Roy Hodgson has resigned as Crystal Palace manager, the club announced on Monday, with former Eintracht Frankfurt boss Oliver Glasner announced as his replacement. The news comes amid a poor run of form and days after Hodgson was admitted to hospital when he collapsed during training.
The 76-year-old former England manager has left hospital and is “doing well”, the club said. Hodgson left his role just hours before Palace's scheduled match against Everton on Monday, where Paddy McCarthy and Ray Lewington will take charge of the team. Glasner will take over after the Everton game, which he will attend.
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Hodgson was the oldest manager in the Premier League after coming out of retirement last season to help the club avoid relegation in 2022-23, but he has struggled to get the most out of his team in recent months.
“This club is very special, it means a lot to me and has played an important role in my football life,” Hodgson said in a statement. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here for six seasons as it has given me the opportunity to work with top-level players and staff doing what I love every day.
“However, I understand that, given recent circumstances, it may be prudent at this time for the club to plan for the future and I have therefore made the decision to step aside so that the club can bring forward its plans for a new coach, as planned. For this summer.”
His last game in charge was last week's 3-1 defeat to Chelsea, when Palace gave up a one-goal lead. Palace have not kept a clean sheet in 13 league games and are 16th in the Premier League standings with 24 points, five points above the relegation zone.
Palace fans have protested this season against a perceived lack of ambition, although Hodgson hit back in December, calling fans “spoiled of late” after they booed the team following their 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth at Selhurst. Park.
Subsequent defeats continued to draw the ire of the team's supporters, with fans displaying banners during games criticizing the club's owners as well as president Steve Parish.
Hodgson began his second spell in charge of Palace in March, having managed the team from September 2017 to May 2022, and sparked an immediate recovery upon arrival with five wins and three draws in his first 10 games, eventually leading his boyhood club to an 11th place finish last season.
He signed a new one-year deal in the summer but failed to replicate last campaign's success.
“Roy has a special place in Crystal Palace's history and this will never be forgotten,” said chairman Parish.
“After four years in which he led the club to maintain Premier League status season after season, he joined us again almost a year ago to steady the ship and it worked wonders. That he then agreed to continue in the summer says a lot about his commitment to our club. Quite simply, we owe our Premier League status to Roy.”
Hodgson has coached 22 different teams in eight countries, including Liverpool, Inter Milan, Malmo FF and the Swiss national team.
His replacement Glasner won the Europa League with Frankfurt in the 2021-22 season in a campaign in which the German team eliminated Barcelona. He left the club at the end of last season after a series of disappointing results in the Bundesliga, although his team reached the last 16 of the Champions League and the final of the German Cup.
Glasner's contract with Palace runs until the end of the 2025-26 season.
“I am very happy to join Crystal Palace FC as a coach,” Glasner said in a statement. “I'm looking forward to working with this talented team, meeting the club's fans and experiencing the Selhurst Park atmosphere I've heard so much about.”
Parish added: “Wherever Oliver has gone so far in his coaching journey, success has not been slow in coming, and we believe his ambition, as well as his exciting, attacking approach, is the perfect combination to make the most of our talented squad. young man. for the rest of this Premier League season and beyond.”
