By John Rammas / irammas@eurohoops.net
Zeljko Obradovic, arguably the most successful head coach of his era with nine EuroLeague titles and plenty more honors, counted a negative record after back-to-back defeats in the first two EuroLeague contests against Real Madrid and Crvena Zvezda.
Never before had a team coached by Obradovic started the season with two defeats in 18 years (Panathinaikos 2001-2012, Fenerbahce 2013-now), making the defeat by Zvezda add to an all-time low.
And the negative record keeps on after 9 rounds in the 2019-20 EuroLeague, with Fenerbahce sinking to the bottom of the standings, second to last after Valencia with 2-7.
The following chart shows his course in the EuroLeague for this century:
| Season | Team | Record |
| 2001/2002 | Panathinaikos | 8-1 |
| 2002/2003 | Panathinaikos | 6-3 |
| 2003/2004 | Panathinaikos | 4-5 |
| 2004/2005 | Panathinaikos | 5-4 |
| 2005/2006 | Panathinaikos | 8-1 |
| 2006/2007 | Panathinaikos | 9-0 |
| 2007/2008 | Panathinaikos | 8-1 |
| 2008/2009 | Panathinaikos | 6-3 |
| 2009/2010 | Panathinaikos | 7-2 |
| 2010/2011 | Panathinaikos | 6-3 |
| 2011/2012 | Panathinaikos | 6-3 |
| 2013/2014 | Fenerbahce | 7-2 |
| 2014/2015 | Fenerbahce | 7-2 |
| 2015/2016 | Fenerbahce | 7-2 |
| 2016/2017 | Fenerbahce | 6-3 |
| 2017/2018 | Fenerbahce | 6-3 |
| 2018/2019 | Fenerbahce | 8-1 |
| 2019/2020 | Fenerbahce | 2-7 |