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2020–21 Olympique Lyonnais Season
The 2020–21 season was the 71st season in the existence of Olympique Lyonnais and the club's 32nd consecutive season in the top flight of Football in France, French football. In addition to the 2020–21 Ligue 1, domestic league, Lyon participated in this season's edition of the 2020–21 Coupe de France, Coupe de France. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021. Players First-team squad ''As of 13 January 2021'' Out on loan Transfers In Out Transfer summary Spending Summer: Euros, €33,250,000 Winter: Euros, €0 Total: Euros, €33,250,000 Income Summer: Euros, €49,200,000 Winter: Euros, €1,500,000 Total: Euros, €50,700,000 Net Expenditure Summer: Euros, €15,950,000 Winter: Euros, €1,500,000 Total: Euros, €17,450,000 Competitions Overall record Ligue 1 League table Results summary Results by round Matches The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020. ...
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Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a French professional association football, football club based in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. With origins dating back to 1899, they were founded in 1950 and provisionally compete in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. The club won its first Ligue 1 championship in Division 1 2001–02, 2002, beginning a national record-setting streak of seven successive titles. Lyon has also won eight Trophée des Champions, Trophées des Champions, five Coupe de France, Coupes de France, and three Ligue 2 titles. The team has participated in the UEFA Champions League seventeen times, and during the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, 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 UEFA Champions League, 2019–20 season. Olympique Lyonnais plays its home matches at the 59,186 ...
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Sinaly Diomandé
Sinaly Diomandé (born 9 April 2001) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a center-back or right-back for Ligue 1 side Auxerre and the Ivory Coast national team. Club career Diomandé came out of the Jean-Marc Guillou academy in Abidjan, before joining the Guidars FC, in Mali. He moved to Olympique Lyonnais in September 2019 for a fee of €550,000, with bonuses rising up to €2 million. After a year of playing in Lyon's reserve team, where he became one of the players most used by Gueïda Fofana, and an impressive summer preparation, Diomande made his professional debut for Olympique Lyonnais on 18 September 2020, helping his team keep a clean sheet against Nîmes in this Ligue 1 encounter. On 30 August 2024, Diomandé was transferred to Auxerre, signing a three-year contract. International career Diomandé debuted with the Ivory Coast national team in a 1–1 friendly draw with Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in ...
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Juventus
Juventus Football Club (; from , ), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Turin, Piedmont, who compete in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in 1897 by a group of Turinese students, the club played in different grounds around the city, and plays now in Juventus Stadium. Nicknamed ("the Old Lady"), it has won 36 official List of Italian football champions, league titles, 15 Coppa Italia trophies and nine Supercoppa Italiana, Italian Super Cups, being the record holder for all these competitions; they also hold two Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004), Intercontinental Cups, two UEFA Champions League, European Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Europa League, UEFA Cups (Italian record), two UEFA Super Cups and one UEFA Intertoto Cup (Italian record). Consequently, t ...
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Mattia De Sciglio
Mattia De Sciglio (; born 20 October 1992) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for club Empoli, on loan from Juventus, and the Italy national team. De Sciglio made his professional debut for Milan in 2011, after several seasons in the club's youth system, and subsequently became a regular in the line-up, being able to play as either right or left back, winning two Supercoppa Italiana titles. He joined Juventus in 2017, winning a domestic double in his first season with the club, followed by two more consecutive Serie A titles and a Supercoppa Italiana. At international level, De Sciglio made his senior debut in March 2013 and he was selected in the Italian squads for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup (where he won a bronze medal), the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016. Club career Early career A native of Milan, De Sciglio started playing football as a child at the ''Santa Chiara e San Francesco'' parish recreation centre in the nearby munici ...
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Islam Slimani
Islam Slimani (; born 18 June 1988) is an Algerian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a striker (association football), striker for Belgian Pro League club K.V.C. Westerlo, Westerlo on loan from CR Belouizdad in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, and the Algeria national football team, Algeria national team. Slimani began his career in his homeland with JSM Chéraga and CR Belouizdad. In 2013, he moved to Europe, signing for Sporting CP. He played and scored regularly during his three seasons in Portugal, helping his team win the Taça de Portugal in 2015. In 2016, Slimani was transferred to Leicester for a club record £28 million fee. An Algerian international, Slimani made his international debut in 2012 and played at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, 2013, 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, 2015, 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, 2017, 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, 2021 and 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, 2023, and was also a part of the Alger ...
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Cenk Özkaçar
Cenk is a male Turkish given name. The Turkish word "cenk" is of Persian word Jang (جنگ) and means "war" or "battle". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Cenk Ahmet Alkılıç (born 1987), Turkish footballer * Cenk Akyol (born 1987), Turkish basketball player and coach * Cenk Enes Özer (born 1978), Turkish novelist * Cenk Gönen (born 1988), Turkish football goalkeeper * Cenk Güvenç (born 1991), Turkish footballer * Cenk İldem (born 1986), Turkish wrestler * Cenk İşler (born 1974), Turkish footballer * Cenk Koçak (born 1996), Turkish classic powerlifter * Cenk Özkacar (born 2000), Turkish footballer * Cenk Renda (born 1969), Turkish former basketball player * Cenk Tosun (born 1991), Turkish footballer * Cenk Ünnü (born 1966), Turkish drummer * Cenk Uygur (born 1970), Turkish-American radio and TV show host * Cenk Yıldırım (born 1972), Turkish basketball coach Middle name * Devrim Cenk Ulusoy (born 1973), Turkish free-diver * Enver Cenk Şahin (bor ...
