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 55)
Place of birth	Mazingarbe, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
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
2021–2022	Caen B
2022–2023	Marseille B (assistant)
2023	Marseille B
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fabrice Vandeputte (born 22 September 1969) is a French professional football manager and former player. As a player, he was a midfielder.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2]

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.^{[citation needed]}

In the early parts of his career, Vandeputte was minimally selected with France youth teams.^[2]

Vandeputte was first player-manager at Chantilly for three and a half seasons before becoming U19 coach at Louhans-Cuiseaux from 2003 to 2004.^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

On 23 March 2021, Vandeputte was appointed as head coach of Caen following the sacking of Pascal Dupraz.^[3] Cédric Hengbart, Vandeputte's assistant in the reserve side, joined him as assistant manager of the senior side.^[4] At the end of the season, Caen managed to stay in Ligue 2, finishing 17th.^[5] Vandeputte would return to coach the reserve side,^[6] and was succeeded by Stéphane Moulin.^[7]

Vandeputte was born in Mazingarbe, a town near Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department.^[2]

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.^[2]

Dijon B

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

Lens U19

• Coupe Gambardella runner-up: 2015–16^{[citation needed]}

Caen B

• Championnat National 3: 2019–20^{[citation needed]}

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