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{{short description|French football player and manager (born 1941)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Roger Lemerre
| image = Morocco vs Gabon, Roger Lemerre, March 28 2009.jpg
| caption = Lemerre as manager of [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]] in 2009
| full_name = Roger Léon Maurice Lemerre-Desprez<ref name="Legion1998">{{cite journal |date=25 July 1998 |title=Décret du 24 juillet 1998 portant promotion et nomination |trans-title=Decree of 24 July 1998 on promotion and appointment |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000558058 |journal=Official Journal of the French Republic |volume=1998 |issue=170 |id=PREX9801917D |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="Legion2001">{{cite journal |date=15 April 2001 |title=Décret du 11 avril 2001 portant promotion et nomination |trans-title=Decree of 11 April 2001 on promotion and appointment |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000404675 |journal=Official Journal of the French Republic |volume=2001 |issue=90 |id=PREX0104793D |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=fr}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|6|18|df=y}}<ref name="lequipe">{{cite news |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheEntraineur64.html |title=Roger Lemerre |newspaper=L'Équipe |location=Paris |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=fr}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Bricquebec]],<ref name="lequipe"/> Manche, France
| height = 
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| currentclub = 
| years1 = 1961–1969 | caps1 = 213 | goals1 = 24 | clubs1 = [[CS Sedan Ardennes|Sedan]]
| years2 = 1969–1971 | caps2 = 69  | goals2 = 1  | clubs2 = [[FC Nantes|Nantes]]
| years3 = 1971–1973 | caps3 = 65  | goals3 = 0  | clubs3 = [[AS Nancy|Nancy]]
| years4 = 1973–1975 | caps4 = 57  | goals4 = 0  | clubs4 = [[RC Lens|Lens]]
| totalcaps = 404  | totalgoals  = 25
| nationalyears1 = 1968–1971 | nationalcaps1 = 6 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | nationalteam1 = [[France national football team|France]]
| manageryears1  = 1975–1978 | managerclubs1  = [[Red Star Saint-Ouen|Red Star]]
| manageryears2  = 1978–1979 | managerclubs2  = [[RC Lens|Lens]]
| manageryears3  = 1979–1981 | managerclubs3  = [[Paris FC|Paris]]
| manageryears4  = 1981–1983 | managerclubs4  = [[RC Strasbourg|Strasbourg]]
| manageryears5  = 1983–1984 | managerclubs5  = [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|Espérance Tunis]]
| manageryears6  = 1985–1986 | managerclubs6  = [[Red Star Saint-Ouen|Red Star]]
| manageryears7  = 1986–1996 | managerclubs7  = [[France national football team|France]] (Army team)
| manageryears8  = 1997      | managerclubs8  = [[RC Lens|Lens]]
| manageryears9  = 1998      | managerclubs9  = [[France national football team|France]] (assistant coach)
| manageryears10 = 1998–2002 | managerclubs10 = [[France national football team|France]]
| manageryears11 = 2002–2008 | managerclubs11 = [[Tunisia national football team|Tunisia]]
| manageryears12 = 2008–2009 | managerclubs12 = [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]]
| manageryears13 = 2009–2010 | managerclubs13 = [[Ankaragücü]]
| manageryears14 = 2012–2013 | managerclubs14 = [[CS Constantine]]
| manageryears15 = 2013–2014 | managerclubs15 = [[Étoile du Sahel]]
| manageryears16 = 2016      | managerclubs16 = [[CS Sedan Ardennes|Sedan]]
| manageryears17 = 2018–2019 | managerclubs17 = [[Étoile du Sahel]]
| manageryears18 = 2021–2022 | managerclubs18 = [[Étoile du Sahel]]
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's [[association football|football]]}}
{{Medal|Country|{{fb|FRA}}}} <small>(as manager)</small>
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Championship]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[2000 UEFA European Football Championship|2000]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIFA Confederations Cup]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[2001 FIFA Confederations Cup|2001]]|}}
{{Medal|Country|{{fb|TUN}}}} <small>(as manager)</small>
{{MedalCompetition|[[Africa Cup of Nations]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[2004 Africa Cup of Nations|2004]]|}}
}}
'''Roger Léon Maurice Lemerre-Desprez''' (born 18 June 1941) is a French former professional [[Association football|football]] manager and former player. During his managerial career, he was in charge of the [[France national football team|French]], [[Tunisia national football team|Tunisian]] and [[Morocco national football team|Moroccan]] national teams. He also managed numerous clubs in France, Tunisia, Turkey and Algeria.

==Playing career==
[[File:Roger Lemerre en 1970 (FC Nantes).jpg|thumb|upright|Lemerre in 1970]]

His professional playing career spanned 15 seasons, from 1961 to 1975: between 1961 and 1969 he played for [[CS Sedan Ardennes|Sedan]] and lost the Cup in 1965, before moving to [[FC Nantes Atlantique|Nantes]] (1968–1971), [[AS Nancy|Nancy]] (1971–1973) and [[RC Lens|Lens]] (1973–1975). He won six caps for [[France national football team|France]] between 1968 and 1971.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

==Managerial career==
Between 1975 and 1978, he was the coach of [[Red Star Saint-Ouen|Red Star]] from [[Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Ouen]], and then went back to Lens for a season as coach, before moving to [[Paris FC|Paris]] for two seasons. In the 1983–1984 season, he ran [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|Espérance Tunis]] in Tunisia. On his return to France, he again took up his post as Red Star manager.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

For ten seasons, he coached the French national military team, with whom he won the World Championships.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

In 1997, he finished the season with Lens and saved it from relegation.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

