Grégory Poirier (born 9 July 1982) is a French professional

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manager and former player who is the head coach of

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club

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. As a player, he was a

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. As a manager, he won two consecutive promotions with Marseille Endoume from

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, and two more with

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from Championnat National 2 to Ligue 2.

Managerial career

Poirier was a youth coach at Arles-Avignon before being named first-team manager in 2016, aged 34. In March 2017, he took over at Marseille Endoume, and led them to consecutive promotions from the sixth-tier

to the fourth-tier

. In June 2019, Poirier signed with

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in the same league. He resigned the following May with one year left on his contract; the season had been abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with his team in 9th. He immediately moved to Sedan, where he was tasked with winning promotion to the

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. Having won once and drawn five times in seven games, he was sacked in December 2020, more than one month into another COVID-related hiatus. In May 2021, Poirier returned to

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to manage

in the fourth tier. He won promotion in his first season, ending a decade-long exile from the Championnat National. Martigues finished the 2023–24 Championnat National as runners-up to

, thus returning to

for the first time in 22 years. On 4 June 2024, Poirier succeeded Habib Beye as manager of Red Star.

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