15 June 2016: New England head coach Jay Heaps. The Carolina RailHawks hosted the New England Revolution at WakeMed Stadium in Cary, North Carolina in a 2016 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup fourth round game.

After 5 1/2 years at the helm, Jay Heaps has been fired as New England coach. (Andy Mead/YCJ Photo)

Jay Heaps is out as New England Revolution coach.

Goal.com and FourFourTwo.com reported Monday night that the Revs fired Heaps.

New England (10-14-5, 35 points), which is in eighth place in the Eastern Conference, still is in contention for a playoff berth. The top six teams in each conference qualify for the postseason.

It certainly didn’t help that the Revs dropped an embarrassing 7-0 defeat to expansion Atlanta United last week.

The 41-year-old Heaps directed New England to a 75-81-43 in five-plus seasons since he was hired as the team’s sixth coach in its history in 2011.

It was not immediately known whether assistant coach Tom Soehn would become interim coach for the rest of the regular season, FourFourTwo.com reported.

The Revs have never won MLS Cup, although they have reached the final five times in their history. Their most recent appearance came under Heaps in 2014, when they lost to the host LA Galaxy, 2-1, in extratime.

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Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.