Jean-Louis Gasset
French football manager (1953–2025)
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Jean-Louis Gasset (9 December 1953 – 26 December 2025) was a French professional football manager and player. As a player, he played as a midfielder, spending ten years at his hometown club Montpellier.[1]
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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) | ||
| Place of death | 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 | |||
Career
Born in Montpellier, Gasset played ten years at his hometown club Montpellier.[1]
He led Montpellier to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1999.[2] He then coached Caen and Istres.[3] He was assistant to Luis Fernández at Paris Saint-Germain and Spain's Espanyol.[4]
Gasset was the main assistant of Laurent Blanc as manager of Bordeaux, the France 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 the 2016–17 season, finishing 15th.[6] He then became Óscar García's right-hand man at Saint-Étienne, and succeeded the Spaniard in December 2017, just an hour before a 2–1 loss at Guingamp.[7]
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In June 2018, having turned Saint-Étienne's season around to finish sixth, missing out on the UEFA 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 by Bordeaux on 12 August 2020, after Paulo Sousa's exit.[10] On 27 July 2021 he left the club.[11]
On 20 May 2022, Gasset was appointed coach of Ivory Coast, succeeding Patrice 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 the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil.[13] Emerse Faé then led the team to the title.[14]
On 20 February 2024, Gasset became the head coach of Marseille, following the dismissal of Gennaro Gattuso.[15]
On 7 April 2025, Gasset left Montpellier by mutual consent as the club sat last in Ligue 1.[16]
Death
Gasset died on 26 December 2025, at the age of 72.[17]
Managerial statistics
| Team | 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
Player
Montpellier
- Division 2: 1980–81
- Ligue de la Méditerranée: 1975–76
Coach
Montpellier