Paulin Puel

Born in Nice, Puel spent his youth career at Lille, Lyon and OGC Nice, all under the management of his father Claude. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 20 April 2014 against AS Monaco, replacing Valentin Eysseric after 88 minutes in a 1–0 away defeat. After some months at Monaco, where he was mainly in the youth team and played a small part in the reserve team, Puel joined Avranches of the third-tier Championnat National in August 2018.

As of 20 September 2019

Puel is the son of the French manager and former footballer Claude Puel, and younger brother of the footballer Grégoire Puel. All three were colleagues at Nice.