Sylvain Marchal

Sylvain Marchal
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-02-10) 10 February 1980
Place of birth Langres, France
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2005 Metz 90 (2)
2004–2005 → Châteauroux (loan) 27 (0)
2005–2010 Lorient 146 (6)
2010–2012 Saint-Étienne 48 (2)
2011 Saint-Étienne B 1 (0)
2012–2013 SC Bastia 30 (1)
2013– 2015 Metz 42 (0)
2013 Metz B 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Sylvain Marchal (born 10 February 1980) is a French retired professional footballer who played as a defender.[1]

Career

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 was a regular for them in the opening months of 2006–07 in Ligue 1.

On 17 June 2010 Saint-Etienne signed the former FC Lorient defender until 30 June 2013.

On 27 July 2012, Marchal signed a two-year contract with the Corsican club Bastia.[2]

Only a season later, he left the Ligue 1 side by mutual consent[3] to join his first club of Metz, recently promoted in the Ligue 2.[4] In February 2016, Metz announced the end of Marchal's career.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Sylvain Marchal – French league stats at LFP
  2. ↑ "Sylvain Marchal sera bastiais !" (in French). SC Bastia. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "Sylvain Marchal résilie son contrat" (in French). SC Bastia. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Marchal, c’est fait !" (in French). FC Metz. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sylvain Marchal arrête sa carrière". L'Equipe (in French). 12 February 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
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