Oliver Glasner moves to Nottingham Forest and becomes the fifth manager within a year

Background: The revolving door

Before Pereira, Sean Dyche had been in charge of the team, overseeing 25 competitive matches. Ange Postecoglou had also held the position, managing a total of 32 matches and therefore having been appointed before Dyche and Pereira. Back in September 2025, Nuno Espírito Santo had also left the club. None of the four managers of the 2025/26 season achieved a points-per-match average of 1.5.

Glasner can look back on a successful managerial career. With Eintracht Frankfurt, he won the Europa League in 2022. At Crystal Palace, where he took charge in February 2024, he secured the FA Cup in the 2024/25 season and the English Community Shield as well as the UEFA Conference League in the 2025/26 season. In the league, Crystal Palace finished 15th under Glasner. In May 2026, Glasner had bid farewell to the Eagles with a Conference League victory; his departure from London had already been set since the turn of the year, as his contract was expiring at the end of the season.

Before his move to Nottingham, Glasner had also been linked with FC Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen, and AC Milan. His switch to the dugout of a direct league rival underlines the esteem the Austrian from Riedau in Upper Austria enjoys in England. With an annual salary of around €15 million according to the newspaper The Sun, Glasner will in future rank among the best-paid managers in the Premier League.

Glasner's track record: Titles at Frankfurt and Crystal Palace

Club owner Evangelos Marinakis, who has owned Nottingham Forest since the summer of 2017 and is described as a billionaire as well as temperamental and headstrong, commented at length on the appointment. "In our conversations with Oliver it became clear that we share the same vision, the same ambition, and the same relentless will to win. (…) It has always been our aim to make Nottingham Forest one of the leading clubs in England and Europe again. Our ambition is not simply to take part – our ambition is to win, to compete for major titles and to create a football club our fans can be proud of for many years to come. Oliver is a winner. He has earned success through his leadership qualities, his personality, and the style of play of his teams. We believe he is the right person to lead us into this next chapter," Marinakis said.

Marinakis and the club's vision

Glasner himself also explained his decision at length. "I am very excited to be joining Nottingham Forest as head coach. Already in my first conversations with the owner and the leadership it became clear to me that they have a clear vision for this club and full confidence in me and my staff to build a strong future together in the long term. This trust and the shared commitment, as well as the potential I see in this squad, were decisive factors for me. I am looking forward to what we can achieve together," the new manager said at his presentation.

Glasner described the club as "a club with incredible prestige and a great history, a two-time European cup winner with one of the most passionate fanbases in football. Our goal is to build a team that can take the club to the next level in the coming years and one our fans can be proud of. My immediate focus is on getting to know the players and the staff and getting to work as soon as pre-season starts."

Nottingham Forest: Tradition and a turbulent present

Nottingham Forest looks back on a tradition-rich history. Founded in 1865, the club won the English league title in the 1977/78 season and celebrated victory in the European Cup in 1979, which it successfully defended one year later. The club has also won the FA Cup twice (1898 and 1959). Its greatest era was thus at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. In more recent times, the club has struggled with frequent managerial changes and inconsistent performances.

In the Premier League, Nottingham Forest most recently finished eighth (2024/25) and in the past 2025/26 season placed immediately behind Crystal Palace; the club had also finished 16th the season before that, after several managerial changes had already taken place. Glasner is the eleventh head coach of the club since Marinakis's takeover in the summer of 2017. The current squad has a total market value of €517.80 million according to market value analyses and comprises 28 players; the most recent transfer is Luca Netz.

At Crystal Palace, Glasner had previously lost key players: In the summer of 2025, Eberechi Eze moved to Arsenal for €69 million, and Marc Guéhi was sold to Manchester City for €23 million. Despite these departures, Glasner was able to win the FA Cup as well as the Community Shield and the Conference League with the Eagles.

Statistically, Glasner brings remarkable consistency: At his previous four clubs – Crystal Palace, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL Wolfsburg, and LASK – he oversaw more than 80 competitive matches each and achieved a points-per-match average of more than 1.5. This record clearly sets him apart from Nottingham's four managers of the previous season, who all fell short of that mark.

The move to the touchline of a city rival is an unfamiliar situation for Glasner, as Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest are direct league competitors. All the greater, then, are the expectations on the new manager, who officially took up the post on July 6, 2026 by agreement and is to begin pre-season preparations immediately.

British media are also reporting on a planned three-year collaboration between Glasner and Nottingham Forest; the club initially made no official statement on the contract term.

Outlook on the new season

With the signing of the Austrian, Nottingham Forest is tying its hopes for sporting stability to a phase of rapidly changing managers and disappointing results. Whether Glasner can follow up on his successes at Crystal Palace and Frankfurt will become clear in pre-season and at the Premier League's opening.

The club itself spoke in a statement of a "clear vision" and a strong squad that had convinced Glasner. The course for the coming season has thus officially been set, and Nottingham Forest is betting, on its eleventh attempt since Marinakis's takeover, on a manager with international title-winning experience.