Zvezdan Mitrović took over as Cedevita Olimpija’s head coach ahead of the 2024/25 season. In his first two seasons at the helm of the Ljubljana team, he led the Dragons to two consecutive Slovenian domestic trebles, winning the National Championship, the Spar Cup and the Slovenian Super Cup. In both seasons, he also guided Cedevita Olimpija to the BKT EuroCup Quarterfinals and the AdmiralBet ABA League Playoffs. At the end of the 2025/26 regional league Regular Season, he was named Coach of the Season.

Before arriving in Ljubljana, Mitrović coached Turkish side Galatasaray. During his distinguished coaching career, he has also been in charge of Monaco, ASVEL, Budućnost, Khimik, Kryvbas, Budivelnyk and Azovmash, among others. He achieved his greatest success in European club competitions in 2021, when he led Monaco to the EuroCup title and was named the competition’s Coach of the Year. He won the French National Championship with ASVEL in 2019 and the Ukrainian National Championship with Kryvbas in 2009.

Between 2017 and 2019, Mitrović served as head coach of the Montenegro men’s senior national team, leading the country to its first-ever FIBA Basketball World Cup appearance in China in 2019. Slovenian basketball fans had already seen him on the Montenegro bench at EuroBasket 2013 in Slovenia, when he served as an assistant coach. In 2025, he was reappointed as Montenegro’s head coach. He began his second tenure in the summer of 2026 and is currently leading the national team in the qualifiers for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Mitrović began his coaching career with Pikadili in 1992. In 1995, he joined Budućnost as an assistant coach and remained there until 2000. He then spent one season as Mogren’s head coach before returning to Budućnost in 2001, this time as head coach. He coached Khimik between 2002 and 2007 and again in the 2012/13 season, Kryvbas between 2007 and 2011, and Budivelnyk in the 2011/12 season. Following a brief spell with Azovmash, he took charge of Monaco for the first time in 2015 and remained with the club until 2018. Later that year, he became ASVEL’s head coach before returning to Monaco in 2020. He coached Galatasaray during the 2023/24 season until the end of January 2024, before taking over at Cedevita Olimpija ahead of the 2024/25 season.

In addition to winning the EuroCup and national championship titles in France, Ukraine and Slovenia, Mitrović has won the French League Cup three times and the Ukrainian Cup once. He has been named Coach of the Year in the French National Championship three times and received the same honour in the Ukrainian League once. In 2015, he also led Monaco to the French second-division title and promotion to the country’s top flight.