Personal information | |||
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Full name | Fabrice Vandeputte [1] | ||
Date of birth | 22 September 1969 | ||
Place of birth | Mazingarbe, France | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Caen B | ||
Youth career | |||
Standard FC de Montataire | |||
Lille | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1985–1989 | Lille B | ||
1989–1993 | Louhans-Cuiseaux | 109 | (14) |
1993–1994 | Beauvais | 23 | (0) |
1994–1997 | Saint-Leu | ||
1997–1998 | Stade Montois | ||
1998–2002 | Chantilly | ||
Managerial career | |||
1998–2002 | Chantilly | ||
2003–2004 | Louhans-Cuiseaux U19 | ||
2004–2008 | Dijon B | ||
2012–2015 | Sochaux B | ||
2015–2017 | Lens U19 | ||
2017–2018 | Bourg-en-Bresse B | ||
2018 | Caen B | ||
2018–2019 | Caen (assistant) | ||
2019–2021 | Caen B | ||
2021 | Caen | ||
2021– | Caen B | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Fabrice Vandeputte (born 22 September 1969) is a French professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Championnat National 2 side Caen B. As a player, he was a midfielder. [2]
Vandeputte, who was a midfielder, started out his career at Standard FC de Montataire, joining Lille, where he would feature for the B team, later on. In 1989, he moved to Division 2 Louhans-Cuiseaux. In four seasons at the club, he made a total of 109 league appearances, and scored 14 goals. [2] He would then sign for Beauvais, a club also in the Division 2; there, he made 23 appearances in one season under the coaching of Vahid Halilhodžić. [3]
After 1994, Vandeputte pursued his career in amateur divisions of French football. He went through Saint-Leu and Stade Montois before signing for Chantilly as player-manager in January 1998. [2]
In the early parts of his career, Vandeputte was minimally selected with France youth teams. [3]
Vandeputte was first player-manager at Chantilly for three and a half seasons before becoming U19 coach at Louhans-Cuiseaux from 2003 to 2004. [3] He subsequently managed Dijon's B team, helping them win their group of the Championnat de France Amateur 2 in the 2004–05 season. [2] In 2008, he joined Sochaux's B team as a member of the staff. Four years later, in 2012, he was appointed manager of the team, a role he stayed at until 2015. [2]
In 2015, Vandeputte began to coach Lens's U19 team. In his first season in charge, he led them to the Coupe Gambardella Final, but they suffered a 3–0 loss against Monaco, finishing as runners-up. In 2017, he headed to Bourg-en-Bresse's B team, where he would stay at for one season, moving to coach Caen's B team in 2018. [2]
Vandeputte only stayed in the position of B team coach at Caen for four months, because in November 2018, he stepped up as assistant manager for the first team after being promoted by Fabien Mercadal. [3] However, he eventually went back to his role of B team coach in July 2019. In November 2020, Vandeputte was appointed as head of youth development at the club. [2]
On 23 March 2021, Vandeputte was appointed as head coach of Caen following the sacking of Pascal Dupraz. [4] Cédric Hengbart, Vandeputte's assistant in the reserve side, joined him as assistant manager of the senior side. [5] At the end of the season, Caen managed to stay in Ligue 2, finishing 17th. [6] Vandeputte would return to coach the reserve side, [7] and was succeeded by Stéphane Moulin. [8]
Vandeputte was born in Mazingarbe, a town near Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. [3]
While in parallel playing with Lille, he completed his military service at Bataillon de Joinville , a military unit of the French Army composed of athletes. Here, he met footballers such as Zinedine Zidane, Pascal Nouma, Nicolas Ouédec, Xavier Gravelaine, and Guillaume Warmuz. [3]
Dijon B
Lens U19
Caen B