FC Goa have let Gouramangi go after 112 days, and Ángel Viadero is set to start at NorthEast
Gouramangi Singh won two of his eight games before FC Goa parted ways with him on 13 November. Khel Now reports that Ángel Viadero, who came to India as Juan Pedro Benali’s assistant at NorthEast United, has agreed terms.
Nov 15, 2026
Gouramangi Singh was named FC Goa head coach on 24 July. On 13 November the club announced that the two sides had agreed to part ways with immediate effect, 112 days later, with Goa seventh in the ISL and already out of Asia.
“Things did not work out as we had both hoped,” chief executive Ravi Puskur said in the club’s statement. Assistant coach Shameel Chembakath takes the team for now.
Two wins in eight
The numbers were hard to defend. Gouramangi took charge of eight matches in the ISL and Asia and won two of them, with two draws and four defeats.
Asia went first. Goa lost 3-0 to FK Arkadag in Turkmenistan on 12 August in the preliminary stage of AFC Champions League Two, which dropped them into the third-tier AFC Challenge League. There they were beaten 2-1 by Tajikistan’s FC Regar-TadAZ after leading, beat Bangladesh’s Fortis FC 2-1, and then lost 2-1 to Qadsia SC in Kuwait on 23 October. Third place in Group C meant no quarter-final.
The league has not been much kinder. Goa have five points from four ISL games, one win, two draws and a defeat. Chennaiyin and SC Delhi both left Fatorda with 1-1 draws, the second rescued by Álex Vallejo in stoppage time. The win was a 2-1 at Inter Kashi on 1 November. Five days later Bengaluru FC won 2-1 at Fatorda, with substitute Soham Varshneya scoring in stoppage time, so Goa are still waiting for a home league win this season. That turned out to be Gouramangi’s last game.
It is a hard end for a former India captain who had been part of the furniture in Goa. He joined as an assistant in July 2022, worked under Carlos Peña and then spent three seasons on Manolo Márquez’s staff before being given the top job when Márquez left for Mumbai City in the summer.
Viadero would start at NorthEast
Goa have not named a successor, but Khel Now reported on Sunday that Spanish coach Ángel Viadero has agreed terms.
Viadero is 57 and was born in Santander. He has been a head coach since 2002, almost always in Spain’s lower divisions, starting with Racing Santander’s reserves. His best-known spell was with Racing’s first team, where he won 44 of his 73 games between 2016 and February 2018. He also coached Moghreb Tétouan in Morocco in 2019-20, and his last head coach job, at Sestao River, ended in March 2025.
The following month he came to India as an assistant to Juan Pedro Benali at NorthEast United. That makes the fixture list awkward. If the deal goes through, his first match in charge of Goa is away to NorthEast on 21 November (7.30pm IST). Benali’s side are second and unbeaten after five games, with three wins and two draws. Kerala Blasters come to Goa eight days later.
Khel Now says he usually plays a 4-2-3-1. He would also walk into a dressing room with Spanish voices in it, with Vallejo and Chiki, who scored the winner at Inter Kashi, both among Goa’s foreign players.
Márquez has gone at Mumbai too
Goa are not the only club trying again in November. Márquez lasted four league games at Mumbai City. He and the club parted ways on 6 November with Mumbai 11th on two points and still without a win, and Ashvir Singh Johal was appointed head coach for the rest of the season on 14 November.
Both of the jobs that changed hands when Márquez moved in the summer have now changed again inside four months. Goa face Mumbai City in early December, according to Khel Now, and both dugouts will look very different from the ones planned in July.