Serie A: Fiorentina Sack Coach Pioli After Winless Start

Serie A strugglers Fiorentina have sacked coach Stefano Pioli following a 10-match winless run to start the 2025/26 season. Fiorentina are off to their worst top-flight start in club history, picking up just four points so far after finishing sixth last season and currently languishing at the bottom of the Serie A standings.

Pioli, 60, returned to Fiorentina for a second spell in July after less than a year in charge of Saudi side Al-Nassr. Before that, he spent five years at AC Milan but left at the end of the 2023/24 season. He becomes the third coach in Serie A to lose his job this term, following Juventus’s dismissal of Igor Tudor last week and Genoa’s parting of ways with Patrick Vieira.

Fiorentina have named Daniele Galloppa as his temporary replacement but are reportedly considering Roberto D’Aversa, who has coached Parma, Lecce, and Empoli, as well as former Torino boss Paolo Vanoli as a successor to Pioli.