Olympique Lyonnais

Association football club in Lyon, France
This article is about the men ‘s association football team. For the women ‘s association football clubhouse, see Olympique Lyonnais Féminin
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Olympique Lyonnais ( french pronunciation : [ ɔlɛ̃pik ljɔnɛ ] ), normally referred to as plainly Lyon ( french pronunciation : [ ljɔ̃ ] ) or OL, is a french professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It plays in France ‘s highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1899, [ 2 ] the club won its first Ligue 1 backing in 2002, starting a national record-setting streak of seven consecutive titles. Lyon has besides won eight Trophées des Champions, five Coupes de France, and three Ligue 2 titles. Lyon has participated in the UEFA Champions League seventeen times, and during the 2009–10 season, reached the semi-finals of the contest for the inaugural time after three previous quarter-final appearances. They once again reached this stage in the 2019–20 season. Olympique Lyonnais plays its home matches at the 59,186-seat Parc Olympique Lyonnais, commercially known as the Groupama Stadium, in Décines-Charpieu, a suburb of Lyon. The club ‘s dwelling colors are white, crimson and blue. Lyon was a member of the G14 group of leading european football clubs and are founder members of its successor, the European Club Association. Lyon are one of the most support clubs in France, along with Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille. [ 3 ] The baseball club ‘s dub, Les Gones, means “ The Kids ” in Lyon ‘s regional dialect of Franco-Provençal. [ 1 ] They have a long-standing competition with nearby clubhouse Saint-Étienne, with whom they contest the Derby Rhône-Alpes. Lyon have been owned by Jean-Michel Aulas since 1987 .

history [edit ]

Olympique Lyonnais was initially formed under the multisports club Lyon Olympique Universitaire, which was primitively formed in 1896 as Racing Club de Lyon. Following numerous home disagreements regarding the cohabitation of amateurs and professionals within the cabaret, then-manager of the club Félix Louot and his cortege contemplated forming their own baseball club. On 3 August 1950, Louot ‘s plan came to realization when Olympique Lyonnais was formally founded by Dr. Albert Trillat and numerous others. The club ‘s first director was Oscar Heisserer and, on 26 August 1950, played its first official equal defeating CA Paris-Charenton 3–0 in front of 3,000 supporters. In just the club ‘s second base year of being, Lyon was crowned ace of the moment division, securing promotion to the first division. The club maintained its first division place for the end of the decade, excluding a class ‘s least sandpiper in the second division for the 1953–54 season. Lyon achieved tone down achiever during the 1960s and 1970s with the likes of Fleury Di Nallo, Néstor Combin, Serge Chiesa, Bernard Lacombe and Jean Djorkaeff playing major roles. Under director Lucien Jasseron, Lyon won its first-ever Coupe de France title defeating Bordeaux 2–0 in the 1963–64 season. The clubhouse besides performed respectably in the league under Jasseron ‘s reign until the 1965–66 season, when Lyon finished 16th, which ultimately led to Jasseron ‘s deviation. His substitution was Louis Hon, who helped Lyon win their second Coupe de France style after defeating Sochaux 3–1 in the 1966–67 season. Lyon was managed by former Lyon legend Aimé Mignot heading into the 1970s. Under Mignot ‘s helm, Lyon won its third base Coupe de France deed in 1972–73, beating Nantes 2–1. In June 1987, Lyon was bought by Rhône businessman Jean-Michel Aulas who took see of the club aiming to turn Lyon into an established Ligue 1 side. His ambitious plan, titled OL – Europe, was designed to develop the club at the European floor and back into the first division within a period of no more than four years. The first director under the new hierarchy was Raymond Domenech. The aspiring chair gave Domenech carte blanche to recruit whoever he saw equip to help the team reach the inaugural division. They went on to accomplish this in Domenech ‘s first base season in charge. Lyon achieved its zenith under Domenech when it qualified for the UEFA Cup. For the remainder of his tenure, however, the club underachieved. Domenech was replaced by former french external Jean Tigana, who led the team to an impressive second place in the 1994–95 season. At the startle of the new millennium, Lyon began to achieve greater success in french football. The club established itself as the premiere club in France defeating Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain and besides became France ‘s richest club vitamin a well as one of the most democratic. [ citation needed ] Lyon became known for developing bright talent who went on to achieve enormousness not only in France, but besides abroad and internationally. celebrated examples include Michael Essien, Florent Malouda, Sidney Govou, Juninho, Cris, Eric Abidal, Mahamadou Diarra, Patrick Müller and Karim Benzema. Lyon won its first ever Ligue 1 championship in 2002, starting a national record-breaking streak of seven consecutive titles. During that run the golf club besides won one Coupe de France title, its first gear Coupe de la Ligue deed and a commemorate six Trophée des Champions. The baseball club besides performed well in UEFA competitions, reaching vitamin a far as the quarter-finals on three occasions and the semi-finals in 2010 in the UEFA Champions League. Lyon ‘s streak and coherent dominance of french football came to an end during the 2008–09 season, when it lost the claim to Bordeaux. OL has begun investment in sports outside of football. OL operates an esports team in China, [ 4 ] and in 2019 purchased a minority stake in the local ASVEL basketball club, specifically purchasing a 25 % sake in ASVEL ‘s men ‘s side and a 10 % sake in the women ‘s slope. [ 5 ] More recently, OL announced in December 2019 that it would buy an 89.5 % stake in the U.S. National Women ‘s Soccer League team known at the prison term as Reign FC. The purchase closed in January 2020 following approval of the NWSL display panel. [ 6 ] Several weeks former, OL announced the rebranding of Reign FC as OL Reign. [ 7 ] In the 2019-20 season, Lyon suffered a poor start to the season, and ended the season in seventh place, as the league was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Lyon besides reached the final of the Coupe de la Ligue, however, they finally lost to Paris Saint-Germain 6-5 on penalties. ultimately, this mean that Lyon failed to qualify for european rival for the first time in 24 years. In the Champions League, Lyon were more successful, defeating Juventus in the round of 16 and Manchester City in the quarter-final to reach the semi-finals for the first meter in 10 years. however, they finally lost 3-0 in the semi-final to Bayern Munich, eliminating Lyon from the rival .

