Olympique Lyonnais

	Country:	France
	Competition:	Ligue 1
	website:	Olympique Lyonnais
	Wiki:	wiki
	Founded in:	1899
	Stadium:	Stade de Gerland
	Chairman:	Jean-Michel Aulas
	Coach:	Remi Garde

Olympique Lyonnais is a French professional football club from Lyon, that plays in the top French division Ligue 1. Olympique Lyonnais, the name is often shortened to Lyon or OL, was founded in 1899 as Lyon Olympique Universitaire. In 1950 Olympique Lyonnais became a factor in the national competitions. The home colours of Olympique Lyonnais are white blue and red, but their away outfit is all black with some red, blue and white accents. Shirt manufacturer since 2010 is Adidas, the shirt sponsor is Credit Agricole. Olympique Lyonnais play their home matches in the Stade de Gerland, which has a capacity of over 40,000 seats. Olympique Lyonnais is owned by businessman Jean-Michel Aulaus, who also acts as chairman for the club. Head coach of Olympique Lyonnais is Remi Garde, who as a player started his career in Lyon in 1987.

The best years of Lyon were in the past decade and started in 2002 when Olympique Lyonnais won their first Ligue 1. championship. For seven consecutive years, from 2002 until 2008 Olympique Lyonnais remained champion of France. Also the Coup de France, was won twice, in 2008 and 2012. Albeit Olympique Lyonnais was the almost undisputed champion of France during the first years of the new millenium, Olympique Lyonnais couldn't win a major European prize. Their best result was the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League during the 2009-2010 season. Notable players that played for Olympique Lyonnais during some season in their career are all time top scorer Fleury Di Nallo (182 goals) and Serge Chiesa who played the most matches for Olympique Lyon (541). Other famous players are Michael Essien (now Real Madrid), Florent Malouda (now Chelsea), Karim Benzema (now playing for Real Madrid) and Lisandro Lopez, who still plays for Olympique Lyonnais.

Lyon has rivalries with Saint Etienne, because of their geographical situation being only 60 kilometers away from each other. Their derby is called the Derby du Rhone, (Rhone river derby). Since the rise of Olympique Lyonnais in Ligue 1. during the first decade of the new milennium however, rivalries have come to existence with other French top clubs. Nowadays matches against Marseille (Choc des Olympiques, “clash of the Olympics”, as both Lyonnais and Marseille have the adjective Olympique in their name), Lille and Paris Saint-Germain are highly anticipated. These matches will be broadcast in a football live stream from unibet tv. This legal football live stream is free and you only have to sign up for unibet tv (signing up is free as well). Make sure to watch top matches from one of the best European Leagues live and streaming!