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{{Short description|French footballer (born 1960)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
{{Infobox football biography
| name = '''''Francis Gillot'''''
| name = Francis Gillot
| image =Francis Gillot.jpg
| image =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|2|9|df=y}}
| fullname = Francis Gillot
| birth_place = [[Maubeuge]], France
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|2|9}}
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| birth_place = [[Maubeuge]], [[France]]
| currentclub =
| currentclub = [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]] ([[coach (sport)|manager]])
| youthyears1 = 1970–1974
| position = [[Defender (football)|Defender]]
| youthclubs1 = [[Villiers-Siré-Nicole]]
| years1 = 1970–1974 | years2 = 1974–1982 | years3 = 1982–1988 | years4 = 1988–1989 | years5 = 1989–1993 | years6 = 1993 | years7 =1993–1996
| youthyears2 = 1974–1978
| clubs1 = [[Villiers-Siré-Nicole]] | clubs2 = [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]] | clubs3 = [[RC Lens|Lens]] | clubs4 = [[RC Strasbourg|Strasbourg]] | clubs5 = [[RC Lens|Lens]] | clubs6 = [[FC Mulhouse|Mulhouse]] | clubs7 =[[Montauban FC|Montauban]]
| youthclubs2 = [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]]
| caps1 = ? | goals1 = ? | caps2 = 93 | goals2 = 6 | caps3 = 158 | goals3 = 10 | caps4 = 20 | goals4 = 2 | caps5 = 90 | goals5 = 2 | caps6 = 5 | goals6 = 0 | caps7 = ? | goals7 = ?
| years1 = 1978–1982
| manageryears1 = 2005–2007 | manageryears2 = 2008–2011 | manageryears3 = 2011–
| clubs1 = [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]]
| managerclubs1 = [[RC Lens|Lens]] | managerclubs2 = [[FC Sochaux-Montbéliard|Sochaux]] | managerclubs3 = [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]]
| caps1 = 93
| goals1 = 6
| years2 = 1982–1988
| clubs2 = [[RC Lens|Lens]]
| caps2 = 158
| goals2 = 10
| years3 = 1988–1989
| clubs3 = [[RC Strasbourg|Strasbourg]]
| caps3 = 20
| goals3 = 2
| years4 = 1989–1993
| clubs4 = [[RC Lens|Lens]]
| caps4 = 90
| goals4 = 2
| years5 = 1993
| clubs5 = [[FC Mulhouse|Mulhouse]]
| caps5 = 5
| goals5 = 0
| years6 = 1993–1996
| clubs6 = [[Montauban FCTG|Montauban]]
| caps6 =
| goals6 =
| manageryears1 = 2005–2007
| managerclubs1 = [[RC Lens|Lens]]
| manageryears2 = 2008–2011
| managerclubs2 = [[FC Sochaux-Montbéliard|Sochaux]]
| manageryears3 = 2011–2014
| managerclubs3 = [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]]
| manageryears4 = 2014–2015
| managerclubs4 = [[Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C.|Shanghai Shenhua]]
| manageryears5 = 2017
| managerclubs5 = [[AJ Auxerre|Auxerre]]
}}
}}


'''Francis Gillot''' (born February 9, 1960 in [[Maubeuge]], [[France]]) is a former [[Football (soccer)|football]] defender and current manager of [[Girondins de Bordeaux]].
'''Francis Gillot''' ({{IPA|fr|fʁɑ̃sis ʒilo}}; born 9 February 1960) is a [[association football|football]] manager and former player who most recently managed [[Ligue 2]] team [[AJ Auxerre]].


As a player, he was a [[defender (association football)|defender]] and predominantly associated with his time at [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]] and [[RC Lens|Lens]] while having brief periods with [[RC Strasbourg|Strasbourg]] as well as [[FC Mulhouse|Mulhouse]] before ending his career with [[Montauban FCTG|Montauban]]. Since retiring he initially moved into youth coaching before moving into assistant management and then gaining his first head coaching position with his former club Lens. He has gone on to manage [[FC Sochaux-Montbéliard|Sochaux]] and went on to win the [[2012–13 Coupe de France]] with [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]].
Gillot was named head coach of [[Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]] on 6 June 2011. He signed a two-year deal with the club.

