The Olympique Lyonnais Reserves & Academy are the reserve team and academy of French club

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 ...

. The reserves squad play in the

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, the fourth division of

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and the highest division the team is allowed to participate in. Lyon have won the reserves title of the Championnat de France amateur six times. They have won in 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, and

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, and

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. The U-19 squad participates in their weekly league, the Championnat National Under-19, which is a league comprising four groups of fourteen clubs who play each other twice during the

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. This session is dubbed Phase 1. Following the regular season, the four group winners are randomly selected to face each other in

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matches (dubbed Phase 2) to decide who will play each other in the Under-18 Championnat National

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, usually held in

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. There is also a third-place match, which is usually held just before the championship match. The Under-18 squad also regularly participates in the

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. They have won the title on 4 occasions. They won the cup in 1971, 1994, 1997 and 2022. The U-17 side participates in a league, the Championnat National Under-17, which is a youth league comprising six groups of twelve clubs who play each other twice during the regular season, which is dubbed Phase 1. Following the regular season, the six group winners and the two best second place clubs are randomly inserting into two groups of four, where they play each other at neutral venues once over a span of four days. This portion is dubbed

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. The two winners of each group will then face each other in the championship match to determine the champion of the Under-17 Championnat National. The Under-17 squad also participates in regional cup competitions. The current National 2 manager is Gueida Fofana, who played for Olympique Lyonnais before but had his career cut-short due to injuries. He has been the National 2 manager since 2019. The manager of the Olympique Lyonnais U-19s and U-17s are Eric Hély, and Amaury Barlet & Pierre Sage.

Players

Reserve squad (Olympique Lyonnais II)

''As of 2 January 2023''

U19 squad

U17 squad

Notable academy players

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* Habib Keïta * Sidy Koné * Eric Descomdes * Bryan Ngwabije * Waly Diouf * Lamine Gassama * Abdoulaye Ndiaye (footballer), Abdoulaye Ndiaye * Ousmane Ndiaye * Bouna Sarr * Mouhamadou-Naby Sarr * Demba Touré * Blaise Tohou-Ngague * Sylvain Idangar * Ludovic Assemoassa * Malcolm Barcola * Chaïm El Djebali * Habib Oueslati * Hamza Rafia Raymond Domenech

Rest of World * Hamdan Al Kamali * Théo Defourny * Héritier Deyonge * Foudil Idriss * Camilo Reijers de Oliveira, Camilo * Zachary Brault-Guillard * Jérémy Frick * Jonathan Grossrieder * Kilian Pagliuca * Anthony Racioppi * Kevin Tsimba * Tao Jian * Yu Junwei * Zhang Xiuwei * Téo Barisic * Reo Griffiths * Aleksandre Guruli * Georges Mikautadze * Mathieu Gadet * Robert Cacchioni * Francesco Migliore * Kim Shin * Philippe Paoli * Christopher Martins Pereira * Ulrik Yttergård Jenssen * Tord Salte * Bartosz Talar * Mickael Almeida * Anthony Lopes * Melih Altikulac * Semih Altikulac * Hamdi Cam * Cenk Özkaçar * Axel Perez Players in bold are those who capped for their National team.

Honours

* Championnat de France Amateurs: 7 **''Champions'': 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Championnat National U17: 4 **''Champions'': 1994, 2000, 2004, 2014 * Championnat National U19: 3 **''Champions'': 1993, 2000, 2005 *

: 4 **''Champions'': 1971, 1994, 1997, 2022 **''Finalists'': 1970, 1992, 2005, 2006, 2015 * Coupe Nationale U16 (with Rhône-Alpes): 2 **''Champions'': 1960, 1996 * French Division 3 (1971–1993), French Division 3: 1 **''Champions'': 1993

Staff

* National 2 Manager: Gueida Fofana * U-19 Manager: Eric Hély * U-17 Manager: Amaury Barley & Pierre Sage * Sporting Coordinator: Guy Genet

References

{{Championnat de France Amateurs Groupe C Olympique Lyonnais, Reserves and Academy Football academies in France French reserve football teams UEFA Youth League teams