Sportsאריק שיבק

Arik Shivek

Arik Shivek is an Israeli basketball coach who led Israel's national team and won league titles in Israel, the Netherlands and Belgium.

born 1956Coaching Israel's national basketball teamMaccabi Rishon LeZion's 2016 championship3 Dutch championships with Amsterdam

Born: 10 September 1956, Netanya
Occupation: basketball coach

Arik Shivek was born in 1956 in Netanya

Arik Shivek was born on 10 September 1956 in Netanya. Before coaching, he worked as a teacher of microcomputers and electronics at the Amal school in Hadera.

He began coaching in 1983 with Maccabi Netanya. He later coached many Israeli clubs, including Hapoel Eilat, Maccabi Ra'anana, Bnei Herzliya, Ironi Ramat Gan and Hapoel Tel Aviv. He took several teams up from the second division.

From 2003 he coached abroad. With the Amsterdam team he won the Dutch championship 3 times, and he won the Belgian Cup with Antwerp Giants and with Mons. He was head coach of Israel's national team from 2009 to 2014.

In 2016 he led Maccabi Rishon LeZion to its first Israeli championship, and he was fired in February 2017. He coached Maccabi Tel Aviv for the 2017 playoffs and later had 2 spells at Bnei Herzliya. In 2020 he became technical director of the Netherlands youth teams, and in 2023 he was named coach of the Netherlands national team.