Lyon facts

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 Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2020/21: did not take part in UEFA competition
2019/20: UEFA Champions League semi-finals
2018/19: UEFA Champions League round of 16
2017/18: round of 16 
2016/17: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2015/16: UEFA Champions League group stage
2014/15: play-offs
2013/14: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2012/13: round of 32
2011/12: UEFA Champions League round of 16

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 three times, most recently v West Ham
14/04/22, UEFA Europa League quarter-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 Cup/UEFA Europa League
• Biggest home win
7-0: Lyon v Red Boys Differdange (see above)

• Biggest away win
1-4 three times, most recently v AZ Alkmaar
16/02/17, round of 32 first leg

• Heaviest home defeat
2-5: Lyon v Borussia Mönchengladbach (see above)
0-3: Lyon v West Ham (see above)

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