Here, Press Association Sport looks at the 52-year-old's troubled and controversial season, on and off the pitch
August 8: Mourinho criticises Chelsea first-team doctor Carneiro and physiotherapist Jon Fearn for naivety in running on to the field to treat Eden Hazard in the opening-day draw with Swansea
Mourinho is cleared by the Football Association of abusing Carneiro, who then subsequently leaves Chelsea
August 16: Chelsea lose 3-0 away to Manchester City, with Mourinho substituting captain John Terry at half-time
August 29: Mourinho's 100th Premier League home match results in only a second loss as his side go down 2-1 to Crystal Palace
September 12: The Blues lose again as they are beaten 3-1 at Everton, Steven Naismith with a hat-trick
September 19: Diego Costa is banned retrospectively for a running feud with Arsenal defenders Laurent Koscielny and Gabriel in Chelsea's 2-0 win
Arsene Wenger avoids censure afterwards for calling referee Mike Dean ''weak and naive''
Mourinho turns his frustrations to Wenger and the FA
September 29: Chelsea lose 2-1 to Mourinho's old club Porto in the Champions League
October 3: Following a fourth league defeat, 3-1 to Southampton, Mourinho questions whether he will be sacked and subsequently receives the first vote of confidence in a manager in the 12 years of Roman Abramovich's ownership
He is, though, hit with a £50,000 fine and suspended one-match stadium ban for comments after the loss about referee Robert Madley, which, an independent panel judges, alleged bias
October 15: The Portuguese maintains his attack on the FA, calls his fine a ''disgrace'' and says: ''I'm happy that I don't have an electronic tag.''
October 17: Mourinho rounds on star player Hazard after dropping him to the bench for the 2-0 win over Aston Villa and demands the Belgian improve his defensive work rate
October 24: Chelsea lose again, 2-1 at West Ham, losing Nemanja Matic to a first-half red card and also having assistant first-team coach Silvino Louro sent to the stands
Mourinho does not emerge on the touchline for the second half, having also been sent off
October 26: Mourinho charged with misconduct over his behaviour at West Ham.
October 27: Holders Chelsea are knocked out of the Capital One Cup after losing their fourth-round tie to Stoke on penalties
October 31: Chelsea suffer yet another defeat as Liverpool are 3-1 winners at Stamford Bridge
The club's position on his future, publicly at least, is unchanged from the vote of confidence at the start of the month
November 2: Press Association Sport learn legal papers will be served on Mourinho as part of separate but connected claims against him and against the club by Carneiro
November 2: Mourinho is given a one-match stadium suspension with immediate effect and fined £40,000 after admitting an FA charge of misconduct over his behaviour at West Ham
November 6: The FA releases its written reasons for Mourinho's ban, saying he called referee Jon Moss ''f****** weak''
November 7: With Mourinho absent from the game due to his ban, Chelsea lose 1-0 at Stoke - the club's seventh league loss of the campaign
November 23: It is announced that Chelsea made a loss of £23.1million in their Premier League-winning season
November 29: Costa is dropped to the substitutes' bench for the 0-0 draw at Tottenham and throws his bib in Mourinho's direction when it becomes apparent he would not feature
December 5: Blues go down 1-0 at home to Eddie Howe's Bournemouth
Substitute Glenn Murray was on the pitch for one minute 39 seconds before netting 82nd-minute winner
December 14: Chelsea beaten 2-1 at Leicester, putting the Foxes back top of the Premier League and leaving Mourinho's men one point above the relegation zone after 16 matches - Chelsea's worst start to a season since 1978, when they went on to be relegated
Mourinho says after the game that his work was ''betrayed'' by his players
He admits all top-four hopes are ''gone'' and says he needs pride from his players
December 17 - Chelsea announce they have parted company with Mourinho by mutual consent
Source : PA
Source: PA