Simon Falette

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Simon Falette
Personal information
Full name Simon Augustin Falette [1]
Date of birth (1992-02-19) 19 February 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Le Mans, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
0000–2007 Tours
2012–2012 Lorient
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–2012 Lorient B 41 (1)
2011–2014 Lorient 1 (0)
2012–2013 → Laval (loan) 29 (2)
2013–2014 → Brest (loan) 32 (1)
2014–2016 Brest 66 (2)
2016–2017 Metz 36 (3)
2017–2020 Eintracht Frankfurt 35 (1)
2020 → Fenerbahçe (loan) 8 (0)
2020–2021 Hannover 96 20 (0)
2021–2023 Hatayspor 19 (1)
2024 Zbrojovka Brno 3 (0)
International career‡
2018– Guinea 16 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 February 2023

Simon Augustin Falette (born 19 February 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back. [2] Born in France, he plays for the Guinea national team.

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Club career

Falette started playing football at Tours before moving to the youth teams of Lorient in 2007. [3] On 18 February 2012, he made his Ligue 1 debut for the first team of Lorient in a 0–1 loss against Lille. He spent the 2012–13 season on loan at Ligue 2 side Laval. In the following season, he was again loaned out to Ligue 2, this time to Brest. Brest made the transfer permanent in the summer of 2014. Falette moved to first division team Metz prior to the 2016–17 season, where he was a regular starter and made 35 appearances in league matches, scoring three goals. [2]

In August 2017, Falette moved to Bundesliga club Frankfurt on a four-year deal. [4] He made his first appearance for his new club on the first matchday of the 2017–18 season in a 0–0 draw against Freiburg. On 10 February 2018, he scored his first and only goal in the German first league in a 4–2 victory against 1. FC Köln. [5] On 19 May 2018, Falette won the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal with his team, but didn't play in the final. [6]

On 5 October 2020, Falette joined Hannover 96. [7] He joined Hatayspor in 2021. [8]

On 27 February 2024, Falette signed a contract with Czech club Zbrojovka Brno until end of the season. [9]

International career

Falette was born in Le Mans, France, to a French Guianan father, Albert, who was also a footballer, [10] and a Guinean Loma mother. He was called up to the French Guiana national football team in 2015. [11]

In October 2018, he was approached by the Guinea national team, on the basis that his grandmother was born there. [12] He made his debut for Guinea on 18 November 2018, in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ivory Coast. [13] In the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, he appeared as a starter in all four matches his team played in the tournament before dropping our after losing to Algeria in the round of 16.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 5 October 2020 [14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueDomestic CupLeague CupOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Lorient II 2010–11 CFA 151———151
2011–12 260———260
Total411——00411
Lorient 2011–12 Ligue 1 100000—10
Laval (loan) 2012–13 Ligue 2 2921110—313
Brest (loan) 2013–14 Ligue 23212000—341
Brest 2014–15 Ligue 23214010—371
2015–16 3411000—351
Total662501000722
Metz 2016–17 Ligue 13531030—393
2017–18 100000—10
Total363103000403
Eintracht Frankfurt 2017–18 Bundesliga 27110——281
2018–19 700070—140
2019–20 100000—10
Total351107000431
Fenerbahçe 2019–20 Süper Lig 8040——120
Hannover 96 2020–21 2. Bundesliga 18010——190
2021–22 2000––20
Total200100000210
Hatayspor 2021–22 Süper Lig11130––141
2022–23 8010––90
Total191400000231
Career total268101511200029511

International

As of matches played on 14 July 2019 [15]
Guinea national team
YearAppsGoals
201810
201970
Total80

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  2. 1 2 Simon Falette at Soccerway
  3. ↑ "FC Lorient. Simon Falette, sur les traces du père". ouest-france.fr (in French). 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Eintracht Frankfurt verpflichtet Simon Falette". eintracht.de (in German). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "4:2 - Frankfurt sorgt für Kölner Tristesse im Karneval". kicker.de (in German). 10 February 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Eintracht Frankfurt stun Bayern Munich to win DFB Cup final for fifth time". Bundesliga. 19 May 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Frankfurt confirm departure of Simon Falette". bulinews.com. 5 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "Wechsel in die SüperLig: Falette verlässt Hannover". kicker.de (in German). kicker. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  9. ↑ Lísal, Martin (27 February 2024). "Do Brna přichází Simon Falette!". FC Zbrojovka Brno (in Czech). Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  10. ↑ "FC Lorient. Simon Falette, sur les traces du père". Ouest-France. 20 February 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  11. ↑ "Privat (Caen) et Baal (Lens) avec la Guyane pour les play-offs de la Gold Cup 2015 - Foot - Gold Cup". L'Équipe.
  12. ↑ "Guinea approach France-born Falette" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  13. ↑ "Guinea v Ivory Coast game report". CAF. 18 November 2018.
  14. ↑ "S Falette". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  15. ↑ Simon Falette at National-Football-Teams.com


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