{"id":655989,"date":"2026-10-24T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655989\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:44:08","slug":"nicky-hayen-burnley-head-coach-sacked-after-just-14-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655989\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Hayen: Burnley head coach sacked after just 14 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Head coach Nicky Hayen has been sacked after just 14 games in charge at Burnley following a poor start to the season.<\/p>\n

Hayen’s final match was Saturday’s 4-1 defeat at Lincoln City<\/a>, as the hosts came back from 1-0 down to emphatically condemn the Clarets to a sixth defeat of the campaign and leave them 22nd in the Championship.<\/p>\n

Belgian Hayen was only appointed on 10 July to succeed Scott Parker, who left at the end of April<\/a> days after the Clarets’ relegation from the Premier League was confirmed.<\/p>\n

Burnley announced the news with a short two-sentence statement within two hours of their defeat at the ProAmpac Stadium.<\/p>\n

Speaking in his post-match press conference, Hayen had said: “I’m not going to lose my energy because this is something out of my hands” with reference to his future.<\/p>\n

Hayen won the Belgian title with Club Brugge in 2024 and was brought in by owner Alan Pace to oversee a promotion bid, with the Clarets having gone up in their last two Championship campaigns in 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n

But after a promising draw with West Ham on the opening weekend, their season has nosedived and the club are without a win at home in the league since beating Leeds United at Turf Moor in the Premier League over a year ago.<\/p>\n

The Clarets earned a first win of the season in style earlier this month as they returned from the extended international break to beat struggling Watford 4-0 but then drew against Charlton and lost to Wolves, scoring first in both matches.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s defeat to the Imps also means they have won just one of the past 24 league games and have conceded 25 goals from their opening 12 Championship games – the worst record in the division.<\/p>\n

Following the game, Burnley’s Wales full-back Connor Roberts said performances had not been good enough for “98% of the season”.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Radio Lancashire prior to the news of Hayen’s departure: “We know it’s not good enough – we know the fans deserve a million times more, so we have to get on with it now and see if we can do better in the next game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Nicky Hayen has been sacked after just 14 games in charge at Burnley following a poor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-655989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}