{"id":603719,"date":"2026-05-25T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603719\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:50:10","slug":"phil-neville-portland-timbers-part-company-with-boss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603719\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Neville: Portland Timbers part company with boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Timbers have confirmed that they have parted company with head coach Phil Neville by mutual consent. <\/p>\n

Neville’s final match in charge was Sunday’s 3-1 defeat to San Jose Earthquakes that left the Timbers third from bottom in the Western Conference, eight points adrift of an automatic MLS play-offs spot.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday, Neville, 49, thanked all those involved with the club for his time in Oregon but conceded that he had failed to deliver the results required this term. <\/p>\n

“I realise we are in a results business, and the results haven’t been to the expectation of this football club,” Neville said.<\/p>\n

The former England and Manchester United defender joined the Portland Timbers in 2023<\/a> five months after being dismissed by Inter Miami. <\/p>\n

He was also previously in charge of the England women’s team, leading them to the semi-finals of the 2019 World Cup.<\/p>\n

And while the club set a new scoring record and he led the Timbers into the play-offs in his first two seasons at the helm – before losing in the opening round and the first round respectively – the timing of this decision arrives with the league heading into a break for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Timbers general manager Ned Grabavoy, added: “Phil brought enthusiasm and passion to the role, and it was a pleasure to work with him. We wish Phil all the best in his next opportunity.<\/p>\n

“This off-season we had pointed discussions about the areas we needed to build on and improve. <\/p>\n

“Ultimately, we have not seen the progress we’ve needed to, and, most importantly, results have fallen well short of expectations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Timbers have confirmed that they have parted company with head coach Phil Neville by mutual consent. Neville’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-603719","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\/603719","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=603719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}