He assisted [[Aimé Jacquet]] in the French team's 1998 [[Football World Cup|World Cup]] [[1998 Football World Cup|victory]]. This paved the way for him to take over as the national coach, winning [[2000 UEFA European Football Championship|Euro 2000]] in Netherlands and Belgium and [[2001 FIFA Confederations Cup|FIFA Confederations Cup]] next year. However, after the team suffered a stunning first-round exit in the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]], he was sacked by the [[French Football Federation]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Lemerre sacked as France coach|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/france/newsid_2097000/2097020.stm|publisher=BBC|work=BBC Sport|date=5 July 2002|access-date=15 January 2012}}</ref>

Undeterred, the [[Tunisian Football Federation]] soon hired Lemerre to be the manager of [[Tunisia national football team|their national side]]. There, he guided them to victory in the [[African Nations Cup]] in 2004 making him first coach in football history to win two different continental tournaments i.e. Euro 2000 and AFCON 2004, and led them to qualification for the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]] in Germany. He was sacked in February 2008 following the team's exit from the [[2008 African Cup of Nations]] in the quarter-finals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/news/2008/February/14/lemerre-sacked-as-tunisia-coach |title=Lemerre sacked as Tunisia coach |publisher=Jp.soccerway.com |date=14 February 2008 |access-date=28 April 2011}}</ref>

Lemerre was named the new head coach of [[Morocco national football team|Morocco national team]] in May 2008 and took charge on 1 July.<ref>{{cite web |author=Maroc-football.com |url=http://www.maroc-football.com/actualite.php?langue=EN&article_id=4836 |title=Roger Lemerre takes over as Morocco coach |publisher=Maroc-football.com |access-date=28 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042304/http://www.maroc-football.com/actualite.php?langue=EN&article_id=4836 |archive-date=14 July 2011}}</ref> He was fired on 9 July 2009, for disappointing results.<ref>{{cite web|author=AFP|date=9 July 2009 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gHZSor74lDxvo_4aN3YdaF4C4jGQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716033340/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gHZSor74lDxvo_4aN3YdaF4C4jGQ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 July 2009 |title=AFP: Maroc: Roger Lemerre a été officiellement remercié |access-date=28 April 2011}}</ref>
On 18 December 2009, he accepted a managing job at [[Ankaragücü]] on a six-month deal that could be extended if both parties agreed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25034841/ |title=Lemerre new Ankaragücü coach |publisher=Ntvmsnbc.com |date=23 December 2009 |access-date=28 April 2011}}</ref> Former Turkey international [[Ümit Özat]] was appointed as his assistant coach. In May 2010, despite the fact that Lemerre had turned the team around and possibly saved them from relegation, the club decided not to extend Lemerre's contract and he was replaced by his assistant Ümit Özat for the 2009–10 season.

In December 2013, Lemerre agreed a six-month deal to take a coaching job at Tunisian team [[Étoile du Sahel]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Roger Lemerre appointed coach of Etoile du Sahel|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25433331|publisher=BBC|work=BBC Sport|date=18 December 2013|access-date=29 December 2013}}</ref>

In January 2016 he became new manager of [[CS Sedan Ardennes|Sedan]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Roger Lemerre nouvel entraîneur de Sedan (officiel)|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Roger-lemerre-nouvel-entraineur-de-sedan-officiel/621914|publisher=L'equipe|date=6 January 2016|access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref>

==Honours==
===As manager===
'''France'''
*[[UEFA European Championship]]: [[UEFA Euro 2000|2000]]<ref>{{cite news|title=EURO 2000 : L'ÉQUIPE DE FRANCE ÉTAIT-ELLE LA MEILLEURE DE L'HISTOIRE ?|url=https://www.cnews.fr/sport/2020-06-30/euro-2000-lequipe-de-france-etait-elle-la-meilleure-de-lhistoire-973418|publisher=cnews|date=30 June 2020|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[FIFA Confederations Cup]]: [[2001 FIFA Confederations Cup|2001]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Souvenirs : à quoi ressemblaient les deux équipes de France vainqueurs de la Coupe des Confédérations en 2001 et 2003 ?|url=https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Souvenirs-a-quoi-ressemblaient-les-deux-equipes-de-france-vainqueurs-de-la-coupe-des-confederations-en-2001-et-2003/814383|publisher=francefootball|date=29 June 2017|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref>

'''Tunisia'''
*[[African Cup of Nations]]: [[2004 African Cup of Nations|2004]]<ref>{{cite news|title=CAN 2004 : le chef d'oeuvre de Roger Lemerre avec la Tunisie
|url=https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Can-2004-le-chef-d-oeuvre-de-roger-lemerre-avec-la-tunisie/772585|publisher=francefootball|date=27 January 2017|access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref>

'''Étoile du Sahel'''
*[[Tunisian Cup]]: [[2013–14 Tunisian Cup|2013–14]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Roger Lemerre nouvel entraîneur de l'Etoile Sportive du Sahel|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Roger-lemerre-nouvel-entraineur-de-l-etoile-sportive-du-sahel/972512|publisher=L'equipe|date=28 December 2018|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[Arab Club Champions Cup]]: [[2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup|2018–19]]<ref>{{cite news|title=COUPE ARABE DES CLUBS 2019: L'ETOILE DU SAHEL CHAMPIONNE|url=https://www.africatopsports.com/2019/04/18/coupe-arabe-des-clubs-2019-letoile-du-sahel-championne/|publisher=Africa Top Sports|date=18 April 2019|access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref>

'''Orders'''
*[[Knight of the National Order of Merit]]: 1998<ref name="Legion1998"/>
*[[Knight of the Legion of Honour]]: 2001<ref name="Legion2001"/>
* Grand Officer of the [[National Order of Merit (Tunisia)|National Order of Merit of Tunisia]]: 2004<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/lemerre-est-de-retour-11-11-2005-2006463511.php|title=Lemerre est de retour|date=2005-11-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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