{"id":816841,"date":"2026-10-28T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816841\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:24:09","slug":"fabio-celestini-burnley-appoint-ex-fc-basel-boss-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816841\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Celestini: Burnley appoint ex-FC Basel boss as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celestini arrives to take charge of a Clarets side who have started life back in the Championship badly, having won just once in the league this season to leave them in 22nd position in the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their poor form stretches back to a torrid Premier League campaign last term, and the club are without a win at home in the league for over a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, Diego Lopez was appointed as director of football and given the task of finding a new manager after Hayen left in the aftermath of Saturday&#8217;s 4-1 defeat by Lincoln City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fabio brings the passion, experience and knowledge we were looking for,&#8221; Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He showed extraordinary determination and conviction to come to Burnley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want people who truly want to be here and help this club grow. Fabio is a clear example of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Details of Celestini&#8217;s contract have not been disclosed by the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former midfielder who won 35 caps for Switzerland, he began his managerial career with Italian club Terracina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as Basel and CSKA Moscow, he has also had spells at Lausanne &#8211; his principal club as a player, Lucerne, Lugano and Sion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He left CSKA by mutual agreement in May after 11 months with the Russian Premier League side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celestini arrives to take charge of a Clarets side who have started life back in the Championship badly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816841","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=816841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}