Kota Kinabalu: After weeks of speculation, Sabah FC finally announced the appointment of Australian Jean-Paul De Marigny as their new head coach for the 2025/2026 season.
He will be officially taking over from Martin Stano who was put in charge following the departure of Datuk Ong Kim Swee towards the end of last season.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the former Australian international is regarded by the management as very experienced in the Australian League with Western Sydney Wanderers, Newcastle Jets and Melbourne Victory as League champions in 2014/2015 and 2017/2018.
The 61-year-old has also been involved in various age groups for Australian national teams and more recently as assistant coach to Brad Maloney for the Australian Under-17 national team.
He was first seen here late last month in Sabah FC’s pre-season 3-1 friendly win over DPMM FC from Brunei at Likas Stadium.
He was then named as the assistant coach on the start list while Alto Linus was the head coach.
Jean-Paul was likely to take charge of Sabah FC’s first match of the new Super League season against Kuala Lumpur City FC at the Kuala Lumpur Football Stadium in Cheras on Wednesday night.