==Playing career==
Born in [[Maubeuge]], France, Francis Gillot started his football career playing for the youth team of his local club [[Villiers-Siré-Nicole]] before joining the [[Valenciennes FC]] academy. At Valencianones he worked his way up into the senior team and in the [[1978–79 French Division 1|1978–79 season]] he started his professional career when he was included in the squad for the [[Ligue 1]] outfit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefinalball.com/coach_compet_detail.php?id=359&competicao_id=147 |title=Francis Gillot |publisher=footballzz.co.uk |access-date=9 December 2014 }}</ref> He eventually became a regular starter in the team's defence until they were relegated at the end of the [[1981–82 French Division 1]] season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefinalball.com/edition.php?id=412 |title=Ligue 1 1981/82 |publisher=footballzz.co.uk |access-date=9 December 2014 }}</ref>

In the following season Gillot moved to top tier club [[RC Lens]] and experienced continental competitions with the club during his initial time with the team until the manager [[Jean Parisseaux]] decided he could be loan to [[RC Strasbourg]] in the [[1988–89 French Division 1|1988–89 campaign]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pari-et-gagne.com/joueur/francis_gillot.html |title=Francis Gillot |publisher=pari-et-gagne.com |access-date=9 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref> Upon his return to Lens the club found themselves in the second tier after experiencing relegation, however Gillot stayed with the team until they won promotion back into the top tier at the end of the [[1990–91 French Division 2]] season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran2hist.html |title=Francis Gillot |date=29 January 2005 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=9 December 2014 }}</ref> After spending several further seasons with Lens, Gillot was nearing the end of his career and he joined second tier club [[FC Mulhouse]] for a brief period before ending his career with lower league side [[FC Montauban]].

==Managerial career==
After retiring from playing Gillot, soon moved into coaching and joined the [[FC Sochaux]] U15 team as a trainer in 1996. He rose to be the team's U19 coach as well as the assistant coach to former head coaches [[Philippe Anziani]] and [[Jean Fernandez]]. After spending several years with the club he left in 2003 to go abroad to join United Arab Emirates football team [[Al Ain FC]] and be their assistant coach under fellow countryman [[Bruno Metsu]]. After spending one season abroad, Gillot returned to France as an assistant to [[Joël Müller]] at his former club RC Lens.

At Lens, Gillot was promoted to the team's manager after Joël Müller resigned on 24 January 2005, and for the remainder of the season he guided the club to a seventh-place finish.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran05.html |title=France 2004/05 |date=2 August 2005 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=10 December 2014 }}</ref> In his first full season Gillot would impress the fans with his outspokenness, confidence towards youth and offensive play that saw the team move up to fourth and qualification for the [[2006–07 UEFA Cup]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran06.html |title=France 2005/06 |date=12 September 2008 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=10 December 2014 }}</ref> This saw a growing expectation from the fans that the club could achieve more, however the club finished fifth and a point away from qualification for the [[2007–08 UEFA Champions League]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran07.html |title=France 2006/07 |date=7 September 2007 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=10 December 2014 }}</ref> Unable to exceed expectations Gillot resigned on 28 May 2007; however he still remained at the club as a recruiter.

On 2 January 2008, Gillot joined struggling top-tier side Sochaux as their new manager after replacing [[Frédéric Hantz]] and in his debut season led the club to safety from the relegation zone. The following season the club would continue to struggle to avoid relegation; however Gillot was offered a two-year contract to remain with the team after avoiding relegation once again Sochaux's results significantly improved in the 2010–11 Ligue 1 campaign, which saw the club finish fifth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran2011.html |title=France 2010/11 |date=17 January 2013 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=10 December 2014 }}</ref> Despite the club gaining qualification for the [[2011–12 UEFA Europa League]] and Gillot gaining a nomination for French coach of the year award, Gillot decided to publicly declare that he wanted to leave the club.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Gillot-je-veux-partir/203311 |title=Gillot : "Je veux partir" |publisher=lequipe.fr |date=1 June 2011 |access-date=10 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref> On 5 June 2011, he officially resigned from his post; however he immediately took over [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]] the following day, leading many from the French media to suspect that Gillot intentionally engineered the move to gain a larger operating budget from his new club and a higher salary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sportune.fr/article/girondins-de-bordeaux-sochaux-gillot-largent-ne-fait-pas-tout-46072 |title=Girondins de Bordeaux – Sochaux: Gillot, l'argent ne fait pas tout… |publisher=sportune.fr |date=18 December 2011 |access-date=10 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref>

