 Baup in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Élie Baup | ||
| Date of birth | (1955-03-17)17 March 1955 (age 70) | ||
| Place of birth | Saint-Gaudens, France | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper[nb 1] | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1994–1996 | Saint-Étienne | ||
| 1998–2003 | Bordeaux | ||
| 2004–2006 | Saint-Étienne | ||
| 2006–2008 | Toulouse | ||
| 2008–2009 | Nantes | ||
| 2012–2013 | Marseille | ||
Élie Baup (French pronunciation:[eliˈbop]; born 17 March 1955) is a Frenchfootball manager and a formerfootballer who played as agoalkeeper. His last post was the manager ofLigue 1 sideMarseille.
As the club manager ofBordeaux, Baup won theFrench Division 1 championships in 1999 and theCoupe de la Ligue in 2002. He was sacked on 24 October 2003 by the club presidentJean-Louis Triaud.
Baup signed on as the manager ofSaint-Étienne in 2004, bringing to the club one of his favourite players,Pascal Feindouno. Saint-Étienne had won promotion toLigue 1 at the end of the 2003–04 season. During Baup's tenure, the club finished sixth and thirteenth in the table respectively in the2004–05 Ligue 1 and2005–06 Ligue 1 seasons. He resigned from the club at the end of the 2005–06 season.
In his first season as the manager of the club, Baup guidedToulouse to finish third in the table in the2006–07 Ligue 1 season. Toulouse thus earned a place in the2007–08 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, where it lost toLiverpool 5–0 on aggregate. With Toulouse finishing only 17th in the table in the2007–08 Ligue 1 season and barely escaping relegation toLigue 2, Baup was sacked on 30 May 2008, with one year left on his contract.
Baup became the manager ofLigue 1 clubNantes on 28 August 2008. He resigned from the club on 2 June 2009, with over a year to run on his contract, after he had failed to save it from relegation toLigue 2.[1]
From 2009 to 2012, Baup worked as a football consultant inCanal Football Club, a program that shows highlights ofLigue 1 matches onCanal+.
On 4 July 2012, Baup signed a two-year contract withMarseille as its new manager, succeedingDidier Deschamps, who had left the club two days earlier to become the manager ofFrance.[2][3][4][5] On 2 August 2012, Baup oversaw his first competitive match asMarseille manager, a1–1 away draw in the2012–13 Europa League third qualifying round first leg against Turkish clubEskişehirspor.[6] Seven days later, Marseille beatEskişehirspor3–0 in the return leg, winning the tie 4–1 on aggregate and thus secured a place in the2012–13 Europa League play-off round. Marseille eventually qualified for the 2012–13 Europa League group stage, but did not progress from it to the knockout phase.[7] On 12 August 2013, Baup'sMarseille won its opening2012–13 Ligue 1 match away againstReims with a 1–0 scoreline.[8] The club would later achieve its best-ever start to aLigue 1 or Division 1 season by winning its first six 2012–13 Ligue 1 matches. Marseille would eventually finish the2012–13 Ligue 1 season in runner-up position, 12 points behindParis Saint-Germain. Coincidentally, Marseille was defeated in the round of 16 of the2012–13 Coupe de France and2012–13 Coupe de la Ligue byParis Saint-Germain by the same scoreline of 2–0.
In the afternoon of 7 December 2013, the club announced on its website that Baup was no longer the Olympique de Marseille manager. The club president (Vincent Labrune) and Baup had earlier held a meeting right after the end of the training session conducted in the morning of 7 December 2013. "The board feel that, after 17 league matches into the season, results have not corresponded with our objectives and a firm decision had to be taken to get the team moving in the right direction again in the coming weeks," read a statement on the club's official website. Vincent Labrune said that the decision to dismiss Baup was "the most difficult and painful he had had to take since he came to the club". "Elie Baup is unanimously appreciated for his qualities as a person," Labrune added. "Nobody can forget the job he has done at Olympique de Marseille. He enabled us to finish second last season when nobody expected us to." The decision to sack Baup came just a day after Marseille lost 1–0 toNantes at theStade Velodrome in aLigue 1 match that left them in fifth position and 13 points behind leadersParis Saint-Germain in the Ligue 1 table at the conclusion of the week 17 matches. Marseille had also fared poorly in the2013–14 UEFA Champions League. They had so far failed to pick up a single point from their first fiveGroup F matches againstArsenal,Borussia Dortmund andNapoli, thus ensuring that they would finish at the bottom of the group.[9][10]
Bordeaux
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||
| Saint-Étienne | 1994 | 1996 | 68 | 15 | 23 | 30 | 022.06 | ||
| Bordeaux | 1998 | 24 October 2003 | 274 | 134 | 66 | 74 | 048.91 | ||
| Saint-Étienne | 1 July 2004 | 31 May 2006 | 87 | 27 | 34 | 26 | 031.03 | ||
| Toulouse | 31 May 2006 | 30 May 2008 | 90 | 27 | 27 | 36 | 030.00 | ||
| Nantes | 4 September 2008 | 1 June 2009 | 40 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 022.50 | ||
| Marseille | 4 July 2012 | 7 December 2013 | 71 | 32 | 15 | 24 | 045.07 | ||
| Total | 630 | 244 | 176 | 210 | 038.73 | ||||
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