Igor Kolaković

Igor Kolaković (Игор Колаковић; born 4 June 1965) is a Montenegrin professional volleyball coach and former player. He serves as head coach for the Serbia national team and Halkbank Ankara.

Personal life
Igor's wife, Sandra, is a former handball national team player and former head coach of the Serbia women's national handball team. Igor received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1989 at the University of Montenegro. Aleksa Kolaković, son of Igor, is a handball player.

As a player
Kolakovic played as a setter for Budućnost Podgorica and Partizan Beograd from 1979 to 1997, after which he became the head coach of the Podgorica team.

As a coach
Igor Kolaković replaced Ljubomir Travica as head coach of the Serbia men's national volleyball team ahead of the 2006 World Championship, after assisting him for three years. He led Serbia to a gold medal at the 2011 European Championship, and bronze in 2007 and 2013. In 2010, he achieved a great success at the 2010 World Championship, winning a bronze medal. He helped his team win two silver medals at the 2008 and 2009 World League, and a bronze one in 2010. In 2014, he resigned his post as the head coach of Serbia after eight years. At the professional club level, he won, among others, two titles of the Montenegrin Champion in 2007 and 2008 with Budućnost Podgorica, and two titles of the Slovenian Champion in 2011 and 2012 with ACH Volley. In 2017, he was appointed as a new head coach of the Iran national team. He led Iran to a bronze medal at the 2017 World Grand Champions Cup, defeating, among others, teams of the USA, France and Italy. In 2019, Iran, led by him, won their 3rd Asian Champions title. In 2020, he was dismissed as the head coach of Iran.

As a player

 * CEV Challenge Cup
 * Simple silver cup.svg 1989–90 – with Partizan Beograd


 * Domestic
 * 1988–89 Simple gold cup.svg Yugoslavian Cup, with Partizan Beograd
 * 1989–90 Simple gold cup.svg Yugoslavian Cup, with Partizan Beograd
 * 1989–90 Gold medal with cup.svg Yugoslavian Championship, with Partizan Beograd
 * 1990–91 Gold medal with cup.svg Yugoslavian Championship, with Partizan Beograd

As a coach

 * Domestic
 * 2000–01 Simple gold cup.svg Serbia and Montenegro Cup, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2001–02 Gold medal with cup.svg Serbia and Montenegro Championship, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2004–05 Simple gold cup.svg Serbia and Montenegro Cup, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2004–05 Gold medal with cup.svg Serbia and Montenegro Championship, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2005–06 Simple gold cup.svg Serbia and Montenegro Cup, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2005–06 Gold medal with cup.svg Serbia and Montenegro Championship, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2006–07 Simple gold cup.svg Montenegrin Cup, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2006–07 Gold medal with cup.svg Montenegrin Championship, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2007–08 Simple gold cup.svg Montenegrin Cup, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2007–08 Gold medal with cup.svg Montenegrin Championship, with Budućnost Podgorica
 * 2010–11 Simple gold cup.svg Slovenian Cup, with ACH Volley
 * 2010–11 Gold medal with cup.svg Slovenian Championship, with ACH Volley
 * 2011–12 Simple gold cup.svg Slovenian Cup, with ACH Volley
 * 2011–12 Gold medal with cup.svg Slovenian Championship, with ACH Volley