Personal information | |||
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Full name | Claude Marie François Le Roy | ||
Date of birth | 6 February 1948 | ||
Place of birth | Bois-Normand-près-Lyre, France | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Togo (manager) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1968–1970 | Rouen | ||
1970–1973 | Ajaccio | ||
1973–1977 | Avignon Foot 84 | ||
1977–1980 | Laval | ||
1980–1981 | Amiens | ||
Teams managed | |||
1980–1983 | Amiens | ||
1983–1985 | Grenoble | ||
1985 | Al-Shabab | ||
1985–1988 | Cameroon | ||
1989–1992 | Senegal | ||
1994–1995 | Malaysia | ||
1998 | Cameroon | ||
1999–2000 | Strasbourg | ||
2002–2003 | Shanghai Cosco | ||
2004 | Cambridge United | ||
2004–2006 | DR Congo | ||
2006–2008 | Ghana | ||
2008–2011 | Oman | ||
2011 | Syria | ||
2011–2013 | DR Congo | ||
2013–2015 | Congo | ||
2016– | Togo | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Claude Marie François Le Roy (born 6 February 1948) is a French football manager and former player, who gained prominence at international level as coach to the Senegal and Ghana national teams. He is currently the manager of the Togo national football team.
Le Roy has had a varied managerial career, starting out at the small French club Amiens SC, after taking over as manager when his playing days ended. His achievements in leading the Cameroon national team to be runners-up in the 1986 African Cup of Nations, and then champions in the 1988 competition, are often cited as his greatest managerial accomplishments. He then took charge of Senegal when they reached the quarterfinals at the 1992 African Cup of Nations, and returned to Cameroon to lead them during the World Cup in 1998. In between, he also coached Malaysia national football team from 1994 to 1995.
After undertaking the role of football adviser at A.C. Milan in 1996, Le Roy had a spell as Director of Football at Paris Saint-Germain in the 1997–98 season. Le Roy became manager of Cambridge United for a short spell in 2004, although he only ever signed a "moral contract", and now claims he was only ever assisting his protégé Hervé Renard: "I was just helping out a friend [then-manager Hervé Renard], but we saved that club". Following his departure from Cambridge, Le Roy was appointed as the head coach of the DR Congo. In September 2006, Le Roy was named by the Ghana Football Association as coach of the Ghana national football team.