Bayern Munich Sack Carlo Ancelotti After PSG Humiliation

German champions Bayern Munich sacked coach Carlo Ancelotti a day after Wednesday’s 3-0 defeat at Paris St Germain in the Champions League, German media reported on Thursday.

The Italian, who led Bayern to the Bundesliga title last season having being appointed to replace Pep Guardiola last summer, was dismissed after a meeting of the club’s board on Thursday afternoon.

58-year-old Ancelotti led Bayern to their fifth consecutive Bundesliga title in his first season in charge but his side were eliminated at the quarter-final stage of the Champions League against his former club Real Madrid, while they were beaten 3-2 by Borussia Dortmund in the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal Cup.

Earlier, Bayern’s chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge talked of “consequences” after the humiliating defeat of the French club.

“It’s a loss we have to talk about, we have to analyse, from which we have to draw consequences in clear text form,” Rummenigge told FCBayern.tv.

“I think what we saw this evening was not Bayern Munich. I think we all agree on that.

“If I take a look to the right or left, then there is nothing to misunderstand or to interpret wrong. I think it’s important to turn things around after this loss, to present as Bayern Munich and to show we are a team, [the one] which performed well in Europe and in Germany last year. That’s where we have to continue,” the CEO added.

Ancelotti’s assistant Willy Sagnol, former Borussia Dortmund manager Thomas Tuchel and Hoffenheim’s Julian Nagelsmann are among the early favourites to succeed him.

The Bundesliga champions who are currently in third place in the German top flight football, are three points off leaders Borussia Dortmund and are also three points behind PSG in the Group B of the European league.