Patrick Vallée

Patrick Vallée
Personal information
Full name	Patrick Vallée
Date of birth	October 4, 1961 (age 63)
Place of birth	France
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Team information
Current team	French Football Academy Singapore
Managerial career
Years	Team
2009–2010	Pacy Vallée-d'Eure
2010–2011	Étoile
2011–2012	Compiègne
2012–2015	Tanjong Pagar United
2016–2017	Warwick Knights
2017	Warwick Knights (technical director)
2017–2018	Chengdu FA (Head of youth)
20220–	French Football Academy Singapore

Patrick Vallée is a professional French football manager.^[1] He is currently working as the Technical Director for French Football Academy in Singapore.

Vallée guided Étoile to win the 2010 S.League in their debut season where they became the first foreign club to win the league.

Managerial career

Vallée started his professional managerial career with Pacy Vallée-d'Eure in 2009.

Étoile

In January 2010, Vallée was invited by newly launched club Étoile which plays in the Singapore S.League. In his first season in charge, he guided the club to win the league where they become the first foreign club to win the S.League title.

Compiègne

On 15 January 2011, Vallée returned to France to signed with third tier league club, Compiègne. He notably face off against the 2010–11 Ligue 1 champions club LOSC Lille during the 2011–12 Coupe de France Fourth Round tie on 21 January 2012. Vallée team managed to hold the game all the way until extra time before opponent Gianni Bruno scored in the 114th minute to knock Compiègne out from the cup. During the time of the match, Lille was using a hand full of potential players in the starting line-ups with the likes of Mickaël Landreau, Aurélien Chedjou, Eden Hazard, Dimitri Payet, Mathieu Debuchy, Lucas Digne, Idrissa Gueye, Florent Balmont and subtitutions Joe Cole.

Vallée then left the club at the end of the season.

Tanjong Pagar United

On 30 November 2012, Vallée then returned to Singapore to signed with Tanjong Pagar United in preparation for the upcoming 2013 S.League season. On 22 February 2013 in his first game in charge, he guided the team to a 3–1 win over Balestier Khalsa. Vallée also guided the team all the way to the 2013 Singapore Cup Final ended up as runner-ups after losing 4–1 to Home United.

Warwick Knights

In January 2016, Vallée was then appointed as Singapore Football League semi-professional club Warwick Knights as the team head coach. On 10 July 2017, he was reassigned to the club technical director.