Pascal Chimbonda

Pascal Chimbonda

Chimbonda playing for Tottenham Hotspur in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Pascal Chimbonda[1]
Date of birth	(1979-02-21) 21 February 1979 (age 45)[2]
Place of birth	Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[3]
Position(s)	Right-back[4]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2000	Le Havre B	24	(1)
1999–2003	Le Havre	85	(5)
2003–2005	Bastia	67	(4)
2005–2006	Wigan Athletic	38	(2)
2006–2008	Tottenham Hotspur	65	(3)
2008–2009	Sunderland	13	(0)
2009	Tottenham Hotspur	3	(0)
2009–2011	Blackburn Rovers	30	(1)
2011	Queens Park Rangers	3	(0)
2011–2012	Doncaster Rovers	16	(0)
2013	Market Drayton Town	0	(0)
2013–2014	Carlisle United	26	(0)
2014–2015	Arles-Avignon	6	(0)
2017–2018	Washington	3	(0)
2019	Ashton Town	4	(0)
2024	Skelmersdale United	12	(0)
International career
2003–2012	Guadeloupe	6	(0)
2006	France	1	(0)
Managerial career
2023–2024	Skelmersdale United
Medal record Men's football Representing  France FIFA World Cup Runner-up 2006
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pascal Chimbonda (born 21 February 1979) is a French football coach and professional player who most recently was the player-manager of English non-league club Skelmersdale United.

Chimbonda, a right-back, began his professional career in 1998 with Le Havre, where he featured over 100 times combined for the club's first team and B team before moving to Bastia in 2003. In 2005, he moved to Premier League club Wigan Athletic for their debut season in the top flight. He earned a place in that season's Premier League Team of the Year, but on the last day of the 2005–06 season, he handed in a transfer request. He was subsequently signed by Tottenham Hotspur that summer. After two seasons with Spurs he later moved on to fellow Premier League club Sunderland before briefly returning to Spurs in 2009. In the summer of 2009, he signed for Blackburn Rovers, where he remained until 2011, when he joined Football Championship club Queens Park Rangers. During the 2011–12 season, he was one of a number of former Premier League players who played for Doncaster Rovers, but he went on to be released at the end of the season. Having remained without a club for the following year, Chimbonda dropped down six leagues to sign non-contract terms with Market Drayton Town, remaining with them only briefly before joining Carlisle. He retired following a short stint with AC Arles-Avignon. In 2017, he came out of retirement and spent two spells with English non-League sides Washington and Ashton Town.

Despite initially playing his international football for Guadeloupe, Chimbonda went on to be selected for the France squad for the 2006 World Cup. He was an unused substitute in each of France's matches, including the final, in which they lost on a penalty shoot-out to Italy. His only France cap came in a World Cup warm-up match against Denmark.

Chimbonda agreed to manage Skelmersdale United in October 2023. In January 2024, Chimbonda was registered as a player for Skelmersdale United, following a three-match touchline ban by the FA.^[5] He was relieved of his duties on 4 May 2024, after Skelmersdale United was relegated.^[6]