Jean-Louis Gasset

Jean-Louis Gasset
Gasset as manager of Ivory Coast in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1953-12-09) 9 December 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth Montpellier, France
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Montpellier (manager)
Youth career
1969–1974 Béziers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1975 Béziers 4 (0)
1975–1985 Montpellier 231 (10)
Total 235 (10)
Managerial career
1985–1998 Montpellier (assistant)
1998–1999 Montpellier
2000–2001 Caen
2001–2003 Paris Saint-Germain (assistant)
2003–2004 Espanyol (assistant)
2005–2006 Istres
2007–2010 Bordeaux (assistant)
2010–2012 France (assistant)
2013–2016 Paris Saint-Germain (assistant)
2017 Montpellier
2017 Saint-Étienne (assistant)
2017–2019 Saint-Étienne
2020–2021 Bordeaux
2022–2024 Ivory Coast
2024 Marseille
2024– Montpellier
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jean-Louis Gasset (born 9 December 1953) is a French former football player. He is currently the manager of Ligue 1 side Montpellier. As a player, he played as a midfielder, spending ten years at his hometown club Montpellier.[1]

Football career

Born in Montpellier, Gasset played ten years at his hometown club Montpellier.[1]

He led Montpellier to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1999.[2] He then coached Caen and Istres.[3] He was assistant to Luis Fernández at Paris Saint-Germain and Spain's Espanyol.[4]

Gasset was the main assistant of Laurent Blanc as manager of Bordeaux, the France national team and PSG from 2007 to 2016, notably conducting the training sessions.[5]

He had the top job at Montpellier again for the second half of the 2016–17 season, finishing 15th.[6] He then became Oscar's right-hand man at Saint-Étienne, and succeeded the Spaniard in December 2017, just an hour before a 2–1 loss at Guingamp.[7]

Gasset as manager of Montpellier in 2017

In June 2018, having turned Saint-Étienne's season around to finish sixth, missing out on the UEFA Europa League on goal difference to Bordeaux, Gasset was given another year in the job.[8] A year later, having come fourth and secured a place in that European competition, he resigned due to disputes with the board over transfer budgets.[9]

Gasset was hired by Bordeaux on 12 August 2020, after Paulo Sousa's exit.[10] On 27 July 2021 he left the club.[11]

On 20 May 2022, Gasset was appointed coach of Ivory Coast, succeeding Patrice Beaumelle, whose contract expired on 6 April 2022.[12] He handed his resignation on 24 January 2024, following a poor performance at the group stages of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations hosted by Ivory Coast.[13]

On 20 February 2024, Gasset became the head coach of Marseille, following the dismissal of Gennaro Gattuso.[14]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 21 December 2024
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Montpellier France 1 July 1998 30 November 1999 68 24 17 27 035.29
Caen France 1 September 2000 30 June 2001 34 12 8 14 035.29
Istres France 17 January 2005 16 September 2006 49 15 14 20 030.61
Montpellier France 30 January 2017 23 May 2017 16 5 1 10 031.25
Saint-Étienne France 20 December 2017 30 June 2019 62 31 14 17 050.00
Bordeaux France 10 August 2020 27 July 2021 39 13 6 20 033.33
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast 20 May 2022 24 January 2024 18 11 3 4 061.11
Marseille France 20 February 2024 19 May 2024 19 9 3 7 047.37
Montpellier France 22 October 2024 present 8 1 2 5 012.50
Total 318 122 70 126 038.36

Honours

Player

Montpellier

Coach

Montpellier

References

  1. ^ a b "Histoire, les joueurs" (in French). Montpellier HSC. Archived from the original on 6 February 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  2. ^ "Saison 99–00" (in French). Montpellier HSC. Archived from the original on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2008.
  3. ^ "France – Trainers of First and Second divisions clubs". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  4. ^ "PSG : Blanc-Gasset, c'est qui le chef ?" [PSG: Blanc-Gasset, who's the boss?]. Le Parisien (in French). 10 March 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  5. ^ Sévérac, Dominique (13 September 2018). "Jean-Louis Gasset : "Mes trois ans au PSG sont les plus enrichissants de ma vie"" [Jean-Louis Gasset: "My three years at PSG are the most enriching of my life"]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Montpellier appoint Der Zakaria [sic] as coach". FourFourTwo. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Saint-Etienne appoint Gasset an hour before kick-off... and lose". FourFourTwo. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Jean-Louis Gasset stays on as St Étienne boss". Get French Football News. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Saint-Etienne's Gasset resigns amid reported board spat". France 24. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Gasset takes the reins at Bordeaux". Ligue 1. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Merci Jean-Louis" (in French). Bordeaux. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Côte d'Ivoire : " Jean-Louis Gasset devient le nouveau sélectionneur des Eléphants "" (in French). LeMonde Afrique. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  13. ^ "AFCON: Ivory Coast sack head coach Jean-Louis Gasset despite host nation's hopes of last-16 place in balance". Eurosport. 24 January 2024.
  14. ^ "Jean-Louis Gasset nommé entraîneur" (in French). Olympique de Marseille. 20 February 2024.