Sat, 7 Nov, 2026, 08:02 pm
Reported by sportsadda.asia
Mumbai City have parted company with Manolo Márquez after taking two points from their first four ISL games of 2026-27.
Mumbai City and Manolo Márquez have agreed to part ways after four Indian Super League games without a win. The club announced it on Friday, 6 November, five days after a 3-2 home defeat to Sporting Club Delhi in a game they had led 2-0 at half-time. They were 10th, with two points, when the club made the call, and Márquez is the first coach to leave an ISL club this season.
There is an awkward twist in who beat them last. SC Delhi is the club Márquez won the ISL with, under its old name, Hyderabad FC.
It started badly and never really recovered. Mumbai City lost 2-1 to Churchill Brothers at Fatorda on 11 October, the Goan club’s first ISL game. Leandro Otormín’s penalty had them ahead against Punjab FC in Delhi on 19 October until Gurkirat Singh headed in a 90th-minute equaliser, and the trip to Kochi on 25 October finished 0-0 against Kerala Blasters.
Mumbai City’s first two goals of the season were both penalties. They finally scored from open play against SC Delhi on 1 November at the Mumbai Football Arena, through Muhammad Ajsal after six minutes, and Zothanpuia made it 2-0 before the break. Delhi scored three times in the last 20 minutes, two of them in stoppage time. That makes four scored and six conceded from four games.
