By Amaechi Agbo

Brazilian’s football authorities have banned clubs in the elite league from sacking two coaches in a league season, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report

The announcement which was made during the week bars clubs from sacking their coaches arbitrarily.

The new rule comes at time the Brazilian Serie A league clubs have become notorious for sacking coaches.

Brazilian clubs are the world champions of sacking coaches, and the turnover has been high in 2020 with 22 coaches sacked with the league just in week 23

With the new rule, teams can only have two coaches per year, and coaches can only coach two teams per year.

Brazilian Serie A teams can only fire one coach per season under a new rule.

The new rule is considered a huge change in a league where clubs sometimes have gone through four or even five coaches by end of season.

With the new rule in effect, in event of second coach leaving, he can only be replaced by an official already at the club.

A recent study found Brazil is the country where top-flight coaches are fired the most.

Directed by the German Sport University Cologne, the study examined the firing of coaches in the Brazilian league from 2003 to 2018.

The authors found an average 37.1 coaches were fired each season in Brazil, versus 21 in Argentina, 10 in England and 4.9 in France.

Four consecutive bad results is often all it takes, the study found. Or getting eliminated from the Copa Libertadores, which increases a coach’s chance of being shown the exit by up to 560 percent.

“The fact that teams are analysing performance on a time horizon of just four matches to decide whether to keep their coach shows how much management’s thinking at Brazilian clubs is dominated by short-term logic,” the study says.

Among the big clubs, Flamengo lead the list, with an average of 1.9 coaches per season, followed by Sao Paulo and Palmeiras at 1.6.