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West Ham sack head coach Nuno Espirito Santo
West Ham United have sacked head coach Nuno Espirito Santo after a poor start to their Championship campaign. The club, expected to challenge for automatic promotion after relegation from the Premier League, have fallen to eighth, prompting the board to say a change was needed to keep its objectives on track.
Nuno had been in charge since September 2025; assistant head coach Rui Pedro Silva and goalkeeping coach Rui Barbosa have also left. West Ham have won two of their last six matches and lost consecutive home games, 3-2 to Southampton and 3-1 to West Brom, dropping from second place to six points behind leaders Middlesbrough. Mark Noble, Steve Potts and Gerard Prenderville will oversee Wednesday’s trip to Cardiff while the club seeks a new head coach.
In short
- West Ham have sacked head coach Nuno Espirito Santo.
- The club sit eighth, six points off the Championship lead.
- Mark Noble and others will take temporary charge.
Steelman: both sides, in good faith
The strongest fair case each way — we don't pick a winner.
The case for
West Ham’s board can argue that promotion is the club’s stated priority and that the team’s slide from second to eighth, including consecutive home defeats, made a change necessary to restore momentum. Acting now may give a new coach time to improve results and keep the season’s objective within reach.
The case against
Keeping Nuno could have offered stability while the team tried to recover from a short run of poor results, especially with the club still eighth and the season ongoing. A coaching change also carries its own disruption and uncertainty, and the board could instead have backed him to address the problems and judged progress over a longer stretch.
Explained simply
West Ham United are a London football club who were relegated from the Premier League to the Championship, the second tier of English men’s football. Clubs in the Championship compete for promotion back to the Premier League, with the top two usually going up automatically.
Nuno Espírito Santo became West Ham’s head coach in September 2025. The head coach leads the first team and its tactics, while the club’s board sets its wider aims; West Ham had been expected to challenge for promotion. Mark Noble, Steve Potts and Gerard Prenderville are among the club figures overseeing the team temporarily.
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