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Paul Delecroix

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7150219 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul Delecroix (born 14 October 1988) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 2 club Dijon.

Career

Born in Amiens, Delecroix started his career with Amiens and made six league appearances for the club. He spent the 2011–12 season with Championnat National side Niort and played in every league game as the team won promotion to Ligue 2 as runners-up in the National. He subsequently joined Niort permanently on 27 June 2012, signing a two-year contract with the newly promoted club.

In May 2016, it was announced Delecroix would join Lorient on a three-year contract.

In July 2018, Delecroix joined Metz after being freed from his Lorient contract.

In January 2021, Delecroix signed for Championnat National club Annecy.

On 30 June 2024, Delecroix signed for Championnat National club Dijon.

Personal life

Paul's father Jean-Louis is a former footballer.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Paul Delecroix” is footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Paul, Delecroix and footballer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2011, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-10-14. For this dossier, Paul, Delecroix and footballer is the immediate research focus.
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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 Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7150219. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2011, 2012 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Delecroix” 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.