by Warren Gatland resigned on Tuesday as the Wales head coach three days after his team lost his second match of the Six Nations 2025 tournament – their 14th successive defeat.
Italy won 22-15 in Rome eight days after France Walopad Wales 43-0 at the Stade de France.
“The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and Warren have agreed that making this change now is in the best interest of the Wales team while it continues to participate in the 2025 Six Nations Tournament,” said Abi Tierney, Managing Director of WRU.
“We are grateful to Warren for everything he did for the match in Wales. He remains our oldest and most decorated head coach in terms of silverware he won.”
Gatland, 61, led to Wales for the first time from 2008 to 2019. He took over a team that crashed from the 2007 Rugby World Cup after a defeat against the Fiji.
Success
The New Zealand has transformed the side. They said that the 2008 Six Nations Tournament defeating the five opponents to record a coveted Grand Slame. They repeated the feat in their 2012 and 2019 successes in the Six Nations.
He left after taking Wales to third place in the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
He returned to the bar in December 2022 by replacing the compatriot Wayne Pivac.
“I would like to thank the WRU board of directors for the faith shown in me after a difficult campaign throughout 2024 and to give me time and the resource to try to change things for this tournament in 2025”, said Gatland.
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