📉 The Managerial Merry-Go-Round: A Full List of Coaches Sacked Across Europe’s Top Leagues
Modern football management is arguably the most volatile job in the world. As results, money, and public scrutiny accelerate, the typical lifespan of a coach seems to shrink yearly. One stunning loss is often all it takes for a club to hit the panic button.
Just a few months into the 2025/2026 European season, the managerial axe has fallen repeatedly across the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1.
Here is a look at the coaches who have already paid the ultimate price this season as clubs chase immediate success:
🏴 Premier League: The Fastest Exits
The English top flight wasted no time, with two clubs in particular making lightning-fast switches:
* Nuno Espírito Santo – Nottingham Forest (September 9, 2025): The earliest casualty of the season, Nuno was dismissed just three matches in following a rift with owner Evangelos Marinakis.
* Graham Potter – West Ham United (September 27, 2025): Potter’s tenure ended abruptly, ironically paving the way for Nuno Espírito Santo’s quick return to the league. Potter quickly found a new role, taking over the Sweden national team.
* Ange Postecoglou – Nottingham Forest (October 18, 2025): The biggest shock of the early season. Hired to replace Nuno, the Australian manager’s clash of philosophy—insisting on a possession-dominant style for a counter-attacking squad—led to eight games without a win and a swift sacking.
* Vítor Pereira – Wolverhampton Wanderers (November 2, 2025): Sacked after a humiliating loss to Fulham. Wolves found themselves at the very bottom of the table with zero wins from 10 games.
🇮🇹 Serie A: Juventus Starts the Trend
Italy’s top division saw a tight clustering of dismissals in late October and early November:
* Igor Tudor – Juventus (October 27, 2025): Tudor became the first Serie A victim after a devastating eight-game winless streak across all competitions, underscoring the turmoil at the Turin giant.
* Patrick Vieira – Genoa (November 1, 2025): The former Arsenal star was sacked just days before Matchday 10, cementing him as the league’s second high-profile managerial exit.
* Stefano Pioli – Fiorentina (November 4, 2025): Pioli became the third coach dismissed in the space of nine days, setting an unwanted record as the first in the league to go 10 matches without a victory this season.
🇩🇪 Bundesliga: A Record-Setting Short Spell
The German league kicked off the sack race with a historically brief tenure:
* Erik ten Hag – Bayer Leverkusen (September 1, 2025): Ten Hag’s time was infamously short. Dismissed after just 62 days (and three competitive matches), he now holds the title for the league’s shortest-ever tenure.
* Gerardo Seoane – Borussia Mönchengladbach (September 15, 2025): Followed Ten Hag out the door after a crushing 4–0 defeat at home to Werder Bremen.
🇪🇸 La Liga & 🇫🇷 Ligue 1
* Veljko Paunović – Real Oviedo (La Liga) (October 9, 2025): A surprising early exit, Paunović was sacked just eight games into Oviedo’s return to the top flight.
* Adi Hütter – AS Monaco (Ligue 1) (October 9, 2025): This was arguably the most surprising sacking, as Monaco sat comfortably in fifth place at the time of Hütter’s dismissal.
The high volume of sackings just over two months into the season highlights the brutal reality of elite football: the quest for instant success shows no mercy.
Which managerial sacking do you think was the most premature, and which replacement coach will be t
he next to face the axe?
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