No fewer than 51 of the 92 football clubs across the Premier League and English Football League (or 55%) have changed their managers at least once during the past year.
Three clubs in the Premier League alone have made more than one change each in that time.
Nottingham Forest started last season with Nuno but sacked him in September, replacing him with Ange Postecoglou (sacked in October), then replacing Ange with Sean Dyche, sacked in February and replaced by Vítor Pereira.
Chelsea started last season with Enzo Maresca, who left in January and was replaced by Liam Rosenior (sacked in April), before interim Calum McFarlane took over.
Tottenham started last season with Thomas Frank, who was sacked in February and replaced by Igor Tudor, who left by mutual consent in late March, replaced by Roberto De Zerbi.
Forest and Chelsea will be among a record nine Premier League clubs to start a new season with different managers (below) from the ones who ended last season. The others are Newcastle, Palace, Man City, Fulham, Bournemouth, Liverpool and Ipswich.
The 2026-27 Premier League season begins a week today, Friday 21 August, as reigning champions Arsenal host Coventry City as Coventry return to England’s top division for the first time since 2000-01.
Arsenal have their first competitive fixture of the season on Sunday (16 August) when they face Man City in the Community Shield at Wembley.
Today’s piece dissects the managerial careers to date of the PL clubs with new men at the helm.
All the minutiae of their careers will follow below for those paying subscribers without whom the work on this site would not be possible. It will detail among much else:
That their average age is 45, with a range from 38 to 51, and an average number of matches managed so far in their careers of 258, with a range from 47 to 602.
How those nine men come from six different countries.
How their success at their clubs to date has ranged from six big trophies to none at all.
How their win percentages in their managerial careers to date has averaged 53.4%, with a range from 66.5% to 34.7%, with one of the lowest win percentages achieved so far by a manager now in charge of one of England’s biggest clubs.
How three of last season’s top-6 finishers in the Premier League have new managers, and how the clubs finishing 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th and 16th in the PL plus the runners-up in last season’s Championship all hope that they’ve picked the right man to take them to the next level.
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