ownership and finances [edit ]

Olympique Lyonnais is owned by Rhône businessman Jean-Michel Aulas, who acquired the cabaret on 15 June 1987. He serves as the fall through and headman operating officer of CEGID ( Compagnie Européenne de Gestion equality l’Informatique Décentralisée ). After ridding the club of its debt, Aulas restructured the club ‘s management and reorganised the finances and, in a straddle of two decades, transformed the club from a second base part team into one of the richest football clubs in the populace. however, Aulas has been lambasted by critics for running the baseball club as if it were a clientele. The clubhouse presently operates on the European Stock Exchange under the name OL Groupe, initialled OLG. [ 8 ] In April 2008, clientele magazine Forbes ranked Lyon as the thirteenth most valuable football team in the world. The magazine valued the club at $ 408 million ( €275.6M ), excluding debt. [ 9 ] In February 2009, Lyon were rated in the 12th spotlight in the Deloitte Football Money League, reportedly bringing in an annual tax income of €155.7 million for the 2007–08 season, which ranks among the populace ‘s best football clubs in terms of tax income. [ 10 ] In 2016, a chinese private equity fund acquired 20 % bet on in Olympique Lyonnais Group for €100 million. The fund was managed by IDG Capital Partners. [ 11 ] Aulas presently serves on the board for the European Club Association, a sports administration representing football clubs in Europe. He was besides the last president of the now-defunct G-14 organization .

As of 1 October 2018.

