Stéphane Pichot (born 2 September 1976) is a French professional football coach and a former defender. He is the head coach of Lille U19.

Club career

Pichot was born in

Ernée Ernée () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. It is named after the river Ernée, which runs through the town and is situated about halfway between the towns of Laval and Fougères. Ernée is home to a purpose-bui ...

, France. He played for PSG and on 2 July 2009

RC Strasbourg Alsace Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace (commonly known as RC Strasbourg, Racing Straßburg, RCSA, RCS, or simply Strasbourg; Alsatian: ''Füeßbàllmànnschàft Vu Stroßburri'') is a French association football club founded in 1906, based in the c ...

signed the former

Sochaux Sochaux () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Geography Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris. Population Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''. Economy S ...

right-back on a free transfer where he played until June 2011. While at Sochaux he played as they won the

2007 Coupe de France Final The 2007 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Stade de France, Saint-Denis on 12 May 2007, that saw FC Sochaux-Montbéliard defeat Olympique de Marseille in a penalty shoot-out. After normal time and extra time could not separa ...

Coaching career

Pichot retired at the age of 37 in the summer 2014 and then started his coaching career. He was immediately hired as an assistant coach for his latest club,

Mouscron Mouscron (; Dutch and vls, Moeskroen, ; Picard and Walloon: ''Moucron'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropol ...

, in the summer 2014. He left the position in July 2015. In the following years, Pichot worked as a youth coach for his former club Lille OSC. He was in charge of the U15s in the 2015-16 season, the U16s in the 2016-17 season and from July 2017 to June 2019, he was in charge of the U17, which he - in his last season led to the second place in the French U17 championship. In June 2017 it was confirmed, that Pichot had been hired as an assistant coach at newly promoted Ligue 2 club

Le Mans FC Le Mans Football Club (; commonly referred to as Le Mans FC, formerly referred as Le Muc) is a French association football club based in Le Mans. The club was founded in 1985 as a result of a merger under the name Le Mans Union Club 72. In 2010 ...

under head coach Richard Déziré. After Déziré was fired on 25 February 2020, Pichot was appointed caretaker manager.Le Mans – Stéphane Pichot : « Je n’ai aucune certitude sur mon poste dans l’avenir »
maligue2.fr, 25 February 2020 Pichot was in charge until 29 February 2020, where Réginald Ray was appointed as the new head coach. Pichot then continued in his role as an assistant.

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* * 1976 births Living people People from Ernée Sportspeople from Mayenne Association football defenders French footballers Stade Lavallois players Lille OSC players Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players RC Strasbourg Alsace players Royal Excel Mouscron players French expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium French expatriate sportspeople in Belgium French football managers Le Mans FC managers Footballers from Pays de la Loire {{france-footy-defender-1970s-stub