Overview
- The 70-year-old former Chelsea, Portsmouth and West Ham manager announced his departure on social media, which FAZ confirmed.
- Zambia qualified for the 2025 finals in Morocco starting December 21 and will face Morocco, Comoros and Mali in Group A.
- The team finished fourth in its 2026 World Cup qualifying group with five losses in eight matches, including home defeats to Tanzania, Morocco and Niger.
- Grant, appointed in December 2022, oversaw a first-round exit at the last Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.
- Zambia became the third AFCON-bound side in recent weeks to change coaches, following Equatorial Guinea’s brief firing and reinstatement of Juan Micha and Zimbabwe’s dismissal of Michael Nees.