• England manager would not expect new deal if team fail, says Martin Glenn
• ‘We will have the discussion with Roy in the next nine months to a year’

Roy Hodgson will lose his job if England fail at Euro 2016 but the FA did not specify what constituted failure.

Roy Hodgson will lose his job as the England manager if the team fails in next year’s European Championship, the Football Association’s chief executive has said.

Martin Glenn said Hodgson has accepted that, and would not expect to be given a new contract if England have a bad tournament, because he is "a proud man".

Hodgson, whose current contract expires at the end of Euro 2016, suggested at last month’s 2018 World Cup qualifying draw that he was not happy for his contractual position to be left until after the Euros, but Glenn said he has now met the manager to confirm that is the FA’s position.

"I have spoken to Roy," Glenn said. "The air didn’t really need clearing to be honest. I had a cup of coffee with him, which turned into a few drinks. We are all on the same page.

"Roy is a really good manager and he would be the last person in the world who if – and I don’t think it will happen – but if we had a bad Euros, he would not expect to be kept on. He is a proud man."

Hodgson said at the draw in Russia that he wanted to continue in the job, and "did not know" if he was happy with leaving his contract discussions until after the Euros because that would lead to months of speculation.

Glenn, however, said he believed that position was already clear, and that Hodgson has now accepted he will not be retained if England fail. The chief executive did not, however, state what level of performance in the Euros will be considered a failure.

The dance around Hodgson’s contract started in March when the FA chairman, Greg Dyke, who was keen for the issue not to distract England from their Euro qualifying campaign, said that there would be no discussion of Hodgson’s future for up to a year.

"We will have the discussion with Roy in the next nine months to a year. When we decided in Brazil that we wanted Roy to continue with his contract, we thought, ‘He’s got a contract, he sees it through.’ Sometime in the next year we will discuss what happens afterwards."

Dyke said in March: "I get on quite well with Roy and I chat to him all the time. We have not talked about contracts yet. We genuinely haven’t discussed it."

However Glenn, the former chief executive officer of United Biscuits, had not taken up his office at that point and he indicated in July that Hodgson’s role was dependent on the team’s performance in France.

"Roy is a consummate professional and he knows how we want to work," he said then. "One of my values is, you pay for performance. Roy understands that if we have a great Euros, that will set him up well.

"So I think the past history of giving England managers long, long contracts, I can see why it gives certainty, but I like to have a bit of uncertainty to encourage people to go that extra yard to get results."

Hodgson, 68 on 9 August, seemed put out by the suggestion when he attended the 2018 World Cup qualifying draw in St Petersburg. "I don’t quite know what the situation is," he said then. "I haven’t spoken to Martin yet. Am I happy with it? I don’t know. There are lot of considerations. It means there will be lots of speculation the moment we qualify until the tournament itself. Whether that is the right thing I don’t know.

"I do understand also there have been incidences in the past where people’s contracts have been renewed and then it has gone badly in a tournament and, as a result, the FA have found themselves with someone they no longer wanted. So I understand both positions really.

"The Euro 2016 suits me perfectly well at the moment. In answer to the question ‘Would you like to continue working with this team?’ I suppose the answer has got to be yes. And then we will take it from there."

Hodgson succeeded Fabio Capello in 2012 and was in charge for the finals of the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine when England made the quarter-finals but were knocked out by Italy on penalties.

Their later failure to progress from the group stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil led to questions about Hodgson’s ability to manage the side on the big stage and although England sit on top of Group E in the current European qualifying tournament and have yet to drop a point, the weakness of their opposition has left those questions unresolved.

Whoever is in charge for the World Cup qualifying process will find themselves up against England’s oldest rivals, Scotland, along with Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania and Malta.