Lucien Favre

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Lucien Favre
Lucien Favre.jpg
Lucien Favre (2018)
Personnel
birthday November 2, 1957
place of birth Saint BarthélemySwitzerland
Size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1967-1971 FC Oulens
1972-1976 FC Lausanne Sports
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976-1979 FC Lausanne Sports 30 0(3)
1979-1981 Neuchâtel Xamax 51 (14)
1981-1983 Servette FC 59 (28)
1983-1984 Toulouse FC 35 0(7)
1984-1991 Servette FC 134 (20)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981-1989 Switzerland 24 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991-1993 FC Echallens (Juniors)
1993-1994 FC Echallens
1996-2000 Yverdon-Sport FC
2000-2002 Servette FC
2003-2007 FC Zurich
2007-2009 Hertha BSC
2011-2015 Borussia Monchengladbach
2016-2018 OGC Nice
2018– Borussia Dortmund
1 Only league games are given.

Lucien Favre (born November 2, 1957 in Saint-Barthélemy , Canton of Vaud ) is a former Swiss football player and current coach . He has been the coach of the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund since 2018 . He is a fan of the fast short passing game based on the Spanish model and is considered a tactician and perfectionist.

Career as a player

societies

The 24-time Swiss national player was considered a very good technician and intelligent playmaker. During his career he played for Neuchâtel Xamax , FC Toulouse and Servette Geneva, among others .

On September 13, 1985 he was seriously injured when the opposing Libero Pierre-Albert Chapuisat (father of Stéphane Chapuisat ) kicked him in the hollow of the knee in the game Servette Geneva against Vevey Sports . The foul was not punished because a player, as the latter said, "took the view of the crime scene" from the referee Bruno Galler. Favre suffered several broken bones and torn ligaments. The foul resulted in a two-year civil trial - the first in the history of Swiss football - at the end of which Chapuisat was fined 5,000 francs for negligent bodily harm by the Geneva Police Court.

After the eight-month break due to injury, Favre made a comeback at Servette; from 1987 he played together with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , who had moved from Inter Milan to Geneva. In 1991 Favre ended his active time at Servette Geneva.

National team

During his time in the Swiss national team, Favre scored one goal in 24 games. This fell in his first international match in a 2-1 win against the Netherlands on September 1, 1981 in Zurich ; and Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard gave her national team debut that day. His last international match was on April 26, 1989 in Lisbon in a 3-1 defeat by Portugal .

Success as a player

Career as a coach

Stations in Switzerland

Favre's coaching career began in 1991 at FC Echallens as assistant coach for the C-Juniors. After a year he trained the junior team (14-year-olds) and then took over the first team. Under Favre's leadership, the club rose to National League B , which was the club's greatest success to date.

Following his work at FC Echallens, Favre worked for Neuchâtel Xamax as a junior manager for 18 months . In 1997 Favre moved to Yverdon Sports, with whom he rose to the National League A and finished the following season in fifth place in the table.

In 2000 he moved to Servette Geneva, where he had previously worked as a player. In 2001 he won the Swiss Cup with the team and advanced to the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup with a 3-0 away win at Hertha BSC .

In the spring of 2003, Favre moved to FC Zurich . When hiring, he was able to outdo competitor Joachim Löw , as sports journalist Michael Jahn revealed in his Favre biography. Both had their interview on the same day. With the FCZ Favre was once cup winner (2005) and 2006 and 2007 champion . On May 29, 2007 he was voted Swiss Trainer of the Year for the second time in a row . Under his leadership Daniel Gygax , Blerim Džemaili , Xavier Margairaz , Steve von Bergen and Gökhan Inler were nominated for the Swiss national team.

Hertha BSC

Favre as coach of Hertha BSC (2009)

For the 2007/08 season Favre moved to the German Bundesliga club Hertha BSC . In Berlin he received a contract until 2010, which was extended from January 2009 to 2011. Favre moved from Bergen to Berlin together with assistant trainer Harald Gämperle and the players Raffael and Steve . In the 2008/09 season he led Hertha to fourth place in the table. For financial reasons, Hertha was unable to retain important players for the following season. After a bad start to the season 2009/10 with six defeats in a row and the last place in the table after the seventh game day, Favre was released on September 28, 2009 from his activity.

After Favre had made negative comments on October 6, 2009 at a private press conference in the Berlin Hotel Adlon about the transfer policy of the Hertha club management under President Werner Gegenbauer , he was dismissed without notice.

Borussia Monchengladbach

Favre as coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach (2011)

On February 14, 2011, Borussia Mönchengladbach signed Favre as head coach after Michael Frontzeck had been on leave the day before. Favre took over a team that was bottom of the table with 16 points after 22 of 34 game days and was seven points behind the relegation place. With 20 points from the remaining twelve games, Borussia and Favre held the class; on May 25, 2011, the team prevailed in two relegation games against VfL Bochum .

Favre started the 2011/12 season with a win at FC Bayern Munich and reached the top of the table on matchday three. On February 8, 2012, he moved into the semi-finals of the DFB Cup with Borussia and lost on penalties against Bayern Munich. The 2011/12 season ended Borussia - with almost the same team that had barely avoided relegation in the previous season - in fourth place in the table, which was the first time in the club's history to participate in the play-offs for the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League entitled. After there had been speculation for a long time about Favre's departure, he extended his contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach, which expired in June 2013, by two years in July 2012.

