Sébastien Fournier (born 27 June 1971) is a Swiss football manager, most recently for FC Sion, and former football player.
Club career Fournier played for FC Sion, VfB Stuttgart and Servette Geneva, where he spent most of his career.
He played for Switzerland national football team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and at the UEFA Euro 1996.
Managerial career Servette Fournier worked as a chief executive at Servette from 2006 to 2009. After this role, he was appointed as the new manager of the club's U21 squad.Présentation du Team-Genève-Servette-Carouge M21, nouvelle équipe de 2ème ligue‚ proxifoot.ch, 23 November 2009 He got a double role in 2010, where he also was appointed as the headleader of the club's youth academy.Le Servette FC a nommé Sébastien Fournier comme directeur de l'Académie du Servette Football Club‚ rts.ch, 28 May 2010
FC Sion In June 2012, one week after his graduation from the UEFA Pro Licence, it was announced that Fournier would join FC Sion as manager in summer 2012. This marks the return to his childhood club and is linked with high expectations, even though it is his first station as a professional manager. He won the selection over Michel Decastel, because the club owner Christian Constantin wanted to have a young coach, after he was impressed with the achievements by Roberto Di Matteo, Pep Guardiola, André Villas-Boas and Murat Yakin. He was sacked as manager of Sion on 4 September 2012 due to a bad relationship between him and the squad.
Servette On 13 September 2012, Fournier was appointed as the new manager of Servette.Fournier nouvel entraîneur du Servette FC: les premières déclarations‚ tdg.ch, 13 September 2012 He got sacked after 11 months in the club on 20 August 2013.Football: Sébastien Fournier viré!, tdg.ch, 20 August 2013
FC Sion In March 2014, Fournier got the role as technical director of the club."Servette n’a rien à faire dans cette ligue", 14 September 2015 Later in 2014, Fournier was hired as U18 manager.Deshalb trete ich zurück!‚ blick.ch, 29 September 2014 So he had a double role. He was also appointed as caretaker for the U21 reserve team from September 2015 to the new year.De Carouge à Servette: pour Thierry Cotting c’est renversant‚ tdg.ch, 6 November 2015 And once again in April 2016.FC Sion II: Sébastien Fournier remplace Bruno Pascale‚ lenouvelliste.ch, 11 April 2016
On 25 April 2017, he was appointed as head coach of FC Sion after Peter Zeidler got sacked.Sébastien Fournier de retour aux commandes du FC Sion‚ canal9.ch, 25 April 2017
Honours Player FC Sion Swiss Championship: 1991–92 Swiss Cup: 1994–95, 1995–96
Servette Swiss Championship: 1998–99 Swiss Cup: 2000–01
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