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Next Stoke City manager: the live picture
The dugout watch for Stoke City: how much pressure the current manager is under, who's being linked, and what this club's history says about how these things end.
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21stIn the Championship sack race (of 24)
Mark Robins
Currently in post. Status: 0W 0D 0L. Full record on the Sack-o-Meter.
How it usually ends at Stoke City
Across the completed tenures in our records, a Stoke City manager lasts roughly 2.8 years. Recent occupants of the job:
| Manager | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Robins | 2025 | present |
| Steven Schumacher | 2023 | 2024 |
| Alex Neil | 2022 | 2023 |
| Michael David Jackson | 2019 | 2022 |
| Nathan Jones | 2019 | 2019 |
| Paul Lambert | 2018 | 2018 |
| Gary Rowett | 2018 | 2019 |
| Mark Hughes | 2013 | 2018 |
Year-level data from our manager career records — a guide, not a stopwatch.
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