 Lamouchi in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sabri Lamouchi[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1971-11-09)9 November 1971 (age 54)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Lyon, France | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Midfielder[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Diriyah Club (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1977–1982 | AS Lyon-Duchère | ||
| 1982–1989 | Cascol Oullins | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1994 | Alès | 106 | (26) |
| 1994–1998 | Auxerre | 129 | (19) |
| 1998–2000 | Monaco | 56 | (4) |
| 2000–2003 | Parma | 90 | (7) |
| 2003–2005 | Inter Milan | 16 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | →Genoa (loan) | 20 | (1) |
| 2005–2006 | Marseille | 36 | (5) |
| 2006–2007 | Al-Rayyan | 7 | (6) |
| 2007–2008 | Umm-Salal | 10 | (1) |
| 2009 | Al-Kharitiyath | ||
| Total | 470 | (79) | |
| International career | |||
| 1996–2001 | France | 12 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2012–2014 | Ivory Coast | ||
| 2014–2017 | El Jaish | ||
| 2017–2018 | Rennes | ||
| 2019–2020 | Nottingham Forest | ||
| 2020–2021 | Al-Duhail | ||
| 2023 | Cardiff City | ||
| 2024–2025 | Al-Riyadh | ||
| 2025– | Diriyah Club | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Sabri Lamouchi (born 9 November 1971) is a French professionalfootball manager and former player who played as amidfielder. He is the current manager of Saudi Arabian clubDiriyah Club.
During his 19-year playing career, Lamouchi played for clubs in France, Italy and Qatar.
Lamouchi was born inLyon, France,[2] and is of Tunisian descent.[3]
Lamouchi started his professional career withAlès and then moved toAuxerre for four years. He then went on to joinMonaco, who he helped to theLigue 1 title in 2000, before being snapped up byParma of Italy. He later moved toInter Milan.[citation needed]
Lamouchi had a spell atGenoa before joiningMarseille on loan the following year. In January 2006, the loan deal was made a permanent move. He played for Marseille for six further months, until he announced that he was leaving the club on 18 September 2006, although his contract ran until June 2007.[citation needed]
In 2006, Lamouchi moved toAl-Rayyan in theQatar Stars League, where he scored a spectacular goal in his first match. The next season, he joinedUmm-Salal.[citation needed]
In January 2009, Lamouchi transferred toAl-Kharitiyath.[citation needed]
Sabri Lamouchi holds Tunisian and French nationalities by birth since he was born in France before 1994 to parents born inFrench protectorate of Tunisia before its independence.[4] In 1994, he refused to play with the Tunisian national team. He then was capped with the French A' team.[5]
Lamouchi wascapped 12 times and scored one goal for theFrance national team. He made his debut in 1996 and was a member of the FrenchEuropean Championship squad the same year. He was in France's 28 men-preliminary squad for the1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil. However he was one of the six players axed by head coachAimé Jacquet just before the tournament began. The team went on to win the tournament.[6]
In May 2012, he became manager of theIvory Coast national team, his first managerial position. The Elephants qualified for the2014 FIFA World Cup, ranked 23rd at the time – highest ranked in Africa – and started their group play with a 2–1 victory overJapan. That was followed by a 2–1 loss to group favouriteColombia. On his last game as Ivory Coast's manager, he and his team lost 2–1 againstGreece and they were eliminated from the FIFA World Cup. The team featured stars such asYaya Touré,Gervinho,Wilfried Bony andDidier Drogba. Lamouchi resigned from the position following Les Elephants' exit from the competition.[7]
On 8 November 2017, Lamouchi became the manager of French sideRennes. He led the team to a 5th place synonymous withEuropa League qualification. On 3 December 2018 after a string of poor results, he was sacked from the club.[8]
On 28 June 2019, following the departure ofMartin O'Neill, it was announced that Lamouchi would become head coach ofNottingham Forest for the2019–20 season.[9] He enjoyed a strong start to the season and won the league's Manager of the Month award for September 2019.[10] On 19 June 2020, Nottingham Forest announced that Lamouchi had signed an extension to his managerial contract.[11] Forest were in the play-off positions for nearly the whole season, but missed out by finishing seventh on the final day of the season after being beaten at home 1–4 byStoke City.[12] Lamouchi had guided Forest to their highest league position since the2010–11 season, and also became the first Forest manager to complete a full season in over nine years.[13]
Following Forest's disappointing end to the season, Lamouchi flew to Athens to meet with the Forest board, including Forest ownerEvangelos Marinakis, where it was decided that Lamouchi would remain as Forest's Head Coach. To improve on the shortcomings of the previous season, four new additions were made to Lamouchi's coaching staff, along with a change in transfer strategy that would place a greater focus on domestic signings.[14]
On 5 September 2020, Nottingham Forest were knocked out of theLeague Cup in a 1–0 defeat toBarnsley. In a video call to the squad following that game, Marinakis described the result as a 'humiliation' to the football club that Forest would lose twice to a club that had barely survived relegation the previous season. It was clear that Marinakis' patience with Lamouchi was running out, and Marinakis angrily toldAlbert Adomah andJoão Carvalho that they could leave the club without consulting Lamouchi.[15]
On 6 October 2020, Lamouchi's contract was terminated and he was immediately replaced byChris Hughton.[16] Forest had lost all five competitive games of the new season, and had failed to win in their last eleven games.[17]
In October 2020, Lamouchi was appointed manager of Qatari sideAl-Duhail.[18] On 9 August 2021, his contract was terminated by mutual consent.[19]
On 27 January 2023, Lamouchi returned to British football when he was appointed as manager of Welsh clubCardiff City.[20] Despite successfully helping the team steer clear of relegation at the end of the 2022-3 season, on 16 May 2023, Cardiff City announced that Lamouchi would leave the club at the end of his contract.[21]
On 12 July 2024, Lamouchi was appointed manager ofSaudi Pro League clubAl-Riyadh.[22] He was sacked on 19 April 2025.
On 20 July 2025, Lamouchi was appointed as manager of Saudi First Division League clubDiriyah Club.[23]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||
| Ivory Coast | 28 May 2012 | 25 June 2014 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 050.00 | ||
| El Jaish | 27 December 2014 | 1 July 2017 | 92 | 50 | 16 | 26 | 054.35 | ||
| Rennes | 8 November 2017 | 3 December 2018 | 50 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 038.00 | ||
| Nottingham Forest | 28 June 2019 | 6 October 2020 | 55 | 20 | 16 | 19 | 036.36 | ||
| Al-Duhail | 14 October 2020 | 9 August 2021 | 37 | 21 | 5 | 11 | 056.76 | ||
| Cardiff City | 27 January 2023 | 16 May 2023 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 033.33 | ||
| Al-Riyadh | 12 July 2024 | 19 April 2025 | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 033.33 | ||
| Al-Diriyah | 20 July 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | !— | |||
| Total | 310 | 140 | 66 | 104 | 045.16 | ||||
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