AC Milan fires coach, CEO, sporting director after UCL failure

AC Milan announced a sweeping restructuring of its football operations on Monday, parting ways with head coach Massimiliano Allegri, CEO Giorgio Furlani, sporting director Igli Tare, and technical director Geoffrey Moncada after the club failed to qualify for next season’s Champions League. The decision came one day after a 2-1 home loss to Cagliari on the final day of the Serie A season, a defeat that dropped Milan to fifth place and secured only a Europa League spot.

The club’s U.S. owner, RedBird Capital, described the season as an “unequivocal failure” in a statement. Milan needed only a point from its final match to secure a top-four finish but squandered a 1-0 lead against a Cagliari side with nothing left to play for. The loss capped a dramatic late-season collapse in which the team won only two of its last eight matches, falling from title contention to fifth place. Fans booed the team off the field after the final whistle.

“For the majority of this season, we were in the top two positions in Serie A, with a credible shot at competing for the Scudetto,” RedBird said in the statement. “The final stretch was completely inconsistent with the performance up to that point,...