DBL Coach of the Year

The Dutch Basketball League Coach of the Year is an award given to the best coach in the Dutch highest professional basketball league. The award is given after the regular season and was first handed out in 1975 to Bill Sheridan.^[1]

Winners

Ton Boot (1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1993, 2001)

Toon van Helfteren (2003, 2010, 2011, 2012)

Key

Coach (X)	Name of the coach and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Club (X)	Name of the club and the number of times a coach of it has won the award (if more than one)
	Indicates multiple award winners in the same season

Year	Coach	Nationality	Team	Ref.
1974–75	Bill Sheridan	United States	Punch Delft	[1]
1975–76	Quinn, TomTom Quinn	United States	Flamingo's Haarlem	[1]
1976–77	Bill Sheridan (2)	United States	Remington Den Bosch	[1]
1977–78	Parks, JimJim Parks	United States	Donar Groningen	[1]
1978–79	Boot, TonTon Boot	Netherlands	EBBC Den Bosch (2)	[1]
1979–80	Boot, TonTon Boot (2)	Netherlands	Nashua Den Bosch (3)	[1]
1981–82	Hart, Edwin van derEdwin van der Hart	Netherlands	Delta Lloyd Amsterdam	[1]
1982–83	Harrewijn, RuudRuud Harrewijn	Netherlands	Eve & Adam Stars Haarlem (2)	[1]
1983–84	Boot, TonTon Boot (3)	Netherlands	Nashua Den Bosch (4)	[1]
1983–84	Gent, Maarten vanMaarten van Gent	Netherlands	Hatrans Haaksbergen	[1]
1984–85	Harrewijn, RuudRuud Harrewijn (2)	Netherlands	Elmex Leiden	[1]
1985–86	Dekker, JanJan Dekker	Netherlands	Nashua Den Bosch (5)	[1]
1986–87	Boot, TonTon Boot (4)	Netherlands	Doppeldouche Den Helder	[1]
1987–88	Boot, TonTon Boot (5)	Netherlands	Direktbank Den Helder (2)	[1]
1988–89	Dekker, JanJan Dekker (2)	Netherlands	Nashua Den Bosch (5)	[1]
1989–90	Pinas, GlennGlenn Pinas	Netherlands	Computerij Meppel	[1]
1990–91	Jansen, Jan WillemJan Willem Jansen	Netherlands	VGNN Donar Groningen (2)	[1]
1991–92	Jansen, Jan WillemJan Willem Jansen (2)	Netherlands	Akrides Haarlem	[1]
1992–93	Boot, TonTon Boot (6)	Netherlands	Commodore Den Helder (3)	[1]
1993–94	Veen, Meindert van derMeindert van der Veen	Netherlands	Mustang Jeans Den Helder (4)	[1]
1994–95	Pinas, GlennGlenn Pinas (2)	Netherlands	RZG Donar Groningen (3)	[1]
1995–96	Pinas, GlennGlenn Pinas (3)	Netherlands	RZG Donar Groningen (4)	[1]
1996–97	Pinas, GlennGlenn Pinas (4)	Netherlands	RZG Donar Groningen (5)	[1]
1997–98	Jansen, Jan WillemJan Willem Jansen (3)	Netherlands	Ricoh Astronauts Amsterdam	[1]
1998–99	Gonnen, BobBob Gonnen	Netherlands	Den Helder (5)	[1]
1999–00	Nicols, LawrenceLawrence Nicols	United States	EBBC Den Bosch (6)	[1]
2000–01	Boot, TonTon Boot (7)	Netherlands	Ricoh Astronauts Amsterdam (2)	[1]
2001–02	Belt, Herman van denHerman van den Belt^^	Netherlands	Landstede Basketbal	[1]
2002–03	Helfteren, Toon vanToon van Helfteren	Netherlands	EBBC Den Bosch (7)	[1]
2003–04	Shivek, ArikArik Shivek	Israel	Ricoh Astronauts Amsterdam (3)	[1]
2004–05	Belt, Herman van denHerman van den Belt^^ (2)	Netherlands	Landstede Basketbal (2)	[1]
2005–06	Braal, ErikErik Braal	Netherlands	Rotterdam Basketbal	[1]
2006–07	Schuurs, MichaelMichael Schuurs^^	Netherlands	Matrixx Magixx	[1]
2007–08	Braal, ErikErik Braal (2)	Netherlands	WCAA Giants	[1]
2008–09	Shivek, ArikArik Shivek (2)	Israel	EclipseJet-MyGuide Amsterdam (4)	[1]
2009–10	Helfteren, Toon vanToon van Helfteren (2)	Netherlands	Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden (2)	[1]
2010–11	Helfteren, Toon vanToon van Helfteren (3)	Netherlands	Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden (3)	[1]
2011–12	Helfteren, Toon vanToon van Helfteren (4)	Netherlands	Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden (4)	[1]
2012–13	Korner, RaoulRaoul Korner	Austria	EiffelTowers Den Bosch (8)	[1]
2013–14	Skelin, IvicaIvica Skelin	Croatia	GasTerra Flames Groningen (6)	[2]
2014–15	Skelin, IvicaIvica Skelin (2)	Croatia	Donar Groningen (7)	[3]

Awards per coach

Awards	Player	Won in
7	Ton Boot	1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1993, 2001
4	Toon van Helfteren	2003, 2010, 2011, 2012
	Glenn Pians	1990, 1995, 1996, 1997
3	Jan Willem Jansen	1991, 1992, 1998

References

1. Coach of the Year at j-dus.com (History of Dutch basketball)
2. "Meeste seizoensprijzen naar GasTerra Flames". iBasketball (in Dutch). 2014-04-22. Archived from the original on 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
3. Donar coach Skelin: Coach of the Year