Championship club Nottingham Forest have sacked head coach Sabri Lamouchi after losing their first four league games of the season.

Saturday's 2-1 loss to Bristol City left them 22nd in the Championship table and still without a point.

They have failed to win any of their past 10 league games, having collapsed spectacularly at the end of last season to miss out on a play-off place.

Lamouchi, 48, spent just over 15 months in charge at the City Ground.

He was the 12th full-time managerial appointment by Forest since Billy Davies' first spell at the club ended in the summer of 2011, and had signed a new undisclosed-length contract in June.

The former Rennes and Ivory Coast boss played 12 times for France and represented Monaco, Inter Milan and Marseille in a near 20-year playing career.

Forest had looked almost certain to finish in a play-off spot at the end of Lamouchi's first year in charge, but dropped points late in the campaign proved costly.

Their bad end to the season culminated in a 4-1 home defeat to Stoke in their final game which, coupled with Swansea's 4-1 win at Reading, saw Forest finish seventh and outside the top six on goal difference.