Bayern Munich: Herbert Out, New Coach Search Begins

Gordon Herbert is no longer coach at FC Bayern

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Gordon Herbert watched the eighth defeat in a row in the EuroLeague with a stone face and great disillusionment; the next day the world champion maker was no longer the coach of FC Bayern.

“Unfortunately, there are situations in sport that require no other option than change,” said sports director Dragan Tarlac one day after the 77:103 at AS Monaco, with which Munich’s international negative series had reached historic dimensions – they had never lost eight games in a row in the premier class.

The German championship title last season and the strong record of 16:2 points in the current BBL season didn’t help either.

Bayern announced on Saturday that they had agreed with Herbert “after a trusting exchange on the early termination of the collaboration”. The 66-year-old, who sensationally led the German national team to World Cup gold in 2023, had been absent for health reasons.

FC Bayern: “Help the team with new impulses”

But Tarlac emphasized that he was “not responsible for that” or for the injuries to key players: “Nevertheless, we have now reached the point in terms of sport that everyone can see and are obliged to help the team, which always gives everything, with new impulses.”

Gordon Herbert trained the most expensive BBL squad at Bayern

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They still have “big goals”, including in the EuroLeague. “We trust our team and hope that an outside influence will solve obvious blockages and ignite new fire,” said the sports director.

In the Bundesliga game on Sunday in the sold-out Lanxess Arena in Cologne against Telekom Bonn, the team will be looked after by Herbert’s previous assistants. A successor as head coach should, if possible, be found by the next EuroLeague home game on Tuesday against league leaders Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Monaco bankruptcy is the last straw

Herbert took over the Munich team after the 2024 Olympics and celebrated winning the title in 2025. FC Bayern is on track in the Bundesliga, and the Munich team also has the top four in the cup in their own hall on the 21st/22nd. reached February.

But the international series of bankruptcies led to a separation. In Monaco, Herbert sounded disillusioned and perplexed after his eighth defeat in a row.

“We played a good first seven minutes – and then they dominated us for the remaining 33 minutes,” he said – he was fired from his job the next day.

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