On 6 June 2011, Gillot was officially signed on as the new head coach of Bordeaux with a two-year contract at the club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/article/gillot-proud-to-coach-bordeaux.htm |title=Gillot proud to coach Bordeaux |publisher=ligue1.com |date=7 June 2011 |access-date=10 December 2014 }}</ref> In his debut season he guided them to a fifth-place finish and qualification for the [[2012–13 UEFA Europa League]] where he led them to the round of 16 before being knocked out by [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]], 4–2 on aggregate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2013/clubs/club=50127/matches/index.html |title=2012/13 UEFA Europa League - FC Girondins de Bordeaux |publisher=uefa.com |date=26 June 2013 |access-date=10 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref> His reign at the club reached its peak when he won the [[2012–13 Coupe de France]] by beating [[Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C.]] 3–2 in the final, which saw him rewarded with a two-year extension to his contract.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/actualites/4988-548947-bordeaux-remporte-la-coupe-de-france- |title=Bordeaux remporte la Coupe de France ! |publisher=fff.fr |date=31 May 2013 |access-date=10 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref> In the following season, results within the league did not improve and the club were knocked out in the group stages of the [[2013–14 UEFA Europa League]] and after a 1–1 draw with [[Olympique de Marseille]] on 10 May 2014, he announced that he would be leaving the club at the end of the season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/article/gillot-announces-bordeaux-departure.htm |title=Gillot announces Bordeaux departure |publisher=ligue1.com |date=11 May 2014 |access-date=10 December 2014 }}</ref>

Gillot was appointed as the new manager of [[AJ Auxerre]] on 1 June 2017.<ref>[http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/football/ligue-2/fil-info/francis-gillot-nouvel-entraineur-de-l-aj-auxerre-862022 FRANCIS GILLOT NOUVEL ENTRAÎNEUR DE L'AJ AUXERRE]‚ sport24.lefigaro.fr, 1 June 2017</ref> He was sacked on 9 December 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gillot n'est plus l'entraîneur d'Auxerre |url=http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/football/ligue-2/fil-info/gillot-n-est-plus-l-entraineur-d-auxerre-888144 | work= [[Le Figaro]]| date=9 December 2017|access-date=28 December 2017}}</ref>

==Career statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition<ref name="database">{{cite web |url=http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.francis.gillot.11524.en.html |title=Football: Francis Gillot |publisher=footballdatabase.eu |access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
!rowspan="2"|Season
!rowspan="2"|Club
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|Cups
!colspan="2"|[[UEFA|Europe]]
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Division
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
|-
|rowspan="6"|[[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]]
|[[1978–79 French Division 1|1978–79]]
|rowspan="4"|[[French Division 1]]
|4||0||0||0||-||-||4||0
|-
|[[1979–80 French Division 1|1979–80]]
|16||0||2||0||–||–||18||0
|-
|[[1980-81 French Division 1|1980-81]]
|22||2||1||0||–||–||23||2
|-
|[[1981-82 French Division 1|1981-82]]
|35||2||7||1||–||–||42||3
|-
|[[1982–83 French Division 2|1982–83]]
|[[Ligue 2]]
|16||2||0||0||–||–||16||2
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!93!!6!!10!!1!!0!!0!!103!!7
|-
|rowspan="7"|[[RC Lens|Lens]]
|[[1982–83 French Division 1|1982–83]]
|rowspan="6"|French Division 1
|6||0||1||0||–||–||7||0
|-
|[[1983–84 French Division 1|1983–84]]
|19||1||5||0||4||0||28||1
|-
|[[1984–85 French Division 1|1984–85]]
|29||3||5||2||–||–||34||5
|-
|[[1985–86 French Division 1|1985–86]]
|36||2||5||0||–||–||41||2
|-
|[[1986–87 French Division 1|1986–87]]
|32||3||7||0||2||0||41||3
|-
|[[1987–88 French Division 1|1987–88]]
|36||1||6||0||–||–||42||1
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!158!!10!!29!!2!!6!!0!!193!!12
|-
|[[RC Strasbourg Alsace|Strasbourg]]
|[[1988–89 French Division 1|1988–89]]
|French Division 1
|20||2||3||0||–||–||23||2
|-
|rowspan="5"|Lens
|[[1989–90 French Division 2|1989–90]]
|rowspan="2"|[[French Division 2]]
|27||0||1||0||–||–||28||0
|-
|[[1990–91 French Division 2|1990–91]]
|27||3||6||0||–||–||33||3
|-
|[[1991–92 French Division 1|1991–92]]
|rowspan="2"|French Division 1
|29||2||2||0||–||–||31||2
|-
|[[1992–93 French Division 1|1992–93]]
|5||0||0||0||–||–||5||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!88!!5!!9!!0!!0!!0!!97!!5
|-
|[[FC Mulhouse|Mulhouse]]
|[[1992–93 French Division 2|1992–93]]
|French Division 2
|5||0||1||0||–||–||6||0
|-
|rowspan="4"|[[Montauban FCTG|Montauban]]
|1993–94
|[[French football league system|Midi-Pyrénées Division Honneur]]
|||||0||0||–||–||0||0
|-
|1994–95
|rowspan="2"|[[Championnat de France amateur 2|National 3 Group G]]
|||||1||0||–||–||1||0
|-
|1995–96
|||||1||0||–||–||1||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!!!!!2!!0!!0!!0!!2!!0
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total
!364!!23!!54!!3!!6!!0!!424!!26
|}

