Glasner takes over as Nottingham Forest manager after leaving Crystal Palace

NOTTINGHAM, England — Oliver Glasner was hired Monday as Nottingham Forest's fifth manager in 10 months, shortly after leaving fellow Premier League club Crystal Palace.

Glasner arrives at the City Ground with a strong reputation after guiding Palace to the Conference League title last season, a year after winning the FA Cup for the first trophy in the club's 120-year history. Mid-way through the 2025-26 season Glasner stated his intention to leave the club at the end of the campaign. He also won the Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022.

“He has consistently demonstrated throughout his career that he can build outstanding teams and deliver success against the strongest competition,” Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis said of Glasner, adding that the club's goal was establish itself “once again among the leading clubs in England and Europe.”

Forest was a back-to-back European champion, in 1979 and 1980.

“Our ambition is not simply to compete,” Marinakis said, “our ambition is to win, to challenge for major honors and to create a football club that our supporters can be proud of for many years to come.”

On paper, it's a downgrade for Glasner, with Forest finishing one spot below 15th-place Palace in the Premier League last season.

It could also be perceived as a risky decision by the Austrian coach, given that Forest had four managers under Marinakis last season. Vitor Pereira, who was fired last week, arrived in February and led the team to safety after previous stints in the 2025-26 campaign by Nuno Espirito Santo, Ange Postecoglou and Sean Dyche.

For Palace, it will hurt seeing its most successful ever manager joining Forest. The clubs clashed off the field last season, with Palace fans blaming Marinakis for fueling a UEFA investigation into their club’s ownership structure that saw it demoted to the third-tier Conference League and Forest elevated into the second-tier Europa League instead.

Palace was fined 50,000 pounds (then around $67,000) in February after supporters displayed a provocative banner at a game between the teams on Aug. 24, targeting Marinakis and making lurid unproven allegations about his business career.