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Encyclopedia: Olympique Lyonnais

Olympique Lyonnais (popularly known as OL, or simply Lyon) is a French football club based in Lyon. They play in Ligue 1 and are the reigning champions of France, for the fifth time running, and currently favoured to deliver a sixth Le Championnat title. Lyon have won six Trophées des Champions, three Ligue 2 Championship and Coupe de France titles as well as seven participations in the UEFA Champions League, despite not taking part in a final. Olympique Lyonnais play their home matches at the 43,051 seater Stade de Gerland, Lyon. OL are also a member of the G14 group of leading European football clubs. Lyon was formed as Lyon Olympique Universitaire in 1899, according to many supporters and sport historians but was nationally established as a club on August 3, 1950.

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How to say "Olympique Lyonnais" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	里昂足球俱樂部
	(Japanese)	オリンピック・リヨン
	(German)	Olympique Lyon
	(Spanish)	Olympique Lyonnais
	(French)	Olympique Lyonnais
	(Italian)	Olympique Lyonnais

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List of football clubs in France

Ligue 1 AC Ajaccio AJ Auxerre SC Bastia FC Girondins de Bordeaux FC Istres RC Lens Lille OSC Olympique Lyonnais Olympique de Marseille FC Metz AS Monaco FC FC Nantes Atlantique OGC Nice Paris Saint-Germain FC Stade Rennais FC FC Sochaux-Montbélliard AS Saint-Etienne SM Caen RC Strasbourg Toulouse...

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Raymond Domenech

France's defeat in EURO 2004. Carreer 1969-1977 : plays in Olympique lyonnais. Wins coupe de France in... and becomes manager. 1985-1989 : manager in Mulhouse 1989-1993 : manager in Olympique lyonnais...

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Marc-Vivien Foé

for Olympique Lyonnais in 2000. In that same year, he suffered from a bout of malaria but recovered... Olympique Lyonnais. An autopsy later revealed the cause of death was a heart attack caused by an... (1995 - 1999) West Ham United F.C. (1999/2000) Olympique Lyonnais (2000-2002) Manchester City F.C....

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2004 European Football Championship/France

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2004 European Football Championship/Switzerland

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Mick McCarthy

(1987-1989), Olympique Lyonnais (1989-90) and Millwall. His father being Irish, he was eligible for...

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List of football teams

Auxerre SC Bastia FC Girondins de Bordeaux FC Istres RC Lens Lille OSC Olympique Lyonnais Olympique...

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2001-02 in English football

Malbranque from Olympique Lyonnais to Fulham, £5m 16 August 2001 - Kasey Keller from Rayo Vallecano... 2001 - Steve Marlet from Olympique Lyonnais to Fulham, £13.5m 14 September 2001 - Tomas Repka from...

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June 2003

Olympique Lyonnais and was loaned to Manchester City FC in the 2002/03 season. [4] The U.S. Supreme Court...

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