BAL Coach of the Year

BAL Coach of the Year Award
Sport	Basketball
League	Basketball Africa League
Awarded for	Best coach in the season of the Basketball Africa League
History
First award	2022
Most wins	6 coaches (1 each)
Most recent	Henry Mwinuka (2026)

The Basketball Africa Coach of the Year Award is an annual Basketball Africa League (BAL) award given to the best coach of a given season. The award was first handed out in the 2022 season to José Neto.^[1]

The winner of the award is based on two criteria: developed a mutually respectful relationship with league, game officials, media, opponents and fans; and had the best results based on the resources at their disposal.^[2]

The winner of the awards is decided by voting by all head coaches and two assistant coaches per team, which cannot vote on a coach on their same team.^[2] Fouad Abou Chakra and Henry Mwinuka are the only award winner to have won the championship in the same season, in 2025.^[3]^[4]

Winners

Note: † denotes the team won the championship

Season	Coach	Nationality	Club	Record	Win %	Ref
2022	José Neto	Brazil	Petro de Luanda	6–2	.750	^[1]
2023	Pabi Guèye	Senegal	AS Douanes	5–3	.625	^[2]
2024	Ogoh Odaudu	Nigeria	Rivers Hoopers	6–4	.600	^[5]
2025	Fouad Abou Chakra	Lebanon	Al Ahli Tripoli †	9–1	.900	^[3]
2026	Henry Mwinuka	Tanzania	RSSB †	7–2	.778	^[4]