Hervé Renard is a 54 year-old French professional football coach and former player. Renard was born on 30 September 1968 in Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
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Renard played as a defender for French clubs AS Cannes, Stade de Vallauris, and SC Draguignan between 1983 and 1998.
He worked as a cleaner after retiring as a professional player, working there in the morning and training with Draguignan in the evening, eventually starting his own cleaning company.
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Renard began coaching with SC Draguignan in 1999 and left in 2001 From 2002 to 2003, he worked as an assistant coach for Chinese club Shanghai Cosco under head coach Claude Le Roy, and managed English club Cambridge United in 2004 having first joined the club as a coach under Le Roy.
Renard was named coach of the Ivory Coast national team in July 2014. He was the manager of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, and he praised the tournament’s organization.
He won the competition, making him the first coach in history to win two Africa Cup of Nations with different countries. Hervé Renard was appointed in July 2019 as the first French manager of Saudi Arabia.


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