3 min learnJun 29, 2026 10:37 PM IST
Premier League facet Manchester Metropolis have lastly discovered a reputation to exchange departing coach Pep Guardiola, as Enzo Maresca has been appointed the brand new supervisor, the membership introduced on Monday.
The Italian joins Metropolis following a mid-season exit from Chelsea and has signed a three-year contract. Maresca brings familiarity with Man Metropolis’s set-up, having beforehand coached the membership’s youth group. He was additionally the senior facet’s assistant coach underneath Guardiola throughout Metropolis’s 2018-19 treble-winning season.
In what was termed as the top of an period, Guardiola left Metropolis on the finish of the 2025-26 season after spending 10 lengthy years. Guardiola, who took cost of Metropolis in 2016, received six Premier League titles — together with 4 in a row — three FA Cups, 5 League Cups and the Champions League. The Spaniard left the membership with a home double — the FA Cup and the EFL Cup — in his remaining season.
Maresca known as it an excellent alternative to be again with the membership he says he “is aware of very effectively”.
“Manchester Metropolis is a membership I do know very effectively and to have the prospect to handle this group is a superb alternative for me,” Maresca mentioned in an announcement. “The standard of the individuals who work here’s what makes it so particular, and I need to thank them for exhibiting religion in my means. “I can not wait to begin teaching the gamers. I would like us to win, play good soccer and benefit from the strain of representing Manchester Metropolis.”
Maresca’s managerial journey started with Serie A membership Parma in 2021, the place he stayed for 14 video games, successful solely 4 instances. He was then appointed the pinnacle coach of English membership Leicester Metropolis at the begin of the 2023-24 Championship season and guided them again to the Premier League as champions. His success within the East Midlands earned him a transfer to Chelsea.
The 46-year-old Italian guided Chelsea to a fourth-place end and lifted each the Convention League and Membership World Cup, however his relationship with the membership’s homeowners deteriorated and he left halfway by way of his second season at Stamford Bridge.
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Chelsea mentioned in an announcement on Monday that Maresca had expressed a want to depart mid-contract after being knowledgeable of the chance to succeed Guardiola at Manchester Metropolis.
“It grew to become clear to us that it was his sturdy want to succeed Guardiola and that he was totally dedicated to pursuing the chance, regardless of the actual fact he was underneath a long-term contract which he had no proper to terminate. In December 2025, our Head Coach unexpectedly and abruptly resigned from his place. Clearly, we felt let down as we believed that his head and coronary heart have been centered on one other membership and one other alternative, regardless of having simply arrived at Chelsea the yr earlier than,” Chelsea mentioned in an announcement.