Christophe Pélissier (born 5 October 1965) is a French

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

and former player who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. He is currently manager of

Ligue 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...

club Auxerre.

Managerial career

Pélissier began his managerial career with his former clubs US Revel and AS Muret. In 2007, he helped

Luzenac Luzenac (; oc, Lusenac) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. Luzenac-Garanou station has rail connections to Toulouse, Foix and Latour-de-Carol. Population Sports * Luzenac is also home to the football club Luz ...

win the amateur 2014

Championnat National The Championnat de France National ( en, French National Championship), commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. Contested by 18 clubs, t ...

and earned promotion into the professional

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...

for the first time. However, the club was prohibited from joining the Ligue 2 for non-sporting reasons, and shortly thereafter Pélissier left the club. In 2014, Pélissier joined

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

, and helped them get promoted into the

for the first time in their history. On 29 May 2019, Pélissier became the manager of FC Lorient.

References

External links

FDB Manager ProfileSoccerway Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pélissier, Christophe 1965 births Living people Sportspeople from Haute-Garonne French footballers Association football midfielders French football managers Amiens SC managers FC Lorient managers Ligue 1 managers Ligue 2 managers Footballers from Occitania (administrative region)