Juventus sack coach Motta and appoint Tudor

Juventus have sacked head coach Thiago Motta and appointed their former participant Igor Tudor as his alternative, with the Turin giants languishing in fifth place in Serie A.

Motta was appointed final June on a three-year contract after impressing in 2023-24, when he led Bologna to Champions League qualification.

Nevertheless, his arrival in Turin has did not encourage an upturn within the Bianconeri’s fortunes.

Juventus had been overwhelmed 3-0 at Fiorentina final weekend on the again of an embarrassing 4-0 loss at residence to Atalanta.

These outcomes noticed them slide outdoors the highest 4, beneath Motta’s former membership Bologna and 12 factors behind leaders Inter.

“Juventus FC proclaims that it has relieved Thiago Motta of his place as coach of the boys’s first crew,” a membership assertion stated on Sunday.

“Juventus FC additionally proclaims that it has entrusted the management of the boys’s first crew to Igor Tudor, who will direct the primary coaching session tomorrow.”

Tudor’s contract will run till the top of this season in accordance with widespread stories, with an obligation to resume for one more 12 months if Juve qualify for the Champions League, although the membership have the choice to withdraw from that obligation till July 30.

Tudor, now 46, spent most of his taking part in profession at Juventus, arriving in 1998. In 2020-21, the Croatian additionally served as Andrea Pirlo’s assistant on the Allianz Stadium for one season.

His first managerial function got here in 2013 with Hajduk Break up, the membership the place he started and ended his taking part in profession, and in Italy, Tudor has managed Udinese, Verona and Lazio.

Tudor was appointed Lazio boss in March final 12 months to exchange Maurizio Sarri however left on the finish of the marketing campaign, after taking the membership to a seventh-placed end and Europa League qualification.

Igor Tudor is the brand new Head Coach of the Males’s First Workforce. Welcome, Igor!

Juventus thanks Thiago Motta for his work, ardour and dedication throughout his time with the membership.

— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) March 23, 2025

Motta’s Juventus completed twentieth within the Champions League group-phase standings and had been knocked out of the competitors on the play-off stage by PSV final month.

Lower than every week later, Juventus went out of the Coppa Italia, dropping to Empoli at residence after a quarter-final penalty shoot-out in a outcome Motta described as “shameful”.

Juve went 21 league video games with out defeat earlier within the season, however that interval noticed Motta’s crew draw 13 matches, which successfully dominated them out of the Scudetto race.

Whereas they skilled an upturn after the flip of the 12 months with 5 straight victories, Motta has paid the worth for latest heavy defeats.

Upon his arrival in Turin, Motta took a tough stance with a number of senior gamers, with Federico Chiesa informed he was not a part of the coach’s plans earlier than he was offered to Liverpool in August.

Former captain Danilo struggled to discover a means into Motta’s beginning lineup and left the membership in January, whereas midfielder Nicolo Fagioli joined Fiorentina on mortgage in February and was one in all their finest gamers in final weekend’s win over his mother or father membership.

Tudor’s first recreation in cost comes at residence to Genoa on Saturday, after which is a visit to the Stadio Olimpico to face Roma.