The French first division soccer team OGC Nice has parted ways with long-time Bundesliga coach Lucien Favre.
The Ligue 1 club announced the dismissal on Monday evening (09.01.2023), thereby confirming corresponding media reports, including from France’s sports daily “L’Equipe” and the news agency AFP. Favre is to be replaced by his previous assistant Didier Digard.
Favre dismissed after the start of the disaster near Nice
Nice reacted to the weak start after the World Cup break with just one point from two games and the embarrassing loss of the cup at the third division CO Le Puy.
Favre only took up coaching in Nice for the second time in the summer of 2022, after shortly before he had turned down his former club Borussia Mönchengladbach. Favre had led Nice to third place in the 2016/17 season, after eighth place a year later, both sides parted ways. However, the engagement was not really successful. The ambitious Côte d’Azur club, owned by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe and his company Ineos, currently sits eleventh in Ligue 1.
The 65-year-old Swiss Favre had previously coached the clubs Hertha BSC, Mönchengladbach and Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.