Bruno Génésio

French footballer and manager (born 1966)

Bruno Génésio
Personal information
Génésio in 2020
Full name	Bruno Génésio
Date of birth	(1966-09-01) 1 September 1966 (age 57)
Place of birth	Lyon, France
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)^[1]
Position(s)	Midfielder^[1]
Youth career
1983–1985	Lyon
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1995	Lyon	171	(12)
1993–1994	→ Nice (loan)	34	(2)
1995–1996	Martigues	28	(1)
Total		233	(15)
Managerial career
1999–2001	Villefranche
2005–2006	Besançon
2015–2019	Lyon
2019–2021	Beijing Guoan
2021–2023	Rennes
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bruno Génésio (born 1 September 1966) is a French football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of Ligue 1 club Rennes.

Early life

Génésio was born on 1 September 1966 in Lyon.^[2]

Playing career

Génésio is a youth exponent from Lyon. He played 171 league games in the first team between 1985 and 1995, also representing OGC Nice on loan during the 1993–94 season.^[3]

In 1995, Génésio joined FC Martigues in the Ligue 1. He played 27 league matches for the club during the campaign, scoring once in a 2–1 home win against En Avant de Guingamp on 18 May 1996; the match was also the last professional one of his career.^{[citation needed]}

Managerial career

In 1997, one year after retiring, Génésio started working as a coach for the youth categories of FC du Pays de L'Arbresle.^[4] In 1999, he was appointed manager of Villefranche in the CFA.^[3]^[5]

Génésio was sacked in 2001, with the club suffering relegation from CFA 2.^[3] He subsequently joined Racing Besançon as an assistant manager, being named at the helm of the first team for the 2005–06 season; he was relieved from his duties in March 2006.^[6]

In 2006, Génésio started to work as a scout at the first club of his senior playing career, Lyon.^[3] He also worked as an assistant manager of their reserve team before being named Rémi Garde's assistant in the first team in 2011. He kept the position under Garde's successor Hubert Fournier who joined the club in May 2014.^{[citation needed]}

On 24 December 2015, Génésio was appointed as Lyon's head coach after the sacking of Fournier.^[7] He led the club to second position at the end of the 2015–16 Ligue 1 season. The club finished in fourth or third position in the next three Ligue 1 campaigns, with Lyon reaching the semifinals of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. On 14 April 2019, Génésio confirmed his departure from Lyon in the coming summer.^[8]

On 31 July 2019, Génésio joined Beijing Guoan as their head coach.^[9]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 14 December 2023^{[citation needed]}

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %
Lyon	24 December 2015	24 May 2019	185	102	36	47	055.1
Beijing Guoan	31 July 2019	6 January 2021	41	25	9	7	061.0
Rennes	4 March 2021	19 November 2023	130	67	25	38	051.5
Career total			356	194	70	92	054.5

Honours

Player

Lyon

Division 2: 1988–89^{[citation needed]}

Nice

Division 2: 1993–94^{[citation needed]}

Individual

UNFP Manager of the Year: 2021–22^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b "Bruno Genesio". L'Équipe (in French). Paris. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^ "Bruno Genesio". L'Équipe (in French). Paris. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "OL: mais qui est vraiment Bruno Genesio?" [OL: who is Bruno Genesio?] (in French). BFM TV. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
^ "Retour aux sources pour Bruno Génésio, entraîneur de l'OL" [Back to the roots for Bruno Génésio, OL coach] (in French). Le Progrès. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
^ "Olympique Lyonnais: le plus dur commence pour Bruno Génésio" [Olympique Lyonnais: the toughest beginning of Bruno Génésio] (in French). Le Parisien. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
^ "L'ancien entraineur du Besançon RC, Bruno Génésio, nommé entraineur officiel de l'Olympique Lyonnais" [Former manager of Besançon RC, Bruno Génésio, named manager of Olympique Lyonnais] (in French). MaCommune.info. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
^ "Bruno Genesio nouvel entraîneur de l'Olympique Lyonnais" [Bruno Genesio new manager of Olympique Lyonnais] (in French). France TV Info. 24 December 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
^ "Genesio confirms Lyon exit in summer". Ligue 1. 14 April 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
^ "国安官宣施密特离任热内西奥接任签约至赛季末" (in Chinese). Sina Sports. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.