Patrick Lefevere (born 6 January 1955 in Moorslede) is the Belgian cycling team manager of the Quick Step-Innergetic cycling team. He is from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of the north. He was a professional racer from 1976 to 1979, winning Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne and the fourth stage in the Vuelta a España, both in 1978. He then became a team manager.
Lefevere was a sporting director of the Mapei of the 1990s, and he started the Domo-Farm Frites team of the early 2000s. Since 2003 he has been manager of the Quick Step team.
Lefevere managed teams with many one-day race specialists such as Johan Museeuw, Michele Bartoli, Paolo Bettini and Richard Virenque. At the end of 2005 he had two world champions: Tom Boonen on the road and Michael Rogers in the time trial.
Lefevere has suffered several heart diseases and now delegates the role of directeur-sportif to assistants.
Lefevere was accused of doping by a Belgian newspaper. Het Laatste Nieuws ran articles on 23 and 24 January 2007 entitled "Lefevere, 30 Years Of Dope"[1] A court in Brussels subsequently ordered the paper to pay €500,000 in damages and costs.[2][3]