Francis Gillot
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francis Gillot | ||
| Date of birth | February 9, 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Maubeuge, France | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1970–1974 | Villiers-Siré-Nicole | ||
| 1974–1978 | Valenciennes | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1982 | Valenciennes | 93 | (6) |
| 1982–1988 | Lens | 158 | (10) |
| 1988–1989 | Strasbourg | 20 | (2) |
| 1989–1993 | Lens | 90 | (2) |
| 1993 | Mulhouse | 5 | (0) |
| 1993–1996 | Montauban | ? | (?) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2005–2007 | Lens | ||
| 2008–2011 | Sochaux | ||
| 2011–2014 | Bordeaux | ||
| 2014–2015 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Francis Gillot (born February 9, 1960 in Maubeuge, France) is a former football defender and most recently manages Chinese Super League team Shanghai Shenhua.
As a player, he was predominantly associated with his time at Valenciennes and Lens while having brief periods with Strasbourg as well as Mulhouse before ending his career with Montauban. Since retiring he would initially move into youth coaching before moving into assistant management and then gaining his first head coaching position with his former club Lens. He has gone on to manage Sochaux and went on to win the 2012–13 Coupe de France with Bordeaux.
Francis Gillot started his football career playing for the youth team of his local club Villiers-Siré-Nicole before joining the Valenciennes FC academy. At Valencianones he would work his way up into the senior team and in the 1978/79 season he would start his professional career when he was included in the squad for the Ligue 1 outfit. He would eventually become a regular starter in the team's defence until they were relegated at the end of the 1981–82 French Division 1 season.
In the following season Gillot would move to top tier club RC Lens and experienced continental competitions with the club during his initial time with the team until the manager Jean Parisseaux decided he could be loan to RC Strasbourg in the 1988/89 campaign. Upon his return to Lens the club found themselves in the second tier after experencing relegation, however Gillot stayed with the team until they won promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 1990–91 French Division 2 season. After spending several further seasons with Lens, Gillot would be nearing the end of his career and he joined second tier club FC Mulhouse for a brief period before ending his career with lower league side FC Montauban.
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