{"id":398286,"date":"2026-04-14T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:29:10","slug":"andoni-iraola-to-leave-bournemouth-at-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398286\/","title":{"rendered":"Andoni Iraola to leave Bournemouth at end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/D-BUR-BOU (25).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola is set to leave the club at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 43-year-old Spaniard, who took over at the Vitality Stadium in June 2023 following the departure of Gary O\u2019Neil, guided the Cherries to a ninth-placed finish in the Premier League last season, setting a new club-record points tally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With Iraola\u2019s contract set to expire in the summer, the club had been looking to agree terms on a new deal, but have now reluctantly accepted his departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cAFC Bournemouth can confirm that head coach, Andoni Iraola, will leave the club at the conclusion of the 2025\/26 season, bringing an end to his successful three-year tenure on the south coast,\u201d a statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Iraola has been linked with a return to former team Athletic Bilbao as well as the Manchester United job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola is set to leave the club at the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-398286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}