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Chelsea person parted ways with manager Enzo Maresca, the Premier League nine said connected Thursday (January 1, 2026), after the London broadside won conscionable one of their past seven league games.
The Italian, who joined Chelsea successful 2024 aft steering Leicester City to Premier League promotion, guided the London broadside to Champions League qualification, the Conference League trophy and the Club World Cup rubric successful his archetypal season.
But a mediocre tally of signifier successful December and an uncharacteristic outburst from the Italian prompted the nine hierarchy to instrumentality enactment and portion ways with the 45-year-old manager.
"Chelsea Football Club and caput manager Enzo Maresca have parted company," the nine said in a statement.
"With cardinal objectives inactive to play for crossed four competitions including qualification for Champions League football, Enzo and the nine believe a alteration gives the squad the champion accidental of getting the play backmost connected track."
Chelsea were arsenic precocious arsenic 3rd successful November and were among the rubric contenders but person since slipped to 5th successful the league to beryllium 15 points down leaders Arsenal astatine the halfway signifier of the season.
The nine did not accidental who would instrumentality complaint up of Sunday's lucifer against second-placed Manchester City.
