Lucien Favre (65) is without a job again!
The OGC Nice and the ex-BVB coach are now going their separate ways. The club confirmed corresponding media reports on Monday evening.
The team from the Côte d’Azur is reacting to the bad start to 2023. Nice is just getting up after a recent bankruptcy against Rennes (1: 2) and the embarrassing end in the French Cup against CO Le Puy (0: 1). Eleventh place in Ligue 1.
Didier Digard, the former coach of the reserve team, is to act as interim coach for the time being.
After leaving Borussia Dortmund in December 2020, Favre had been in Nice since the summer of 2022. Now the end after about half a year. In 26 games with the French, the Swiss only won eight, lost nine and drew nine.
The club from southern France, which belongs to British chemical billionaire Jim Ratcliffe (70, Ineos), plans to reach the Europa League in the medium term.
Full closure! Pyro & beating on the highway
The Swiss had previously rejected a return to Gladbach, where Favre was from 2011 to 2015.
In 2007, the Swiss coach moved from FC Zurich to Hertha BSC in the Bundesliga, then went to Gladbach after a quarrel with the club bosses. There Favre experienced his most successful time as a coach with the Champions League entry in 189 games.
After two years in his first term in Nice, Dortmund brought in the experienced coach, with whom Favre was twice able to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.
The Swiss also took second place twice with BVB before being released in December 2020 after half a season.
After Favre left, the first term of office of the current BVB coach Edin Terzic (40) followed, who has been head coach of the Ruhr club again since the summer of 2022 after the dismissal of Marco Rose (46) at Dortmund.
It is still unclear where the Swiss is going or whether he is taking a break between his other coaching jobs.
