Erick Mombaerts (born 21 April 1955) is a French

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manager and former player.

Playing career

Mombaerts is a youth product of

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. He went on to play for

Nœux-les-Mines Nœux-les-Mines () is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Nœux-les-Mines is situated some south of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the jun ...

and

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before retiring in 1984.

Coaching career

Mombaerts began his coaching career with

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, taking charge between October 1987 and February 1988. Mombaerts was manager of

Guingamp Guingamp (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 7,115 as of 2020, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guin ...

during the 1989–90 season. He then managed

Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...

between January 1992 and December 1992, and

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

from 2001 to 2006. While with Toulouse he won the

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship reasons, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Prof ...

championship in 2003. After coaching their under-18 team, Mombaerts became manager of the French under-21 team in April 2008. He left that position in October 2012. Mombaerts became manager at

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in December 2012. He resigned in December 2014. He was appointed as the head coach of Japanese club Yokohama F. Marinos in December 2014. Mombaerts stepped down as head coach of the Marinos at the succession of the

2017 Emperor's Cup The was the 2017 edition of the annual Japanese national cup tournament, which began on 22 April 2017 and ended with the finals on 1 January 2018. Cerezo Osaka won the tournament for the first time as a J.League club. It had won the cup 43 yea ...

, on 1 January 2018. Mombaerts was appointed manager of Melbourne City on 27 June 2019. On 3 September 2020, he stood down from the coaching role at City to return to France, handing the coaching reins over to his assistant Patrick Kisnorbo.

Managerial statistics

References

External links

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Profile at Yokohama F. Marinos
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