Coach Gregoric comes back to Irbis

- June 23, 2025
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POSTED BY: Igor Obradovic
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Branislav Gregoric
Branislav Gregoric

Defending champion Irbis Almaty (National League) will be led by 43-year-old Serbian coach Branislav Gregoric for the 2025-26 season. It is his comeback to Almaty as he used to coach here before. He coached last season at Irtysh in the National League.
He has coached also in China (Yuanda), Iceland (KR Reykjavik), and China.
Gregoric won the Chinese WCBA championship title in 2023.

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1
Astana
28-4
2
Caspiy Aktau
18-14
3
Almaty L.
16-16
4
Barsy Atyrau
15-17
5
Tobol
3-29
Play-Off
1
Turan
0-0
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Places 1-8
1
Turan
28-0
2
Shymkent
25-3
3
Aktobe
24-5
4
Bars
23-5
5
Almaty-2
18-10
6
Barsy 2
17-11
7
ChelSU
15-3
8
Champ1on
14-14
Places 9-14
9
AiRom
0-0
10
Karaganda
0-0
11
Oral
0-0
12
Pavlodar
0-0
13
Tigers-KazATU
0-0
14
Tobyl
0-0
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1
CSKARussia
37-3
2
UNICSRussia
33-7
3
ZenitRussia
28-12
4
LokomotivRussia
27-13
5
Parma-PariRussia
22-18
6
UralmashRussia
19-21
7
MBA MoscowRussia
18-22
8
EniseyRussia
15-25
9
N.NovgorodRussia
12-28
10
AvtodorRussia
7-33
11
SamaraRussia
2-38
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BPG
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Avg: 24.4

Mays
24.4
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20.3
Bykov
18.7
Hardy
17.6
Day
16.5
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Oral
(180-G-2001)
Avg: 21.2

Shamuratov
21.2
Zhukov
19.4
Zhumabay
19.2
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18.4
Gavrilov
18.0
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Sama.
(201-G-2000)
Avg: 20.5

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20.5
Trimble
19.0
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17.9
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17.6
Newman
17.0
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