Spanish League Club Real Oviedo Fires Coach Paunovic Who Led It to Promotion
- La Liga club Oviedo fired Coach Veljko Paunovic after eight games into the new season, marking him as the first coach in La Liga to lose their job this season.
- Oviedo currently ranks 17th in the league table after suffering a significant setback with a 2-0 home defeat to Levante.
- The club confirmed that Paunovic's contract has been terminated along with his technical staff, and they expressed wishes for his success in future endeavors.
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Spanish league club Real Oviedo fires coach Paunovic who led it to promotion
Recently promoted Spanish league club Real Oviedo has fired Serbian coach Veljko Paunovic with the team hovering just above the relegation zone.
Oviedo sacks coach Paunovic despite promotion success
With Paunovic, who took the Oviedo in March 2025, the rest of the technical team, which was part of the Portuguese deputy Nuno Miguel Gomes, who has been in the club since the last time.
Serbian football expert Veljko Paunović is no longer the coach of Oviedo.
Only three and a half months after he captained the desired promotion of Oviedo to First Division , after 24 years away from the elite , Veljko Paunovic has been dismissed as coach of the Asturian club.The Ovetense entity, with which Paunovic had a contract until June of next year, has made official this Thursday the dismissal by the following statement: «The Real Oviedo has made the decision to resolve the contract of Veljko Paunovic as coach o…
The Oviedo announced Thursday morning the dismissal of its coach, Veljko Paunovic, just a few minutes before the start of the training session scheduled for this morning in El Requexón. This is the first dismissal of a coach in First Division this season.wf_cms.rss.read_more
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