BRISTOL CITY have parted company with manager Keith Millen.

The news comes with the club currently bottom of the npower Championship table after securing just one win in ten matches.

City chairman Colin Sexstone said: “I’d like to place on record my thanks to Keith for his 12 years of service at the club. He is an outstanding coach and we wish him all the very best for the future.”

The club’s board of directors now begins its search for a new manager, with just under two weeks to the next game at home to Peterborough United on October 15.

Millen signed for City as a player in 1999 and went on to play more than 60 games before retiring due to a knee injury.

He soon joined the club's Academy set-up as a coach, before being promoted to assistant manager when Brian Tinnion was put in charge in 2004.

When Tinnion's reign ended a season and a half later, Millen stayed on as caretaker manager for two games before beginning a prosperous partnership with the newly-appointed boss Gary Johnson.

In five-and-a-half seasons Johnson, with Millen as his number two, enjoyed automatic promotion from League One and a Championship play-off final.

When Johnson’s time came to an end in 2010, Millen guided the team to safety as caretaker boss, before reverting to his assistant role under Steve Coppell.

Coppell lasted just two games, however, and that afforded Millen his big chance at the helm.

Last season he guided City to a 15th place finish and safety with games to spare.

However, the 2011/12 campaign has seen City fail to record a home win in five attempts. A 2-1 success at Leicester in August is the club’s only win of the season to date, and Saturday's 5-0 defeat at Ian Holloway’s Blackpool leaves the club rooted to the foot of the table.