Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 9 December 1953 | ||
Place of birth | Montpellier, France | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1975–1985 | Montpellier | 231 | (10) |
Managerial career | |||
1998–1999 | Montpellier | ||
2000–2001 | Caen | ||
2005–2006 | Istres | ||
2017 | Montpellier | ||
2017–2019 | Saint-Étienne | ||
2020–2021 | Bordeaux | ||
2022–2024 | Ivory Coast | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jean-Louis Gasset (born 9 December 1953) is a French football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Ivory Coast national team. As a player, he played as a midfielder, spending his entire ten-year career at his hometown club Montpellier.
Born in Montpellier, Gasset played his whole career with hometown club Montpellier HSC.[1]
He led Montpellier to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1999.[2] He then coached SM Caen and FC Istres.[3] He was assistant to Luis Fernández at Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and Spain's RCD Espanyol.[4]
Gasset assisted Laurent Blanc as manager of FC Girondins de Bordeaux, the France national team and PSG from 2007 to 2016.[5] He had the top job at Montpellier again for the second half of the 2016–17 season, finishing 15th.[6] He then became Óscar García Junyent's right-hand man at AS Saint-Étienne, and succeeded the Spaniard in December 2017 just an hour before a 2–1 loss at EA Guingamp.[7]
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, he was appointed coach of Ivory Coast, succeeding Patrice Beaumelle, whose contract expired on 6 April 2022.[12] He was fired on 24 January 2024, following a poor performance at the group stages of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations hosted by Ivory Coast.[13]
Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||||
Montpellier | 1 July 1998 | 30 November 1999 | 68 | 24 | 17 | 27 | 35.29 | |||
Caen | 1 September 2000 | 30 June 2001 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 35.29 | |||
Istres | 17 January 2005 | 16 September 2006 | 49 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 30.61 | |||
Montpellier | 30 January 2017 | 23 May 2017 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 31.25 | |||
Saint-Étienne | 20 December 2017 | 30 June 2019 | 62 | 31 | 14 | 17 | 50.00 | |||
Bordeaux | 10 August 2020 | 27 July 2021 | 39 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 33.33 | |||
Ivory Coast | 20 May 2022 | 24 January 2024 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 61.11 | |||
Total | 291 | 112 | 65 | 114 | 38.49 |