Club Management

President and chairman

Jean-Michel Aulas

Managing director

Thierry Sauvage

Sporting Director

Juninho Pernambucano

Director of Scouting

Florian Maurice

Commercial Director

Olivier Bernardeau

Marketing Director

Didier Kermarrec

Security Director

Annie Saladin

Director of Special Operations

Mathieu Giraud

Special Advisor

Bernard Lacombe

stadium [edit ]

One of the two lions guarding the main entrance to the Stade Gerland . Parc Olympique Lyonnais . horizon of the Stade de Gerland. Olympique Lyonnais used to play at the Stade de Gerland since 1950, the class of the baseball club ‘s foundation. In 1910, the mayor of Lyon, Édouard Herriot, came up with the mind to develop and build a sports stadium with an athletics track and a velodrome in the city. In 1912, the stadium was formally mandated and local architect Tony Garnier was given the reins to designing and constructing it. Construction began in 1914 with hopes that the stadium would be completed before the International Exhibition of 1914. Due to World War I, however, structure was temporarily halted, but resumed following its conclusion in 1919. By 1920, the stadium was wholly functional. In 1926, the Stade de Gerland was inaugurated by Herriot. Olympique Lyonnais began playing at the Gerland in 1950 and remained at the stadium until 2016. The stadium in the first place had a bicycle track, but was removed to increase the seat capability to 50,000. In 1984, minor renovations were made to the stadium by architect Rene Gagis. This admit construction of the Jean Bouin and Jean Jaurès stands. far renovations were needed to prepare the stadium for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, as by that time FIFA had mandated that all stadiums used for external matches, including the World Cup, had to be all-seated. The north and south stands, known as the Jean Jaurès and Jean Bouin base, respectively, were wholly knocked down and rebuilt, and the athletics track that had remained, evening after the cycle racetrack had been removed, was taken out. The renovations were done by architect Albert Constantin. The new incarnation of Gerland had a maximum capacity of 40,500. On 1 September 2008, Olympique Lyonnais president Jean-Michel Aulas announced plans to create a new 60,000-seat stadium, tentatively called OL Land, to be built on 50 hectares of land located in Décines-Charpieu, a suburb of Lyon. The stadium includes state-of-the-art sporting facilities, two hotels, a leisure center and commercial and business offices. On 13 October 2008, the plan was agreed upon by the State, the General Council of Rhône, the Grand Lyon, SYTRAL and the municipality of Décines for construction with approximately €180 million of public money being used and between €60–80 million coming from the Urban Community of Lyon. [ 12 ] After the announcement, however, the club ‘s efforts to get the stadium off the flat coat were been hindered chiefly due to slow administrative procedures, political interests and versatile opposition groups, who viewed the stadium as financially, ecologically and socially wrong for the taxpayers and community of Décines. The official name of the stadium was provisionally to be The Stade des Lumières. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] On 22 September 2009, french newspaper L’Equipe reported that OL Land had been selected by the french Football Federation ( FFF ) as one of the 12 stadiums to be used in the area ‘s wish for UEFA Euro 2016. [ 15 ] The FFF formally made their selections on 11 November 2009 and the city of Lyon was selected as a web site to host matches during the tournament. [ 16 ] The opening of Parc OL was on 9 January 2016. Olympique Lyonnais beat Troyes 4–1 with goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Rachid Ghezzal, Jordan Ferri and Claudio Beauvue .

trail Centre [edit ]

The Centre Tola Vologe was the coach center and club headquarter of Olympique Lyonnais before the motivate to their new stadium in 2016. It is located in the city of Lyon, not army for the liberation of rwanda from the Stade de Gerland. The facility is named after Anatole Vologe, normally called Tola Vologe, who was a Lyon sport and was murdered by the Gestapo during World War II. The facility is known for its high-level train [ 17 ] and several outstanding players have passed through the youth train center. These include Karim Benzema, Hatem Ben Arfa, Sidney Govou, Alexandre Lacazette, Samuel Umtiti and Ludovic Giuly. The center used to host discipline sessions for the elder team and besides served as the home adeptness for the club ‘s reserve, youth ( both male and female ), and female sides, who both played their home matches at the Plaine des Jeux de Gerland. Jean-François Vulliez is the current director of the center. Both the men and women teams now train within a modern complex right by the new Groupama Stadium in Décines. The youth Academy besides moved to the neighbouring town of Meyzieu .

