Erick Mombaerts

Mombaerts is a youth product of INF Vichy. He went on to play for Nœux-les-Mines and Montluçon before retiring in 1984.

Mombaerts began his coaching career with Paris Saint-Germain, taking charge between October 1987 and February 1988. Mombaerts was manager of Guingamp during the 1989–90 season. He then managed Cannes between January 1992 and December 1992, and Toulouse from 2001 to 2006. While with Toulouse he won the Ligue 2 championship in 2003. After coaching their under-18 team, Mombaerts became manager of the French under-21 team in April 2008. He left that position in October 2012. Mombaerts became manager at Le Havre in December 2012. He resigned in December 2014. He was appointed as the head coach of Japanese club Yokohama F. Marinos in December 2014. Mombaerts stepped down as head coach of the Marinos at the succession of the 2017 Emperor's Cup, on 1 January 2018. Mombaerts was appointed manager of Melbourne City on 27 June 2019. On 3 September 2020, he stood down from the coaching role at City to return to France, handing the coaching reins over to his assistant Patrick Kisnorbo.