Nicolas Hibst (12 October 1915 – 21 January 1959) was a French

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player and

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. During his career, he played in Division 1 and Division 2 with FC Metz and

AS Saint-Étienne Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), commonly known as A.S.S.E. () or simply Saint-Étienne, is a professional football club based in Saint-Étienne in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The club was founded in 1933 and competes in ...

and was part of the Metz side which lost the 1938 Coupe de France final. His first foray into coaching came when he took charge of Division 1 side Metz in 1946. After just one season, he left to manage Lens where he guided the Division 2 outfit to the 1948 Coupe de France final and to the Division 2 championship the following season. His career finished when he left Division 3 club

Chamois Niortais Chamois Niortais Football Club (often referred to as ''Les Chamois'', Chamois Niortais, or simply Niort) is a French association football club based in the commune of Niort, in the Deux-Sèvres department of western France. It was founded in 1 ...

in 1953, after a three-year tenure. Hibst died in

Saint-Avold Saint-Avold (; ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Sänt Avuur'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is situated twenty-eight miles (45 km) east of Metz, France and seventeen miles (27 km) southwest ...

in January 1959 at the age of 43.Nicolas Hibst avec l'ASSE
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Nicolas Hibst's profile
at chamoisfc79.fr
Nicolas Hibst's profile
at FC Metz official site 1915 births 1959 deaths French footballers French football managers Association football midfielders Ligue 1 players FC Metz players AS Saint-Étienne players FC Metz managers RC Lens managers Chamois Niortais F.C. managers Sportspeople from Meurthe-et-Moselle Footballers from Grand Est {{france-footy-midfielder-1910s-stub