Michael Koch (basketball)
Michael Koch (basketball) is a German basketball coach and former player. Born January 13, 1966, in Lich, Hesse, West Germany, he played as a guard (point guard and shooting guard) from 1983 to 2004 and is now the head coach of Bayer Giants Leverkusen in the ProA.
As a player, Koch spent his career with clubs including MTV Giessen, BBC Bayreuth, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Panathinaikos, Maroussi, Ionikos Neas Filadelfeias, and Dragons Rhöndorf. He won multiple titles: with Bayreuth he claimed the German League championship in 1989 and German Cups in 1988 and 1989; with Leverkusen he won five German League titles (1992–1996) and two German Cups (1993, 1995), earning the German League MVP award in 1995. With Panathinaikos, he captured four Greek League titles (1998–2001), the EuroLeague in 2000, and the 1996 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, and he reached the FIBA SuproLeague final in 2001 and the Saporta Cup semifinal in 1997–98.
Koch played for the German national team from 1985 to 1998, earning 140 caps. He won EuroBasket gold with Germany in 1993 and also competed in EuroBasket 1987 and 1995, as well as the FIBA World Championships in 1986 and 1994.
His coaching career began in 2004 with Dragons Rhöndorf (Under-16), followed by Telekom Baskets Bonn (2005–2013), Medi Bayreuth (2013–2016), AEL Limassol (2018–2019), and Bayer Giants Leverkusen (assistant in 2023–2024, head coach from 2024–present).
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