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- Published: Jan. 05, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Columbus Crew coach Wilfried Nancy’s clip successful Europe appears to beryllium complete aft only 33 days.
Celtic FC fired Nancy connected Monday morning aft only 8 matches successful charge. Nancy’s Celtic mislaid six of those 8 matches, including a 3-1 conclusion astatine location vs. Scottish rival Rangers.
Nancy officially became Celtic caput coach connected Dec. 3. But successful his clip pinch nan club, Celtic went conscionable 2-6, pinch some wins coming successful Scottish Premiership play.
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The squad now sits successful 2nd spot successful nan Scottish Premiership table, six points down starring Hearts of Midlothian.
Nancy was nan caput coach of nan Crew from 2023 to 2025 and helped lead them to aggregate trophies. They won nan MLS Cup successful 2023 and nan Leagues Cup successful 2024, and they besides precocious to nan last successful some nan CONCACAF Champions League and nan Campeones Cup.
However, nan Crew mislaid successful nan first information of nan MLS Cup playoffs nan past 2 seasons, including this past play to rival FC Cincinnati.
On Wednesday, nan Crew hired Nancy’s successor successful Henrik Rydström. He had a grounds of 74-26-26 arsenic nan caput coach astatine Malmö successful Sweden, and besides coached astatine IK Sirius and Kalmar FF.
Tim Bielik been portion of cleveland.com's sports unit since 2013 and has been covering sports successful Northeast Ohio for 12 years. He is simply a wide duty sports newsman who has covered galore sporting events...
