Grégory Poirier

Grégory Poirier
Poirier in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-07-09) 9 July 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth La Rochelle, France
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Red Star (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 La Rochelle
2003–2004 Entente Perrier Vergèze
2004–2009 Arles
2009–2010 Nîmes 5 (0)
2010–2013 Amiens 34 (0)
Managerial career
2016–2017 Arles-Avignon
2017–2019 Marseille Endoume
2019–2020 Saint-Malo
2020 Sedan
2021–2024 Martigues
2024– Red Star
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Grégory Poirier (born 9 July 1982) is a French professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Ligue 2 club Red Star. As a player, he was a midfielder. As a manager, he won two consecutive promotions with Marseille Endoume from Régional 1 to Championnat National 2, and two more with Martigues 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.[2] In March 2017, he took over at Marseille Endoume, and led them to consecutive promotions from the sixth-tier Régional 1 to the fourth-tier Championnat National 2.[3]

In June 2019, Poirier signed with Saint-Malo in the same league.[4] 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.[5] He immediately moved to Sedan, where he was tasked with winning promotion to the Championnat National.[6] 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.[7]

In May 2021, Poirier returned to Provence to manage Martigues in the fourth tier. He won promotion in his first season, ending a decade-long exile from the Championnat National.[8] Martigues finished the 2023–24 Championnat National as runners-up to Red Star, thus returning to Ligue 2 for the first time in 22 years.[9]

On 4 June 2024, Poirier succeeded Habib Beye as manager of Red Star.[10]

References

  1. ^ Grégory Poirier at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ Pruneta, Laurent (5 June 2024). "Profil d'avenir, homme de valeurs… qui est Grégory Poirier, le nouveau coach méconnu du Red Star ?" [Profile of the future, man of values... who is Grégory Poirier, the little-known new manager of Red Star?]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Football - National 2 : Grégory Poirier nouvel entraîneur du FC Martigues" [Football - National 2: Grégory Poirier new manager of FC Martigues]. La Provence (in French). 15 May 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Saint-Malo. Grégory Poirier nouveau coach de l'USSM" [Saint-Malo. Grégory Poirier new coach of USSM]. Le Télégramme (in French). 1 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Football. Saint-Malo (N2) : Grégory Poirier sur le départ" [Football. Saint-Malo (N2): Grégory Poirier on his departure]. Ouest-France (in French). 1 May 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. ^ Blanc, Alexandre (5 May 2020). "Football : Grégory Poirier est le nouvel entraîneur du CS Sedan Ardennes" [Football: Grégory Poirier is the new manager of CS Sedan] (in French). France Bleu. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  7. ^ Bouchacourt, Jérome (8 December 2020). "National 2. Grégory Poirier mis à pied par le CS Sedan-Ardennes" [National 2. Grégory Poirier sacked by CS Sedan-Ardennes]. Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  8. ^ Bouchacourt, Jérome (21 May 2022). "Dix ans après, le FC Martigues retrouve le National !". Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  9. ^ Doucet, Thomas (19 May 2024). "Grégory Poirier, promu en Ligue 2 avec Martigues : " Peu de gens avaient misé sur nous "" [Grégory Poirier, promoted to Ligue 2 with Martigues: "Few had bet on us"]. L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Le Red Star officialise l'arrivée de Grégory Poirier comme nouvel entraîneur" [Red Star confirm the arrival of Grégory Poirier as new manager]. L'Équipe (in French). 4 June 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.