He was 72 years old
French ex-European champion Lacombe died
Updated on June 18, 2025 – 7:20 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
It is one of the most successful goal scorers in the French league history. Bernard Lacombe has now died at the age of 72.
Bernard Lacombe, one of the French European Football champions from 1984, is dead. The former center forward, who scored twelve goals in 38 international matches, died on Tuesday at the age of 72. This announced his “Eternal Favorite Club” Olympique Lyon, in which Lacombe had become a national player and for whom he later also worked as a sports director, coach and consultant.
“With great sadness, we found out about Bernard Lacombe on this Tuesday evening,” wrote the club on the X platform and condolned the family. “Adieu Bernard, you were our legend, the greatest of all.”
However, Lacombe celebrated his greatest success as a player in club football with Girondin’s Bordeaux, three times he won the French championship, in 497 games he scored 255 goals. To date, only the Argentinian Delio Onnis (299) in France’s top league has hit more often than Lacombe, who also celebrated three cup wins and took part in the 1978 and 1982 World Championships.