After 8 years, Serie A clubs resist sacking coaches

Serie A has at least broken one rather negative streak this season, as for the first time in eight years, no coach has been sacked yet.

Italian football is well known for its tendency to go through tacticians at a rapid rate and there are usually at least some who have been given the axe by the time the second break for international duty comes around.

Serie A coaches stay in place

That is not the case this time, as after six rounds all the coaches who started the campaign are still firmly on their benches.

It is a remarkable show of consistency for Serie A clubs, as they hadn’t reached this stage of the tournament without any dismissals since the 2017-18 campaign.

By this time last season, Daniele De Rossi had already been sacked by Roma to bring in Ivan Juric, who in turn would be replaced by Claudio Ranieri a couple of weeks later.

According to the bookies, the favourite to be dismissed first in Serie A this season is Fiorentina’s Stefano Pioli after a dismal start.