Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - Brendan Rodgers has resigned from his position as Celtic manager with immediate effect.
The club said former boss Martin O'Neill and former player
Shaun Maloney would take charge of the team until a permanent successor is
appointed.
Rodgers' second spell at Celtic ended after Sunday's 3-1
Scottish Premiership defeat at Hearts left them eight points adrift of the
Edinburgh side.
"Football manager Brendan Rodgers has today tendered
his resignation" and "will leave his role with immediate
effect", Celtic said in a statement.
"Brendan leaves with our thanks for the role he has
played during a period of continued success for the club and we wish him
further success in the future."
The club added that the search for a replacement was already
underway.
"We are pleased that during this interim period former
Celtic manager, Martin O'Neill and former Celtic player, Shaun Maloney have
agreed to take charge of Celtic first-team matters," it said.
Rodgers, 52, returned for a second spell at Celtic Park in
2023, winning successive titles, to add to his league triumphs from 2017 and
2018.
He previously managed Swansea, Liverpool, and Leicester and
arrived at Celtic for the second time in June 2023 to succeed Ange Postecoglou.
The Northern Irishman had been at Celtic between May 2016
and February 2019, completing successive league and cup trebles.
His first season in charge saw Celtic finish with a record
106 points and become the first Scottish side to complete a top-flight season
undefeated since 1899.
Rodgers continued Celtic's domestic supremacy by winning
league titles in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons and also lifted the Scottish
Cup and the Scottish League Cup.
But clouds were gathering over the club this season, with
Celtic knocked out of the Champions League by Kazakhstan minnows Kairat Almaty.
Rodgers had appeared at odds with his employers over their
summer transfer window policy.
After Celtic's first defeat at Dundee in 37 years this
month, he said the team had "lost a lot of firepower, a lot of
goals".
"And there's no way you'll go into a race and be given
the keys to a Honda Civic and say, 'I want you to drive it like a Ferrari'.
It's not going to happen."
Celtic's main shareholder Dermot Desmond hit back, saying
Rodgers' criticism had come "entirely out of the blue".
"At no point prior to those remarks had he raised any
such concerns with me, Michael (Nicholson, chief executive), or any member of
the board or executive team," Desmond said.
"In reality, he was given final say over all football matters and was
consistently backed in the recruitment process -- including record investment
in players he personally identified and approved."
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