{{Short description|English basketball coach (b.1969)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Tony Garbelotto | image = | width = | caption = | height_ft = | height_in = | weight_lb = | league = IBL | team = Kesatria Bengawan Solo | position = Head coach | number = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1969|01|02}} | birth_place = | nationality = British | coach_start = 1992 | coach_end = | cyears1 =1992–1994 | cteam1 = London Towers (Assistant) | cyears2 =1997 | cteam2 = England (Assistant) | cyears3 =1998 | cteam3 = England U-20 (Assistant) | cyears4 =1998–2000 | cteam4 = KFÍ | cyears5 =2000–2002 | cteam5 = Newcastle Eagles | cyears6 =2002–2003 | cteam6 = Birmingham Bullets | cyears7 =2008–2012 | cteam7 = Everton Tigers | cyears8 =2012–2014 | cteam8 = MLP Academics Heidelberg | cyears9 = 2014–2017| cteam9 = Saigon Heat | cyears10 = 2014–2017| cteam10 = Vietnam | cyears11 = 2017–2018 | cteam11 = Glasgow Rocks | cyears12 = 2017–2018 | cteam12 = Great Britain | cyears13 = 2017–2018 | cteam13 = Scotland | cyears14 = 2019–2020 | cteam14 = Cyberdyne Ibaraki Robots | cyears15 = 2021-2022 | cteam15 = NSH Mountain Gold Timika | cyears16 = 2022-2024 | cteam16 = Bali United Basketball | cyears17 = 2024-2025 | cteam17 = RANS Simba Bogor | cyears18 = 2025-present | cteam18 = Kesatria Bengawan Solo |highlights = '''As coach:''' *IBL Coach of the Year (2025) *BBL Championship (2011) *2x BBL playoffs championship (2010, 2011) *BBL Coach of the Year Award (2011) *BBL Cup (2009) *BBL Trophy (2011) | cstats_league1 = Úrvalsdeild karla | cwin1 = 22 | closs1 = 29 }}
'''Anthony Garbelotto''' (born 2 January 1969) is an English basketball coach who coaches Kesatria Bengawan Solo of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL).
==Coaching career== Garbelotto started his coaching career with hometown club London Towers in 1992, as an assistant coach, leaving the post just two years later. In 1997 he joined up with the England team set-up where he was again an assistant coach, before being promoted to head coach of the Under-23 team in 1998.
In 1998, Garbelotto accepted a job in Iceland, taking the reins of Úrvalsdeild club KFÍ, where he stayed for two years,<ref>{{cite news|title=KFÍ í þjálfaraleit|url=http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=132830&pageId=1966585|accessdate=23 February 2018|work=Morgunblaðið|date=3 May 2000|language=Icelandic}}</ref> also jointly coaching the Great Britain Students team in 1999. Upon his return to England in 2000, he was appointed head coach of fledgling British Basketball League club Newcastle Eagles where he immediately turned their fortunes. By the end of his first season at the club, Garbelotto's Eagles had reached the BBL Trophy final, while finishing 3rd place in the Northern Conference.
In 2002 he moved on to the Birmingham Bullets before settling with hometown club London United in 2006, upon their election to the BBL. From September 2003 to April 2008, Garbelotto was head coach of the Hackney Community College Basketball Academy programme. Alongside Sol Ayinla, he was instrumental in the programme's success, dominating national U19 competition.
He became head coach of Everton Tigers on 30 April 2008,<ref>{{cite news|title=Garbelotto named Tigers new coach|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/basketball/7380611.stm|access-date=19 January 2011|newspaper=BBC|date=2 May 2008}}</ref> and led the Tigers to five pieces of silverware including a 2010-11 treble.<ref>[http://www.hoopsfix.com/2017/06/tony-garbelotto-announced-new-head-coach-glasgow-rocks/ Tony Garbelotto Announced as New Head Coach of Glasgow Rocks]</ref>
In 2014 he signed on as an assistant coach to Jason Rabedeaux with the Saigon Heat. Thirteen games into the 2014 season, Rabedeaux died, leaving Garbelotto at the helm.<ref>[http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12636370/former-utep-coach-jason-rabedeaux-death-remains-mystery Jason Rabedeaux was here]</ref> The Heat finished the season in fourth place, clinching their first ever playoff berth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tuoitrenews.vn/sports/23545/vietnams-saigon-heat-reach-first-asean-basketball-league-semi-in-history |title=Vietnam's Saigon Heat reach first ASEAN Basketball League semi in history |publisher=tuoitrenews.vn |date=25 October 2014 |accessdate=3 March 2016}}</ref> The Heat were swept 0-2 by the Westports Malaysia Dragons in the 2014 ABL playoffs.
In June 2017, Garbelotto was hired as the head coach of Scottish club Glasgow Rocks of the British Basketball League.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.talkbasket.net/25196-tony-garbelotto-pens-two-year-deal-glasgow-rocks|title = Tony Garbelotto pens two-year deal with Glasgow Rocks|date = 15 June 2017}}</ref> In September 2017, took over as the head coach of the Scottish men's national basketball team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the head coach of the Great Britain Men's national Team for the 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sportando.com/en/national-teams/national-teams/248226/tony-garbelotto-becomes-great-britain-s-national-team-head-coach.html |title=Tony Garbelotto becomes Great Britain's National Team head coach |publisher=Sportando |date=27 September 2017 |accessdate=28 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Fyrrverandi þjálfari KFÍ tekur við Bretum|url=http://www.mbl.is/sport/korfubolti/2017/09/27/fyrrverandi_thjalfari_kfi_tekur_vid_bretum/|accessdate=30 September 2017|work=Morgunblaðið|date=27 September 2017|language=Icelandic}}</ref>
In February 2018, Garbelotto was fired as Scotland's head coach by basketballscotland and subsequently resigned from both the Great Britain National Team<ref>{{cite news|title=Tony Garbelotto is sacked by Scottish Basketball and resigns as GB head coach|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/43063545|accessdate=23 February 2018|work=BBC|date=14 February 2018}}</ref> and the Glasgow Rocks.<ref>{{cite news|title=Club Statement|url=https://www.glasgowrocks.co.uk/2018/02/club-statement-8/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250224233839/http://www.glasgowrocks.co.uk/2018/02/club-statement-8/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=24 February 2025|accessdate=23 February 2018|work=Glasgow Rocks|date=19 February 2018}}</ref>
==Head coaching record== {{NBA coach statistics legend}} {{NBA coach statistics start}} |- | style="text-align:left;"|Ibaraki | style="text-align:left;"|2019-20 | 47||26||21||{{Winning percentage|26|21}}|| style="text-align:center;"| 3rd in B2 Eastern|||-||-||-||{{Winning percentage|-|-}} | style="text-align:center;"|- |- {{s-end}}
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