Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola will leave the German giants at the end of the season, with Carlo Ancelotti replacing him, it has been confirmed.
After winning two league titles in as many years with Bayern - and looking set to add a third this season - Guardiola is seeking a new challenge, and he has been strongly tipped to replace Manuel Pellegrini at Manchester City.
Meanwhile, ending talk of a return to Chelsea, former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti will take charge at Bayern Munich in July. The club's chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told German newspaper Bild:
Guardiola, 44, took over from Jupp Heynckes in the summer of 2013 on a three-year contract and won a Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double at the end of his first season in charge.
His side also lifted the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup that term, but they were knocked out of the Champions League in the semi-finals by Real Madrid.
That is where their European journey ended last season as well with Barcelona getting the better of them, while they were knocked out of the domestic cup by Borussia Dortmund one step from the final.
They did win the Bundesliga again comfortably, though, and they are on course to make it a hat-trick of domestic league triumphs under Guardiola this season, leading second-placed Dortmund by eight points at the midway stage of the season.
The Bavarians are also into the quarter-finals of the DFB-Pokal and the last 16 of the Champions League, where they will face last season's beaten finalists Juventus.
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