Thursday 26 May 2016 13:48, UK
A record 56 managers were sacked in the 2015/16 season, according to statistics from the League Managers' Association.
The LMA's end-of-season report revealed there were 70 managerial changes across the Premier League and Football League during the 2015-16 campaign, with 56 dismissals exceeding the previous high of 53 in 2001/02.
Eleven Premier League managers were axed, while there were 18 dismissals in the Championship - two short of the record high of 20 from the 2014/15 season.
Chief executive Richard Bevan will also be alarmed by the average length of service at a club.
The average tenure for the 56 dismissed managers this season was one year and 113 days - little more than 15 months and the second-lowest average tenure since 1992.
The 11 Premier League bosses sacked had an average of two years and seven days in the job, but in League One, where 14 managers lost their jobs, the average tenure was less than a year, at 354 days.
Brendan Rodgers became the first Premier League managerial casualty of the season when Liverpool sacked him in October, while Louis van Gaal was sacked earlier this week after leading Manchester United to the FA Cup.
Jose Mourinho, fired by Chelsea for a second time last December, is expected to replace Van Gaal at Old Trafford.
Figures showed the greatest number of dismissals in Leagues One and Two for the last six seasons, while only once in that time had the Premier League and Championship seen more managerial sackings.
In 2013-14, 12 Premier League bosses were sacked, while last season 20 Championship bosses were relieved of their duties, two more than this term.
The average tenure of managers currently in office is below two years across all four leagues.
It is one year and 332 days in the Premier League, but that figure is skewed as Arsene Wenger has been Arsenal boss for approaching 20 years since his appointment in October 1996.
Paul Tisdale of Exeter is the next longest-serving boss, with approaching 10 years of service, while Eddie Howe's second spell at Bournemouth, which stands at less than four years, makes the top 10.
