The former Juventus<\/a> coach joins Spurs until the end of the season after Thomas Frank was sacked with the club sitting just five points above the relegation zone amid a run of two wins in 17 Premier League<\/a> games.<\/p>\n Tudor’s first game in charge will be the north London derby against arch-rivals and league leaders Arsenal<\/a> at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n Tottenham’s official website insisted “his mandate is straightforward — bring organisation, intensity and competitive edge to the squad at a decisive stage of the campaign.”<\/p>\n Tudor said: “It is an honour to join this club at an important moment.<\/p>\n “I understand the responsibility I have been handed and my focus is clear. To bring greater consistency to our performances and compete with conviction in every match.<\/p>\n “There is strong quality in this playing squad, and my job is to organise it, energise it and improve our results quickly.”<\/p>\n – Igor Tudor is Tottenham’s new interim head coach — what the stats say Tottenham sporting director Johan Lange said: “Igor brings clarity, intensity and experience of stepping into challenging moments and producing impact.<\/p>\n “Our objective is straightforward — to stabilise performances, maximise the quality within the squad and compete strongly in the Premier League and Champions League.”<\/p>\n Tudor, 47, has previously been in charge at Lazio, Marseille and Galatasaray but has never spent more than two years at a single club.<\/p>\n His attention now shifts to keeping reviving Spurs’ fortunes and keeping the club out of a relegation battle in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 14, 2026, 07:08 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Igor Tudor as their new head coach, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-468418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Igor Tudor has been named Tottenham head coach until the end of the season.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
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