Colours and kits [edit ]

Lyon won six of their seven league titles wearing this kit. Since the cabaret ‘s foundation, the primary colours have been red, blue, and white, with the latter being the most prevailing of the three. During the early years of the baseball club ‘s being, Olympique Lyonnais primarily played in all-white uniforms. In 1955, Lyon officials decided to add a red and blue chevron and blue shorts to the combination. [ 18 ] In 1961, the chevron custom was disbanded and the two strips of red and amobarbital sodium were shaped horizontally. [ 19 ] After six years, the club returned to the all-white uniforms, but kept intact the red and blue stripes, but, rather of keeping them horizontally, inserted them vertically and on the bequeath side of the shirt. [ 20 ] Lyon began wearing the shirt during the 1970–71 season and wore the kits up until the 1975–76 temper. For the 2002–03 season, president Jean-Michel Aulas announced that the cabaret would return the kits. Lyon wore them, with several different modifications every year, for six of their seven back-to-back titles. In 1976, the club endured a drastic change to their kits, ditching the all-white uniforms for an all-red stylus, akin to English club Liverpool. The club wore the kits up until the 1989–90 season, with the 1977–78 and 1978–79 seasons being excluded due to the club adding dark blue blue upright stripes to the shirt that was deemed unsuccessful. [ 21 ] Following the 1989–90 temper, the club returned to the all-white kits and, at the begin of the 1995–96 season, the golf club returned the erect stripes, but opted to insert them in the center of the shirt, rather of to the leave. The golf club kept this vogue until the 2001–02 temper. For the 2009–10 season, Lyon returned the horizontal red and blue stripes. In the Champions League, Lyon has used a assortment of different colours as first option, including crimson, navy bluing, light blue, black, silver and fluorescent scandalmongering. [ 22 ]

Supporters [edit ]

Bad Gones before the match Olympique Lyonnais – Real Madrid in 2006. Tribune ofbefore the match Olympique Lyonnais – Real Madrid in 2006. Olympique Lyonnais has a highly-active and firm fanbase composed of many groups of supporters. One of the club ‘s most noteworthy supporters group is Bad Gones ( “ Bad Kids ” ). The Bad Gones were established in 1987 around the time of Jean-Michel Aulas ‘s leverage of the team and occupy the Virage Nord area of the Stade de Gerland. During the 2007–08 season, the group celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The Bad Gones is the biggest group of supporters in France and have a identical potent repute in Europe, due to the club ‘s control of Ligue 1, arsenic well as Lyon ‘s stay appearances in the UEFA Champions League. Another celebrated supporters group is the Cosa Nostra Lyon, who occupy the Virage Sud area of the stadium. The group was created in 2007 as a result of a amalgamation between two groups, the Lugdunums, which had existed since 1993 and Nucleo Ultra, which formed in 2000. The amalgamation was created to achieve a sense of stability among supporters. The group is no longer recognised by the golf club, but continues to operate in a functional manner. other defend groups include the Hex@gones, which was formed in 2000 and sit in the Virage Sud sphere, the Gastrogones, who occupy the Jean Bouin stand, and the O’Elles Club, who sit in the Jean Jaurès stand. The club besides has support groups that are based in areas outside of the city of Lyon. The Gones 58 supporters come from the department of Nièvre in Bourgogne, while Gones 26 origins come from the department of Drôme in nearby Valence. Three minor support groups in Septimagones, Loups Marchois, and Dauphigones comes from the commune of Hérépian, the department of Creuse, and the department of Isère, respectively .

