At the end of his first team playing career, Pouliquen joined the coaching staff under manager
Jacky Duguépéroux at
Strasbourg, though he continued to play occasionally for the
reserve team. In December 1997 he took over as reserve team coach, a post he held until his appointment as first team manager in November 2000. His tenure lasted only until the end of the
2000–01 season, in which Strasbourg won the
Coupe de France but were relegated to Ligue 2. Pouliquen took over as manager of
Lorient in January 2002, leading them to their first final of the
Coupe de la Ligue as well as their first major trophy in the
2002 Coupe de France. Though the club had expected immediate promotion, and were disappointed with seventh place in the
2004–05 season, an excellent home record gave the manager a period of grace, but a poor start to the
2005–06 season provoked his dismissal in September 2005. He then had a spell as manager of
Grenoble Foot 38 in the
2006–07 season before joining
FC Metz in December 2007 with the club bottom of Ligue 1. He was replaced by
Joël Müller at the end of the 2009–10 season. In September 2010, he returned to Grenoble. Against a background of financial difficulty and a transfer embargo, Pouliquen was unable to prevent relegation to the third tier. He left at the end of the season, and Grenoble were administratively relegated a further two divisions because of its insolvency. Pouliquen went on to become a
players' agent. ==References==