title: Axel Lawarée
text: # Axel Lawarée
  
  Axel Lawarée (born 9 October 1973) is a Belgian former professional footballer, who played as a striker, and the current sporting director of Standard Liège.
  
  ## Management career
  
  In 2010, Lawarée founded a consulting firm which was named Axel Lawarée Consulting SPRL and was located in Oupeye, Belgium. The firm was also working together with the Royal Belgian Football Association.
  
  In November 2014, Lawarée was appointed as a sports advisor and sporting director at Standard Liège, replacing Jean-François De Sart who left his position a few months before. In February 2016, he was assigned a new role as director of the club's youth department. However, on 16 May 2016, Standard announced that the club had decided to end its collaboration with Lawarée.
  
  Two months later, he was appointed sporting director of his former club, RFC Seraing. From January 2014, he got a new role at Seraing as technical director of the club's youth department. Seraing announced on 21 June 2019, that Lawarée would leave the club to start a new chapter with a job at the Royal Belgian Football Association as manager of the national football center of Tubize.
  
  ## Honours
  
  Rapid Wien
  
  * Austrian Bundesliga: 2004–05
  
  Individual
  
  * Austrian Bundesliga top scorer: 2002–03 (21 goals)
  