Bernard Lacombe

**Bernard Lacombe** (15 August 1952 – 17 June 2025) was a French footballer and manager. As a footballer, he played as a striker for Lyon, Bordeaux and Saint-Étienne. He scored 255 goals in Ligue 1, which makes him the league's second-highest goalscorer, behind Delio Onnis.

He was capped 38 times for France between 1973 and 1984, and played for them at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, 1982 FIFA World Cup, and the 1984 UEFA European Championship, which France won. At the 1978 FIFA World Cup, he scored the fastest goal for a French player, which was only 30 seconds into their match against Italy.

After retiring, Lacombe joined Lyon as a technical manager in 1988, before becoming the team's manager in 1996. He would later serve as a "special adviser" to team president Jean-Michel Aulas for twenty years.

Lacombe died on 17 June 2025, at the age of 72.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|Lyon|1969–70|rowspan="9"|Division 1|5|1|||—|5|1|
|1970–71|3|0|||—|3|0|||||
|1971–72|36|19|||—|36|19|||||
|1972–73|35|23|||—|35|23|||||
|1973–74|31|13|||4|1|35|14||||
|1974–75|27|17|||4|4|31|21||||
|1975–76|16|5|||0|0|16|5||||
|1976–77|36|21|||—|36|21|||||
|1977–78|33|24|||—|33|24|||||
|Saint-Étienne|1978–79|Division 1|32|14|||—|32|14|||
|rowspan="9"|Bordeaux|1979–80|rowspan="8"|Division 1|33|11|||—|33|11|
|1980–81|34|18|||—|34|18|||||
|1981–82|33|17|||3|1|36|18||||
|1982–83|33|20|||6|0|39|20||||
|1983–84|35|18|||2|0|37|18||||
|1984–85|36|22|||8|3|44|25||||
|1985–86|23|7|||1|0|24|7||||
|1986–87|16|5|||2|0|18|5||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|France|1973|1|0|
|1974|3|2|||
|1975|—||||
|1976|3|1|||
|1977|4|0|||
|1978|6|1|||
|1979|4|4|||
|1980|3|1|||
|1981|3|2|||
|1982|5|0|||
|1983|—||||
|1984|6|1|||

- _Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lacombe goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|27 April 1974|Letná Stadium, Prague, Czechoslovakia||2–0|3–3|Friendly||||||||
|2|3–2|||||||||||||
|3|9 October 1976|Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria||2–0|2–2|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|4|2 June 1978|World Cup Stadium, Mar del Plata, Argentina||1–0|1–2|1978 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|5|7 May 1979|Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, United States||1–0|6–0|Friendly||||||||
|6|2–0|||||||||||||
|7|3–0|||||||||||||
|8|5 September 1979|Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden||1–0|3–1|UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying||||||||
|9|11 October 1980|Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus||1–0|7–0|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|10|5 December 1981|Parc des Princes, Paris, France||2–0|4–0|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|11|3–0|||||||||||||
|12|1 June 1984|Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France||2–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||

### Player

- Lyon
- Coupe de France: 1972–73
- Trophée des Champions: 1973

- Bordeaux
- Division 1: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87
- Coupe de France: 1985–86, 1986–87
- Trophée des Champions: 1986

- France
- UEFA European Championship: 1984

### Manager

- Lyon
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1997

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Bernard Lacombe
- **image**: Bernard Lacombe en 1977 (Olympique lyonnais).jpg
- **upright**: 0.7
- **caption**: Lacombe in 1977
- **birth place**: Lyon, French Fourth Republic, France
- **height**: 1.71 m
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1960–1969
- **youthclubs1**: CS Fontaines
- **years1**: 1969–1978
- **clubs1**: Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon
- **caps1**: 222
- **goals1**: 123
- **years2**: 1978–1979
- **clubs2**: AS Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne
- **caps2**: 32
- **goals2**: 14
- **years3**: 1979–1987
- **clubs3**: FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
- **caps3**: 243
- **goals3**: 118
- **totalcaps**: 497
- **totalgoals**: 255
- **nationalyears1**: 1973–1984
- **nationalteam1**: France national football team, France
- **nationalcaps1**: 38
- **nationalgoals1**: 12
- **manageryears1**: 1996–2000
- **managerclubs1**: Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon