Toronto FC fires head coach Bob Bradley, names Terry Dunfield assistant coach.

Bob Bradley’s tenure at Toronto FC was up. Additionally, President Bill Manning lost patient.

The MLS team sacked its head coach and sports director on Monday, seeking to stop a decline in the standings that Bradley has not been able to stop.

The interim head coach is Terry Dunfield, a former player for Toronto FC and a member of the Canadian national team. The 41-year-old, who previously played for Manchester City and the Vancouver Whitecaps, has been leading the Toronto academy’s under-17 squad as head coach.

Bob has been a model employee for Toronto FC, and we appreciate all of his hard work and dedication during his tenure. In a five-paragraph statement, Manning added, “We are all disappointed that we were not able to achieve the results we were hoping for.”

The team also fired Bradley’s right-hand man, Mike Sorber, who served as the technical director and assistant coach.

Toronto is stuck in 14th place in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer after suffering a 2-1 loss to the New England Revolution on Saturday (3-7-10). In its last 17 games across all competitions, it has only triumphed twice (2-7-8).

On Saturday, TFC, which is now seven points outside of the playoff picture, will host Real Salt Lake.

In November 2021, Bradley—whose son is TFC captain Michael Bradley—took over as head coach of Toronto. With the club, he had a 14–26–19 record.

Following the resignation of Greg Vanney in December 2020, who guided the team to the 2017 MLS Cup, Bob Bradley has been the franchise’s coach three times. For the 2020 campaign, Javier Perez and Chris Armas served as coaches.

Bradley, the three-time MLS coach of the year, has long been a target. A lack of depth and injuries have hindered the team.

For the weekend’s loss to New England, Toronto was without eleven players due to injury and international commitments.

“What we point to is that we show moments of good football every game,” Bob Bradley stated on June 21, following his team’s 3-0 loss to league-leading Cincinnati. However, we must be able to maintain it. Some of those errors must be possible to be avoided. Furthermore, there is still more we need to do to score goals.