Southampton sacked head coach Ivan Jurić after becoming the fastest club to be relegated from the Premier League..

Southampton announced on its official website on Monday that its Croatian head coach Ivan Jurić has been sacked effective immediately.

According to Southampton's official statement, Jurić was hired to do his best to change the predicament faced by the club. However, because the team did not make progress as expected, after negotiations between the two sides, the management decided to part ways with Jurić and his assistant coaching staff.

Despite this, the club still wants to pay tribute to the efforts made by Jurić and his assistant coaching staff and wish them all the best in the future.

As the club's relegation back to the EFL Championship has become a fact, the management will confirm the new head coach and assistant coaching staff candidates as soon as possible to answer the fans' confusion about the future.

Prior to this, U21 team manager Simon Rusk will coach the club as a interim manager for the remaining 7 matches of this season.

Former Liverpool and England legendary international midfielder Adam Lallana will assist Rusk as a player-interim assistant coach.

It is worth mentioning that this will be the second time that Jurić has been sacked this season.

He will also become the seventh head coach in the Premier League to be sacked this season after Russell Martin, Steve Cooper, Julen Lopetegui, Gary O'Neil, Sean Dyche and Erik ten Hag.

About Ivan Jurić

Jurić, 49, was born on August 25, 1975 in Split, Croatia. He is 1.74 meters tall. He is a former Croatia international midfielder during his playing career. He has played for Hajduk Split, Crotone, Sevilla, Albacete, Spezia and Genoa.

After retiring in 2010, Jurić became a coach in Genoa's youth academy and began to devote himself to coaching ever since.

In July of the following year, at the invitation of the current Atalanta head coach Giampiero Gasperini, Jurić served as the former's assistant coach when he coached Inter Milan. In September 2012, he followed Gasperini to coach at Palermo.

In June 2014, Jurić was appointed as the head coach of Mantova, during which he led the club to successfully avoid relegation.

In June of the following year, Jurić was appointed as the head coach of Crotone, during which he led the club to win promotion to Serie A for the first time in the club's history and began to become famous.

In June 2016, Jurić replaced Gasperini, his mentor who was poached to Atalanta at the time, as the new head coach of Genoa.

Although he was sacked due to poor performances in February of the following year, he was temporarily appointed as an interim head coach several times in the following years, until he lost to a lower league club in a Coppa Italia match in December 2018 that he ultimately parted ways with Genoa.

In July 2019, Jurić was appointed as the head coach of Hellas Verona. During his two years in charge, he became famous for successfully leading the team to avoid relegation despite operating in a small budget.

After leaving the club when his contract expired in May 2021, Jurić was appointed as the new head coach of Torino until until the summer of 2024 when he left the club after his contract expired as he failed to help the club earn qualification to European competitions.

In September of the same year, Jurić was appointed as the head coach of Roma. However, due to poor relationship with the players in the team and unsatisfactory results, he was sacked two months later.

At the end of December 2024, Jurić replaced Russell Martin as the new head coach of Southampton.

In his short 105 days as the Saints' head coach, Jurić has coached Southampton in 16 games across all competitions, achieving 2 wins, 1 draw and 13 losses, with a win percentage of only 12.50%.

It is worth mentioning that no club in the history of the Premier League has ever been relegated in the first week of April. Therefore, with this relegation, Southampton has become the fastest club to be relegated in the Premier League history.

In addition, since Derby County in the 2007/08 season is the club which has got the lowest points in Premier League history (11 points), the Saints, who have only got 10 points so far this season, are likely to "break" this embarrassing record and become the worst club in Premier League history.

At the same time, they might also "break" Sheffield United's record of only getting 16 points last season and become the worst club in the Premier League history in the 2020s.