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Olympique Lyonnais |
- Olympique Lyonnais (French pronunciation: [ɔlɛ̃pik ljɔnɛ]), commonly referred to as simply Lyon (French pronunciation: [ljɔ̃]) or OL, is a French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
- It plays in France's highest football division, Ligue 1.
- Founded in 1950,the club won its first Ligue 1 championship in 2002, starting a national record-setting streak of seven successive titles.
- Lyon has also won eight Trophées des Champions, five Coupes de France, and three Ligue 2 titles.
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- Lyon has participated in the UEFA Champions League seventeen times, and during the 2009–10 season, reached the semi-finals of the competition for the first time after three previous quarter-final appearances.
- They once again reached this stage in the 2019–20 season.
- Olympique Lyonnais plays its home matches at the 59,186-seat Parc Olympique Lyonnais, commercially known as the Groupama Stadium, in Décines-Charpieu, a suburb of Lyon.
- The club's home colors are white, red and blue.
- Lyon was a member of the G14 group of leading European football clubs and are founder members of its successor, the European Club Association.
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