Club facts: Lyon
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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)
2018/19: round of 16
2017/18: UEFA Europa League round of 16
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
Records
UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win
7-0: Lyon v Red Boys Differdange
17/09/74, UEFA Cup first round first leg
• Biggest away win
1-7: Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon
07/12/11, UEFA Champions League group stage
• Heaviest home defeat
2-5: Lyon v Borussia Mönchengladbach
05/11/74, UEFA Cup second round second leg
0-3 twice, most recently v Bayern München
27/04/10, UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg
Lyon also lost 0-3 to Bayern in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League semi-final, a match in which they were the designated home team
• Heaviest away defeat
5-1: Barcelona v Lyon
13/03/19, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg
4-0 three times, most recently v Real Madrid
18/10/11, UEFA Champions League group stage
UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
• Biggest home win
7-2: Lyon v Werder Bremen
08/03/05, round of 16 second leg
5-0 twice, most recently v Sparta Praha
08/12/04, group stage
• Biggest away win
1-7: Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon (see above)
• Heaviest home defeat
0-3 twice, most recently v Bayern München (see above)
Lyon also lost 0-3 to Bayern in the 2019/20 semi-finals (see above)
• Heaviest away defeat
5-1: Barcelona v Lyon (see above)
4-0: Real Madrid v Lyon (see above)