O'Leary, 52, joined the club in July of last year but has struggled to play the kind of football to attract fans. They currently find themselves in 7th place in the UAE League 18 points behind league leaders Al Jazira winning 6 games out of their 16 matches.
This sacking shouldn't have come as a surprise as news was filtering out about the impending sacking last month but it is believed the 5-1 defeat at the hands of Al Jazira at the beginning of the month led to the Al Ahli board to decide to dispense of their manager and his assistant Roy Aitken.
O'Leary made his name as a towering center back for the Gunners where he made 722 appearances for the club between 1975 and 1993. Towards the end of his career he was transferred to Leeds United making 12 appearances before retiring in 1995.
He had a successful spell managing Leeds United between 1998-2002 where he oversaw UEFA and Champions League semi-final defeats before the financial problems began at the club.
In 2003 O'Leary took a struggling Aston Villa side from the brink of relegation to the brink of Europe but in 2006 after an argument with then owner Doug Ellis, O'Leary has his contract terminated.
Despite being linked with various jobs over the years O'Leary had to wait 4 years to get back into work with Al Ahli but less than 12 months later the Irishman finds himself out of work again.
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