Borussia Dortmund announced on Sunday that they have fired head coach Lucien Favre after an embarrassing 1-5 defeat at home against newly-promoted VfB Stuttgart.
Despite finishing in first place in the team’s group during the first phase of the UEFA Champions League, it has been a disappointing start to the season domestically for the Black and Yellow.
Dortmund is winless in their last three league matches, and currently stands in fifth place in the Bundesliga, five points off of Bayern Munich’s leader’s pace.
Four losses and a team that looks out of sorts was enough to condemn the coach’s fate.
Favre himself said of the team’s Saturday performance: “It was bad. We weren’t good at winning the ball. We made too many big mistakes. It’s hard to explain.”
This is the end of a two and a half year tenure for Favre at the German club. After taking over in 2018, he guided the team to two second place finishes in the Bundesliga and qualified for the knockout round of the Champions League in each season with the team.
Favre will now have to look elsewhere if he wants to keep coaching. Meanwhile, long-time assistant Edin Terzic will take over as interim boss.
