The Italian tactician will coach in the EuroLeague for the first time
Francesco Tabellini takes over as Paris's head coach
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Paris Basketball has a new man to lead its troops after naming Francesco Tabellini to take over as the team’s head coach, the club announced Monday. The announcement of Tabellini taking over came just hours after Paris officially thanked its previous head of bench, Tiago Splitter.
Tabellini, 41, will have the daunting task of matching the legacy his two predecessors, Splitter and Tuomas Iisalo, left behind. During Splitter’s one-year reign, Paris had a historic season in which it reached the 2024-25 EuroLeague Playoffs in its debut season in the competition and won French League and Cup Double. Before that, under Iisalo in the 2023-24 campaign, Paris won the BKT EuroCup and French League Cup.
Tabellini spent the last two seasons with Nymburk in Czech Republic, where he led the team to a 116-22 record in all competitions, guiding the team to a pair of domestic triple crowns – Czech League, Czech Cup and Czecho-Slovak Cup titles.
The Italian native got into coaching full-time time little more than a decade ago with Treviso Basket’s youth teams and as an assistant on the Italian second division. Tabellini spent eight seasons there, before assuming his first head-coaching gig in 2022 with USK Prague in the Czech Republic, before taking over Nymburk’s bench in 2023.
“I started watching leagues abroad, especially the German BBL. I loved how Tuomas Iisalo in Cralsheim and Johan Roijakkers in Gottingen made their teams play. I kept asking myself if that way of playing the game could have been brought to Italy too,” Tabellini said. “Pace, space, and race: that’s the kind of basketball I like my team to play."