Ian Baraclough has been sacked as supervisor of Northern Ireland after narrowly avoiding relegation to the underside tier of the Nations League.
Baraclough has misplaced 14 of his 28 video games in cost, beating solely Lithuania, Kosovo, Estonia, Malta and Luxembourg throughout his two-year reign.
Despite that, the previous Scunthorpe supervisor started his tenure serving to his adopted nation to the cusp of qualifying for Euro 2020, taking up after Michael O’Neill had led them into the play-offs by means of the Nations League earlier than they had been crushed by Slovakia in further time of the ultimate.
It took 11 video games and virtually a yr in cost earlier than Baraclough tasted victory over 90 minutes, and managing simply two wins over Lithuania in World Cup 2022 qualifying noticed them end seven factors off a play-off place.
Things had been little higher in the Nations League, the place he oversaw Northern Ireland’s relegation from League B in 2020/21, earlier than they solely averted back-to-back demotions in League C by ending forward of Cyrus on purpose distinction.
The Irish Football Association now have time on their facet to decide on their new supervisor forward of their subsequent sport, a visit to San Marino in Euro 2024 qualifying, which is greater than 5 months away in March 2023.
Northern Ireland’s Euro 2024 qualifying marketing campaign:
San Marino vs Northern Ireland – March 23, 2023
Northern Ireland vs Finland – March 26, 2023
Denmark vs Northern Ireland – June 16, 2023
Northern Ireland vs Kazakhstan – June 19, 2023
Slovenia vs Northern Ireland – September 7, 2023
Kazakhstan vs Northern Ireland – September 10, 2023
Northern Ireland vs San Marino – October 14, 2023
Northern Ireland vs Slovenia – October 17, 2023
Finland vs Northern Ireland – November 17, 2023
Northern Ireland vs Denmark – November 20, 2023
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