Season 2023-24: The youngest coaches... | OneFootball

Of the 18 current Ligue 1 Uber Eats coaches, Julien Stéphan (Stade Rennais) is one of the youngest - but isn't even in the top three. Check out who the youngest coaches in France's top flight are...

Following the official announcement of Julien Stéphan's return to the Stade Rennais dugout, more than half of the current Ligue 1 Uber Eats coaches are under the age of 50, with the average age of the eighteen tacticians being 48. The Breton coach is one of the youngest, and has been the youngest in the past, but no longer...

Who is the youngest Ligue 1 Uber Eats coach?

Formerly the youngest coach in the league when he took over at SRFC in December 2018 to succeed Sabri Lamouchi (38 at the time), Julien Stéphan - who has since surpassed the 160 game-mark on a Ligue 1 Uber Eats bench, including 110 with Les Rouge et Noir -  remains in the top five.

The youngest coaches - by some distance - are Will Still (Stade de Reims, 31) and two newcomers this season: Francesco Farioli (Nice) and Carles Martinez Novell (Toulouse).

Coaches' ages this season in Ligue 1 Uber Eats:

Will Still (31, born 14 October 1992)

Francesco Farioli (34, born 10 April 1989)

Carles Martinez Novell (39, born 1 January 1984)

Luka Elsner (41, born 2 August 1982)

Julien Stéphan (43, born on 18 September 1980)

Pierre Aristouy (43, born 30 December 1979)

Gennaro Gattuso (45, born 9 January 1978)

Fabio Grosso (45, born 28 November 1977)

Patrick Vieira (47, born on 23 June 1976)

Régis Le Bris (47, born 6 December 1975)

Paulo Fonseca (50, born on 5 March 1973)

Franck Haise (52, born on 15 April 1971)

Luis Enrique (53, born 8 May 1970)

Adi Hütter (53, born 11 February 1970)

Eric Roy (56, born 26 September 1967)

Pascal Gastien (59, born 2 December 1963)

Michel Der Zakarian (60, born 18 February 1963)

Laszlo Bölöni (70, born 11 March 1953)

Stéphan, the youngest French coach this season

Outnumbered by foreign coaches in the top flight, there are currently eight French coaches in Ligue 1 Uber Eats. And with the arrival of Julien Stéphan, Pierre Aristouy (FC Nantes) hands over his position as the youngest French coach in 2023-24 to the 2019 Coupe de France winner - who is just under nine months his junior.