Overview
- OGC Nice announced Claude Puel as head coach on a contract running to the end of the season.
- He replaces Franck Haise, who left by mutual agreement after a sustained downturn in results.
- Nice are 13th in Ligue 1 following a stretch that included nine straight defeats, briefly broken by a Coupe de France win over Saint-Étienne.
- The club continues to face fallout from a late-November training-center incursion by roughly 200 organized supporters that turned violent and led to legal action.
- Puel, 64, returns after three years out of management and previously led Nice from 2012 to 2016.