Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year

The Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year is an annual award of Europe's premier level men's basketball league, the EuroLeague. The award was introduced in the 2004–05 season. It is given to the league's best club CEO of each season. The winner receives the trophy after the end of the season, in recognition of their efforts to reach the highest levels of success with their club.

History

José Antonio Querejeta, of Baskonia, was the first recipient of the award, as his team reached the EuroLeague 2004–05 season's EuroLeague Final. In 2014, the award was officially named after Gianluigi Porelli,^[1] long-time owner of Virtus Bologna and first president of ULEB.

EuroLeague Club Executive of the Year

Season	Executive of the Year	Nationality	Team
2004–05	José Antonio Querejeta^[2]	Spain	TAU Cerámica
2005–06	Sergey Kushchenko^[3]	Russia	CSKA Moscow
2006–07	Juan Manuel Rodríguez^[4]	Spain	Unicaja
2007–08	Ferdinando Minucci^[5]	Italy	Montepaschi Siena
2008–09	Marco Baldi^[6]	Germany	Alba Berlin
2009–10	Przemysław Sęczkowski^[7]	Poland	Asseco Prokom Gdynia
2010–11	Pavlos & Thanasis Giannakopoulos^[8]	Greece	Panathinaikos
2011–12	Panagiotis & George Angelopoulos^[9]	Greece	Olympiacos
2012–13	Tuncay Özilhan^[10]	Turkey	Anadolu Efes
2013–14	Livio Proli^[11]	Italy	EA7 Emporio Armani Milan
2014–15	Marco Baldi (2x)^[12]	Germany	Alba Berlin (2x)
2015–16	José Antonio Querejeta (2x)^[13]	Spain	Laboral Kutxa Vitoria-Gasteiz (2x)
2016–17	Maurizio Gherardini^[14]	Italy	Fenerbahçe
2017–18	Paulius Motiejūnas^[15]	Lithuania	Žalgiris
2018–19	Paulius Motiejūnas (2x)^[16]	Lithuania	Žalgiris (2x)
2020–21	Alper Yılmaz^[17]	Turkey	Anadolu Efes
2021–22	Alper Yılmaz^[18]	Turkey	Anadolu Efes (2x)
2022–23	Paulius Motiejūnas (3x)^[19]	Lithuania	Žalgiris (3x)

References

External links

Official Webpage on the 2015 Award

[1] Euroleague.net Euroleague Executive of the Year award named in memory of Gianluigi Porelli.

[2] Euroleague Awards 2004-05

[3] "CSKABasket.com Sergey Kuschenko received the Executive of the Year Award". Archived from the original on 2020-07-03. Retrieved 2013-05-01.

[4] Euroleague.net Euroleague Basketball's Club Executive of the Year: Juan Manuel Rodríguez, Unicaja.

[5] Euroleague.net Euroleague Basketball's Club Executive of the Year: Ferdinando Minucci, Montepaschi Siena.

[6] Euroleague.net Club Executive of the Year: Marco Baldi, Alba Berlin.

[7] Euroleague.net Club Executive of the Year: Przemyslaw Seczkowski, CEO Asseco Prokom.

[8] Euroleague.net Executives of the Year: Pavlos and Thanassis Giannakopoulos, Panathinaikos.

[9] "Euroleague.net Executive of the Year award: Panayotis and George Angelopoulos, Olympiacos Piraeus". Archived from the original on 2013-07-03. Retrieved 2013-05-01.

[10] Euroleague.net 2012-13 Executive of the Year: Tuncay Özilhan, Anadolu Efes.

[11] Euroleague.net 2013-14 Executive of the Year: Livio Proli, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan.

[12] Euroleague.net 2014-15 Executive of the Year: Marco Baldi, ALBA Berlin

[13] Laboral's Querejeta voted Executive of the Year

[14] Euroleague.net Fenerbahce's Gherardini chosen Executive of the Year

[15] Euroleague.net Zalgiris's Paulius Motiejunas is EuroLeague Executive of the Year

[16] Euroleague.net Zalgiris's Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year: Paulius Motiejunas, Zalgiris Kaunas

[17] "Alper Yilmaz of Efes named EuroLeague Executive of the Year | EuroLeague". 8 July 2021.

[18] "Efes GM Alper Yilmaz wins second consecutive EuroLeague Executive of the Year award". 7 July 2022.

[19] Paulius Motiejunas chosen as EuroLeague's top Exec for record third time

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