Lyon OU

Lyon OU
Full name	Lyon Olympique Universitaire
Nickname(s)	Les Loups (The Wolves)
Founded	1896; 125 years ago
Location	Lyon, France
Ground(s)	Stade de Gerland (Capacity: 35,000)
President	Yann Roubert
Coach(es)	Pierre Mignoni
League(s)	Top 14
2020–21	9th
1st kit	2nd kit
Official website
	www.lourugby.fr

LOU Rugby against Stade Montois at the Vuillermet Stadium in Lyon, Pro D2 season 2004-2005

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 after winning the 2015–16 title of the second-level Pro D2. The club has bounced between the top two levels in recent years, having also been promoted in 2011 and 2014 and relegated in 2012 and 2015.

They were founded in 1896 and play in red and black. In 2011, the team left the Stade Vuillermet to the new Matmut Stadium. In 2017 the team moved to the Matmut Stadium de Gerland.

History[]

Le LOU, as it is traditionally known, is one of the oldest sports clubs in France and among the first outside Paris to have set up a rugby section. The club’s original name was Racing Club, the result of a merger of the Racing Club de Vaise and the Rugby Club de Lyon. It was renamed Racing et Cercles Réunis in 1902 after several other clubs joined it, then a few months later Lyon Olympique. Finally, in 1910, it became Lyon Olympique Universitaire. The red and black were adopted in 1902.

The club developed several sections (it now has 13), one of the most successful being the rugby union section, which is now known as LOU Rugby. The rugby club took part in three successive French championship finals (1931–33), losing the first one to Toulon (3-6) but winning the next two against Narbonne (9-3 and 10-3). It then played in lower amateur leagues until it was promoted back to the second professional division (Pro D2). In 2006-07, it had the second biggest budget of the championship and its ambition was to rejoin the Top 14 in the next two years, under the leadership of their coach , who formerly led Racing Club de France, Italian club Treviso and Agen. However, they would not succeed in their promotion quest until 2011. Since then, they have been a proverbial "yo-yo team", having been either relegated or promoted four times in the six seasons since their 2011 promotion.

Honours[]

Champion de France:
- Champions: 1932, 1933
- Runners-up: 1931
Rugby Pro D2:
- Champions: 2011, 2014, 2016
Challenge Yves du Manoir:
- Champions: 1933
Fédérale 1:
- Champions: 2002
Deuxième Division:
- Champions: 1989, 1992

Juniors: 2012 Cadets: 1984,2017

Finals results[]

French championship[]

Date	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Venue	Spectators
10 May 1931	RC Toulon	Lyon OU	6-3	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux	10,000
5 May 1932	Lyon OU	RC Narbonne	9-3	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux	13,000
7 May 1933	Lyon OU	RC Narbonne	10-3	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux	15,000

Challenge Yves du Manoir[]

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1932	SU Agen	round robin	Lyon OU
1933	Lyon OU	round robin	SU Agen

Current standings[]

2020–21 Top 14 Table

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Club

Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

Points for

Points against

Points diff.

Tries for

Tries against

Try bonus

Losing bonus

Points

1

Toulouse (C)

26

17

1

8

767

557

+210

92

53

8

3

81

2

La Rochelle (RU)

26

17

0

9

726

452

+274

79

41

6

4

78

3

Racing (SF)

26

17

0

9

757

577

+180

82

48

6

4

78

4

Bordeaux Bègles (SF)

26

15

1

10

740

546

+216

78

41

7

3

72

5

Clermont (QF)

26

15

1

10

830

619

+211

88

61

6

5

71

6

Stade Français (QF)

26

15

0

11

701

622

+79

69

63

6

70

7

Castres

26

15

1

10

625

676

−51

61

63

3

5

69

8

Toulon

26

14

0

13

641

605

+36

62

53

7

4

66

9

Lyon

26

14

1

11

678

568

+110

74

56

3

4

65

10

Montpellier

26

10

0

16

579

615

–36

51

58

6

9

54

11

Brive

26

11

0

15

585

711

−126

52

78

2

5

51

12

Pau

26

9

1

16

688

752

−64

65

76

3

10

46

13

Bayonne (R)

26

10

0

16

565

796

−231

48

94

1

5

46

14

Agen (R)

26

0

26

315

1101

−696

30

146

0

2

If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Competition points earned in head-to-head matches
Points difference in head-to-head matches
Try differential in head-to-head matches
Points difference in all matches
Try differential in all matches
Points scored in all matches
Tries scored in all matches
Fewer matches forfeited
Classification in the previous Top 14 season

Green background (rows 1 and 2) receive semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2021–22 European Rugby Champions Cup.
Blue background (rows 3 to 6) receive quarter-final play-off places, and receive berths in the Champions Cup.
Yellow background (rows 7 and Montpellier) indicates teams outside the play-offs that also earn a place in the Champions Cup.
Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2021–22 European Rugby Challenge Cup.
Pink background (row 13) will qualify to the relegation play-offs.
Red background (row 14) will automatically be relegated to Rugby Pro D2.
Final table — source: [1]
Updated: 5 June 2021

Current squad[]

The Lyon squad for the 2021–22 season is:^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player	Position	Union
Mickaël Ivaldi	Hooker	France
Guillaume Marchand	Hooker	France
Joe Taufeteʻe	Hooker	United States
Demba Bamba	Prop	France
Xavier Chiocci	Prop	France
	Prop	France
Francisco Gómez Kodela	Prop	Argentina
	Prop	France
	Prop	France
Sébastien Taofifénua	Prop	France
Kilian Geraci	Lock	France
Félix Lambey	Lock	France
	Lock	Fiji
Romain Taofifénua	Lock	France
Mathieu Bastareaud	Back row	France
Dylan Cretin	Back row	France
Colby Fainga'a	Back row	Australia
Loann Goujon	Back row	France
Beka Saghinadze	Back row	Georgia
	Back row	France
Jordan Taufua	Back row	New Zealand

Player	Position	Union
Baptiste Couilloud	Scrum-half	France
Jean-Marc Doussain	Scrum-half	France
	Scrum-half	France
	Fly-half	France
Lima Sopoaga	Fly-half	New Zealand
Pierre-Louis Barassi	Centre	France
Charlie Ngatai	Centre	New Zealand
	Centre	France
	Wing	France
Noa Nakaitaci	Wing	France
Josua Tuisova	Wing	Fiji
	Wing	France
Toby Arnold	Fullback	New Zealand
	Fullback	France

References[]

^ "L'équipe du LOU Rugby, club de rugby de LYON". LOU Rugby (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2019.

External links[]

(in French) Lyon OU Official website
LOU Omnisports Sportsclub

[L'équipe_du_LOU_Rugby,_club_de_rugby_de_LYON-1] "L'équipe du LOU Rugby, club de rugby de LYON". LOU Rugby (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2019.

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Forwards	Demba Bamba Mathieu Bastareaud Xavier Chiocci Dylan Cretin Colby Fainga'a Kilian Geraci Francisco Gómez Kodela Loann Goujon Mickaël Ivaldi Félix Lambey Guillaume Marchand Beka Saghinadze Romain Taofifénua Sébastien Taofifénua Joe Taufeteʻe Jordan Taufua
Backs	Toby Arnold Pierre-Louis Barassi Baptiste Couilloud Jean-Marc Doussain Noa Nakaitaci Charlie Ngatai Lima Sopoaga Josua Tuisova
Coach	Pierre Mignoni