| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1969-12-17)17 December 1969 (age 55) | ||
| Place of birth | Bourg-la-Reine, France | ||
| Position | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Annecy (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1988 | Nantes | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1998 | Nantes | 191 | (3) |
| 1998–1999 | Toulouse | 15 | (0) |
| 1999–2002 | Guingamp | 81 | (2) |
| Total | 287 | (5) | |
| International career | |||
| 1990–1991 | France U21 | 3 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2005–2009 | Nantes(Youth academy) | ||
| 2009–2010 | Boulogne | ||
| 2011–2013 | Sedan | ||
| 2015–2018 | Toronto FC(Academy Director) | ||
| 2018 | Toronto FC II | ||
| 2018–2019 | Cercle Brugge | ||
| 2019–2021 | Boulogne | ||
| 2021– | Annecy | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Laurent Guyot (born 17 December 1969) is a French professionalfootball manager and former player who is the head coach ofLigue 2 clubAnnecy.
He played as a defender mostly forNantes, winningDivision 1 in1995, and also representedToulouse andGuingamp. He began his managerial career withBoulogne inLigue 1, leading that club and two others inLigue 2. Abroad, he had brief spells atToronto FC II in theUSL Championship andCercle Brugge in theBelgian Pro League.
Guyot played as a central defender, mainly forNantes, where he won theDivision 1 title in 1995. He also played forToulouse andGuingamp.[1]
Guyot was the director of Nantes's youth academy from 2005[2] to 2009, but left after disagreements with presidentWaldemar Kita.[3] He was head coach of the U-16 and U-17 French national teams.[4]
On 9 June 2009, Guyot signed a two-year deal atBoulogne, replacingPhilippe Montanier who had taken the club from the fourth-tierChampionnat de France Amateur toLigue 1 in five seasons. He chose former Nanets teammateSerge Le Dizet as his assistant coach.[5] On his debut, he lost 3–0 atRennes on 8 August.[6] His team reached the quarter-finals of theCoupe de France in his first season, but lost 3–1 away at fourth-tierQuevilly.[7]
Boulogne came 19th and were relegated back toLigue 2 for2010–11. Guyot was sacked on 27 December, having won four and drawn 11 of the 19 games in the first half of the season.[8]
On 26 May 2011, Guyot was named as the manager ofSedan in the same league, signing a two-year contract.[1] On his debut on 23 July, he won 4–1 at home toMonaco in the first round of theCoupe de la Ligue,[9] followed by victories in the next rounds against his former employers Boulogne and Nantes in a run to the last 16.[10] In his first season, theSangliers finished one place and five points off promotion, but they were relegated 14 points from safety in 2013.[11] The club's owner, Pascal Urano, stopped funding the team during their promotion push in 2012 and instead sold their best players before putting the club into liquidation in August 2013 and thereby being relegated a further tier to the fourth.[12]
On 29 June 2015, it was announced that Guyot would become the Academy Director atToronto FC, a role that had been vacant sinceGreg Vanney was promoted to the first team the previous year.[13]
Guyot was unveiled as the newToronto FC II coach on 26 January 2018, succeedingJason Bent.[14] Having achieved only two draws in 12USL Championship games, he left on 1 June, citing a new opportunity in Europe.[15]
On 7 June 2018, Guyot was hired by newly promotedBelgian Pro League clubCercle Brugge.[16] The following 2 May, having avoided relegation in his only season, he was not maintained.[17]
Guyot returned to Boulogne for a second spell in June 2019.[18] He left at the end of the 2020–21 season, and five days later was announced as head coach of fellowChampionnat National sideAnnecy.[19][20] He led the club back to the second tier for the first time since 1993 in his first year, as runners-up toLaval.[21]
In the2022–23 Coupe de France, Guyot led Annecy to their first quarter-final since 1942 and first semi-final of all time, with penalty shootout wins away toParis FC andMarseille.[22]
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