Olympique Lyonnais Féminin

Olympique Lyonnais Féminin (commonly referred to as Olympique Lyon, Lyon, or simply OL) is a French women's professional football club based in Lyon. The club has been the female section of Olympique Lyonnais since 2004. It is the most successful club in the history of the Première Ligue, with seventeen league titles as Olympique Lyonnais and four league titles as FC Lyon before the acquisition.

Since the 2010s, Lyon has frequently been named the strongest women's team in the world, and has been cited as a model for the development of women's football in both economic and cultural terms. The team has won eight Champions League titles, including a record five successive titles from 2016 to 2020, as well as fourteen consecutive domestic league titles from 2007 to 2020. They have also won five trebles when the top-level continental competition is considered, the most for any team.

History
The club was formed as the women's section of FC Lyon in 1970. In 2004, the women's club became the women's section of Olympique Lyonnais. Since joining Lyon, the women's section has won the Division 1 Féminine fourteen times and the Coupe de France nine times. Lyon reached the semi-finals of the 2007–08 edition of the UEFA Women's Cup and, during the 2009–10 season, reached the final of the inaugural edition of the UEFA Women's Champions League, losing to German club Turbine Potsdam 7–6 on penalties. In the following season, Lyon finally captured the UEFA Women's Champions League, defeating its nemesis Turbine Potsdam 2–0 in the 2011 final. It successfully defended its title in 2012, defeating FFC Frankfurt in the final.

From 2016 to 2020, the club won five consecutive Champions League titles, equaling the male record held by Real Madrid. Three players: Sarah Bouhaddi, Wendie Renard, and Eugénie Le Sommer have all won eight Champions League trophies.

Lyon's main rivalry is with Paris Saint-Germain, with matches between the two teams sometimes referred as the "Classique féminin". Paris is OL's main contender for national titles, as they finished in second place of D1 Féminine seven times. Lyon had never lost the D1 title to PSG until 2021 when PSG finished ahead of Lyon, and won five Coupe de France finals against Paris. In 2017 both teams reached the Champions League final, with Lyon beating Paris after a penalty shoot-out and winning its fourth title in the competition.

Lyon hosts its matches at the Stade Gérard Houllier, a stadium of capacity 1,524 located in the Groupama OL Training Center and situated not far from the larger Parc Olympique Lyonnais where the male teams play. The women's team does host its "big" matches at the 59,000-seat stadium. The current president of the club is Michele Kang and the captain of the team is Wendie Renard. According to the UEFA women's coefficient, Lyon was the highest-ranked club in UEFA in 2014.

Ownership and finances
Lyon Féminin is part of OL Groupe, whose majority shareholder since December 2022 is Eagle Football Group, which is controlled by American businessman John Textor. Club president Jean-Michel Aulas was also OL Groupe's previous and founding owner, and remains a minority owner of OL Groupe and board director of Eagle Football Group.

, L'Équipe reported that Lyon Féminin operated at a €12 million annual deficit.

On 16 May 2023, OL Groupe and Michele Kang announced the formation of a separate entity that would be composed of Kang's Washington Spirit of the NWSL, and Olympique Lyon Féminin. OL Groupe would sell its NWSL club, OL Reign, to resolve conflicts of interest. OL Groupe would retain a 48% stake in the resulting new entity, and Kang would become the club's majority owner and CEO, pending regulatory approval. Kang's proposed deal for the women's side reportedly valued it at $54.4 million. Kang attended Lyon's victory in the Coupe de France féminine finals on 13 May 2023 and raised the trophy with the team.

Notable former players
French
 * Camille Abily
 * Mylène Chauvot
 * Élodie Thomis
 * Corine Petit
 * Sonia Bompastor
 * Louisa Necib
 * Laura Georges
 * Élise Bussaglia
 * Hoda Lattaf
 * Sabrina Viguier
 * Sandrine Brétigny
 * Sandrine Dusang
 * Delphine Blanc
 * Laëtitia Tonazzi
 * Jessica Houara
 * Claire Lavogez
 * Pauline Peyraud-Magnin
 * Kenza Dali
 * Kheira Hamraoui
 * Ève Périsset
 * Claire Morel
 * Séverine Creuzet-Laplantes
 * Sarah Bouhaddi
 * Amandine Henry

Brazilian Canadian Chinese Costa Rican Danish Dutch English
 * Kátia
 * Rosana
 * Simone
 * Kadeisha Buchanan
 * Wang Fei
 * Shirley Cruz
 * Dorte Dalum Jensen
 * Line Røddik Hansen
 * Shanice van de Sanden
 * Lucy Bronze
 * Izzy Christiansen
 * Alex Greenwood
 * Nikita Parris

German Icelandic Japanese New-Zealander Nigerian Norwegian
 * Josephine Henning
 * Pauline Bremer
 * Carolin Simon
 * Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir
 * Saki Kumagai
 * Shinobu Ohno
 * Ami Otaki
 * Erin Nayler
 * Cynthia Uwak
 * Christine Colombo Nilsen
 * Isabell Herlovsen
 * Bente Nordby
 * Ingvild Stensland
 * Andrea Norheim

Portuguese Swedish Swiss American Welsh
 * Jéssica Silva
 * Amelie Rybäck
 * Lotta Schelin
 * Caroline Seger
 * Lara Dickenmann
 * Lorrie Fair
 * Megan Rapinoe
 * Hope Solo
 * Aly Wagner
 * Christie Welsh
 * Alex Morgan
 * Morgan Brian
 * Jess Fishlock

Official

 * Division 1 Féminine (Champions of France) (level 1)
 * (17, record): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
 * Coupe de France Féminine
 * (10, record): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23
 * Trophée des Championnes
 * (3, record) 2019, 2022, 2023
 * UEFA Women's Champions League
 * (8, record): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22

Invitational

 * International Women's Club Championship
 * Winners: 2012
 * Valais Cup
 * Winners: 2014
 * Women's International Champions Cup
 * Winners: 2019, 2022
 * Trophée Veolia Féminin
 * Winners: 2020

Others

 * Guinness world record for most consecutive victories in all competitions: 41 wins (from 28 April 2012 to 18 May 2013).

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League
All results (away, home and aggregate) list Lyon's goal tally first. f First leg.

List of seasons
Top scorers in bold were also the top scorers in the Division 1 Féminine that season.