It marks a sensational return to management for Hodgson, whose coaching career has spanned five decades, following his departure from Crystal Palace in February 2024.<\/p>\n
Having been in the playoff places in the earlier part of the season, City are 16th in England\u2019s second tier and without a win in six matches, a run that includes their FA Cup fourth-round defeat by Port Vale of League One.<\/p>\n
Hodgson\u2019s first game in charge will be the trip to Charlton Athletic on April 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have had great conversations with the board and I am really excited by the opportunity to help until the end of the season,\u201d Hodgson said in a release on the City website. \u201cWe will get straight to work and look for a positive performance on Good Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Hodgson (c) after being appointed Bristol City caretaker manager in 1982, with board members (l-r) Leslie Kew, Ivor Williams, Deryn Coller and Ken Sage (PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
\u201cRoy\u2019s appointment is about more than the results of the next seven games,\u201d said the club\u2019s chief executive officer Charlie Boss, who thanked Struber<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the remainder of the season, he will help us set the standards and values at the club that we will need to be successful going forwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoy is a vastly experienced coach who has achieved and won at the highest level. He will support me, our players and our football staff as we build towards achieving our potential.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in the process of appointing a sporting director who will have a direct input into the recruitment of a new permanent head coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hodgson has managed 1,269 matches across his coaching career with notable stints in charge of Italian club Inter and Liverpool, as well as Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and Palace.<\/p>\n
Hodgson\u2019s managerial career in England began at City in 1982, following a four-year period at Swedish club Halmstad, and has spanned 17 different clubs and four national teams, including England from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England manager Roy Hodgson has been appointed the head coach of Championship side Bristol City for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,156622,9663,10195,1208,596,18943,1614,85],"class_list":["post-567678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bristol-city","tag-championship","tag-crystal-palace","tag-england","tag-football","tag-international-football","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}