{"id":28415,"date":"2026-04-18T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/conor-hourihane-barnsley-head-coach-to-leave-by-mutual-agreement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:55:22","slug":"conor-hourihane-barnsley-head-coach-to-leave-by-mutual-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/conor-hourihane-barnsley-head-coach-to-leave-by-mutual-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Hourihane: Barnsley head coach to leave by mutual agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Barnsley head coach Conor Hourihane is to leave the club at the end of the season by mutual agreement.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Aston Villa and Derby County midfielder was appointed on an interim basis in March 2025 following the sacking of Darrell Clarke and given a two-year contract the following month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This season, though, has been a disappointment with the club currently 12th in League One, 12 points outside the play-off places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After honest conversations between the board and Conor, it was felt that the best course of action for both parties would be to pursue a fresh start ahead of preparations for the 2026-27 season,&#8221; the club said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are now looking to ensure a smooth transition between Conor and our new head coach through to the end of the current campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More follows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cq8w13v9vyno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnsley head coach Conor Hourihane is to leave the club at the end of the season by mutual agreement. The former Aston Villa and Derby County midfielder was appointed on an interim basis in March 2025 following the sacking of Darrell Clarke and given a two-year contract the following month. This season, though, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28417,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28415\/revisions\/28417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}