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{{Short description|French footballer (born 1954)}}
{{for|the Guinean footballer|Jean Charles Fernandez}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2009}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Jean Fernandez
| image = Jean Fernandez 2013.JPG
| caption = Fernandez as [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]] manager in 2013
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|10|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Mostaganem]], [[French Algeria]]
| height = 1.75 m<ref name="wf">{{cite web |title=Jean Fernández |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jean-fernandez/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>
| currentclub =
| position = [[Midfielder]]<ref name="wf"/>
| years1 = 1972–1975 | clubs1 = [[AS Béziers Hérault (football)|Béziers]] | caps1 = 62 | goals1 = 0
| years2 = 1975–1980 | clubs2 = [[Olympique de Marseille|Marseille]] | caps2 = 165 | goals2 = 1
| years3 = 1980–1982 | clubs3 = [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]] | caps3 = 85 | goals3 = 2
| years4 = 1982–1984 | clubs4 = [[AS Cannes|Cannes]] | caps4 = 59 | goals4 = 1
| totalcaps = 371 | totalgoals = 4
| manageryears1 = 1985–1990  | managerclubs1 = [[AS Cannes|Cannes]]
| manageryears2 = 1990       | managerclubs2 = [[OGC Nice|Nice]]
| manageryears3 = 1992       | managerclubs3 = [[Olympique de Marseille|Marseille]]
| manageryears4 = 1993–1994  | managerclubs4 = [[Al-Nassr FC|Al-Nassr]]
| manageryears5 = 1994–1995  | managerclubs5 = [[Lille OSC|Lille]]
| manageryears6 = 1995–1996  | managerclubs6 = [[Al-Nassr FC|Al-Nassr]]
| manageryears7 = 1996–1997  | managerclubs7 = [[Al-Shabab FC (Riyadh)|Al-Shabab]]
| manageryears8 = 1997       | managerclubs8 = [[Al-Wehda Club (Mecca)|Al-Wahda]]
| manageryears9 = 1998       | managerclubs9 = [[Al-Nassr FC|Al-Nassr]]
| manageryears10 = 1998–1999 | managerclubs10 = [[Étoile Sportive du Sahel|Étoile du Sahel]]
| manageryears11 = 1999–2002 | managerclubs11 = [[FC Sochaux-Montbéliard|Sochaux]]
| manageryears12 = 2002–2005 | managerclubs12 = [[FC Metz|Metz]]
| manageryears13 = 2005–2006 | managerclubs13 = [[Olympique de Marseille|Marseille]]
| manageryears14 = 2006–2011 | managerclubs14 = [[AJ Auxerre|Auxerre]]
| manageryears15 = 2011–2013 | managerclubs15 = [[AS Nancy Lorraine|Nancy]]
| manageryears16 = 2013–2015 | managerclubs16 = [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]]
| manageryears17 = 2015–2017 | managerclubs17 = [[Al-Khor SC|Al-Khor]]
| manageryears18 = 2017      | managerclubs18 = [[Al-Gharafa SC|Al-Gharafa]]
}}
'''Jean Fernandez''' (born 8 October 1954)<ref>[http://www.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/jean-fernandez/ worldfootball.net profile]</ref> is a French professional [[Manager (association football)|football manager]] and former [[Football player|player]]. He has previously managed [[FC Metz|Metz]] and [[Olympique de Marseille|Marseille]], where [[France national football team|France national team]] star [[Franck Ribéry]] saw him as a mentor. He managed [[AJ Auxerre|Auxerre]] for five years, and was named as France's manager of the year in the 2009–10 season after guiding Auxerre into the [[UEFA Champions League]]. He managed [[AS Nancy Lorraine|Nancy]] for the 2011 season and half of the 2012 season. Jean Fernandez resigned from his position with Nancy before the end of the 2013 season on 10 January 2013. He became the new [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]] manager on 1 July 2013, but departed on 5 December that year after a run of seven games without a win.

Fernandez was born in [[Mostaganem]], [[French Algeria]].  He competed for France at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sports Reference |title=Jean Fernandez Biography and Statistics |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fe/jean-fernandez-1.html |access-date=29 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518115457/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fe/jean-fernandez-1.html |archive-date=18 May 2010 }}</ref>

==Honours==
'''Marseille'''
*[[UEFA Intertoto Cup]]: [[2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup|2005]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/IntertotoCup/FixturesResults/Round=2188/Match=81581/Report=LU.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060531214209/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/IntertotoCup/FixturesResults/Round=2188/Match=81581/Report=LU.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 May 2006 |title=Marseille 5-1 Deportivo (Aggregate: 5 - 3)|publisher=[[UEFA]] |access-date=14 June 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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