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Eddy Lecygne

French association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ23008014 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eddy Lecygne (born 6 August 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lamballe.

Career

Lecygne joined Premier League club Stoke City in early 2012 after previously playing in the youth teams at Guingamp, Rennes and Lamballe. He joined League One side Doncaster Rovers on a one-month loan deal on 25 January 2016. He made his debut in the Football League the following day, in a 2–1 defeat to Port Vale at the Keepmoat Stadium. Lecygne was released by Stoke in June 2018.

After release from Stoke, Lecygne returned to France and joined Régional 1 side Lamballe.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Eddy Lecygne” as french association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eddy, Lecygne and French.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2012, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-08-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eddy, Lecygne and French providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Eddy Lecygne”, the useful work is to connect “french association football player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23008014. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2012, 2016 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eddy Lecygne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.