia[lower-alpha 2]	2005–2007	102	63	39	.618	Serbian Cup winner	[upper-alpha 11]
–	Stevan Karadžić	Serbia	2007–2008	71	44	27	.620	None	[upper-alpha 12]
29	Milan Škobalj	Serbia	2008	12	6	6	.500	None
30	Svetislav Pešić *	Serbia[lower-alpha 3]	2008–2009	56	37	19	.661	None
31	Aleksandar Petrović	Serbia	2009	18	9	9	.500	None	[upper-alpha 13]
–	Aleksandar Trifunović	Serbia	2009–2010	37	18	19	.486	None
–	Mihailo Uvalin	Serbia	2010–2011	28	9	19	.321	None	[upper-alpha 14]
32	Saša Nikitović	Serbia	2011	14	6	8	.429	None
–	Svetislav Pešić *	Serbia[lower-alpha 3]	2011–2012	50	25	25	.500	None
33	Milivoje Lazić	Serbia	2012	2	0	2	.000	None	[upper-alpha 15]
34	Vlada Vukoičić	Serbia	2012–2013	44	31	13	.705	Serbian Cup winner	[6]
35	Dejan Radonjić	Montenegro	2013–2017	326	239	87	.733	3× Serbian champion 3× Serbian Cup winner 3× Adriatic champion	[7][8]
36	Dušan Alimpijević	Serbia	2017–2018	69	40	29	.580	None	[9][10]
37	Milenko Topić	Serbia	2018	10	10	0	1.000	Serbian champion	[11][12]
38	Milan Tomić	Serbia[lower-alpha 2]	2018–2019	75	56	19	.747	Adriatic champion ABA Supercup winner Serbian champion	[13]
39	Andrija Gavrilović	Serbia[lower-alpha 4]	2019	11	5	6	.455	None
–	Dragan Šakota	Serbia[lower-alpha 2]	2019–2020	35	20	15	.571	None
40	Saša Obradović	Serbia	2020	26	14	12	.538	None
–	Dejan Radonjić	Montenegro	2020–2022	127	83	44	.654	2× Serbian champion 2× Serbian Cup winner 2× Adriatic champion
41	Vladimir Jovanović	Serbia	2022	12	5	7	.417	None
42	Duško Ivanović	Montenegro	2022–2023	69	50	19	.725	Serbian champion Serbian Cup winner
43	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	Greece	2023–	0	0	0	–	None

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This list includes all head coaches who have coached at least 100 games in all competitions.

Note: Statistics are correct through the start of the 2022–23 season.

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#	Name	Period	Games
1	Dejan Radonjić	2013–2017, 2020–2022	453
2	Ranko Žeravica *	1979–1986; 1997	275
3	Milan Bjegojević	1960–1970	242
4	Nebojša Popović *	1946–1957	184
5	Bratislav Đorđević	1971–1973; 1976–1979	148
	Vladislav Lučić	1992–1994; 1997–1998; 1999–2000	148
7	Zoran Slavnić	1988–1991; 1994–1995	143
8	Aleksandar Trifunović	2002–2003; 2004–2005; 2009–2010	139
9	Dragan Šakota	2005–2007; 2019–2020	137
10	Stevan Karadžić	2000–2001; 2007–2008	111
11	Svetislav Pešić *	2008–2009; 2011–2012	106

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• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of Crvena zvezda. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^b  Yugoslavia includes the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1963) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992), while  Serbia and Montenegro includes Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003) and State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006).