Lionel Charbonnier

Lionel Charbonnier

Charbonnier in 2002
Personal information
Full name	Lionel André Michel Charbonnier
Date of birth	(1966-10-25) 25 October 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth	Poitiers, France
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper[1]
Youth career
1986–1987	Auxerre
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1998	Auxerre	126	(0)
1998–2001	Rangers	18	(0)
2001–2002	Lausanne Sports	0	(0)
Total		144[2]	(0)
International career
1997-1998	France	1[2]	(0)
Managerial career
2002–2004	Stade Poitevin
2005–2007	Sens
2007–2009	Tahiti U20
2010–2011	Aceh United
2012–2013	Indonesia (technical director)
2014–2015	Istres
2015	Sanga Balende
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lionel André Michel Charbonnier (born 25 October 1966) is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. After retiring, he became a football manager and managed Aceh United of the Liga Primer Indonesia in the season before they folded along with their independent league.

Charbonnier played for the Auxerre side which won the Ligue 1 title and Coupe de France in the 1995–96 season under the management of Guy Roux. After eleven seasons with Auxerre, from 1987 to 1998, he joined Rangers in Scotland, where he won the treble of Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup in his first season, 1998–99. They retained the League and Cup in his second season. He retired in 2002, after a season with Lausanne Sports of the Swiss Super League.

Charbonnier was selected 32 times to the France national team but earned his only full cap in 1997. He was a member of the squad which won the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil, although he did not play a game.

He also managed Tahiti, a French overseas territory, at under-20 level, winning the Oceania Football Confederation's championship in that age bracket. Charbonnier qualified the Under-20 team to the 2009 World Cup in Egypt, the first time that any island has qualified in this level of competition.