Fabrice Vandeputte

Fabrice Vandeputte

Vandeputte with Lens U19 in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Fabrice Vandeputte [1]
Date of birth	(1969-09-22) 22 September 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Mazingarbe, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Caen B
Youth career
	Standard FC de Montataire
	Lille
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1989	Lille B
1989–1993	Louhans-Cuiseaux	109	(14)
1993–1994	Beauvais	23	(0)
1994–1997	Saint-Leu
1997–1998	Stade Montois
1998–2002	Chantilly
Managerial career
1998–2002	Chantilly
2003–2004	Louhans-Cuiseaux U19
2004–2008	Dijon B
2012–2015	Sochaux B
2015–2017	Lens U19
2017–2018	Bourg-en-Bresse B
2018	Caen B
2018–2019	Caen (assistant)
2019–2021	Caen B
2021	Caen
2021–	Caen B
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fabrice Vandeputte (born 22 September 1969) is a French professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Championnat National 2 side Caen B. As a player, he was a midfielder. ^[2]

Club career

Vandeputte, who was a midfielder, started out his career at Standard FC de Montataire, joining Lille, where he would feature for the B team, later on. In 1989, he moved to Division 2 Louhans-Cuiseaux. In four seasons at the club, he made a total of 109 league appearances, and scored 14 goals. ^[2] He would then sign for Beauvais, a club also in the Division 2; there, he made 23 appearances in one season under the coaching of Vahid Halilhodžić. ^[3]

After 1994, Vandeputte pursued his career in amateur divisions of French football. He went through Saint-Leu and Stade Montois before signing for Chantilly as player-manager in January 1998. ^[2]

International career

In the early parts of his career, Vandeputte was minimally selected with France youth teams. ^[3]

Managerial career

Vandeputte drinking water while coaching Lens U19 in 2016

Vandeputte was first player-manager at Chantilly for three and a half seasons before becoming U19 coach at Louhans-Cuiseaux from 2003 to 2004. ^[3] He subsequently managed Dijon's B team, helping them win their group of the Championnat de France Amateur 2 in the 2004–05  [ fr ] season. ^[2] In 2008, he joined Sochaux's B team as a member of the staff. Four years later, in 2012, he was appointed manager of the team, a role he stayed at until 2015. ^[2]

In 2015, Vandeputte began to coach Lens's U19 team. In his first season in charge, he led them to the Coupe Gambardella Final, but they suffered a 3–0 loss against Monaco, finishing as runners-up. In 2017, he headed to Bourg-en-Bresse's B team, where he would stay at for one season, moving to coach Caen's B team in 2018. ^[2]

Caen

Vandeputte only stayed in the position of B team coach at Caen for four months, because in November 2018, he stepped up as assistant manager for the first team after being promoted by Fabien Mercadal. ^[3] However, he eventually went back to his role of B team coach in July 2019. In November 2020, Vandeputte was appointed as head of youth development at the club. ^[2]

On 23 March 2021, Vandeputte was appointed as head coach of Caen following the sacking of Pascal Dupraz. ^[4] Cédric Hengbart, Vandeputte's assistant in the reserve side, joined him as assistant manager of the senior side. ^[5] At the end of the season, Caen managed to stay in Ligue 2, finishing 17th. ^[6] Vandeputte would return to coach the reserve side, ^[7] and was succeeded by Stéphane Moulin. ^[8]

Personal life

Vandeputte was born in Mazingarbe, a town near Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. ^[3]

While in parallel playing with Lille, he completed his military service at Bataillon de Joinville  [ fr ], a military unit of the French Army composed of athletes. Here, he met footballers such as Zinedine Zidane, Pascal Nouma, Nicolas Ouédec, Xavier Gravelaine, and Guillaume Warmuz. ^[3]

Honours

Manager

Dijon B

• Championnat de France Amateur 2: 2004–05  [ fr ]^{[ citation needed ]}

Lens U19

• Coupe Gambardella runner-up: 2015–16 ^[2]

Caen B

• Championnat National 3: 2019–20 ^[2]

References

1. Fabrice Vandeputte at Global Sports Archive
2. Fabrice Vandeputte at FootballDatabase.eu
3. Letondeur, Boris (23 March 2021). "Ligue 2 - Qui est Fabrice Vandeputte, le nouvel entraîneur du SM Caen ?" [Ligue 2 - Who is Fabrice Vandeputte, the new coach of SM Caen?]. France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
4. "Départ de Pascal Dupraz du Stade Malherbe Caen" [Departure of Pascal Dupraz of Stade Malherbe Caen]. Stade Malherbe Caen (in French). 23 March 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
5. Briard, Gaëtan (23 March 2021). "SM Caen. Fabrice Vandeputte - Cédric Hengbart, un tandem au chevet de Malherbe" [SM Caen. Fabrice Vandeputte - Cédric Hengbart, a bedside tandem of Malherbe]. Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
6. "Caen sauvé, Clermont en Ligue 1, Chambly relégué... Ce qu'il faut retenir de la dernière journée de Ligue 2" [Caen saved, Clermont in Ligue 1, Chambly relegated... What needs to be remembered from the last matchday of Ligue 2]. France Info (in French). 15 May 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
7. "SM Caen. Fabrice Vandeputte : « Le club repart sur des bases sereines et solides »" [SM Caen. Fabrice Vandeputte: "The club restarts on serene and solid foundations"]. Ouest-France (in French). 25 July 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
8. Lainé, Guillaume (20 September 2021). "Ligue 2. Stéphane Moulin, sa nouvelle vie au SM Caen" [Ligue 2. Stéphane Moulin, his new life at SM Caen]. Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 6 October 2021.

External links

• Fabrice Vandeputte at Soccerway
• Fabrice Vandeputte at WorldFootball.net