Olympique Lyonnais won a keenly contested ‘Olympico’ at the Groupama Stadium on matchday 3 of the season to maintain their 100% record and join PSG at the top of the nascent Ligue 1 table on nine points. The build up to the game was overshadowed by the breaking news that Lyon’s star striker (and indeed […]
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Pavel Šulc – Player Profile
Pavel Šulc has just enjoyed the season of his life. Lyon’s new €7.5 million signing from Viktoria Plzeň, won the prestigious Czech Golden Ball (Zlatý míč České republiky), becoming the first Czech based player to do so for ten years. The award, which is given to the best Czech player of the season, was voted […]
Lyon 3-0 Metz
Paulo Fonseca made just one change to the line-up that beat Lens 1-0 on the opening weekend of the 2025-26 Ligue 1 season. Sael Kumbedi dropped to the bench, with Ainsley Maitland-Niles moving back into the right-back position and new signing Pavel Šulc coming into the team on the right side of attack to make […]
Khalis Merah – Player Profile
Khalis Merah is a graduate from the esteemed Olympique Lyonnais academy. Following in the footsteps of numerous stars to have emerged from their ranks over the years, he hopes to be the latest ‘Gone‘ to make a name for himself. The midfielder made his first team debut in the opening game of the 2025-26 season […]
Tyler Morton – Player Profile
Tyler Morton is a defensive central midfielder who was born and raised on Merseyside. He grew up supporting local giants Liverpool and joined their academy in 2009 at just seven years old. Liverpool scouts spotted him playing for the Greenleas junior team in his home town of Wallasey and he jumped at the chance to […]
Lens 0-1 Lyon – OL off to a winning start
Olympique Lyonnais got their 2025-26 Ligue 1 campaign off to a winning start with a 1-0 victory away at Lens. Georgia international striker Georges Mikautadze scored the only goal of the game in stoppage time at the end of the first half to take the three points back to Lyon. After a turbulent summer when […]
Lyon complete pre-season with another win
Olympique Lyonnais rounded off their preparations for the 2025-26 season with a 2-1 win over Spanish La Liga side Getafe in a friendly match at the Stade Pierre-Rajon in Bourgoin-Jallieu. The venue was the scene of one of the lowest points of Lyon’s previous campaign, when they crashed out of the Coupe de France in […]
Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez – Player Profile
Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez is a Venezuelan born striker who plays for Olympique Lyonnais in France. He currently represents England in youth international football, having lived in Southampton from the age of ten until he moved to Lyon aged sixteen. He is also eligible to represent both Venezuela and Portugal and has been involved with both […]
Rafael Pereira da Silva – Player Profile
Rafael Pereira da Silva is one half of a pair of Brazilian twins who joined Manchester United aged just seventeen in January 2008. He and his twin brother Fabio had been on the books of Rio de Janeiro based club Fluminense since they were eleven years old, but had yet to represent the first team. […]
Wilfried Zaha – Player Profile
Of the five players to have represented both Manchester United and Lyon, Wilfried Zaha is the one to have left by far the least impression on both clubs. He’ll go down as little more than a footnote in their history, or at most the answer to an obscure quiz question. Not that he wasn’t a […]