The 25/26 season will continue with the same sports management as the previous season.
In light of last year’s positive results, Gian Luca Nani and Gokhan Inler will remain in charge of Udinese Calcio’s sports management in the 2025/2026 season, thus providing further momentum to the technical project that began together with coach Kosta Runjaic.
Nani will therefore remain the Group Technical Director and coordinate the football strategies of Udinese and Watford.
In light of last year’s positive results, Gian Luca Nani and Gokhan Inler will remain in charge of Udinese Calcio’s sports management in the 2025/2026 season, thus providing further momentum to the technical project that began together with coach Kosta Runjaic.
Nani will therefore remain the Group Technical Director and coordinate the football strategies of Udinese and Watford.
“Nani’s and Inler’s contract renewals were the first formal step to make to give new momentum to our project,” said Managing Director Franco Collavino. “We performed well this past season and we’ve created a football project of constant growth that we want to carry on.
"Gian Luca is a reliable asset on the European football scene; he understands transfer dynamics and young talents like few others and will help us develop our strategies.
"Gokhan is a young executive that has been effective in his first year in his position. We are sure that he will offer his professionalism, work ethic and sense of belonging to the entire group.”
"Gian Luca is a reliable asset on the European football scene; he understands transfer dynamics and young talents like few others and will help us develop our strategies.
"Gokhan is a young executive that has been effective in his first year in his position. We are sure that he will offer his professionalism, work ethic and sense of belonging to the entire group.”
“I am very happy I can build on the work I started last year together with the owners, Gokhan and coach Runjaic,” said Nani. “We have had a good season and laid the foundations to continue growing, to find a new balance and raise the bar, which is in the club’s DNA.”
There was also great enthusiasm by Head of the Technical Area Gokhan Inler:
“Udinese feels like home to me. I have always said that I’m in the ideal place to undertake a career as an executive and I am very happy that I can build on the work we started last year.
"Together with expert directors such as Franco Collavino and Gian Luca Nani and the coach, we want to multiply our efforts to deliver great results for the fans – who very much deserve them – while also meeting Udinese’s ambitions and philosophy.”
“Udinese feels like home to me. I have always said that I’m in the ideal place to undertake a career as an executive and I am very happy that I can build on the work we started last year.
"Together with expert directors such as Franco Collavino and Gian Luca Nani and the coach, we want to multiply our efforts to deliver great results for the fans – who very much deserve them – while also meeting Udinese’s ambitions and philosophy.”