:Stéphane Pounewatchy

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Stéphane Pounewatchy

| image =

| caption =

| full_name = Stéphane Zeusnagapa Pounewatchy{{Hugman|15967|accessdate=9 March 2017}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|02|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date =

| height = 1.83 m{{cite book |last1=Rollin |first1=Glenda |last2=Rollin |first2=Jack |title=Rothmans football yearbook 1999-2000 |date=1999 |publisher=London : Headline |isbn=978-0-7472-2166-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/rothmansfootball0000unse_y6y3/ |access-date=27 November 2022}}

| position = Centre-back

| youthyears1 = 1985–1987 | youthclubs1 = Sedan

| years1 = 1987–1989 | clubs1 = AS Beaune | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = 1989–1995 | clubs2 = Martigues | caps2 = 166 | goals2 = 7

| years3 = 1995–1996 | clubs3 = Gueugnon | caps3 = 30 | goals3 = 0

| years4 = 1996–1998 | clubs4 = Carlisle United | caps4 = 81 | goals4 = 3

| years5 = 1998 | clubs5 = Dundee | caps5 = 3 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1998 | clubs6 = Port Vale | caps6 = 2 | goals6 = 0

| years7 = 1999 | clubs7 = Colchester United | caps7 = 15 | goals7 = 1

| years8 = 2000 | clubs8 = Scunthorpe United | caps8 = 0 | goals8 = 0

| totalcaps = 297 | totalgoals = 11

}}

Stéphane Zeusnagapa Pounewatchy (born 10 February 1968) is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre-back in France, England and Scotland.

Career

Pounewatchy played in his native France for Sedan from 1985 to 1987, suffering relegation from Ligue 2 in the 1985–86 season. In 1989, he returned to the second tier with Martigues and helped them to the Ligue 2 title and promotion to Ligue 1 in 1992–93. The club consolidated their top-flight status in 1993–94 and 1994–95, in part due to Didier Tholot's 13 league goals in both seasons. Pounewatchy spent the 1995–96 season with FC Gueugnon, though both Gueugnon and Martigues suffered relegation to Ligue 2.

Pounewatchy moved to England for the start of the 1996–97 season, where he was a permanent fixture in the Third Division Carlisle United team in both 1996–97 and 1997–98. The club celebrated promotion to the Second Division in the former season and relegation from it in the latter. He was named as man of the match as Carlisle won the 1997 Football League Trophy final at Wembley with a penalty shoot-out victory over Colchester United following a 0–0 draw.{{cite news |last1=Haylett |first1=Trevor |date=21 April 1997 |title=Football: Happy ending for Carlisle |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-happy-ending-for-carlisle-1268389.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-happy-ending-for-carlisle-1268389.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=Independent |location=London |accessdate=30 September 2015 }}

Pounewatchy then briefly moved north to Scotland for the 1997–98 season, spending August with Dundee in the SPL,{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/the-sweeper-big-brother-is-watching-palace-1171830.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/the-sweeper-big-brother-is-watching-palace-1171830.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Sweeper: Big Brother is watching Palace |last=White|first=Clive|author2-first=Nick |author2-last=Harris |date=15 August 1998|work=The Independent|accessdate=29 June 2009}} playing four games before joining Port Vale of the English Football League First Division on a monthly basis. He was only at Vale Park for September, playing just two games. On 20 February, he joined Colchester United, signing a contract to run for the rest of the season.{{cite web|url=http://archive.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/1999/2/19/225011.html|title= Soccer: Pounewatchy signs for Colchester United|date=19 February 1999|work=Braintree and Witham Times|accessdate=29 June 2009}} He said: "I am very happy to be in the Second Division because when you are a professional footballer you want to play at the highest level you can." He played fifteen games that season and was released on 8 May.{{cite web |title=Stephane Pounewatchy - Players - Colchester United |url=https://www.coludata.co.uk/item.php?pg=player&it=604 |website=www.coludata.co.uk |accessdate=6 April 2019}}

On 25 January 2000, he turned out for Scunthorpe United in a 2–1 defeat by Chesterfield at Glanford Park in the Football League Trophy.

Career statistics

rowspan="2"\|Club !rowspan="2"\|Season !colspan="3"\|League !colspan="2"\|National cup !colspan="2"\|Other !colspan="2"\|Total
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition{{ENFA}}{{soccerbase\|9612\|Stephane Pounewatchy}}{{citation needed\|date=March 2025}}
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
rowspan="7"\|Martigues	1989–90	Division 2	29	0	3	0	0	0	32	0
1990–91	Division 2	31	0	1	0	0	0	32	0
1991–92	Division 2	30	5	1	0	0	0	31	5
1992–93	Division 2	32	0	3	1	0	0	35	1
1993–94	Division 1	29	1	1	0	0	0	30	1
1994–95	Division 1	15	1	3	0	0	0	18	1
colspan="2"\|Total !166	7	12	1	0	0	178	8
Gueugnon	1995–96	Division 1	30	0	1	0	0	0	31	0
rowspan="3"\|Carlisle United	1996–97	Third Division	42	1	4	0	11	1	57	2
1997–98	Second Division	39	2	1	0	5	1	45	3
colspan="2"\|Total !81	3	5	0	16	2	102	5
Dundee	1998–99	Scottish Premier League	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
Port Vale	1998–99	First Division	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Colchester United	1998–99	Second Division	15	1	0	0	0	0	15	1
Scunthorpe United	1999–2000	Second Division	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
colspan="3"\|Total !297	11	18	1	18	2	333	14