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You’ve arrived at another ‘Next Championship Manager To Be Sacked Odds’ article, meaning the Championship season is very much underway. Ryan Lowe has already left his post in Preston, Stoke have parted ways from Steven Schumacher, and the tabloids leach onto a young English manager in Devon. It could only be the Championship, couldn’t it?
Here, since the start of the 2023/24 season, we’ve analysed the managers most likely to leave next and provide the odds to the betting landscape. Our very own in-house predictive model, BETSiE, handles the data behind the sacking potential.
- Next Championship Manager To Be Sacked Odds – The Sack Race
- Next Championship Manager To Be Sacked: Short and Sweet for Rooney
- There’s a seat reserved for Tom Cleverley in The Championship Manager Sack Race
- The Managerial Casualties in 2023/24
- The 2022/23 Championship Manager Sack Race
- Safer Gambling
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Next Championship Manager To Be Sacked Odds 2024/25 – The Sack Race
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In Preston, Ryan Lowe vacated his post after just 90 minutes of football in a second-tier season very much in its infancy. Ninety minutes (or five days) later, caretaker coach Mike Marsh also leaves Preston North End following a pitiful 3-0 showing against Swansea. You couldn’t write it. Paul Heckingbottom is the man to replace Ryan Lowe for the foreseeable – sacked by The Blades in December 2023 – Merry Christmas – is the frontrunner for the gig at Deepdale. Watch this space.
This is the Championship in all its glory – upsets, drubbings, dugout drama, and sackings left, right and centre. It’s why we love it.
It’s heating up
Things are heating up. Elsewhere, the tabloids circle Wayne Rooney after the worst possible start to the season in Plymouth. One of England and Manchester United’s greatest-ever strikers took the baton in Devon from fellow Liverpudlian, Ian Foster, after a less than inspiring spell at the EFL’s most Southern side.
Marti Cifuentes swapped Sweden for QPR last term, easing the capital club to safety and away from the choppy waters of League One potential – a story mirrored in Sheffield by Danny Rohl. The German’s new flat-pack office desk in Yorkshire looks like a masterstroke by Dejphon Chansiri.
Stoke City pinched another impressive manager from Championship opposition last season. Can this be the year we see a genuine playoff push in Stoke? The Next Championship Manager to be Sacked Odds featured their head honcho, Steven Schumacher, as a slow start was seen in that part of the world – a far cry from what his namesake delivered two hours away in Ferrari red at Silverstone. Enter Narcís Pèlach.
Mick Beale vacated Sunderland in 2023/24, unable to reach the dizzy heights experienced at QPR. His appointment struck a nerve with the locals as the head coach failed to drum up any kind of relationship with the fanbase. In came Michael Dodds as interim manager from February until season’s end, managing two wins from 13 at a time when The Black Cats began to surrender any hopes of pulling up trees in the division. Regis Le Bris is next up to lead the rouge et blanc outfit towards the promised land. He’s made a cracking start.
Next Championship Manager to be sacked odds: Updated 28th September
| Next Manager | Team | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Walter | Hull City | 2.10 | 47.6% |
| Wayne Rooney | Plymouth Argyle | 3.00 | 33.3% |
| Rob Edwards | Luton Town | 3.00 | 33.3% |
| Liam Manning | Bristol City | 7.00 | 14.3% |
| Tom Cleverley | Watford | 7.00 | 14.3% |
| Paul Heckingbottom | Preston North End | 16.00 | 6.3% |
| Daniel Farke | Leeds United | 31.00 | 3.2% |
The next Championship manager to be sacked odds were provided by bettingexpert on Thursday, September 28th, 08:00. The ‘Next Championship Manager To Be Sacked’ landscape may now differ.
Next Championship Manager to be Sacked? Is it short and not so sweet for Rooney?
With so many departures across the second tier last season, composing a list of the next Championship Manager to be sacked is an arduous task. It was never going to be plain sailing for Wayne Rooney. There are likely choppy waters ahead for the Plymouth Argyle gaffer as he oversees one of the skinniest wage bills and transfers kitty in the division.
The 4-0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday to begin the season in the curtain raiser was horrendous. After a summer of working tirelessly on the training ground, that kind of performance is the last thing Rooney will have wanted to have seen. Argyle shipped 4.68xG in the opening 90 minutes – not good enough. Danny Rohl’s men played them off the park.
One thing that should be said so early in the season is that we don’t know who Argyle played in that opening fixture. Is Sheffield Wednesday a top-six side this season? Will they be aiming for the title? Or will they be down there with Argyle, Oxford and the like, according to relegation odds from the bookmakers? If it’s the latter, then there could be trouble ahead.