Statistics and records [edit ]

Lyon ‘s first competitive game was a 3–0 victory against CA Paris-Charenton on 26 August 1950. Since the club ‘s foundation garment in 1950, they have played 48 seasons in France ‘s highest football division, which totals 1,768 matches. Of the 1,768, they achieved 686 victories, drew 442 matches and lost 602 contests. Of the nine seasons the baseball club played in Ligue 2, they contested 310 matches, winning 160 matches, drawing 84 times and losing alone 56. Lyon achieved their 1,000th victory during the 2003–04 temper after defeating Strasbourg. The Moroccan-born French midfielder Serge Chiesa holds Lyon overall appearance record having played in 541 matches over the course of 14 seasons from 1969 to 1983. Following him is erstwhile goalkeeper Grégory Coupet who contested 518 matches over the course of 11 seasons from 1997 to 2008. Along with Sidney Govou, Coupet besides has the differentiation of being the only actor in Lyon ‘s history to win all four domestic french titles having been a part of all seven Ligue 1 titles, the baseball club ‘s Coupe de France wallow in 2008, the only Coupe de la Ligue gain in 2001, and six of the seven Trophée des Champions titles. Govou, Coupet, and Juninho parcel the honor of being only Lyon players who were a part of all seven entitle runs. The baseball club ‘s all-time leading scorer is Fleury Di Nallo, who scored 182 goals while at the club from 1960 to 1974. Di Nallo is besides one-third behind Chiesa and Coupet in all time appearances having played in 489 matches during his 14-year stint at the club. Despite Di Nallo ‘s impressive goalscoring record, he does n’t hold the read for most goals scored during a league season. That eminence was held by Bourg-en-Bresse -born André Guy who notched 25 goals, which he attained in the 1968–69 season. Alexandre Lacazette, however, scored his 26th finish of the 2014–15 league season in an crucial game aside to Stade de Reims when he scored in the one-sixth infinitesimal.

Rivalries [edit ]

historically, Lyon has a healthy competition with fellow Ligue 1 club Saint-Étienne, whom they contest the Derby Rhône-Alpes with. [ 23 ] Since the clubhouse ‘s dominance at the start of the modern millennium, however, they have established rivalries with Marseille, Bordeaux, Paris Saint-Germain and Lille. Lyon besides share minor rivalries with colleague Rhône-Alpes clubs Grenoble and AS Lyon Duchère. The Saint-Étienne competition began during the 1960s when Lyon established permanent residency in the french first division. The Arpitan competition stems from both clubs close proximity of each other, separated by just 61 kilometres ( 38 mi ), a well as historical social and cultural remainder between the two cities where they are based ; Lyon cited as being more upper-class, while Saint-Étienne is cited as being more propertyless. [ 23 ] The bowler hat besides pits “ the recently most successful french club ” ( Lyon ) against “ the once biggest french club ” ( Saint-Étienne ) and is much cited as one of the high-points of the Ligue 1 season. Lyon ‘s competition with Marseille goes back to 23 September 1945, when the clubs contested their beginning match. The bowler hat, frequently called Choc des Olympiques ( “ Clash of the Olympics ” ) or Olympico, is frequently cited as being peculiarly authoritative as both clubs are of high standard in french football and the backing is regularly decided between the two. Marseille, Saint-Étienne, Lyon, and PSG are the alone french clubs to have won the french inaugural division four straight times with Marseille doing it on two occasions .
On 7 August 2009, Lyon announced that it would sign a ten-year deal with the german sportswear mark Adidas, effective at the depart of the 2010–11 season with Lyon earning €5 million annually from the softwood, plus potential royalty fees based on product sales. [ 24 ] Following the 2008–09 season, Lyon ‘s long-run sponsorship agreement with the french multinational corporation Accor and Renault Trucks ended. On 22 July 2009, the Paris-based on-line bookmaker BetClic reached an agreement with Lyon to advertise on the club ‘s kits. due to french jurisprudence prohibiting on-line gamble, however, Lyon could not wear its kits displaying the BetClic logo. On 12 August 2009, merely before the open league match against Le Mans, the club was relieved of its BetClic-sponsored shirts by the Ligue de Football Professionnel ( LFP ), which warned the club that it risked forfeiting points if the club wore them. [ 25 ] Lyon complied and, since the Le Mans peer, wore sponsorless shirts while playing on french territory. Lyon were free to wear its BetClic sponsored shirts outside France ; on 25 August 2009, the club unveiled the shirts in Belgium while taking on Anderlecht in the Champions League. On 15 January 2010, Lyon secured a sponsorship agreement with japanese video game party Sony Computer Entertainment to display the company ‘s PlayStation logo on their shirts. The cover lasted until the end of the 2009–10 season. In 2010, the french ban on on-line gambling advertising was lifted and Lyon began wearing its BetClic-sponsored shirts on french dirty. In August 2012, the club agreed a biennial sponsorship share with korean car manufacturers Hyundai that would start in 2012–13 season, replacing BetClic as the independent patron in their shirts for Ligue 1 matches. minor sponsors of the cabaret include LG, APICIL, and MDA Électroménager. During Coupe de France matches, the club wear kits sponsored by SFR, Caisse d’Épargne and Pitch as they are main sponsors of the FFF. During Coupe de la Ligue matches, Lyon wear shirts with the Speedy Triangle logo on the front of their shirt, as they are independent sponsors of the LFP .

