Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...

is a French professional

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club based in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône an ...

, playing in

Ligue 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...

, the top level of the

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, as of the 2010–11 season. The club was formed in 1899 as the football section of

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

Lyon Olympique Universitaire Lyon Olympique Universitaire or LOU is a French rugby union team based in Lyon that currently competes in the Top 14, the highest level of the country's professional league system, having been most recently promoted for the 2016–17 season af ...

. In 1950, the section split from the club and formed the club that exists today. Lyon played their first competitive match in August 1950. The club's first major honor was winning the 1963–64 edition of the

Coupe de France The Coupe de France, formerly known as the Coupe Charles Simon, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organized by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is open to all amateur and profession ...

. Lyon won their first ever Ligue 1 title in the 2001–02 season. The title started a national record-breaking streak of seven successive league championships. Since playing their first competitive match, more than 500 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club. Olympique Lyonnais' record appearance-maker is

Serge Chiesa Serge Chiesa (born 25 December 1950 in Casablanca) is a former professional footballer. He is a historic player of Olympique Lyonnais, an excellent dribbler whose skill was comparable to Michel Platini. In 1975–76, he was voted 'best attacki ...

, who made 542 total competitive appearances between 1969–1983. In 1981, Chiesa surpassed

Fleury Di Nallo Fleury Di Nallo (born 20 April 1943) is a French former footballer, one of the best strikers in Division 1 in the 1960s and 1970s, and a historic player of Olympique Lyonnais. Nicknamed 'Le petit prince de Gerland' (The little Prince of Gerlan ...

who was the first player in the club's history to make 400 competitive appearances. Di Nallo is the club's all-time leading goalscorer with 222 and finished his career at Lyon with 495 total appearances. Only six other players have made over 400 appearances for Lyon.

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Grégory Coupet Grégory Coupet (born 31 December 1972) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Throughout his playing career, he represented Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Atlético Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as the France n ...

and Yves Chauveau made 519 and 490 competitive appearances, respectively, while

Sidney Govou Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou (born 27 July 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played primarily as a winger, but was occasionally deployed as a striker. He holds the record for most Ligue 1 titles won (seven), along with Her ...

appeared in 412. Coupet and Govou, alongside

Juninho Pernambucano Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Júnior (born 30 January 1975), commonly known as Juninho Pernambucano or simply Juninho, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who was most recently the sporting director of French club Olympique Lyonna ...

, are the only players to have played on all seven of the club's league-winning championship teams. Aimé Mignot is the defender with the most appearances for the club with 424 caps.

Anthony Réveillère Anthony Guy Marie Réveillère (born 10 November 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He spent most of his professional career with Rennes and Lyon, amassing Ligue 1 totals of 426 matches and five goal ...

rounds out the list having made exactly 400 appearances for Lyon. Portuguese international

Anthony Lopes Anthony Lopes (; born 1 October 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the Portugal national team. He came through the youth ranks at Lyon, being called to the first team in 2011 and making his ...

is currently the only active player with more than 400 appearances for the club.

Players with 50 or more appearances

* ''Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only, including

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, European Cup/Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League,

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and

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matches; wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded. Statistics correct as of 5 September 2022. Players marked in ''bold'' are still playing for the club.'' Position key: GK –

; DF – Defender; MF –

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; FW –

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