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Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year

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The Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year is an annual awardofEurope'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[edit]

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[edit]

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)

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External links[edit]

• Official Webpage on the 2015 Award