Sergio Scariolo (born April 1, 1961) is an Italian professional basketball coach who is an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the main coach of the Spanish national team.
Scariolo started his coaching career in the early 1980s, as the assistant head coach of Brescia, and then Pesaro, after which he worked for the Italian Basketball Federation. In 1990, after returning to Pesaro, Scariolo won the Italian national league title, at age 29. In the following year, he moved to the Italian 2nd Division with Desio. In 1993, he was again in the Italian 1st Division, as the head coach of Fortitudo Bologna, where he remained until 1997. In that year, he moved to Spain, to TAU Vitoria, where he won the Spanish King's Cup, and made it to the final of the Spanish national league. In 1999, Scariolo was hired by Real Madrid, which he immediately led to win the Spanish national league title. After two consecutive appearances in the Spanish national league's finals, both of which he lost, he was fired in 2002.