Glasner takes over at Nottingham Forest after a season of managerial chaos
Oliver Glasner has been appointed Nottingham Forest head coach on a three-year deal, stepping into a City Ground job that churned through four managers last season.
Jul 10, 2026
Nottingham Forest have handed Oliver Glasner the job of bringing calm to a club that spent last season changing managers almost by the month. Forest confirmed the Austrian on July 6 on a three-year deal, and he becomes the fifth man to take charge at the City Ground in roughly ten months.
Glasner arrives with a strong recent record and a clear brief: stop the churn. Whether he gets the time to do it is the question everyone around the club is quietly asking, because the recent evidence at Forest is not encouraging.
A season that ran through four managers
Forest began the 2025-26 campaign under Nuno Espirito Santo, who was relieved of his duties on September 8. Ange Postecoglou came in the next day, lasted until October 18 without a single win in eight games, and was replaced by Sean Dyche. Dyche himself was sacked on February 12 with the side sitting 17th. Vitor Pereira took over on February 15 as the fourth permanent manager of a single season, a run of turnover no Premier League club had managed before.
That is the backdrop Glasner steps into. Owner Evangelos Marinakis has shown he will pull the trigger quickly, and the new head coach knows the patience on offer may be thin regardless of what he inherits.
Pereira paid for the timing, not the results
The strange part is that Pereira did the hard bit. He steadied a team in freefall, kept Forest up with matches to spare, and took them all the way to a Europa League semi-final in his half-season in charge. Forest finished 16th, which given where they were in February counted as a rescue job.
It still was not enough to keep him. Pereira was dismissed on June 30, shortly before a contractual clause that would have increased his compensation was due to take effect. A manager who kept a club up and ran to a European semi-final losing his job weeks later is the clearest sign yet of how Forest are being run.
Glasner brings silverware and a system
For all the chaos above him, Forest have landed a coach who was winning trophies until a few weeks ago. Glasner left Crystal Palace as the most successful manager in their history, having won the FA Cup in 2025 and then the Conference League in May, beating Rayo Vallecano in the final in Leipzig before walking away. He had been out of work since.
His Palace side was built on a back three, quick transitions and a set-piece threat that made them a genuinely awkward opponent for the biggest teams. Forest already play a direct, physical brand of football, so the fit on paper is closer than it might look for a coach arriving from a rival.
The job in front of him
Glasner takes over a squad that has just sold its most valuable asset, with Elliot Anderson gone to Manchester City for a British-record fee. Replacing that midfield quality and settling a dressing room that has heard four different voices in a year will define his first months.
Forest have the money from the Anderson sale and a manager with a proven ceiling. What they have not offered anyone lately is time. If Marinakis finally gives it, Glasner has the tools to make Forest stable again. If he does not, this appointment will read like all the others.