Gambia boss Saintfiet resigns after AFCON exit
Tom Saintfiet has resigned as coach of The Gambia after the Scorpions suffered a group-stage exit from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
The West Africans finished bottom of Group C after losing all three games, with a 3-2 defeat by Cameroon on Tuesday rounding off their campaign.
Saintfiet was appointed in 2018 and led the side to the quarter-finals of the 2021 edition of Afcon on their debut.
However, the Belgian could not repeat those heroics in Ivory Coast.
“Thank you for your service gaffer. Gambia will indeed miss a great tactician,” the Gambia Football Federation said in a message posted on X.
The Gambia were 168th in the world rankings when Saintfiet took charge in July 2018, and the 50-year-old departs after improving their position to 126th.
The Scorpions were the lowest-ranked team at the 2021 finals but beat Mauritania, Tunisia and Guinea on the way to the last eight, where they were beaten 2-0 by hosts Cameroon.
