Lille have announced that head coach Rene Girard will leave the club at the end of the season by mutual consent.
Girard has been in charge at Stade Pierre-Mauroy since 2013 and is joined by assistants Gerard Bernadet and Nicolas Girard in making an exit.
The club sit eighth in Ligue 1 with one match left to play and, while not mathematically impossible, any improvement on that appears unlikely due to an inferior goal difference compared to seventh-placed Montpellier.
Girard will make his final bow as Lille boss at Metz on Saturday, with Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard among the favourites to succeed the 61-year-old.
Lille have promised the announcement of a new coach by the end of the month.
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