The 49ers fired special teams coordinator Brian Schneider on Monday, the first move by coach Kyle Shanahan after a 6-11 season.

Schneider’s units struggled for a year, contributing to one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history.

Place-kicker Jake Moody collapsed badly after missing three games with a high ankle sprain and ended up missing a total of ten field goal attempts. Punter Mitch Wishnowsky played nine games before being sidelined with a back injury.

The 49ers’ coverage units were also ineffective, at one point losing both Moody and Matthew Wright when their kickers were forced to attack on returns that had broken into open space.

Schneider’s firing was first reported by ESPN’s Nick Wagoner and confirmed by a league source. Schneider, 53, coached the 49ers for three seasons after Shanahan fired Richard Hightower.

In the 49ers’ season-ending 47-24 loss to Arizona, Moody missed a 47-yard field goal attempt and the Cardinals’ DeeJay Dallas ran 22 yards on a fake punt attempt that resulted in a Cardinals field goal led.

Before the season ended on their bye week, the 49ers had committed at least one special teams faux pas in six previous games. These included a blocked punt, a fake punt, a missed field goal, a last-minute punt return, a fumbled kick return, two injured kickers, a 97-yard kick return for a touchdown, a 55-yard -Punt return and a missed point-after kick and an embarrassing onside kick.

“We still have to get a lot better. “It’s pretty obvious to everyone,” Shanahan said at the time. . “It’s obvious to us that this has been going on for a few weeks and we can’t give you a single narrative on that because there isn’t a single narrative.”