.jpg) Gasset as manager ofIvory 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 | 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 | |||
| 1998–1999 | Montpellier | ||
| 2000–2001 | Caen | ||
| 2005–2006 | Istres | ||
| 2017 | Montpellier | ||
| 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 (born 9 December 1953) is a French professionalfootball manager and formerplayer. As a player, he played as amidfielder, spending ten years at his hometown clubMontpellier.[1]
Born inMontpellier, Gasset played ten years at his hometown clubMontpellier.[1]
He led Montpellier to victory in theUEFA Intertoto Cup in1999.[2] He then coachedCaen andIstres.[3] He was assistant toLuis Fernández atParis Saint-Germain and Spain'sEspanyol.[4]
Gasset was the main assistant ofLaurent Blanc as manager ofBordeaux, theFrance 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 the2016–17 season, finishing 15th.[6] He then becameOscar's right-hand man atSaint-Étienne, and succeeded the Spaniard in December 2017, just an hour before a 2–1 loss atGuingamp.[7]
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In June 2018, having turned Saint-Étienne's season around to finish sixth, missing out on theUEFA 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 byBordeaux on 12 August 2020, afterPaulo Sousa's exit.[10] On 27 July 2021 he left the club.[11]
On 20 May 2022, Gasset was appointed coach ofIvory Coast, succeedingPatrice 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 the2023 Africa Cup of Nations hosted by Ivory Coast.[13]
On 20 February 2024, Gasset became the head coach ofMarseille, following the dismissal ofGennaro Gattuso.[14]
On 7 April 2025, Gasset leftMontpellier by mutual consent as the club sat last inLigue 1.[15]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
| Montpellier |  | 1 July 1998 | 30 November 1999 | 68 | 24 | 17 | 27 | 035.29 | |||
| Caen | | 1 September 2000 | 30 June 2001 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 035.29 | |||
| Istres | | 17 January 2005 | 16 September 2006 | 49 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 030.61 | |||
| Montpellier | | 30 January 2017 | 23 May 2017 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 031.25 | |||
| Saint-Étienne | | 20 December 2017 | 30 June 2019 | 62 | 31 | 14 | 17 | 050.00 | |||
| Bordeaux | | 10 August 2020 | 27 July 2021 | 39 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 033.33 | |||
| Ivory Coast |  | 20 May 2022 | 24 January 2024 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 061.11 | |||
| Marseille | | 20 February 2024 | 19 May 2024 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 047.37 | |||
| Montpellier | | 22 October 2024 | 7 April 2025 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 015.00 | |||
| Total | 330 | 124 | 70 | 136 | 037.58 | ||||||
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