==Managerial record==
{{updated|9 December 2017}}<ref name="database"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan=2|Club
!rowspan=2|From
!rowspan=2|To
!colspan=7|Record
|-
!width=40|G
!width=40|W
!width=40|D
!width=40|L
!width=50|Win %
|-
|[[RC Lens|Lens]]
|align=left|24 January 2005
|align=left|28 May 2007
{{WDL|130|55|42|33}}
|-
|[[FC Sochaux|Sochaux]]
|align=left|2 January 2008
|align=left|5 June 2011
{{WDL|148|52|35|61}}
|-
|[[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]]
|align=left|6 June 2011
|align=left|23 May 2014
{{WDL|148|56|50|42}}
|-
|[[Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C.|Shanghai Shenhua]]
|align=left|4 December 2014
|align=left|29 November 2015
{{WDL|37|16|8|13}}
|-
|[[AJ Auxerre|Auxerre]]
|align=left|1 June 2017
|align=left|9 December 2017
{{WDL|19|5|5|9}}
|-
!colspan="3"|Total
{{WDLtot|482|184|140|158}}
|}


==Honours==
==Honours==

;Bordeaux
===As a player===
'''Montauban'''
*[[Championnat de France amateur 2|National 3 Group G]]: 1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.footballenfrance.fr/ligue514.php?niveau=National%203&poule=G&annee=1996 |title=National 3 Gr. G 1996 |publisher=footballenfrance.fr |access-date=9 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref>
*[[French football league system|Midi-Pyrénées Division Honneur]]: 1994<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.footballenfrance.fr/honneur14.php?niveau=DH%20Midi&annee=1994 |title=DH Midi - 1994 |publisher=footballenfrance.fr |access-date=9 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref>

===As a coach===
'''Lens'''
*[[UEFA Intertoto Cup]]: [[2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup|2005]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/IntertotoCup/FixturesResults/Round=2188/Match=81579/Report=LU.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614205426/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/IntertotoCup/FixturesResults/Round=2188/Match=81579/Report=LU.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 June 2007 |title=Lens 3-1 Cluj (Aggregate: 4 - 2)|publisher=uefa.com |access-date=14 June 2020}}</ref>

'''Bordeaux'''
*[[Coupe de France]]: [[2012–13 Coupe de France|2012–13]]
*[[Coupe de France]]: [[2012–13 Coupe de France|2012–13]]


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.racingstub.com/page.php?page=joueur&id=249 Profile]
* [http://www.racingstub.com/page.php?page=joueur&id=249 Profile]


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Latest revision as of 10:40, 24 November 2024

