Chelsea head coach Graham Potter watches the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Chelsea at Villa Park in Birmingham, England on Sunday, October 16, 2022. (AP Photo / Rui Vieira)
So you think you want to be the manager of Europe's top 5 football leagues, like Reims Will Still, who took the football world by storm this year after playing Football Manager and decided he wanted to jump in. League 1.
Perhaps you imagine yourself as a master tactician, leading your U-15 team to the State Cup title.
Also guess what? Securing your job this season - whether you've been successful in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Serie A or La Liga - is going to be bad, and that's if you don't step into the hot seat without any experience. So far in the 2022-23 campaign, even the most experienced managers have sometimes found themselves slipping pink.
In this strangest season, with a six-week break for the World Cup, 40% of the top 5 teams have fired their coaches at some point in 2022-23. Seven teams have done so more than once, and one team in La Liga in Spain has changed coaches three times.
Three times!
SportingPedia recently did a study to show how difficult this campaign is across Europe and the results are interesting. Here it is:
Two of the top teams in Europe decided to sack their managers last week. Bayern Munich and Tottenham parted ways with Julian Nagelsmann and Antonio Conte, respectively, in controversial fashion. At the weekend, there were another two casualties in the English Premier League as Graham Potter and Brendan Rodgers, the managers of Chelsea and Leicester, were dismissed. All this prompted SportingPedia to investigate how many managers have been fired this season across the European top five leagues.
Forty percent, or 39 of the 98 teams in the European Top 5 leagues, have different managers than the ones they had at the start of the season
Seven of these 39 teams have changed their manager more than once – Verona, Elche, Sevilla, Chelsea, Southampton, Angers, and Montpellier
The English Premier League leads the way with 12 managerial casualties
The Premier League and French Ligue 1 have seen 50% of the teams change their managers, the highest number across the Top 5 leagues
The Spanish team Elche holds the record with three managerial changes this season
Only five Spanish teams have changed their managers, the lowest number across the top five European leagues
Bayern Munich has been the only team to change coaches, despite being in the top 3 in the standings at the time
Jorge Almiron of Elche has been the manager with the shortest spell in charge of a team this term (26 days)
The now-ex-Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers was the longest-serving manager who has lost his job this season – 1495 days
Only the Bundesliga has yet to witness multiple managerial changes in one team
SportingPedia Managerial study
Percentage of teams that have changed manager this season
Premier League – 12 managerial changes (10 teams)
The Premier League this season is swapping managers with a record pace. Only 28 rounds have passed and England's top league has seen 10 teams change their manager to start the campaign. Looking at the numbers from another angle, 12 different managers lost their jobs. In this regard, we have not taken into account the case of Graham Potter leaving Brighton for Chelsea, which is more of a transfer than a sacking.
The Premier League is one of the top three European leagues where more than one team has sacked two managers, Southampton and Chelsea.
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