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Olympique Lyonnais are the reigning Ligue 1 champions, having won the title the last six consecutive seasons for a French league record. Officially recognized as a national football club in 1950, historians trace the origins of the club to its formation under a multisports club in 1899. Olympique Lyon won the Trophee des Champions in 1973 and consecutively from 2002 through 2007, the Coupe de France in 1964, 1967, 1973 and the Coupe de la Ligue in 2001. The club are managed by Alain Perrin and captained by midfielder Juninho Pernambucano. According to Forbes, Olympique Lyonnais are the richest football club in France. Notable players have included Sylvain Wiltord, Sidney Govou, Bernard Lacombe and Mario Coluna. The club's home kits consist of white jerseys with a navy and red stripe, white shorts and white socks while the away kits consist of gold jerseys with navy shorts and navy socks. The club, nicknamed Lyon, play out of Stade Gerland in Lyon, France. The stadium seats more than 43,000 and is considered an historic monument. The Olympique Lyon crest is a blue and red a shield with the letters "OL" and a gold lion. The club also has a successful women's team.
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Lyon Football Blogs

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       It has been recently announced that Oly Lyon is interested in the former gunne...
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As most of you are probably aware, the guys at UEFA have been told by Michel Platini that he didn't like the current...
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Posted 40 days ago by We all live in a Toblerone World
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As you can imagine the delights of the Champions League are not of particular interest in Switzerland (FC Basel tried...
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Bayern Munich cling on to a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Lyon. In due process, the German side win the...
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Bayern withstood a 2nd half comeback from Lyon to win the game 3-2 and finished top of their group. Klose started ...
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Olympique Lyonnais (a.k.a OL) is a French football club playing in Ligue 1. One of the best French teams, they have won Le Championat 6 times in a row since 2002 and they are currently leading it. Despite seven participations in Champions League, they have never gone past the quarter-finals. Thei...

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Stadium: Stade Gerland
Since 1950 the stadium has been home to Olympique Lyonnais, which needed to find a new ground. In 1967 the stadium has been classed as a historic monument, especially its entrance archways. And now Lyon is planning to move to a new and bigger stadium in 2010.

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Lyon Results & Fixtures

Club Friendlies
11 Jul 09 - 18:00 BST

Lyon - Nice

Peace Cup grp. D
25 Jul 09 - 19:30 BST

Lyon - Besiktas

Peace Cup grp. D
27 Jul 09 - 21:30 BST

Lyon - FC Porto

Ligue 1
8 Aug 09 - 20:00 BST

Le Mans - Lyon

Ligue 1
15 Aug 09 - 18:00 BST

Lyon - Valenciennes

Ligue 1
30 May 09

Toulouse 0-0 Lyon

Ligue 1
23 May 09

Lyon 3-1 Caen

Ligue 1
17 May 09

Marseille 1-3 Lyon

Ligue 1
12 May 09

Lyon 3-0 Nantes

Ligue 1
2 May 09

Valenciennes 2-0 Lyon

Ligue 1 :

Full Table

TeamGPPtsWDL
1. Bordeaux Bordeaux 38 80 24 8 6
2. Marseille Marseille 38 77 22 11 5
3. Lyon Lyon 38 71 20 11 7
4. Toulouse Toulouse 38 64 16 16 6
5. Lille Lille 38 64 17 13 8
6. Paris SG Paris SG 38 64 19 7 12
7. Rennes Rennes 38 61 15 16 7
8. Auxerre Auxerre 38 55 16 7 15
9. Nice Nice 38 50 13 11 14
10. Lorient Lorient 38 45 10 15 13
11. Monaco Monaco 38 45 11 12 15
12. Valenciennes Valenciennes 38 44 10 14 14
13. Grenoble Grenoble 38 44 10 14 14
14. Sochaux Sochaux 38 42 10 12 16
15. Nancy Nancy 38 42 10 12 16
16. Le Mans Le Mans 38 40 10 10 18
17. St.Etienne St.Etienne 38 40 11 7 20
18. Caen Caen 38 37 8 13 17
19. Nantes Nantes 38 37 9 10 19
20. Le Havre Le Havre 38 26 7 5 26

Champions League grp. F :

Full Table

TeamGPPtsWDL
1. Bayern Munich Bayern Munich 6 14 4 2 0
2. Lyon Lyon 6 11 3 2 1
3. Fiorentina Fiorentina 6 6 1 3 2
4. Steaua Bucuresti Steaua Bucuresti 6 1 0 1 5
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Olympique Lyonnais have completed the signing of Porto striker Lisandro Lopez, the club have confirmed. More» ( , , )

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Here's a look at the latest transfer rumours surrounding Ligue 1: Where do Lyon go from here? With the recent departures of Juninho, Karim Benzema and More» ( )

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Benzema is officially a part of Real Madrid More» ( , , , )

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French and Spanish media reported on Wednesday that a €35m deal had been agreed with Primera Liga giants Madrid but Lyon's director of communicatio... More» ( , , )

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Benzema is to join Man U for 45million Euro More» ( , , )

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the manager of Lyon says that he will allow Benzema to go to another club if he wanted to More» ( , )

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Are Man United finally ready to bid for Benzema? More» ( , , )

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Olympique Lyonnais advisor Bernard Lacombe has said that the club could be powerless to stop Karim Benzema moving to Manchester United this summer. More» ( , , )

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Latest Transfer Rumour - Manchester United target Karim Benzema has revealed that he won't leave Lyon this summer and committed to play for them... More» ( , , )

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Eric Abidal believes a move to Barcelona would be detrimental to Karim Benzema's blossoming career. More» ( , , , , , , , )

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League R GP GD Pts
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Toulouse 0-0 Lyon

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