{"id":501835,"date":"2026-06-16T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:47:14","slug":"crystal-palace-appoint-pierre-sage-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501835\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace appoint Pierre Sage as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace<\/a> have appointed Lens manager Pierre Sage as their head coach on a three-year contract. <\/p>\n

The 47-year-old Frenchman replaces Oliver Glasner, who left the Eagles at the end of the 2025-26 season after two and a half years in charge.<\/p>\n

Sage joined Lens 12 months ago and became Ligue 1’s manager of the year, leading Lens to a second-placed finish and the first Coupe de France triumph<\/a> in the club’s 120-year history.<\/p>\n

He previously spent 14 months as head coach of Lyon, initially on an interim basis, and guided them to Europa League qualification in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Palace had been interested in former Bournemouth<\/a> manager Andoni Iraola, now at Liverpool<\/a>, with Frank Lampard, Kieran McKenna, and Sean Dyche also reportedly in the mix.<\/p>\n

Sage has big shoes to fill after Glasner, who said in January he would leave Palace this summer,<\/a> won three trophies during his time in south London.<\/p>\n

The Austrian led the Eagles to the first major trophy in their history – the FA Cup in 2025 – and followed up by winning the Community Shield and Conference League last season.<\/p>\n

Their European triumph means Palace will play Europa League football in Sage’s debut campaign.<\/p>\n

He will be joined at the club by Jamal Alioui, his assistant coach at Lens.<\/p>\n

“Oliver Glasner achieved some amazing things, and now I have to do the same,” said Sage. <\/p>\n

“That’s why we come here with a lot of ambition. The dynamic here is really positive, and we are in this mindset too. <\/p>\n

“We won last year – and we want to continue in this way, in a new club, a new project, but with a lot of winning habits.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace have appointed Lens manager Pierre Sage as their head coach on a three-year contract. The 47-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-501835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501835","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=501835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}