Lyon OU
Lyon OU
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| Full name |
Lyon Olympique Universitaire |
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| Nickname(s) |
Les Loups (The Wolves) |
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| Founded |
1896 (1896) |
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| Location |
Lyon, France |
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| Ground(s) |
Matmut Stadium (Capacity: 8,000) |
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| President |
Yvan Patet |
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| Coach(es) |
Matthieu Lazerges
Raphaël Saint-André |
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| League(s) |
Top 14 |
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| 2013–14 |
1st, Pro D2 (Champions and promoted) |
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| Official website |
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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 that will compete in the Top 14, the highest level of the country's professional league system, in the 2014–15 season after winning the 2013–14 title in the second-level Pro D2. They were last relegated from the Top 14 at the end of the 2011–12 season, having earned their spot in the Top 14 by winning the 2010–11 Pro D2 crown.
They were founded in 1896 and play in red and black. They are based in Lyon in Rhône-Alpes, and play at the Matmut Stadium in Lyon, having moved from the Stade Vuillermet in 2011.
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 Christian Lanta, who formerly led Racing Club de France, Italian club Treviso and Agen. However, they would not succeed in their promotion quest until 2011.
Honours
Finals results
French championship
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
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Club |
Played |
Won |
Drawn |
Lost |
Points For |
Points Against |
Points Difference |
Tries For |
Tries Against |
Try Bonus |
Losing Bonus |
Points |
| 1 | Toulon | 23 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 638 | 465 | +173 | 69 | 46 | 6 | 4 | 66 |
| 2 | Clermont | 23 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 542 | 411 | +131 | 50 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 62 |
| 3 | Toulouse | 23 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 472 | 431 | +41 | 41 | 31 | 2 | 3 | 61 |
| 4 | Stade Français | 23 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 528 | 509 | +19 | 54 | 47 | 5 | 2 | 61 |
| 5 | Racing Métro | 23 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 461 | 441 | +20 | 43 | 34 | 2 | 4 | 58 |
| 6 | Oyonnax | 23 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 446 | 425 | +21 | 31 | 34 | 2 | 3 | 57 |
| 7 | Montpellier | 23 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 466 | 436 | +30 | 37 | 38 | 2 | 5 | 51 |
| 8 | Bordeaux | 23 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 615 | 512 | +103 | 56 | 40 | 3 | 8 | 51 |
| 9 | La Rochelle | 23 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 474 | 580 | –106 | 40 | 57 | 2 | 2 | 50 |
| 10 | Brive | 23 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 444 | 520 | −76 | 35 | 53 | 2 | 2 | 48 |
| 11 | Grenoble | 23 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 553 | 658 | –105 | 48 | 62 | 3 | 5 | 48 |
| 12 | Castres | 23 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 446 | 525 | −69 | 41 | 52 | 3 | 4 | 47 |
| 13 | Bayonne | 23 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 441 | 465 | −24 | 34 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 47 |
| 14 | Lyon | 23 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 414 | 562 | −148 | 38 | 52 | 0 | 7 | 35 |
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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
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Green background (rows 1 and 2) receive semi-final play-off places and receive berths in the 2015–16 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 (row 7) indicates the team that advances to a play-off against the winner of the Pro12 vs Aviva Premiership play-off, or 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup winner if they have not already qualified for the Champions Cup.[1]
Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the European Rugby Challenge Cup.
Red background (row 13 and 14) will be relegated to Rugby Pro D2. Updated 26 April 2015
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Current squad
2014–15
Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.
See also
References
External links
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| | 2014–15 Teams | |
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| | The origins | |
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| | Between the wars | |
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| | During the second world war | |
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| | After the second world war | |
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| | 1960–80 | |
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| | 1980–95 | |
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| | Professional era and Top 16 | |
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| | Top 14 | |
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| | Trophy | |
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| | | | 2014–15 Teams | |
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| | Seasons | |
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| | Pool stages | |
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| | Champions Cup play-off | |
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| | Qualifying Competition | |
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| | Governing body | |
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| | National teams | |
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| | Competitions | | International | |
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| | Professional Club | |
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