BORUSSIA Dortmund fired Thomas Tuchel as coach Tuesday, three days after he led the club to its first title in five years.

The club issued a statement to say the 43-year-old Tuchel was leaving with immediate effect, one year before his contract was due to expire in 2018.

Tuchel’s last game in charge was the 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Cup final Saturday.

Tuchel, a former Mainz coach who followed in Juergen Klopp’s footsteps by taking over in Dortmund in 2015, led the side to second place in the Bundesliga in his first season, when Dortmund was the best runner-up in the league’s history, and the German Cup final, where again it lost out to league winner Bayern Munich.

Tuchel initially earned praise for getting Dortmund out of the slump of Klopp’s final season and for re-introducing an attractive style of attacking play.

This season, after a host of off-season changes, Tuchel led Dortmund to third place in the Bundesliga.

Tuchel’s and Dortmund’s difficulties began long before, however, starting in January 2016 when he had a spat with chief scout Sven Mislintat.

Last January, Tuchel said he wasn’t informed of Swedish forward Alexander Isak’s signing.

(SD-Agencies)