Jean-Louis Gasset
.jpg) Gasset as manager of Ivory Coast in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 9 December 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Montpellier, France | ||
| Date of death | 26 December 2025 (aged 72) | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2024–2025 | Montpellier | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jean-Louis Gasset (9 December 1953 – 26 December 2025) was a French footballer and manager. As a footballer, he played as a midfielder, spending ten years playing for his hometown club Montpellier.[1]
As a manager, he coached Montpellier (where he won the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup),[2] Caen, Istres,[3] Saint-Étienne,[4] Bordeaux,[5] the Ivory Coast,[6] and Marseille.[7] He also worked as an assistant manager under Luis Fernández at Paris Saint-Germain and Espanyol,[8] and under Laurent Blanc at Bordeaux, France and Paris Saint-Germain.[9]
While manager of the Ivory Coast, he managed the team at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. He resigned from the job on 24 January 2024, after a poor performance in the group stages, and was replaced by Emerse Faé, who helped the Ivory Coast win the tournament.[10]
Gasset died on 26 December 2025, at the age of 72.[11]
Managerial statistics
[change | change source]- As of match played 6 April 2025
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| Marseille | |
20 February 2024 | 19 May 2024 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 47.37 | |||
| Montpellier | |
22 October 2024 | 7 April 2025 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15.00 | |||
| Total | 330 | 124 | 70 | 136 | 37.58 | ||||||
Honours
[change | change source]Player
[change | change source]- Montpellier
- Division 2: 1980–81
- Ligue de la Méditerranée: 1975–76
Manager
[change | change source]- Montpellier
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Histoire, les joueurs" (in French). Montpellier HSC. Archived from the original on 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ↑ "Saison 99–00" (in French). Montpellier HSC. Archived from the original on 2008-02-29. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- ↑ "France – Trainers of First and Second divisions clubs". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ↑ "Saint-Etienne appoint Gasset an hour before kick-off... and lose". FourFourTwo. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ↑ "Gasset takes the reins at Bordeaux". Ligue 1. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ↑ "Côte d'Ivoire : " Jean-Louis Gasset devient le nouveau sélectionneur des Eléphants "" (in French). LeMonde Afrique. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ↑ "Jean-Louis Gasset nommé entraîneur" (in French). Olympique de Marseille. 20 February 2024.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "AFCON: Ivory Coast sack head coach Jean-Louis Gasset despite host nation's hopes of last-16 place in balance". Eurosport. 24 January 2024.
- ↑ "Former Ivory Coast coach Gasset dies at 72". RFI. 2025-12-26. Retrieved 2025-12-27.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Jean-Louis Gasset at Soccerway
- Jean-Louis Gasset on IMDb
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