Jean-Louis Gasset

**Jean-Louis Gasset** (9 December 1953 – 26 December 2025) was a French footballer and manager. As a footballer, he played as a midfielder, spending ten years playing for his hometown club Montpellier.

As a manager, he coached Montpellier (where he won the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup), Caen, Istres,  Saint-Étienne, Bordeaux, the Ivory Coast, and Marseille. He also worked as an assistant manager under Luis Fernández at Paris Saint-Germain and Espanyol, and under Laurent Blanc at Bordeaux, France and Paris Saint-Germain.

While manager of the Ivory Coast, he managed the team at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. He resigned from the job on 24 January 2024, after a poor performance in the group stages, and was replaced by Emerse Faé, who helped the Ivory Coast win the tournament.

Gasset died on 26 December 2025, at the age of 72.

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|Nat|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="8"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Montpellier||align=left|1 July 1998|align=left|30 November 1999||||
|align=left|Caen||align=left|1 September 2000|align=left|30 June 2001||||
|align=left|Istres||align=left|17 January 2005|align=left|16 September 2006||||
|align=left|Montpellier||align=left|30 January 2017|align=left|23 May 2017||||
|align=left|Saint-Étienne||align=left|20 December 2017|align=left|30 June 2019||||
|align=left|Bordeaux||align=left|10 August 2020|align=left|27 July 2021||||
|align=left|Ivory Coast||align=left|20 May 2022|align=left|24 January 2024||||
|align=left|Marseille||align=left|20 February 2024|align=left|19 May 2024||||
|align=left|Montpellier||align=left|22 October 2024|align=left|7 April 2025||||

### Player

- Montpellier
- Division 2: 1980–81
- Ligue de la Méditerranée: 1975–76

### Manager

- Montpellier
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

## Other websites

- Jean-Louis Gasset at Soccerway

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Jean-Louis Gasset
- **image**: Jean Louis Gasset 1 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Gasset as manager of Ivory Coast national football team, Ivory Coast in 2023
- **birth place**: Montpellier, France
- **height**: 1.76 m
- **position**: Midfielder (football), Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1969–1974
- **youthclubs1**: AS Béziers Hérault (football), Béziers
- **years1**: 1974–1975
- **clubs1**: AS Béziers Hérault (football), Béziers
- **caps1**: 4
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 1975–1985
- **clubs2**: Montpellier HSC, Montpellier
- **caps2**: 231
- **goals2**: 10
- **totalcaps**: 235
- **totalgoals**: 10
- **manageryears1**: 1985–1998
- **manageryears2**: 1998–1999
- **manageryears3**: 2000–2001
- **manageryears4**: 2001–2003
- **manageryears5**: 2003–2004
- **manageryears6**: 2005–2006
- **manageryears7**: 2007–2010
- **manageryears8**: 2010–2012
- **manageryears9**: 2013–2016
- **manageryears10**: 2017
- **manageryears11**: 2017
- **manageryears12**: 2017–2019
- **manageryears13**: 2020–2021
- **manageryears14**: 2022–2024
- **manageryears15**: 2024
- **manageryears16**: 2024–2025
- **managerclubs1**: Montpellier HSC, Montpellier (assistant)
- **managerclubs2**: Montpellier HSC, Montpellier
- **managerclubs3**: Stade Malherbe Caen, Caen
- **managerclubs4**: Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain (assistant)
- **managerclubs5**: RCD Espanyol, Espanyol (assistant)
- **managerclubs6**: FC Istres, Istres
- **managerclubs7**: FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (assistant)
- **managerclubs8**: France national football team, France (assistant)
- **managerclubs9**: Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain (assistant)
- **managerclubs10**: Montpellier HSC, Montpellier
- **managerclubs11**: AS Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne (assistant)
- **managerclubs12**: AS Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne
- **managerclubs13**: FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
- **managerclubs14**: Ivory Coast national football team, Ivory Coast
- **managerclubs15**: Olympique de Marseille, Marseille
- **managerclubs16**: Montpellier HSC, Montpellier