Petrović started his coaching career in Radnički Belgrade, where he spent four years.

The first foreign engagement was in Russia in the team Lokomotiv Rostov, and with them he came to the final of 2005 FIBA Europe Conference North.

[6] Petrović was an assistant coach of Svetislav Pešić in the national team of Yugoslavia, with whom he won gold at the 2001 European Championships in Turkey and, a year later, at the World Championships in Indianapolis.

He also has a silver medal from the 2009 European Championships in Poland when he was in the coaching staff of Dušan Ivković.

During his work at the club UNICS it was detected the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Petović stopped coaching after that.