West Bromwich Albion have parted company with head coach Tony Mowbray.
Mowbray, 61, was appointed head coach on a two-and-a-half-year deal on January 18 after Carlos Corberan departed The Hawthorns to join Valencia.
After a run of poor results, including a 3-1 defeat at home to Derby County on Monday, he departs with the club in 10th, six points off the play-off positions with two league matches remaining.
Assistant coach Mark Venus has also left the club. First-team coach James Morrison, assisted by Damia Abella and Boaz Myhill, will take the remaining matches of the league season on an interim basis.
The club said in a statement on the website: “Tony and Mark will forever be welcome at The Hawthorns and their contributions to the club winning the 2007-08 Championship title will never be forgotten.”
Mowbray, who won the Championship with West Brom in 2008, took the reins with the club sitting sixth, competing for a play-off position. West Brom remained in contention until mid-April when a poor stretch of results against teams around them sent them tumbling down the league table.
West Brom were close to appointing Young Boys head coach Raphael Wicky before hiring Mowbray, but a deal collapsed due to complications with assembling Wicky’s coaching staff. Mowbray was offered the job days later, his first since resigning from his post as Birmingham City manager in May 2024 as he underwent treatment for bowel cancer.
Speaking after the defeat to Derby, Mowbray reflected on a result that all-but condemned West Brom to another season in the Championship.
“Obviously, it’s a tough period for us,” he told BBC WM. “I haven’t seen anything since I’ve been here like the goals we conceded today from the set-plays.
“It’s so unlike us. Two set-play goals from a hard-working, honest team. I thought we lacked courage today, didn’t play enough forward passes, weren’t brave enough on the ball.”
Next season will be Albion’s fourth successive in England’s second tier, the longest period they have spent outside the top flight this century. Last season, they were beaten in the play-off semi-finals by eventual promotion-winners Southampton.
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