Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin
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11:03 p.m., January 09, 2023
Olivier Dall’Oglio (Montpellier), Peter Bosz (Lyon), Michel Der Zakarian (Brest), Bruno Irles (Troyes), Jean-Marc Furlan (Auxerre), Oscar Garcia (Reims), Gérald Baticle (Angers) and, this Monday , Julien Stéphan (Strasbourg) and Lucien Favre (Nice)… No less than nine coaches have already been let go in Ligue 1 since the start of the season. Unheard of in the history of the French football championship.
This total is a record at this stage of a Ligue 1 season, ie after 17 days. Over the whole of a year, the record dates back to 2015-16 with a total of 13 coaches sacked at the end of the season. With twenty-two matches still to go, it doesn’t seem unimaginable to see him fall.
The journey of the nine sacked coaches
Peter Bosz (Olympic Lyonnais)
Recruited in the 2021 off-season, the Dutch technician was sacked a year and a half later, on October 9, 2022, at the end of the 10th day, after a series of five matches without a win in Ligue 1 (four defeats, one draw ). The Rhone club, 10th, then moved further and further away from its podium ambitions.
Successor: Laurent Blanc.
Current ranking: 8th
Jean-Marc Furlan (AJ Auxerre)
A coach at the club since 2019, Furlan helped AJA return to the top flight in 2022 after a decade away. But he was sacked on October 11, also after the 10th day, during which he aroused controversy with middle fingers to the attention of the Clermont public.
Auxerre is then on a series of six games without a win, including five defeats, and occupies 16th place.
Successor: Michel Padovani in the interim then Christophe Pélissier from October 26.
Current AJA ranking: 18th
Michel Der Zakarian (Brestois Stadium)
Arrived in Finistère in the summer of 2021, Der Zakarian is having a satisfactory first season (11th) but landed on October 11, 2022, after 10 days marked by a single victory. With six points, the Breton club is then red lantern.
Successor: Yvan Bourgis, Julien Lachuer and Bruno Grougi in the interim, then Eric Roy since January 3.
Current ranking: 17th
Oscar Garcia (Reims Stadium)
Coach since June 2021, the Spanish technician was dismissed on October 13, 2022, after a single victory in 10 days (15th).
Successor: Acting Will Still, confirmed November 15, 2022 through the end of the season.
Current ranking: 10th
Olivier Dall’Oglio (Montpellier HSC)
Coach from June 1, 2021 to October 17, 2022, Dall’Oglio was dismissed from his post after 5 defeats in 6 days, at the end of the 11th day. The Hérault club was then 11th, but ODO paid above all for the catastrophic results over the whole of the 2022 calendar year (20 defeats in 30 games, club record).
Successor: Romain Pitau in interim, confirmed on November 14, 2022 until the end of the season.
Current ranking: 14th
Bruno Irles (Troyes)
Coach from January to November 2022, Irles was laid off on November 8, 2022 by the club, 13th in Ligue 1, which has not won since mid-September.
Successor: Claude Robin in the interim, then Patrick Kisnorbo since November 23.
Current ranking: 13th
Gerald Baticle (Angers SCO)
Coach since the summer of 2021, Baticle was laid off on November 23, 2022 by Angers, who had lost their last seven L1 matches before the World Cup break.
Successor: Abdel Bouhazama in interim, confirmed on January 5.
Current ranking: 20th
Julien Stephan (Strasbourg)
Arrived in May 2021 in Strasbourg with the key to a 6th place last year, Stéphan was laid off by the club on Monday after a catastrophic start to the season: penultimate in the championship with a single victory in 17 days, the Alsatians , 19th in L1, were eliminated Friday in 32nd from the Coupe de France by Angers on penalties.
Successor: Mathieu Le Scornet in interim.
Lucien Favre (Nice)
Returning to Nice at the start of the season after a first stint between 2016 and 2018, the Swiss Lucien Favre was dismissed from his duties on Monday. Eleventh in Ligue 1, Nice was eliminated this weekend in the 32nd finals of the Coupe de France by Le Puy, a National team.