Francis Gillot
Personal information
Date of birth (1960-02-09) 9 February 1960 (age 64)
Place of birth Maubeuge, France
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1970–1974 Villiers-Siré-Nicole
1974–1978 Valenciennes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1982 Valenciennes 93 (6)
1982–1988 Lens 158 (10)
1988–1989 Strasbourg 20 (2)
1989–1993 Lens 90 (2)
1993 Mulhouse 5 (0)
1993–1996 Montauban
Managerial career
2005–2007 Lens
2008–2011 Sochaux
2011–2014 Bordeaux
2014–2015 Shanghai Shenhua
2017 Auxerre
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francis Gillot (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒilo]; born 9 February 1960) is a football manager and former player who most recently managed Ligue 2 team AJ Auxerre.

As a player, he was a defender and predominantly associated with his time at Valenciennes and Lens while having brief periods with Strasbourg as well as Mulhouse before ending his career with Montauban. Since retiring he initially moved into youth coaching before moving into assistant management and then gaining his first head coaching position with his former club Lens. He has gone on to manage Sochaux and went on to win the 2012–13 Coupe de France with Bordeaux.

Playing career

[edit]

Born in Maubeuge, France, Francis Gillot started his football career playing for the youth team of his local club Villiers-Siré-Nicole before joining the Valenciennes FC academy. At Valencianones he worked his way up into the senior team and in the 1978–79 season he started his professional career when he was included in the squad for the Ligue 1 outfit.[1] He eventually became a regular starter in the team's defence until they were relegated at the end of the 1981–82 French Division 1 season.[2]

In the following season Gillot moved to top tier club RC Lens and experienced continental competitions with the club during his initial time with the team until the manager Jean Parisseaux decided he could be loan to RC Strasbourg in the 1988–89 campaign.[3] Upon his return to Lens the club found themselves in the second tier after experiencing relegation, however Gillot stayed with the team until they won promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 1990–91 French Division 2 season.[4] After spending several further seasons with Lens, Gillot was nearing the end of his career and he joined second tier club FC Mulhouse for a brief period before ending his career with lower league side FC Montauban.

Managerial career

[edit]

After retiring from playing Gillot, soon moved into coaching and joined the FC Sochaux U15 team as a trainer in 1996. He rose to be the team's U19 coach as well as the assistant coach to former head coaches Philippe Anziani and Jean Fernandez. After spending several years with the club he left in 2003 to go abroad to join United Arab Emirates football team Al Ain FC and be their assistant coach under fellow countryman Bruno Metsu. After spending one season abroad, Gillot returned to France as an assistant to Joël Müller at his former club RC Lens.

At Lens, Gillot was promoted to the team's manager after Joël Müller resigned on 24 January 2005, and for the remainder of the season he guided the club to a seventh-place finish.[5] In his first full season Gillot would impress the fans with his outspokenness, confidence towards youth and offensive play that saw the team move up to fourth and qualification for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup.[6] This saw a growing expectation from the fans that the club could achieve more, however the club finished fifth and a point away from qualification for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League.[7] Unable to exceed expectations Gillot resigned on 28 May 2007; however he still remained at the club as a recruiter.

On 2 January 2008, Gillot joined struggling top-tier side Sochaux as their new manager after replacing Frédéric Hantz and in his debut season led the club to safety from the relegation zone. The following season the club would continue to struggle to avoid relegation; however Gillot was offered a two-year contract to remain with the team after avoiding relegation once again Sochaux's results significantly improved in the 2010–11 Ligue 1 campaign, which saw the club finish fifth.[8] Despite the club gaining qualification for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League and Gillot gaining a nomination for French coach of the year award, Gillot decided to publicly declare that he wanted to leave the club.[9] On 5 June 2011, he officially resigned from his post; however he immediately took over Bordeaux the following day, leading many from the French media to suspect that Gillot intentionally engineered the move to gain a larger operating budget from his new club and a higher salary.[10]

On 6 June 2011, Gillot was officially signed on as the new head coach of Bordeaux with a two-year contract at the club.[11] In his debut season he guided them to a fifth-place finish and qualification for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League where he led them to the round of 16 before being knocked out by Benfica, 4–2 on aggregate.[12] His reign at the club reached its peak when he won the 2012–13 Coupe de France by beating Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C. 3–2 in the final, which saw him rewarded with a two-year extension to his contract.[13] In the following season, results within the league did not improve and the club were knocked out in the group stages of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League and after a 1–1 draw with Olympique de Marseille on 10 May 2014, he announced that he would be leaving the club at the end of the season.[14]