Wayne Rooney’s position is precarious. If Plymouth Argyle continues to hover near the bottom three, the pressure on him will mount. The disastrous appointment of Ian Foster, while not Rooney’s fault, means that his tenure must start well and show promise. The Pilgrim’s ship can’t afford to sail a similar route to what we saw under Ian Foster. Failure to do so could mean a return to League One, a league that’s notoriously difficult to escape once you’re floundering in it.
Green Shoots for Cleverley in Watford: Reserved Seats
We know. This is boring. Watford and sacked Championship managers blah, blah, blah. Yet, it would be remiss not to include the current Hornets boss in this write-up somewhere. We feel it is our duty, although clearly one that has been tried, tested, and plastered from here to kingdom come whenever a potential sacking in the division is mentioned.
Tom Cleverley is the 14th manager in twelve and a half years under the ownership of Gino Pozzo and his family. Since Roy Hodgson took Watford from the Premier League to the Championship in May 2022, Rob Edwards (11 games in charge), Slaven Bilic (25), Chris Wilder (11) and Valerien Ismael (48) have come and gone. It makes the prospect for longevity in Cleverley’s case a precarious one, despite the green shoots and improvements following Ismael’s time in charge, which ended in 2023/24.
Appointed in the summer, Watford had high hopes for Valerian Ismael, hoping he would be the one to bring stability to the club and stop the constant managerial merry-go-round. After a poor start to the season, there were rumours that the Pozzo family would sack yet another manager. However, contrastingly, they instead released a statement to announce that Ismael had signed a contract extension. He lasted 48 games. It is safe to say that the contract extension was never reached.
Regardless of the goings-on or who finds themselves in the hot seat, there will always be a seat reserved in the Next Championship Manager to be Sacked odds list under the Pozzos.
Last Season’s Manager Sackings in the Championship in 2023/24
The second tier witnessed 21 casualties (excluding interim managers under 30 days in charge) in 2023/24, one fewer than the previous season in a campaign that felt packed with managerial turnover. Is it just us, or did there seem to be some movement every fortnight? Well, given the season is ten months long, from August to May, that’s at least two managers a month. Bonkers.
Gary Rowett (1456 days), Nigel Pearson (977), Steven Schumacher (742), and Jon Dahl Tomasson (588) vacated their clubs after the most lengthy spells. Schumacher was the only manager of the quartet to be tempted by a more lucrative offer elsewhere, whilst the remaining three saw the chopping block.
Removing interim and caretaker managers from the equation, Mick Beale oversaw the shortest stint in charge. At just 63 days, Sunderland were quick to replace.
“You’re getting sacked in the morning”
Despite an adverse reaction from some fans to his appointment, Beale expressed an understanding of the fans’ concerns and emphasised his commitment to the role, citing his overall managerial win percentage as a reason for optimism. The three losses on the bounce to begin his spell, including Newcastle in the FA Cup, didn’t do him any favours.
When the fans wipe their hands of you, you’re in trouble. ‘Beale Out’ and ‘You’re getting sacked in the morning’ – from your own fans against Hull – painted a rather grim landscape.
Sunderland is a club that has given managers a chance in the past – think Parkinson and Grayson in recent memory. Yet, with the results, performances, and general inadvertent rubbing up of the fanbase the wrong way any time he opened his mouth – the ‘chance’ afforded to Beale turned out to be the slimmest of the lot – just 12 matches.
Andre Breitenreiter (81), Wayne Rooney (83), Ian Foster (87) and Xisco Munoz (92) at Sheffield Wednesday complete the five managers, along with Beale, who couldn’t quite muster 100 days in a Championship hot seat last campaign.
The 2022/23 Championship Manager Sackings
There were 22 managerial casualties (excluding interim managers under 21 days in charge) in the 2022/23 Championship season. For one reason or another, owners, fans, managers, and players alike thought they’d be better off siding with the potential of greener grass elsewhere.
Twenty-Two. That’s mind-boggling in a league with 46 games and just 24 clubs. The 2022/23 season ended with an average of 0.92 sackings per club if split evenly.
However, it must be mentioned that Watford, QPR, Huddersfield, and Wigan opted to change their man in charge on multiple occasions.
Ignoring the somewhat lengthy interim spell of Andy Dawson (33 days) in Hull following Shota Arveladze’s departure, it was former Liverpool and Arsenal central defender Kolo Toure who endured the shortest spell of any Championship manager last term. The Ivorian spent 58 days in charge of the Latics, whilst Huddersfield’s Danny Schofield (69), QPR’s Neil Critchley (69) and Mick McCarthy (79) in Blackpool were out of the door before the paint had dried in their new office.
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