Pedro Martinez honored as 2025-26 Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year

Valencia Basket head coach Pedro Martínez has been chosen as the 2025-26 Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year, the award which recognizes the EuroLeague Coach of the Year.

In the voting for this award—decided by the coaches of the participating teams themselves—the Valencia coach finished ahead of Tomas Masiulis (Zalgiris Kaunas), Georgios Bartzokas (Olympiacos Piraeus), and last year’s winner, Fenerbahçe Beko Istanbul coach Sarunas Jasikevicius.

With this achievement, Pedro becomes the first Valencia Basket coach to receive this recognition in Europe’s top continental competition and the fourth Spanish-born head coach to win the award, joining Chus Mateo (2023-24) and Pablo Laso (2014-15 and 2017-18), who won with Real Madrid, and Xavi Pascual (2009-10), who received the honor with FC Barcelona.

Martinez is the 14th different recipient of the Coach of the Year award since its creation in the 2004–05 season.