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| Full name | Olympique Lyonnais | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Les Gones (The Kids)[1] L'OL | |||
| Short name | Lyon, OL | |||
| Founded | 26 May 1950 | |||
| Ground | Parc Olympique Lyonnais | |||
| Capacity | 59,186 | |||
| Owner | John Textor (77,49%) via OL Groupe | |||
| President | Laurent Prud'homme | |||
| Head coach | Pierre Sage | |||
| League | Ligue 1 | |||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 1, 6th of 18 | |||
| Website | ol.fr | |||
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Olympique Lyonnais (French pronunciation: [ɔlɛ̃pik ljɔnɛ]), commonly referred to as simply Lyon (French pronunciation: [ljɔ̃]) or OL, is a French professional football club based in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. With origins dating back to 1899, they were founded in 1950[2] and provisionally compete in France's second highest football division, Ligue 2. The club won its first Ligue 1 championship in 2002, beginning a national record-setting streak of seven successive titles. Lyon has also won eight Trophées des Champions, five Coupes de France, and three Ligue 2 titles.
The team has participated in the UEFA Champions League seventeen times, and during the 2009–10 season reached the semi-finals of the competition for the first 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 home colors are white, red 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.
The club's nickname, Les Gones, means "The Kids" in Lyon's regional dialect of Franco-Provençal.[1] They have a long-standing rivalry with nearby team Saint-Étienne, against whom they contest the Derby Rhône-Alpes. Jean-Michel Aulas owned Lyon from 1987 until it was purchased by American businessman John Textor in December 2022.[3][4]
- ^ a b "#2 – Olympique Lyonnais : Gones" (in French). Footnickname. 26 April 2020. Archived from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "Histoire de l'OL dates clés". OL.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Olympique Lyonnais Price Tag For John Textor: $846 Million". Forbes. 21 June 2022. Archived from the original on 23 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ^ "L'OL officiellement vendu à l'Américain John Textor". L'Équipe. 20 December 2022. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.