Kenny Jackett leaves Portsmouth after EFL Trophy final defeat to Salford
Portsmouth have parted company with Kenny Jackett a day after the club’s EFL Trophy final defeat to Salford City. The League One side announced on Sunday that Jackett, who had been Pompey manager for almost four years, had gone. The club have also signalled their intention to quickly recruit a replacement who can help realise their ambition of winning promotion to the Championship.
“Portsmouth Football Club would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Kenny for the work he has done during his near four-year spell at the club and we all wish him well for the future,” said the club’s chief executive, Mark Catlin.
“It has been an emotional past few weeks for everyone associated with Pompey and we now begin the process – which will be as short as possible – of appointing someone who we believe can give us the best chance of finishing inside the top six. These talks begin today.”
Jackett replaced Paul Cook in June 2017 and led the club to EFL Trophy success over Sunderland in 2019, but had suffered the heartache of League
One play-off semi-final defeats to the Black Cats and Oxford United since.
Portsmouth sit in seventh place in the League One table, two points adrift of Ipswich in sixth. Jackett had come under intense pressure in recent weeks after Pompey lost to Doncaster, Northampton and Sunderland consecutively in the league, before losing 4-2 on penalties to Salford at Wembley on Saturday.