Al-Taawoun Sack Coach Zarko Lazetic After 6–0 Defeat

Al-Taawoun have parted company with coach Zarko Lazetic, the axe finally falling after a brutal 6–0 defeat to Al-Hilal in the seventh round of the Roshn Pro League.

The decision had been looming. The numbers made it unavoidable.

• Seven games.
• Zero wins.
• Just three points on the board.
• Four defeats, three draws, and one of the worst starts to a Roshn League campaign in the club’s history.

The pressure had been building with every dropped point, every missed chance, every soft goal conceded. The rout against Al-Hilal simply stripped away any remaining doubt.

Al-Hilal dominated from the first whistle to the last. Lazetic’s side offered almost nothing in response, overrun in every area of the pitch and cut apart at will. Six goals conceded in a single night turned a poor start into a full-blown crisis.

“It's difficult to say anything, and we congratulate the opponent, they were a million times better than our team and in all aspects of football, and that's all I have,” he admitted, words that underlined just how painful the evening had been.

For the Al-Taawoun board, that performance and that admission marked the end. The club confirmed his dismissal soon after, drawing a line under a short, stuttering spell that never really caught fire.

Next Steps

Now comes the hard part.

Al-Taawoun must find a coach capable of stopping the slide and dragging the team back into contention. With the season already tilting away from them, the next appointment is more than a reset — it will define whether this campaign can still be salvaged or whether it drifts into a year of damage limitation.