In the election for coach of the year 2012 , Favre took second place behind master coach Jürgen Klopp . After fourth place in the table in his first full season at Borussia, the team reached 8th place in the 2012/13 season . As a result, Favre failed to make it into a European competition with Borussia.

In March 2014, Favre extended his contract with Borussia until June 2017 and qualified with her for the group stage of the 2014 UEFA Europa League after finishing sixth in the 2013/14 season and two wins against FK Sarajevo in the play-off games / 15 .

Borussia's 2-0 win on November 6, 2014 in the group stage of the Europa League against Cypriot club Apollon Limassol was the 18th competitive game in a season without a defeat. Favre and his team beat the record from 1970/71 under Hennes Weisweiler (17 competitive games unbeaten). On February 14, 2015, Favre celebrated the completion of a four-year tenure as coach of Borussia, in which he achieved 61 wins, 35 draws and 39 defeats from 135 Bundesliga games and thus had the third-best statistics of all Borussia coaches behind Weisweiler and Udo Lattek .

Under Favre, Borussia finished the 2014/15 season in third place in the table, which enabled participation in the Champions League. By reaching the Champions League, the club ended a 37-year absence from the most important competition in European football. At the same time, a new club record was set with 39 points in the second half of the season. Favre was later named Coach of the Season. Due to the similarity of the way his team played against FC Barcelona , the term “Borussia Barcelona” was born at the time of Favres at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

After six consecutive competitive defeats at the start of the season, Favre offered the executive committee of Borussia Mönchengladbach his resignation as coach on September 20, 2015, which was rejected. Shortly afterwards, Favre released a statement announcing his immediate resignation.

OGC Nice

From 2016 to 2018, Lucien Favre coached the French first division club OGC Nice . He received a three-year contract and trained, among other things, Mario Balotelli . In his first season, OGC Nice retired after two wins and four defeats in the group stage of the Europa League from bottom of the table. The opponent was, among others, FC Schalke 04 . In the league, Favre led his team to third place in the table, which qualified OGC Nice for the playoffs of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League . Against the Italian representative SSC Napoli, the Swiss and his team lost twice with 0: 2 each time and thus entered the Europa League again. Although OGC Nice survived the group stage this time, they failed in the round of sixteen to Lokomotiv Moscow (2: 3, 0: 1). In league operations, OGC finished in eighth place in the table. On the last day of the match, Favres Club gambled away their participation in the European Cup by losing 3-2 to Olympique Lyon .

On May 19, 2018, Favre announced its separation from OGC Nice.

Borussia Dortmund

Favre has been a coach at Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund since June 2018 . In his first season as coach of BVB Favre was runner-up with his team, although the decision on the championship was not made until the last day of the match. In the meantime, Dortmund had nine points ahead of eventual champions Bayern Munich, but ended the season two points behind them.

His contract with BVB runs until June 30, 2021.

Success as a trainer

  • 1994: rise of NLB (Échallens)
  • 1999: Promotion of NLA (Yverdon)
  • 2001: Swiss Cup Winner (Servette)
  • 2005: Swiss Cup Winner (FC Zurich)
  • 2006: Swiss champions (FC Zurich)
  • 2006: Trainer of the year (Switzerland)
  • 2007: Swiss champions (FC Zurich)
  • 2007: Trainer of the year (Switzerland)
  • 2008/09: Coach of the Season (Germany)
  • 2011/12: Coach of the Season (Germany) ( VdV )
  • 2013/14: Coach of the first half of the season (Germany) ( kicker )
  • 2014/15: Coach of the Season (Germany)
  • 2019: Supercup winner with Borussia Dortmund

In terms of points, Lucien Favre is the most successful coach in Borussia Dortmund's history since the club was founded in 1909. With 2.14 points per game, the Swiss is currently (as of 2019) number one among all previous BVB coaches.

Competitive game statistics as a coach

As of December 11, 2018.

team from to Results
Sp. S. U N Weight%
FC Echallens 1991 1995 -
Yverdon-Sport FC 1997 2000 047 15th 12 20th 31.9
Servette FC 2000 2002 073 29 20th 24 39.7
FC Zurich 2002 2007 169 94 33 42 55.6
Hertha BSC 2007 2009 093 40 19th 34 43.0
Borussia Monchengladbach 2011 2015 188 87 49 52 46.3
OGC Nice 2016 2018 098 43 23 32 43.9
Borussia Dortmund 2018 021st 16 04th 01 76.2
Total 541 266 125 153 49.2

Personal

Favre is married and has one son. He met his wife Chantal as a teenager at a Chilbi . Like his father, his son Loïc was a footballer and trained under him at Yverdon-Sport FC . He still resides in his native Saint-Barthélemy. He was nicknamed "Lulu" when he was a player and coach in Switzerland.

literature

  • Michael Jahn: Lucien Favre. Der Bessermacher, Hildesheim: Arete Verlag 2019.

Web links

Commons : Lucien Favre  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  9. Hertha resigns ex-trainer Favre without notice. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 19, 2009.
  10. ^ Favre terminated without notice. In: Die Zeit , October 20, 2009.
  11. Lucien Favre new head coach at Borussia. In: borussia.de , February 14, 2011.
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  13. ^ Contract with Lucien Favre extended. In: borussia.de , July 4, 2012.
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