Everton sack manager Sean Dyche day after Julen Lopetegui leaves West Ham

Everton have sacked their manager Sean Dyche "with immediate effect".

In a statement, the Liverpool-based football club said under-18s head coach and former player Leighton Baines, and club captain Seamus Coleman, "will take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis".

The pair will be in the dugout for the FA Cup match against League One side Peterborough on Thursday evening.

It comes just a day after West Ham sacked their head coach Julen Lopetegui and replaced him with former Brighton and Chelsea boss Graham Potter.

Everton sit 16th in the Premier League and are just one point above the relegation spaces.

The club did not register a shot on target during Saturday's 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth and have just one win in 11 league games.

Assistants Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer have also left the club, which said the process to appoint a new manager "is under way".

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Everton were bought by The Friedkin Group in December last year, after the US firm agreed a takeover deal with Farhad Moshiri's Blue Heaven Holdings in September.

The group, owned by the American tycoon Dan Friedkin, is already a majority owner of the Italian club AS Roma.

Dyche is the sixth Premier League manager to be sacked this season: The first was Manchester United's Erik ten Hag in October.

Leicester City then sacked Steve Cooper in November, before Wolves dismissed Gary O'Neil on 15 December.

Russell Martin was also let go by Southampton the same day.

It also comes after Luton Town parted ways with Rob Edwards, with the club sitting 20th in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League last season.

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