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FIFA World Cup 2026 posterBrad Scott sacked by Essendon
SEN • May 26th, 2026 9:32 am
Essendon coach Brad Scott has been sacked by the club following a dismal start to the 2026 season.
After an extremely poor loss to an undermanned and underperforming Richmond side in Round 11, the club has opted to move on from their head coach during his fourth season in charge.
Channel 7's Mitch Cleary broke the news on Tuesday morning.
Sitting dead last with just one win this season, Scott departs as the Bombers' worst statistical coach since the 1930s, winning just 29 of his 80 games at the club and guiding the side to just one top eight finish since joining in 2023.
Speaking on the desperate nature of Scott's final weeks at the Bombers, SEN's Tom Morris reported last week that the 50-year-old would be coaching for his job despite signing an extension until the end of the 2027 season.
“It's a big few weeks for Brad Scott, I think bigger than what many people realise across the industry,” Morris said on SEN’s Crunch Time.
“He's contracted to the end of next year. But make no mistake, if Essendon sacked him, they can afford to pay him out with the soft cap the way it is.
“That's not a consideration for them, it's just whether Brad Scott's the right man to take them forward.
“We reported during the week on Agenda Setters that, aside from wins and losses, there is another two metrics that Essendon are keeping very close track of.
“One, is player development. So that is how many players have improved and by how much under Brad Scott. That's across training and across games.
“And the second metric is, largely, team defence. So specifically, pressure acts, scores against those sorts of numbers.
“And on those numbers, it looks pretty bleak for Brad Scott.
“I'm not going to say that Brad Scott, it's a matter of when, not if, like what we were saying about Michael Voss.
“But I think he's in a very delicate, very perilous position, more than maybe what we even thought a few weeks ago.”
The Bombers now join Carlton in the hunt for a new senior coach.
More to come.
