List Of RC Strasbourg Managers
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's managers from 1928, with their records from 1934, the first year the club played in
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Definition

This list contains only the "''entraîneurs''", i.e. the staff member responsible for first team coaching on a day-to-day basis (including training, tactical choices, team selection for every match and in-game substitutions). In
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, this post is frequently separated from the more general team policy (finances, transfers, scouting, youth development), attributed to a "''
directeur sportif A ''directeur sportif'' (, ) is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is seen as the equivalent to a field manager in baseball, or a head coach in football. At professional level, a directeur sportif follows t ...
''" or
general manager A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...
. For example, between 1998 and 1999
Pierre Mankowski Pierre Mankowski (born 5 November 1951) is a French former football striker who later became a coach. He is of Polish descent. Mankowski is currently a football advisor at Scottish club Caledonian Braves Caledonian Braves Football Club is ...
was the "''entraîneur''" responsible for the first team while
Claude Le Roy Claude Le Roy (; born 6 February 1948) is a French football manager and former player, who gained prominence at international level as coach to the Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana national teams. Managerial career Le Roy has had a varied manageria ...
was acting as "''manager général''" with extensive power on the squad's roster and transfer policy. When Mankowski was sacked, Le Roy replaced him and cumulated both functions as a British manager would do.


Records

''Racing'' has had 46 managers in the professional era, with the holder of the office changing 56 times. This is a record in French football only surpassed by ''
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Gilbert Gress Gilbert Gress (born 17 December 1941) is a French football coach and a former player. He was the mentor of Arsène Wenger. Club career Gress was born in Strasbourg. He began his professional football career in the city of his birth with RC St ...
holds the record for the longest serving manager at the club, both for a single spell (39 months btw. 1977-80, 152 matches) and overall (75 months in two spells, 273 matches). Paul Frantz holds the record for the most spells at ''Racing'' with four (73 months overall, 227 matches).
Jacky Duguépéroux Jacky Duguépéroux (born 2 January 1948) is a French football manager and former player. He has been manager of RC Strasbourg, for whom he also played, on three occasions. Between his final two terms, he managed Tunisian side Espérance. On 9 A ...
is the only manager to win two trophies with Strasbourg.


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