Sylvain Marchal

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Personal information
Sylvain Marchal
Date of birth	February 10, 1980 (age 27)
Place of birth	Langres, France
Height	1.84 m
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	FC Lorient
Number	29
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996 - 2005 2004 - 2005 2005 -	FC Metz LB Châteauroux FC Lorient	90 (2) 27 (0) Loan 37 (3)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2006-11-16. * Appearances (Goals)

Sylvain Marchal (born 10 February 1980 in Langres) is a French professional football (soccer) player, currently with FC Lorient.

Marchal began his career at FC Metz, making his Ligue 1 debut on 10 March 1999 in the 0-0 draw at AS Monaco. It was in the latter half of the 2001-02 season that he established himself as a regular in the Metz lineup, but fell out of favour by August 2004, when he was loaned out to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux.

A year later he returned to Metz to start in the first two matches of the 2005-06 season, but then transferred to Lorient in Ligue 2. Lorient won promotion with him in the team, and he is a regular for them in the opening months of 2006-07 in Ligue 1.