[6] After retirement in 1968, Ivković joined the youth system of Radnički Belgrade, as their junior head coach.

[8] After three years at Olympiacos, Ivković took over the city rival AEK, and he brought them the 2000 FIBA Saporta Cup championship.

Ivković also won the 2012 Greek League's championship, with Olympiacos a few weeks later, before leaving the team, after his contract expired at the end of the season.

In 2014, Ivković signed a two-year contract with the Turkish Super League team Anadolu Efes, with him starting to coach the club in the 2014–15 season.

The Yugoslav juniors, led by Aco Petrović, Miško Marić, and Predrag Bogosavljev, won gold by beating the Soviet Union 92–83 in the final.

[11][13] Ivković kept doing the youth national team's assistant job, even after being named to the high profile position of KK Partizan's head coach in 1978, and winning the "European Small Triple Crown" with the club, in 1979.

With a roster featuring supremely talented 18-year-old Šibenka player Dražen Petrović, the team took silver after losing to Canada in the final.

Featuring the still only 21-year-old but already established and dominant European player Dražen Petrović, who had just led his club side Cibona to their second straight EuroLeague title, the Yugoslavian team disappointingly only got bronze after losing to the Soviet Union in the semifinals despite being up by 9 points with 53 seconds left in the game.

Barely three weeks after assisting Ćosić at EuroBasket 1987, Ivković was again the head coach of the Yugoslavian university team, this time at the Universiade at home in Zagreb.

In 1988, Ivković succeeded Ćosić as the head coach of the senior men's Yugoslavian national team, and he held the post until the breakup of Yugoslavia, in 1991.

[8] Ivković then assumed the head coaching position of the senior men's FR Yugoslavian national team.

Both Obradović and Ivković remained in their posts, until they jointly resigned in November 2000, following a sixth-place finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

[15] He took over that position from Zoran Slavnić, who had finished in dead last place with Serbia, at the 2007 EuroBasket, and whom had also failed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

In April 2011, he agreed to work pro bono, for the remainder of his contract with the Serbian national team.

The funeral service was attended by numerous active and retired basketball players and coaches, including: Vlade Divac, Dragan Kićanović, Vassilis Spanoulis, Dimitris Itoudis, Žarko Paspalj, Željko Obradović, Predrag Danilović, Dino Rađa, Jure Zdovc, and others.