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Ryan Mason has been sacked as West Bromwich Albion head coach.
The 34-year-old leaves the club 18th in the Championship having won just four of their last 16 matches.
Mason was appointed by West Brom in June, taking his first permanent managerial position and signing a three-year deal. The team got off to a fast start, winning three and drawing one of their first four league matches, but their form under Mason tailed off substantially and now find themselves just seven points above the relegation zone.
In a statement released on Tuesday, West Brom confirmed Mason’s departure alongside backroom staff members Nigel Gibbs and Sam Pooley, and that first team coach and former West Brom player James Morrison would take interim charge of the side.
Mason is the third West Brom manager to depart inside the last 13 months. Tony Mowbray was dismissed in April following just three months in the position, after Carlos Corberan left the club to take up the head coach role at Valencia in December 2024.
West Brom are in their fifth consecutive Championship campaign following their relegation from the Premier League in 2020-21, and have only finished in a play-off spot once in that time, in 2023-24.
Mason lasted seven months in the role, having left Tottenham Hotspur’s coaching staff in June. The former Spurs midfielder joined Ange Postecoglou’s first team staff when the Australian arrived in June 2023, having previously taken interim charge at Spurs twice previously: at the end of 2020-21 after the dismissal of Jose Mourinho, and in 2022-23 following the departures of Antonio Conte and Cristian Stellini.
Mason held talks with Belgian club Anderlecht in October 2024 over becoming their new manager but opted to stay at Spurs, working alongside Postecoglou.
A product of Spurs’ academy, Mason spent 19 years at the club before joining Hull City in August 2016. He required surgery on a fractured skull after a clash of heads with Chelsea defender Gary Cahill in January 2017, and ended his playing career in February 2018 owing to the risks associated with the injury.