Bernard Challandes

Bernard Challandes
Bernard Challandes (2007)
Personnel
birthday	July 28, 1951
place of birth	Le Locle ,  Switzerland
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1973	FC Le Locle
1973-1976	Urania Genève Sport
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1977-1984	FC Saint-Imier
1984-1985	FC Le Locle
1985-1987	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1987-1994	Yverdon-Sport FC
1994-1995	BSC Young Boys
1995	Servette FC Genève
2001-2007	Switzerland U-21
2007-2010	FC Zurich
2010-2011	FC Sion
2011	Neuchâtel Xamax
2011–2012	FC Thun
2013	BSC Young Boys
2014-2015	Armenia
2018–	Kosovo
1 Only league games are given.

Bernard Challandes (born July 28, 1951 in Le Locle ) is a Swiss football coach .

Career

His coaching career began at FC La Chaux-de-Fonds . Further stations were Le Locle, Yverdon-Sport FC , Servette FC Genève and the BSC Young Boys . His engagements in Geneva and Bern each lasted less than a year. A name had Challandes in Yverdon made after the Vaud from the first league in the National League A had led.

• From 1995 Challandes worked for the Swiss Football Association , since 2001 he was the U-21 national coach. His greatest success with this selection was in 2002 when he reached the European Championship semi-finals in his own country.

• In the 2008/09 season he was Swiss champion with FC Zurich , which he had coached since summer 2007. On April 19, 2010 - after the 0-1 home defeat against FC Aarau - he was dismissed and released immediately.

• For the 2010/11 season Challandes was the new coach of FC Sion . On February 22, 2011, he was replaced by Laurent Roussey . On Friday, May 13, 2011, Challandes took over the post of head coach at Xamax. Despite maintaining the league, his contract was not extended.

• From the beginning of the 2011/12 season until the middle of the 2012/13 season, Challandes was the coach of FC Thun .

• At the beginning of April 2013, Challandes was again coach of BSC Young Boys .

• On February 28, 2014 it was announced that the Neuchâtel would take over the Armenian national football team on March 5 . On March 30, 2015 he resigned as national coach of Armenia after a 2-1 defeat in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship against Albania .

• On March 1, 2018, Challendes took over the Kosovar national soccer team as national coach.

successes

Trainer

• 2003 U21 European Championship semi-finals in Switzerland
• Swiss champions 2008/09 with FC Zurich
• Promotion of Kosovo to League C of the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League

Private

Challandes is married and has four children. His son Mehdi currently plays for FC Biel-Bienne .

Web links

• Statistics FC Zurich
• Profile FC Sion-Online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FC Zurich and head coach Bernard Challandes split up - Urs Fischer is new FCZ coach ad interim ( Memento from April 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Challandes new coach at FC Sion
3. ^ Report of the Basler Zeitung from February 22, 2011
4. ↑ His first appearance as a Xamax coach - Challandes: "My mission is to rescue"
5. ↑ Challandes Yakin successor at FC Thun. In April 2012, Challandes extended his expiring contract until 2013.
6. ↑ Bernard Challandes remains a trainer in Thun. NZZ Online , accessed on May 14, 2012 . 
7. ↑ BSC Young Boys website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/sport/fussball/fussball-allgemein/bernard-challandes-wird-nationalcoach-in-armenien
9. ↑ Armenia's trainer resigns on transfermarkt.ch