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Olympique Lyonnais

Club profile

Lyon celebrate their seventh straight French title in 2008
Lyon celebrate their seventh straight French title in 2008 ©Getty Images

Olympique Lyonnais
Formed:
1950
Nickname: Les Gones (The Kids)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 1997

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 7 (2008)
French Cup: 5 (2012)
League Cup: 1 (2001)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2016/17:
UEFA Europa League semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2015/16:
group stage
2014/15:
UEFA Europa League play-offs
2013/14:
UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2012/13:
UEFA Europa League round of 32
2011/12:
round of 16
2010/11:
round of 16
2009/10: semi-finals
2008/09:
round of 16
2007/08: round of 16

Records
UEFA club competition

• Biggest home win
7-0: Lyon v FA Red Boys Differdange
17/09/74, UEFA Cup first round first leg

• Biggest away win
1-7: GNK Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon
07/12/11, UEFA Champions League group stage

• Heaviest home defeat
2-5: Lyon v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach
05/11/74, UEFA Cup second round second leg
0-3
twice, most recently v FC Bayern München
27/04/10, UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg

• Heaviest away defeat
4-0 three times, most recently v Real Madrid CF
18/10/11, UEFA Champions League group stage

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
• Biggest home win
7-2: Lyon v SV Werder Bremen
08/03/05, round of 16 second leg
5-0: twice, most recently v AC Sparta Praha
08/12/04, group stage

• Biggest away win
1-7: GNK Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon (see above for details)

• Heaviest home defeat
0-3: twice, most recently v FC Bayern München (see above for details)

• Heaviest away defeat
4-0: Real Madrid CF v Lyon (see above for details)

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
• Biggest home win
7-0: Lyon v FA Red Boys Differdange (see above)

• Biggest away win
1-4: AZ Alkmaar v Lyon
16/02/17, round of 32 first leg
1-4: FA Red Boys Differdange v Lyon
02/10/74, first round second leg

• Heaviest home defeat
2-5: Lyon v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (see above)

• Heaviest away defeat
4-0: SV Werder Bremen v Lyon
07/12/99, third round second leg