Cédric Hengbart (born 13 July 1980) is a French professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

and former

player Player may refer to: Role or adjective * Player (game), a participant in a game or sport ** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games ** Athlete, a player in sports ** Player character, a character in a video game or role playing game who i ...

. He is assistant coach at

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 ...

club

Caen Caen (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Calvados (department), Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inha ...

. In his playing days, he was a defender.

Playing career

Ajaccio

On 31 May 2013,

AC Ajaccio Athletic Club Ajaccien (), commonly referred to as AC Ajaccio, ACA or simply Ajaccio, is a French professional football club based in the city of Ajaccio on the island of Corsica. The club was founded in 1910 and plays in the Ligue 2, the sec ...

announced the signing of Hengbart on a two-year contract.

Kerala Blasters

On 21 August 2014, Hengbart was drafted by

Indian Super League The Indian Super League (ISL) is a professional association football league in India and the highest level of the Indian football league system. Administered by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and its commercial partner Football Sport ...

side

Kerala Blasters Kerala Blasters Football Club (), commonly referred to simply as Blasters, is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala, that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top tier of football in India. The club was esta ...

. Hengbart was instrumental in Kerala Blasters FC reaching the Hero ISL 2014 finals and also notched up an assist en route. Hengbart registered the second best passing accuracy (88.19%) in ISL 2014 (*Minimum 4 matches), having completed 381 passes.

NorthEast United

The following season, he signed for

NorthEast United FC NorthEast United Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Guwahati, Assam that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top flight of Indian football. The club was founded on 13 April 2014 during the inaugural sea ...

Kerala Blasters

Again in August 2016, Hengbart returned to

. On 17 October 2016, he scored his first goal for Kerala Blasters, the only goal in a 1–1 draw, playing away against Pune City. He wore the armband when marquee player Aaron Hughes went for his international duty or was injured.

Managerial career

On 23 March 2021, Hengbart was promoted to assistant coach of

following the dismissal of Pascal Dupraz and appointment of Fabrice Vandeputte as head coach.

References

External links

* * * 1980 births Living people People from Falaise, Calvados Footballers from Calvados (department) French men's footballers Men's association football defenders Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Indian Super League players Maltese Premier League players Stade Malherbe Caen players AJ Auxerre players AC Ajaccio players Kerala Blasters FC players Kerala Blasters FC draft picks Mosta F.C. players French football managers French expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in India Expatriate men's footballers in India French expatriate sportspeople in Malta Expatriate men's footballers in Malta 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-footy-defender-1980s-stub