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 language, Alsatian: ''Füeßbàllmànnschàft Vu Stroßburri'') is a football in France, French association football ...

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 separate t ...

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,

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, 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 Lille Olympique Sporting Club (), commonly referred to as LOSC, LOSC Lille or simply Lille, is a French professional football club based in Lille, Hauts-de-France that competes in Ligue 1, the top flight of French football. Lille has played i ...

. 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 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to 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 making up the Ligu ...

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 Richard Déziré (born 24 September 1972) is a French football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Early career Born in Mont-Saint-Aignan, Seine-Maritime, Déziré played for Rouen, the major club in his local area, for whom ...

. 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

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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