9News\u2019 Danny Weidler<\/a>, Cleary will likely announce that he will finish as head coach of the Panthers at the end of his current contract (ending 2027).<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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Code Sports reports Cleary will pursue other opportunities and is unlikely to join a rival NRL club. This could see him shift into representative football or a coaching director role.<\/p>\n
The Panthers are tipped to look internally with assistant Peter Wallace looming as a leading candidate to take over from Cleary in a coaching succession plan.<\/p>\n
The revelation comes after the 55-year-old led the club to four premierships in the last five years and five NRL Grand Finals in six years.<\/p>\n
He is scheduled to appear in front of media at 2pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s supposed to be an announcement from the Penrith Panthers around 2 o\u2019clock today about Ivan Cleary\u2019s future,\u201d Weidler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow everybody\u2019s been thinking it was an extension of his time at the Panthers but the information I\u2019m getting right now is Ivan Cleary is likely to say 2027 will be the last as the Penrith Panthers coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if that\u2019s the case, that is huge news. Now, this is not confirmed as yet but my sources are telling me that could be the situation that we could face out at Penrith in a couple of hours of time that Ivan Cleary could announce that.<\/p>\n
Nathan Cleary is set to quit the Panthers casting doubt over Nathan\u2019s future at the club.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s long held a desire to be a coaching director. I don\u2019t know whether that is part of his plans because all of this at the moment is just information I am hearing right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will find out the full story at around 2 o\u2019clock today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement is set to shine the spotlight on the future of son Nathan who is off-contract at the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n
He is one of a host of Panthers stars who are able to negotiate with rival clubs from November 1, including Isaah Yeo, Brian To\u2019o, Liam Martin, Moses Leota, Isaiah Papali\u2019i, Mitch Kenny and Blaize Talagi<\/p>\n
Ivan, meanwhile, told the Sydney Morning Herald last year that representative coaching appealed to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have thought about it a bit more lately, I don\u2019t know why,\u201d Cleary said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure whether I really want to or not, but it\u2019s starting to intrigue me a little bit more, yeah.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something pretty cool about coaching the best players, good players with guys from other teams that I\u2019ve coached against. It\u2019s a different dynamic.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust the whole thing where you don\u2019t have a lot of time [to prepare] and so that\u2019s something I haven\u2019t really done much of. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was assistant coach of the Kiwis in a World Cup, I really enjoyed that as well. One of the things I really liked about it was working with guys from other teams and just trying to get a team together quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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