{"id":603438,"date":"2026-05-25T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603438\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:05:08","slug":"ac-milan-head-coach-massimiliano-allegri-sacked-after-season-of-unequivocal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603438\/","title":{"rendered":"AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri sacked after season of ‘unequivocal failure’"},"content":{"rendered":"

AC Milan have sacked head coach Massimiliano Allegri after failing to qualify for the Champions League, in a season the club’s hierarchy described as an “unequivocal failure”.<\/p>\n

Milan fell from third to fifth in Serie A after a 2-1 defeat by Cagliari on the final day to miss out on Champions League football for the second year in a row. <\/p>\n

Inter Milan, Napoli, Roma and Como – for the first time in their history – will represent Italy in Europe’s top-tier club competition next season while AC Milan join Juventus in the Europa League. <\/p>\n

“For the majority of this season, we were in the top two positions in Serie A, with a credible shot at competing for the Scudetto,” read a statement from American investment group RedBird Capital, who bought AC Milan in 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“The final stretch was completely inconsistent with the performance up to that point, with last night’s disappointing loss in the final game turning the season into an unequivocal failure.<\/p>\n

“It is now time for change and a comprehensive reorganization of football operations.” <\/p>\n

Chief executive Giorgio Furlani, sporting director Igli Tare and technical director Geoffrey Moncada have also left the club.<\/p>\n

Allegri, 58, returned for a second spell with the Rossoneri in May last year<\/a>, replacing Sergio Conceicao.<\/p>\n

He previously managed the club between 2010 and 2014, winning the league in 2010-11 and the Italian Super Cup the following season.<\/p>\n

Milan lost seven of their final 14 games as rivals Inter won their second Scudetto<\/a> in three seasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan have sacked head coach Massimiliano Allegri after failing to qualify for the Champions League, in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-603438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}