The short answer is because he hasn’t won enough games, which in the end is the metric through which all first-team head coaches measure themselves in professional football.
In his 27 games in charge, Sahin won only one more (12) than he lost (11). Dortmund are 10th in the Bundesliga, seven points off a Champions League spot. Their 25 points from 18 games is their lowest haul at this point since Jürgen Klopp’s final season 10 years ago.
Ultimately, Sahin lost his job because of his form in 2025. In 11 days, Borussia Dortmund lost four games, shipping 11 goals. That run included a really disappointing loss to Holstein Kiel, the team in last place in the Bundesliga and with the smallest budget, and a decisive Champions League defeat to Bologna in which Dortmund, who led at halftime, conceded twice in 90 seconds.
Sahin was unlucky with injuries, but the performances of his team were troubling and in that sense his departure is not a surprise.
Despite only two years of first-team training delighting in Turkey, Sahin was selected in a big component because of the paints he made as a component of Dortmund’s training staff in his European career last season and because Edin Terzic’s discontent would have advised him.
His appointment also had echoes of Dortmund’s unwavering obsession for his beyond. This club loves those who have a beyond and Sahin is a local child, who crossed the academy to play for the first team. A little like the terzic appointment, Dortmund turns out that once he was seduced through the concept that one of his own can lead to the club to glory.
This did not happen, however, Dortmund will now have to which profile of the main coach makes sense for this team at this time.
During the 10 years that followed Klopp, Nori Sahin is the seventh coach that Borussia Dortmund hoped to rekindle the club. He is also the fourth coach of the last 8 to leave after just a season in charge. Obviously, anything does not work.
That much change has made it hard for the club to find consistency. Combined with last season’s heartbreaking final-day Bundesliga title loss and the defeat in the Champions League final, the club have struggled to shake off tough disappointments.
Some other people think that Sahin is the kind of autumn for a club whose structures are aging. There are also questions about player quality, recruitment, and team balance. The club’s reputation for coming some of Europe’s most productive players is fading, as is the taste of horny, exciting play that was once linked to Dortmund and the remarkable Westfalenstadion. Rheinmetall’s recent sponsorship has also frustrated the club’s fan base. In short, a club that believes itself is another in danger of adjusting just another team.
Borussia Dortmund said that Mike Tullberg, the 19 -year -old coach, will take over the adjustment of the house opposed to Werder Bremen on Saturday.
Sky Sports in Germany said that former Manchester United chief Erik Ten-Hag is the favorite to update Sahin. Den Hag would be the third Dutch of the Club in Tarifa, after Bert Van Marwijk (2004-2006) and Peter Bosz (2017), and Germany of his time in the rate of the Moment Bayern Munich team in 2015. Another former player and Bundesliga coach, Niko Kovac, would have been in luck.
Whoever the new coach is will want to do what many before them have not, which is to deliver more than a short-term boost. Dortmund is a sustained effort, one that establishes a transparent taste of play and ends in tangible victory.
Beyond that, sporting CEO Lars Ricken and sporting director Sebastian Kehl will have to navigate a bumpy road ahead. Both were keen on Sahin, and it not working hasn’t helped. Furthermore, with long-standing club CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke heading off this summer, the next six months are so decisive for Borussia Dortmund.
Edited by: Chuck Penfold