England's RFU sacks head coach Eddie Jones after poor 2022

The Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body of English rugby, dismissed Eddie Jones as England head coach in December 2022. The Australian had been in charge since 2015 and had taken England to the 2019 World Cup final.

His final year went badly. England finished fifth in the 2022 Six Nations and lost a series in Australia that summer. The autumn internationals brought a narrow home defeat to Argentina and a draw with New Zealand, and supporters at Twickenham voiced their frustration. With a World Cup due in France in 2023, the RFU concluded a change was needed.

Steve Borthwick, a former England captain who had been coaching Leicester Tigers, was named as Jones's successor a few days later and took over in early 2023. The decision ended a long and often controversial era. It also added to the story of Jones's later career, which included a return to coach Japan, the team he had led to a famous win over South Africa at the 2015 World Cup.