League NBL
VTB Coaching career 1995–present 2002–2004 Larissaikos | Nationality Greek 2001–2002 Athinaikos (Assistant) Position Basketball coach | |
Born June 20, 1975 (age 41)
Athens, Greece ( 1975-06-20 ) 1995–2001 Athinaikos (Cadets, Juniors) | ||
Ilias Papatheodorou (Greek: Ηλίας Παπαθεοδώρου; born June 29, 1975) is a Greek professional basketball coach currently working as a head coach for BC Astana.
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Papatheodorou played basketball in the Athinaikos youth club systems, and as soon as he stopped playing youth level basketball at age 20, he began his coaching career in the same Athinaikos club systems, working there from 1995 to 2001. He coached in the club's cadets, juniors, and senior men's teams. He became the assistant coach of the senior men's team for one season in 2001, in the Greek lower divisions.
He then became the head coach of Larissaikos, from 2002 to 2004, and also was Markopoulo's head coach during the 2004-07 seasons.
He became the head coach of Nea Kifissia in 2007. With the club he managed to achieve several promitions from the lower leagues and he led the club to the Greek Basket League for the first time in its history in 2013. He left the club on 2016.
In 2013, he became the coach of the Greece men's national under-18 basketball team.
After leaving Nea Kifissia, Papatheodorou was appointed as the head coach of the NBL and the VTB United League club Astana.