Sonia Bompastor (, ; born 8 June 1980) is a French

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manager and former player who manages Chelsea of the English

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. She is the first person to win the

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as both a player and a manager, and is widely considered to be one of the best women's players in French history. Bompastor was a

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, preferably on the left side; she also played at

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. She was a two-time winner of the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Female Player of the Year, and following a move to the

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(WPS) league in the

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, earned Player of the Month and All-Star honors. Bompastor began her football career joining US Mer in 1988. In 1992, she joined US Thoury. In the same year, she earned selection to nationally recognized Clairefontaine academy joining alongside a select group of female players. After her stint at Clairefontaine, she joined Tours EC, now the women's section of professional club

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. In 2000, she joined

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club ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon and performed well enough to earn a move to

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. At Montpellier, Bompastor earned domestic and individual honors, which resulted in a move to champions

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. In 2008, she joined the new

-based women's soccer league,

, after her American playing rights were chosen by

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in the

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.Freedom sticks close to home with draft choices
After helping the Freedom reached the playoffs, Bompastor returned to France where she played for

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on loan. In 2010, she announced that she would be returned to Lyon for the 2010–11 season and, subsequently, was a part of the team that won the

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. Bompastor is also a French international. Prior to playing for the senior team, she played at youth level representing the under-18 team at the 1998 UEFA Women's Under-18 Championship. She made her senior international debut in February 2000 in a friendly match against

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. From 2004 to 2006, she served as the national team's

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. Bompastor has played in numerous tournaments for her nation beginning with

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. In June 2013, Bompastor chose to end her career after the French Women's Cup final. She became the academy director of

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after retirement. In April 2021, she took over as manager of Lyon's first team, where she managed the team for four seasons. In 2024, Bompastor moves to English club Chelsea, from which she managed to win the domestic treble in her first season.

Club career

Early career

Bompastor was born in

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, Loir-et-Cher, and began playing football at an early age. Of Portuguese origin, both of her parents are from

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and most of her family still lives in the area. Bompastor told Ma Chaîne Sport that she always goes to Póvoa when she has the opportunity to do so. She was drawn to football through her father, who was a

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. He took her to many of the games he refereed on the weekends and Bompastor quickly developed an attraction towards the game. Bompastor began her football career in 1988 at US Mer, a local club in a neighboring commune, playing with the club's mixed team. In 1992, she joined US Thoury. That same year, she earned selection to an exclusive female team that was given clearance to train at the Clairefontaine academy by the

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. The academy had quickly become a high-level training facility for male football players and supporters of

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wanted younger women to be afforded the same benefits from the facilities as young men. Following vocational training at Clairefontaine, Bompastor moved to amateur team Tours EC. She spent four years at the club before joining ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon of the

in 2000.

Professional career

Bompastor's professional career began with ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon in 2000. She scored seven goals over her two years with the club before moving to

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in 2002. At Montpellier, Bompastor blossomed and scored 38 goals over four seasons while helping the club win league titles in 2004 and 2005, as well as the 2006 Challenge de France (women's version of the

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). In that 2005-06 campaign, Montpellier also reached the

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semi-finals. Sonia Bompastor

Lyon was the next destination for Bompastor, for whom she joined in the summer of 2006. She became an important part of the side that won back-to-back league titles in 2006-07 and 2007-08, also winning the Challenge de France in 2008 to complete a domestic

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. This gave her six titles in a span of four years, equal to teammates

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and

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, who were also a part of the same Montpellier team Bompastor had previously played for. On 24 September 2008, Bompastor was selected to join the new

-based women's soccer league,

, after her American playing rights were chosen by

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in the

. Her Lyon teammate Louisa Necib was also chosen by the Freedom. In the

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, Bompastor appeared in 19 games (all starts, 1709 total minutes) and scored four goals with six assists. She was included in the league's all-star team in each of her two seasons with Washington Freedom. Following the conclusion of the season, she returned to France with a loan move to D1 Féminine side

, for whom she scored an impressive ten goals in 13 league games. In 2010, Bompastor confirmed she would re-join Lyon ahead of the 2010-11 season, where she reunited with former Montpellier coach

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. In her first season back, Bompastor captained Lyon to the French league title and she also won the first UEFA Women's Champions League of her career, with Les Fenottes beating German outfit

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2-0 in the

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. Bompastor was at the heart of a hugely successful Lyon team that repeated their league and Champions League successes in the next season, also adding the Coupe de France to complete the first treble in Lyon's history. In the 2012 UWCL final, they beat

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2-0 in front of over 50,000 fans at the Olympiastadion in

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, claimed by UEFA to be a European record for women's club football. Bompastor again led Lyon to the D1 Féminine title in 2012-13 but her side were beaten 1-0 by

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in the 2013 Champions League final. In June 2013, the defender announced that she will retire from football after that month's Coupe de France Féminine final against

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. "I figured it was a good time (to stop)," she said. "In terms of career and track record, I've won all that I could win. As a woman, I have other goals such as starting a family." In her last match before retirement, she played 81 minutes and provided a set-piece assist for Eugenie Le Sommer as Lyon beat Saint-Étienne 3-1 in the 2013 Coupe de France final. This triumph completed the third domestic double of Bompastor's career. Across the three seasons of her second spell with Lyon, Bompastor made 94 appearances, scored nine goals, lifted seven trophies and solidified her legacy as one of the world's best women's players of her generation.

