Sébastien Fournier (born 27 June 1971) is a Swiss football manager, most recently for

FC Sion Football Club de Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion. The club was founded in 1909, and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and ...

, and former football player.

Club career

Fournier played for

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's football team is currently part of Germany's first division, the Bundesliga. VfB S ...

and Servette Geneva, where he spent most of his career. He played for Switzerland national football team and was a participant at the

1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...

and at the

UEFA Euro 1996 The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 96, was the 10th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by European nations and organised by UEFA. It took place in England from 8 to 30 ...

Managerial career

Servette

Fournier worked as a chief executive at

Servette Servette is a district of the city of Geneva, Switzerland. The district's name comes from the Latin word for forest, ''silva'', and means "little forest". Its name alludes to Servette's rural past, before Geneva grew beyond its walls and incorpora ...

from 2006 to 2009. After this role, he was appointed as the new manager of the club's U21 squad. He got a double role in 2010, where he also was appointed as the headleader of the club's youth academy.

FC Sion

In June 2012, one week after his graduation from the

UEFA Pro Licence UEFA, the governing body for football in Europe, mandates several coaching licences for professional managers, each valid for coaching at a certain level. These include the UEFA Pro Licence, the UEFA A Licence, and the UEFA B Licence. They are is ...

, it was announced that Fournier would join FC Sion as manager in summer 2012. This marks the return to his childhood club and is linked with high expectations, even though it is his first station as a professional manager. He won the selection over Michel Decastel, because the club owner

Christian Constantin Christian Constantin (born 7 January 1957) is a Swiss architect. He is the owner and president of Swiss football club FC Sion. He bought the club, which had previously neared bankruptcy and was relegated from the Swiss Super League, in 2003. Duri ...

wanted to have a young coach, after he was impressed with the achievements by

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, Pep Guardiola,

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and

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. He was sacked as manager of Sion on 4 September 2012 due to a bad relationship between him and the squad.

Servette

On 13 September 2012, Fournier was appointed as the new manager of

. He got sacked after 11 months in the club on 20 August 2013.

FC Sion

In March 2014, Fournier got the role as technical director of the club. Later in 2014, Fournier was hired as U18 manager. So he had a double role. He was also appointed as caretaker for the U21 reserve team from September 2015 to the new year. And once again in April 2016. On 25 April 2017, he was appointed as head coach of

after

Peter Zeidler Peter Zeidler (born 8 August 1962) is a German football manager who manages Swiss club St. Gallen. Coaching career Zeidler started his coaching career with VfR Aalen in 2002 and was appointed manager of 1. FC Nürnberg II three years later. Follo ...

got sacked.

Honours

Player

FC Sion * Swiss Championship: 1991–92 * Swiss Cup: 1994–95, 1995–96 Servette * Swiss Championship: 1998–99 * Swiss Cup: 2000–01

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fournier, Sebastien 1971 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Swiss men's footballers 1994 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1996 players FC Sion players VfB Stuttgart players Servette FC players Swiss Super League players Bundesliga players Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany Swiss expatriate men's footballers Switzerland men's international footballers Swiss-French people Servette FC managers Swiss football managers