Dimitrios Itoudis (alternate spelling: Dimitris) (, born September 8, 1970) is a Greek professional

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who is currently the head coach for

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of the

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and the EuroCup. He formerly coached the

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Coaching career

Itoudis began his coaching career in 1990, when he began coaching

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's Under-18 team in

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. In 1992, he became an assistant coach with the senior men's team of Zagreb. In 1995, he became an assistant coach with the

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club

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

. He then became the

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of PAOK in 1996. He was an assistant coach with the Greek club

Panionios Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan-Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis''), ...

, during the 1996–97 season, before becoming the head coach of the Greek club, Philippos Thessaloniki, from 1997 to 1999. After that, he was the head coach of the Greek club MENT. He then became the assistant coach of

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, with the Greek club Panathinaikos. He worked as Panathinaikos' assistant, from 1999 to 2012. While he was Panathinaikos' assistant coach, he was a part of 5

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championship teams (2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011), 11 Greek League championship teams (2000, 2001, 2003–2011), and 7

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winning teams (2003, 2005–2009, 2012) Itoudis became the head coach of the

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club Banvit in 2013. In June 2014, he became the head coach of

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, signing a two-year deal. In his first season working with the team ( 2014–15), CSKA Moscow won the

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, after eliminating

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with a 3–0 series sweep in the league's finals series. In his second season with CSKA Moscow ( 2015–16), he became the first Greek basketball coach to win the EuroLeague championship with a foreign (non-Greek) club. On June 3, 2016, he re-signed with CSKA for three seasons. In July 2016, he was named the

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, for the 2015–16 season. He left CSKA Moscow in June 2022, with one year remaining on his contract. On 19 June 2022, he signed a 3-year-deal with Fenerbahçe. His contract was terminated in December 2023, a year ahead of the end of his contract. At the end of November 2025, he signed with the Israeli EuroCup team Hapoel Tel Aviv, replacing his former assistant coach Dimitris Dedas

A few months later, he won the EuroCup titl

Coaching record

EuroLeague

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, align="left" , 2014–15 Euroleague, 2014–15 , 30, , 26, , 4, , , , align="center", Won in 3rd place game , -! style="background:#FDE910;" , align="left" , 2015–16 , 29, , 24, , 5, , , , align="center", Won EuroLeague Championship , -! , align="left" , 2016–17 , 35, , 26, , 9, , , , align="center", Won in 3rd place game , - , align="left", 2017–18 , 36 , , 27 , , 9 , , , , align="center", Lost in 3rd place game , -! style="background:#FDE910;" , align="left" , 2018–19 , 36, , 29, , 7, , , , align="center", Won EuroLeague Championship , - , align="left", 2019–20 , 28 , , 19 , , 9 , , , , align="center", ''Season cancelled'' , - , align="left",

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, 39 , , 27 , , 12 , , , , align="center", Lost in 3rd place game , - , align="left", 2021–22 , 24 , , 14 , , 10 , , , , align="center", ''Season cancelled'' , -! , align="center" colspan=2, Career, , 257, , 192, , 65, , , ,

Domestic Leagues

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, 34, , 25, , 9, , , , align="center", Won 2021 VTB United League Finals , - , align="left" ,

, align="left" , 2021–22 , 31, , 24, , 7, , , , align="center", ''Season cancelled'' , -class="sortbottom" , align="center" colspan=2, Career, , 84, , , 64, , , 20, , , ,

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