As Bob Peeters departs Charlton, News Shopper revisits the club's frequent managerial departures since the end of Alan Curbishley's reign.

Alan Curbishley, 1991-2006

Curbishley’s impressively-successful reign, in which Charlton returned to The Valley and established themselves as an efficiently-run Premier League team, came to its conclusion with the club 13th on the final day of the 2005/2006 season and, in Darren Bent, possessing the division’s highest scoring Englishman. He was the last manager to leave Charlton on a high.

Iain Dowie, May-November 2006

Dowie was Curbishley’s surprise successor but, after spending around £10million on underwhelming signings like Djimi Traore and Amdy Faye, was sacked after only 12 Premier League matches with Charlton bottom of the table, having won only two games.

Les Reed, November-December 2006

Reed’s reign was the one that made Charlton’s relegation to the Championship in 2007 an inevitability. He was in charge for only 41 days, the 41st being Christmas Eve 2006, and led them to only one victory in seven unsuccessful games.

Alan Pardew, December 2006-November 2008

Pardew’s first six months in charge were impressive. After succeeding Reed, he gave Charlton a chance of survival and likely would have secured their Premier League status had he been available – when his reputation was at its greatest – to replace Dowie when Reed was instead appointed. Thereafter, however, Charlton’s decline accelerated. Pardew unconvincingly reshaped the squad, with unsuccessful signings like Izale McLeod and Paddy McCarthy, could only secure a disappointing mid-table finish in 2007/2008 and left the club battling relegation to League One in November 2008.

Phil Parkinson, November 2008-January 2011

Parkinson was promoted from being Pardew’s assistant to caretaker manager before being appointed on a permanent basis on New Year’s Eve 2008. With only three points from his eight games as caretaker manager, he had done little to justify the appointment and couldn’t save the club from relegation. He had inherited an exceptionally-difficult job, however, and impressed when, in difficult circumstances with very little to spend, leading Charlton into the League One play-offs in 2009/2010. Despite Charlton’s worsening financial plight and losing his two most valuable players, Nicky Bailey and Jonjo Shelvey, Parkinson was harshy sacked in January 2011 when the club were only three points off the automatic promotion places.

Chris Powell, January 2011-March 2014

The reign of club favourite Powell began terribly when, after replacing Parkinson, Charlton fell from the League One play-offs in January to 13th on the final day of the 2010/2011 season. That summer he was given the money to overhaul his squad and he impressively inspired a significant improvement, to the extent Charlton finished the following season as League One champions with 101 points. Managing in difficult circumstances thereafter, he overachieved in leading them to ninth in the Championship in 2012/2013, before harshly being sacked when the club were battling relegation in March 2014 while having several games in hand on their rivals, just two months after two of his best players, Dale Stephens and Yann Kermorgant, were sold.

Jose Riga, March-May 2014

Despite leading Charlton to safety in what remained of the 2013/2014 season, with eight wins, three draws and six defeats, Riga left Charlton in May 2014 and was replaced by Bob Peeters.

Bob Peeters, May 2014-January 2015

Belgian Peeters led Charlton to an impressive start to the 2014/2015 season, when they were in contention for promotion. Their form declined, however, and despite doing so when it appeared far too early in his reign, Peeters was sacked on 11th January 2015, a day after his 41st birthday, when Charlton were without a win since November 8.

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