Lucien Favre is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who most recently managed Ligue 1 club Nice.
22 Facts About Lucien Favre
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At club level, Lucien Favre played for Lausanne-Sports, Neuchatel Xamax, Toulouse and Servette, earning a reputation as a skillful and intelligent playmaker.
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Lucien Favre's coaching career started in 1991 as the under-14 assistant manager with Echallens.
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In January 1997, Lucien Favre was appointed manager of Yverdon Sport, who was struggling at the bottom of the Nationalliga B at that stage.
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Lucien Favre won the Swiss Cup in 2005 beating Luzern in the final.
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On 1 June 2007, German Bundesliga club Hertha BSC announced that Lucien Favre had agreed to sign a three-year deal as its head coach.
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Lucien Favre finished with a record of 40 wins, 20 draws, and 34 losses.
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On 14 February 2011, Lucien Favre was named as the successor of Michael Frontzeck as head coach of Borussia Monchengladbach.
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Lucien Favre took over when the team was sitting at the bottom of the league with only 16 points after 22 match days, seven points adrift of Bundesliga safety.
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Lucien Favre instigated an immediate improvement in form and although the club still struggled, they eventually managed a narrow win against VfL Bochum in a two-legged relegation play-off to secure their place in the Bundesliga.
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Lucien Favre finished with a record of 88 wins, 49 draws, and 52 losses.
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On 24 May 2016, Lucien Favre was appointed as Nice manager, replacing Claude Puel.
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Lucien Favre brought in only one backroom staff, Adrian Ursea.
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On 22 May 2018, Lucien Favre was appointed as manager of Borussia Dortmund, with a contract lasting until 30 June 2020.
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Lucien Favre finished with a record of 67 wins, 17 draws, and 23 losses.
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On 27 June 2022, Lucien Favre returned to Nice as manager.
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Furthermore, Lucien Favre is very skillful tactically, leaving his opponents struggling to penetrate his well-organized sides.
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Lucien Favre's teams tend to shoot less than others but have a high conversion rate, with shots coming from outside the box.
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Lucien Favre's teams stick out at the wrong end of expected goals statistics.
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Lucien Favre has a reputation of predicting well how opposing teams, coaches or players tend to react in certain situations.
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Lucien Favre is well known for his ability to develop talented young players and introduce them into the first team.
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Lucien Favre is credited with raising the game of German starlet Marco Reus, whose fine performances procured a call up to the Germany national team and a high-priced move to league champions Borussia Dortmund; Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who eventually joined Barcelona; and Christoph Kramer.