Christophe Galtier is a French professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Qatar Stars League club Al-Duhail. A defender, Galtier spent many of his 15 years as a player at Marseille with spells at six other clubs, four in France and one each in Italy and China.

Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire, commonly known as A.S.S.E. or simply Saint-Étienne, is a French professional football club based in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The club was founded in 1933 and competes in Ligue 2, the second division of French football, although it has played in Ligue 1 for the majority of its existence. Saint-Étienne's home ground is the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard.