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)

Erik Braal, who won the award three times

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)
W–L	Wins and losses
W%	Win percentage
†	Indicates multiple award winners in the same season

Year	Coach	Nationality	Team	W-L	W%	Ref.
1974–75	Bill Sheridan	United States	Punch			[1]
1975–76	Tom Quinn	United States	Flamingo's Haarlem			[1]
1976–77	Bill Sheridan (2)	United States	Den Bosch			[1]
1977–78	Jim Parks	United States	Donar			[1]
1978–79	Ton Boot	Netherlands	Den Bosch (2)			[1]
1979–80	Ton Boot (2)	Netherlands	Den Bosch (3)			[1]
1981–82	Edwin van der Hart	Netherlands	Amsterdam Astronauts			[1]
1982–83	Ruud Harrewijn	Netherlands	Flamingo's Haarlem (2)			[1]
1983–84†	Ton Boot (3)	Netherlands	Den Bosch (4)			[1]
1983–84†	Maarten van Gent	Netherlands	Hatrans Haaksbergen			[1]
1984–85	Ruud Harrewijn (2)	Netherlands	Leiden			[1]
1985–86	Jan Dekker	Netherlands	Den Bosch (5)			[1]
1986–87	Ton Boot (4)	Netherlands	Den Helder			[1]
1987–88	Ton Boot (5)	Netherlands	Den Helder (2)			[1]
1988–89	Jan Dekker (2)	Netherlands	Den Bosch (5)			[1]
1989–90	Glenn Pinas	Netherlands	Red Giants Meppel			[1]
1990–91	Jan Willem Jansen	Netherlands	Donar (2)			[1]
1991–92	Jan Willem Jansen (2)	Netherlands	Akrides			[1]
1992–93	Ton Boot (6)	Netherlands	Den Helder (3)			[1]
1993–94	Meindert van der Veen	Netherlands	Den Helder (4)			[1]
1994–95	Glenn Pinas (2)	Netherlands	Donar (3)			[1]
1995–96	Glenn Pinas (3)	Netherlands	Donar (4)			[1]
1996–97	Glenn Pinas (4)	Netherlands	Donar (5)			[1]
1997–98	Jan Willem Jansen (3)	Netherlands	Amsterdam Astronauts (2)			[1]
1998–99	Bob Gonnen	Netherlands	Den Helder (5)			[1]
1999–00	Lawrence Nicols	United States	Den Bosch (6)			[1]
2000–01	Ton Boot (7)	Netherlands	Amsterdam Astronauts (3)			[1]
2001–02	Herman van den Belt^	Netherlands	Landstede			[1]
2002–03	Toon van Helfteren	Netherlands	Den Bosch (7)			[1]
2003–04	Arik Shivek	Israel	Astronauts Amsterdam (4)	29–7	.805	[1]
2004–05	Herman van den Belt^ (2)	Netherlands	Landstede (2)			[1]
2005–06	Erik Braal	Netherlands	Rotterdam	20–16	.555	[1]
2006–07	Michael Schuurs	Netherlands	Magixx	26–14	.650	[1]
2007–08	Erik Braal (2)	Netherlands	West-Brabant Giants	27–13	.675	[1]
2008–09	Arik Shivek (2)	Israel	Amsterdam (5)	35–5	.875	[1]
2009–10	Toon van Helfteren (2)	Netherlands	Leiden (2)	22–14	.611	[1]
2010–11	Toon van Helfteren (3)	Netherlands	Leiden (3)	30–6	.833	[1]
2011–12	Toon van Helfteren (4)	Netherlands	Leiden (4)	22–6	.786	[1]
2012–13	Raoul Korner	Austria	Den Bosch (8)	30–6	.833	[1]
2013–14	Ivica Skelin	Croatia	Donar (6)	32–4	.888	[2]
2014–15	Ivica Skelin (2)	Croatia	Donar (7)	21–7	.750	[3]
2015–16	Herman van den Belt (3)	Netherlands	Landstede (3)	22–6	.786	[4]
2016–17	Erik Braal (3)	Netherlands	Donar (8)	26–2	.923	[5]
2017–18	Erik Braal (4)	Netherlands	Donar (9)	28–4	.875
2018–19	Rolf Franke	Netherlands	Leiden (5)	31–3	.912
2020–21	Geert Hammink	Netherlands	Leiden (6)	17–4	.810	[6]

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 Pinas	1990, 1995, 1996, 1997