International career

Bompastor made her international debut for '' the Bleues'' on 26 February 2000 in a match against

. She was a member of the squads that participated in the

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(her first tournament with France),

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, and

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editions of the

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. She also represented France at the

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and the

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. Bompastor's strong displays in the 2011 edition, where France finished fourth, saw her named in FIFA's All-Star Team of the Tournament. On 27 September 2008, Bompastor picked up her 100th cap in a crucial

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qualifying match against

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, which France won 2–1. She finished her international career with 156 appearances and 19 goals to her name, making her France's eighth most capped player of all time (as of February 2025).

Managerial career

Lyon

After retiring from playing football in 2013, Bompastor moved into a coaching role at

's academy. She managed at the club's academy for eight years. In April 2021, Bompastor was appointed manager of Lyon's first team, making her the first woman to ever take charge of Les Fenottes. During the 2021-22 campaign, her first full season in charge, she impressively led Lyon to a

: Division 1 and

success. The UWCL triumph in May 2022, where her side beat

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3-1 in the

, meant Bompastor became the first person to win Europe's top competition as both a player and a head coach. Bompastor won three consecutive Division 1 titles in the 2021–22, 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons respectively. In the 2022–23 UWCL, Bompastor's Lyon team reached the quarter-final, where they fell 3-2 on aggregate to Chelsea. The following year, in the 2023–24 UWCL, she led them to the final of the competition for a second time, but they ultimately lost 2-0 to the quadruple-winning

. In total, she lifted seven trophies overall during her spell at Lyon.

Chelsea

On 29 May 2024, Bompastor was appointed manager of Chelsea, on a four-year deal. She replaced

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, who had been in charge for 12 years. She managed her first match with Chelsea on 20 September 2024 in a 1–0 win over

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. On 12 October 2024, she led Chelsea to the club's first ever win at the

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and the club's first away win to

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since 2020 when they won the match 2–1. On 16 November 2024, Chelsea beat

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2–0 to go to the top of the WSL table after winning each of their seven league matches with Bompastor in charge (ten wins out of ten matches in all competitions). It was the best-ever start for any manager in the league’s fourteen-year history. On 15 March 2025, Bompastor won her first trophy with Chelsea after beating

2–1 at Pride Park in the 2024–25

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final. It was the club's first success in the competition since 2021 after they had lost the previous three finals in a row. On 30 April 2025, Bompastor's Chelsea beat

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1-0 at Leigh Sports Village to seal a sixth consecutive WSL title and a ninth league title overall for the club. In doing so, Bompastor became the first manager since Laura Harvey to win the WSL title in her first season in charge. After ending the WSL campaign at Stamford Bridge with a 1-0 win over

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, it meant that Bompastor led to Chelsea becoming the first team in the competition's history to finish a 22-game season unbeaten while also setting a new record of 60 points which is the best points tally ever by a single team in the competition's history. On 18 May 2025, Chelsea beat

3-0 in the 2024–25

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final in front of a crowd of 74,412 at

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to complete a historic unbeaten domestic treble. In doing so, Chelsea became the first English women's team since

in 2000/01 to win the domestic treble unbeaten and Bompastor is just the third manager to win a domestic treble in the WSL era after Laura Harvey for Arsenal in 2011 and Emma Hayes for Chelsea in 2021.

Personal life

In February 2025, Bompastor and her assistant

announced that they have been in a relationship for 13 years and that they have four children together. Abily was Lyon's assistant coach before Bompastor took over at the club, and she has been Bompastor's assistant both at Lyon and Chelsea.

Career statistics

Club

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Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Montpellier *

: 2003–04, 2004–05 *

Coupe de France Féminine The Coupe de France Féminine (, ''Women's French Cup'') is the top annual cup tournament for French women's football clubs. The competition is open to all professional and non-professional women's teams in France. Founded in 2001 as Challenge ...

: 2005–06 Lyon *Division 1 Féminine: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09,

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

, 2011–12, 2012–13 *Coupe de France Féminine: 2007–08, 2011–12, 2012–13 *

, 2011–12 France * Cyprus Cup:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

Individual * UNFP Female Player of the Year: 2003–04, 2007–08 * WPS Player of the Month: May 2009 * WPS All-Star:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

* FIFA Women's World Cup All-Star Team:

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Manager

Lyon *

: 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 *

Coupe de France féminine The Coupe de France Féminine (, ''Women's French Cup'') is the top annual cup tournament for French women's football clubs. The competition is open to all professional and non-professional women's teams in France. Founded in 2001 as Challenge ...

: 2022–23 *

Trophée des Championnes The Trophée des Championnes is a French women's association football trophy contested as an annual match between the champions of Division 1 Féminine and the winners of the Coupe de France Féminine from previous season. It is the female equi ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

: 2021–22 Chelsea *

: 2024–25 *

: 2024–25 Individual * WSL Manager of the Month: September 2024, November 2024, January 2025

Other

Orders * Knight of the National Order of Merit: 2014

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bompastor, Sonia 1980 births Living people French expatriate sportspeople in the United States French women's footballers French sportspeople of Portuguese descent Washington Freedom (soccer) players Paris Saint-Germain FC (women) players France women's youth international footballers France women's international footballers Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players Footballers from Blois CNFE Clairefontaine players Montpellier HSC (women) players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States FIFA Women's Century Club 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for France Women's association football midfielders Première Ligue players French women's football managers Olympique Lyonnais Féminin managers Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Women's Professional Soccer players French expatriate women's footballers Division 1 Féminine managers Chelsea F.C. Women managers UEFA Women's Champions League–winning players 21st-century French sportswomen French LGBTQ sportspeople 20th-century French sportswomen 20th-century French LGBTQ people 21st-century French LGBTQ people