Category: Olympique Lyonnais

Adryelson – Player Profile

Adryelson is a Brazilian centre-back who signed for Olympique Lyonnais from Botafogo for €3.58m in the January 2024 transfer window, aged twenty-five. He’s the second player to make the move from Botafogo to Lyon since the clubs have both been part of American businessman John Textor’s multi-club ownership project. He’ll hope to make a bigger […]

Mid-Season Report: Lyon

Olympique Lyonnais Men’s Team: In short, it was a nightmare first half of the season for the senior men’s Lyon team. Their performances and results fell short of even the most pessimistic predictions. The pre-season friendlies were a harbinger of things to come as they lost four out of five and struggled to find the […]

Duje Caleta-Car – Player Profile

Duje Ćaleta-Car joined Lyon from Southampton on a season-long loan in August 2023 following the English club’s relegation from the Premier League. Lyon paid a loan fee of €1.54 million to secure the Croatian international centre-back’s services for the year. Lyon were desperately in need of reinforcements in that department following the sale of Castello […]

Bilbao and Lyon top big five leagues for home-grown players

The Football Observatory at the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) has published a world ranking of football clubs showing which have fielded the most home-grown players in domestic league matches so far this season. The results make for very interesting reading from the perspective of this website because Athletic Club and Olympique Lyonnais are […]

OL U19 3-1 Pagny-sur-Moselle

Jérémie Bréchet’s Olympique Lyonnais Under-19 team got back to winning ways on Sunday with a 3-1 victory at home to struggling AS Pagny-sur-Moselle at their OL Academy ground in Meyzieu. After a goalless first half, it was Lyon who finally managed to force the issue and break the deadlock when Erawan Garnier was fouled in […]