Overview
- Barnsley, which announced the decision Saturday, said Hourihane will finish the season and take a final home game against Stockport County on May 2.
- The team sits 12th in League One and is 12 points off the play-off places after an underwhelming campaign.
- TalkSPORT reported the club published the departure statement about three hours before a home match against Bradford City.
- Barnsley recently disclosed a net loss of more than £6.5m for the year to June 2025, and Hourihane had criticized January’s sale of top scorer Davis Keillor-Dunn to Wrexham.
- The board will begin recruiting a new head coach, which Yahoo Sports reports would be the club’s seventh since Valerien Ismael left in 2021.