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Rayan Cherki
Mathis Rayan Cherki (born 17 August 2003) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or Winger (association football), winger for club Manchester City F.C., Manchester City and the France national football team, France national team. Early life Cherki was born on 17 August 2003 in Lyon. His father, Fabrice Amsellem, is of Italian descent, and his mother of Algerian descent. Club career Lyon Cherki is a product of the Olympique Lyonnais Reserves and Academy, youth academy of Lyon, and is considered one of their best-ever prospects. He began playing with their reserve side in the Championnat National 2 at the age of 15. On 7 July 2019, Cherki signed his first professional contract with Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon until 2022. He made his professional debut in a 0–0 Ligue 1 draw against Dijon FCO, Dijon on 19 October 2019. After scoring four goals in the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League, he made his senior European debut on 27 Novem ...
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Léo Dubois
Léo Michel Joseph Claude Dubois (; born 14 September 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Süper Lig club Eyüpspor. Club career Early career As a youth, Dubois trained with amateur sides Gemmois and ES Segré. Nantes Dubois eventually made the books of top division club Nantes and made his league debut on 9 May 2015 against Bordeaux in a 2–1 away defeat; replacing Kian Hansen after 83 minutes. Lyon Dubois joined fellow Ligue 1 club Lyon on 1 July 2018. Dubois signed a four-year contract with the club. On 27 September 2020, Dubois scored only his fifth ever Ligue 1 goal, in over 140 appearances, in a 1–1 draw with Lorient at the Stade du Moustoir. Dubois was named club captain by manager Peter Bosz in 2021 following the sale of Memphis Depay to Barcelona. Galatasaray On 21 July 2022, Dubois signed with Süper Lig club Galatasaray for a reported €3M. Dubois became the champion in the Süper Lig in the 2022–23 season with th ...
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Lucas Paquetá
Lucas Tolentino Coelho de Lima (born 27 August 1997), better known as Lucas Paquetá (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays either as an attacking midfielder or winger for club West Ham United and the Brazil national team. Paquetá began his career in 2007 with Flamengo, where he won the 2016 Copa São Paulo de Júniores title. After being promoted to the senior team in 2016, he moved to Europe in 2019 to join Italian giants AC Milan, where he played for two seasons. He then joined French club Lyon, and in 2022 signed for English side West Ham United, winning the UEFA Europa Conference League in his debut season. Paquetá represented Brazil at the Copa América in 2019, 2021 and 2024, winning the 2019 tournament, and was also a part of their squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Club career Early career Lucas Paquetá arrived at Flamengo in 2007 at the age of 10. By 15, he was very technically skilled but did not have the physicality of other players his age (he ...
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Tino Kadewere
Philana Tinotenda "Tino" Kadewere (born 5 January 1996) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for club Nantes and the Zimbabwe national team. Club career Zimbabwe Kadewere was picked by Harare City in 2014 after he had finished playing for his high school team at Prince Edward School. During the first half of his debut season with the first team, he scored seven goals in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League. Djurgårdens IF During the summer of 2015, Kadewere went for trials with Swedish first division club Djurgårdens IF and French Ligue 2 side Sochaux. Later he decided to join Djurgårdens IF on loan in August 2015 for the remainder of the season with an option for the club to sign him permanently on a four-year deal at the end of the year. He made his Allsvenskan debut on 29 August 2015. He later joined Djurgården permanently. Kadewere scored his first league goal for the club on 25 July 2016. It was a consolation goal in the 94th mi ...
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Houssem Aouar
Houssem-Eddine Chaâbane Aouar (; born 30 June 1998) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah), Al-Ittihad. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national football team, Algeria national team. Graduating from the youth setup of Lyon, Aouar spent his professional career at the club for seven seasons before he joined the Italian club Roma in 2023. After playing one season with the Italian club, he joined the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad in 2024. Aouar is a former youth international for France. He made one appearance for the country at senior level before List of association footballers who have been capped for two senior national teams, switching his allegiance to Algeria in 2023. He represented the latter country at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. Early life Houssem-Eddine Chaâbane Aouar was born on 30 June 1998 in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, to parents from Béni Saf in Algeria. He grew ...
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Karl Toko Ekambi
Karl Louis Brillant Toko Ekambi (born 14 September 1992) is a professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ettifaq FC, Al-Ettifaq. Toko Ekambi began his career with Paris FC in the Championnat National and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, Sochaux in Ligue 2 before joining Angers SCO, Angers in Ligue 1. After 18 months at Villarreal CF, Villarreal in Spain's La Liga, he returned to France's top flight with Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon. Born and raised in France, Toko Ekambi represents Cameroon internationally. He made his international debut for Cameroon in 2015. He represented the nation at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, 2017, 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, 2019, 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, 2021 and 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, 2023, winning the 2017 tournament. He also played at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Club career Sochaux Born in Paris, Toko Ekambi began his career at Paris FC in th ...
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