Gillot was appointed as the new manager of AJ Auxerre on 1 June 2017.[15] He was sacked on 9 December 2017.[16]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[17]
Season Club League Cups Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Valenciennes 1978–79 French Division 1 4 0 0 0 - - 4 0
1979–80 16 0 2 0 – – 18 0
1980-81 22 2 1 0 – – 23 2
1981-82 35 2 7 1 – – 42 3
1982–83 Ligue 2 16 2 0 0 – – 16 2
Total 93 6 10 1 0 0 103 7
Lens 1982–83 French Division 1 6 0 1 0 – – 7 0
1983–84 19 1 5 0 4 0 28 1
1984–85 29 3 5 2 – – 34 5
1985–86 36 2 5 0 – – 41 2
1986–87 32 3 7 0 2 0 41 3
1987–88 36 1 6 0 – – 42 1
Total 158 10 29 2 6 0 193 12
Strasbourg 1988–89 French Division 1 20 2 3 0 – – 23 2
Lens 1989–90 French Division 2 27 0 1 0 – – 28 0
1990–91 27 3 6 0 – – 33 3
1991–92 French Division 1 29 2 2 0 – – 31 2
1992–93 5 0 0 0 – – 5 0
Total 88 5 9 0 0 0 97 5
Mulhouse 1992–93 French Division 2 5 0 1 0 – – 6 0
Montauban 1993–94 Midi-Pyrénées Division Honneur 0 0 – – 0 0
1994–95 National 3 Group G 1 0 – – 1 0
1995–96 1 0 – – 1 0
Total 2 0 0 0 2 0
Career total 364 23 54 3 6 0 424 26

Managerial record

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As of 9 December 2017[17]
Club From To Record
G W D L Win %
Lens 24 January 2005 28 May 2007 130 55 42 33 042.31
Sochaux 2 January 2008 5 June 2011 148 52 35 61 035.14
Bordeaux 6 June 2011 23 May 2014 148 56 50 42 037.84
Shanghai Shenhua 4 December 2014 29 November 2015 37 16 8 13 043.24
Auxerre 1 June 2017 9 December 2017 19 5 5 9 026.32
Total 482 184 140 158 038.17

Honours

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As a player

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Montauban

As a coach

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Lens

Bordeaux

References

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  1. ^ "Francis Gillot". footballzz.co.uk. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Ligue 1 1981/82". footballzz.co.uk. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Francis Gillot" (in French). pari-et-gagne.com. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Francis Gillot". RSSSF. 29 January 2005. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  5. ^ "France 2004/05". RSSSF. 2 August 2005. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  6. ^ "France 2005/06". RSSSF. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  7. ^ "France 2006/07". RSSSF. 7 September 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  8. ^ "France 2010/11". RSSSF. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Gillot : "Je veux partir"" (in French). lequipe.fr. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Girondins de Bordeaux – Sochaux: Gillot, l'argent ne fait pas tout…" (in French). sportune.fr. 18 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  11. ^ "Gillot proud to coach Bordeaux". ligue1.com. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  12. ^ "2012/13 UEFA Europa League - FC Girondins de Bordeaux" (in French). uefa.com. 26 June 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  13. ^ "Bordeaux remporte la Coupe de France !" (in French). fff.fr. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  14. ^ "Gillot announces Bordeaux departure". ligue1.com. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  15. ^ FRANCIS GILLOT NOUVEL ENTRAÎNEUR DE L'AJ AUXERRE‚ sport24.lefigaro.fr, 1 June 2017
  16. ^ "Gillot n'est plus l'entraîneur d'Auxerre". Le Figaro. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  17. ^ a b "Football: Francis Gillot". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  18. ^ "National 3 Gr. G 1996" (in French). footballenfrance.fr. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  19. ^ "DH Midi - 1994" (in French). footballenfrance.fr. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  20. ^ "Lens 3-1 Cluj (Aggregate: 4 - 2)". uefa.com. Archived from the original on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
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