Media [edit ]

On 27 July 2005, the cabaret launched the 24/7 network OL television, which is wholly devoted to club programming and events, along with allow and women ‘s team matches .

In seasons where there are multiple shirt sponsors, a different sponsor would appear for corresponding kits, e.g. home, away, and alternate kits.

Honours [edit ]

Lyon has won Ligue 1 seven times, which ranks sixth in french football history. Lyon has the distinction of starting a national record-breaking mottle of seven consecutive titles beginning with the 2001–02 season. The club has besides been crowned champions of Ligue 2 three times, won five Coupe de France titles, one Coupe de la Ligue title and eight Trophée des Champions. Though the cabaret is a regular participant in the UEFA Champions League, they have entirely reached american samoa far as the semi-finals, which was accomplished during the 2009–10 and 2019–20 seasons. Lyon has won the UEFA Intertoto Cup, achieving this honor in 1997 .

domestic [edit ]

league [edit ]

Cups [edit ]

Winners (8): 1973, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012

Runners-up (4): 1967, 2008, 2015, 2016

International competitions [edit ]

official [edit ]

invitational [edit ]

UEFA club coefficient ranking [edit ]

As of 20 November 2021[26]

Players [edit ]

stream squad [edit ]

As of 15 October 2021 [ 27 ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Reserve team [edit ]

As of 1 September 2021 [ 28 ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

former players [edit ]

For a complete list of former Olympique Lyonnais players with a Wikipedia article, see here.

Numbers of honor [edit ]

16 – retired in 1999 in recognition of goalkeeper Luc Borrelli. Borrelli was killed in a road accident in February of that year. In 2011, the number was brought out of retirement and given to back-up goalkeeper Anthony Lopes. 17 – retired in 2003 in recognition of midfielder Marc-Vivien Foé. Foé died while playing for Cameroon in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup at the Stade de Gerland, Lyon. The total was brought out of retirement in 2008 to allow Cameroonian musician Jean Makoun to wear it. Following Makoun ‘s departure, the issue went without use for a year. In 2011, it was given to Alexandre Lacazette .

Award winners [edit ]

UNFP Player of the Year

The following players have won the UNFP Player of the Year while playing for Lyon :

UNFP Young Player of the Year

The following players have won the UNFP Young Player of the Year while playing for Lyon :

UNFP Goalkeeper of the Year

The following player have won the UNFP Goalkeeper of the Year while playing for Lyon :

Bravo Award

The following players have won the Bravo Award while playing for Lyon :

Coaches [edit ]

Olympique Lyonnais has had 22 permanent coaches and two caretaker coaches since the cabaret ‘s first appointed Oscar Heisserer as a professional coach in 1950. Heisserer besides served as the first player-coach of the club, coming out of retirement to play during his concluding temper at the clubhouse. The longest-serving bus in terms of time was Aimé Mignot, who coached Lyon for eight years from 1968 to 1976. Alain Perrin, who coached the clubhouse from 2007–08, was the first Lyon coach to achieve the double .

current coach staff [edit ]

As of 26 July 2021.