Four Serie A coaches dismissed after six rounds, half of last season’s total

Serie A has already recorded four managerial dismissals after six rounds of the 2026/27 season—half the total for all of 2025/26. Giovanni Stroppa’s exit from Venezia is the latest change, while at the same stage last season not a single coach had been replaced.

The departures began with Grosso, followed by Bologna’s Tedesco and Parma’s Cuesta, before Stroppa became the fourth coach to lose his job, according to Calcio Lecce. The pace is the clearest contrast with last season: the first change then came only after round eight, when Igor Tudor was replaced temporarily by Massimo Brambilla and then by Luciano Spalletti.

Three more coaches were dismissed over the next three rounds of 2025/26: Patrick Vieira, Stefano Pioli and Ivan Jurić. The season finished with eight dismissals, excluding one-match interim arrangements. This campaign has reached four before the seventh round has even begun.

That comparison does not establish how many changes this season will bring, but it shows how much earlier clubs have acted so far. Last season’s sequence started after eight rounds and then accelerated, with one dismissal in each of the following three. This time, the first six rounds have already produced a substantial share of last season’s full-season total.

There is another early-season difference in the league’s results. The first goalless draw of the campaign arrived only in the latest round, in Como-Roma, a scarcity of 0-0s that has also drawn attention. It is a separate trend from the coaching turnover, but together the figures point to a markedly different opening stretch from last season.

Stroppa’s departure leaves the central question straightforward: will the pace of dismissals continue into the next rounds? For now, the verdict is clear. Four changes in six games put 2026/27 well ahead of last season’s early benchmark, and already halfway to its final count of eight.