Lyon OU

Full name

Lyon Olympique Universitaire

Nickname(s)

Les Loups (The Wolves)

Founded

1896

Location

Lyon, France

Ground(s)

Stade de Gerland (Capacity: 25,000)

President

Yvan Patet

Coach(es)

Matthieu Lazerges
Raphaël Saint-André

League(s)

Top 14

2016–17

10th

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 that currently competes in the Top 14, the highest level of the country's professional league system, in 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. They are based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and play at the Matmut Stadium de Gerland in Lyon, having moved from the Matmut Stadium in 2017.

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. Since then, they have been a proverbial "yo-yo team", having been either relegated or promoted in all but one season.

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

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

2016–17 Top 14 Table

Club

Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

Points For

Points Against

Points Diff.

Tries For

Tries Against

Try Bonus

Losing Bonus

Points

La Rochelle (SF)

707

498

+209

Clermont (CH)

800

562

+238

Montpellier (QF)

750

564

+186

Toulon (RU)

674

511

+163

Castres (QF)

667

509

+158

Racing (SF)

586

616

–30

Stade Français

643

638

Brive

577

634

–57

Pau

604

701

–97

Lyon

573

632

–59

Bordeaux

569

581

–12

Toulouse

537

561

–24

Grenoble (R)

611

852

–241

Bayonne (R)

466

905

–439

107

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 2017–18 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) advances to a play-off for a chance to compete in the Champions Cup.
Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the 2017–18 European Rugby Challenge Cup.
Red background (row 13 and 14) will be relegated to Rugby Pro D2. Final table

Current squad

2017-18 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
Dean Fourie	Hooker	South Africa
Mickaël Ivaldi	Hooker	France
Virgile Lacombe	Hooker	France
Enzo Pakihivatau	Hooker	France
David Attoub	Prop	France
Albertus Buckle	Prop	South Africa
Richard Coirat	Prop	France
Stephane Clement	Prop	France
Francisco Gomez Kodela	Prop	Argentina
Hamza Kaabeche	Prop	France
Tornike Mataradze	Prop	Georgia
Alexandre Menini	Prop	France
Guram Papidze	Prop	Georgia
Clement Ric	Prop	France
Josh Bekhuis	Lock	New Zealand
Felix Lambey	Lock	France
Etienne Oosthuizen	Lock	South Africa
Hendrik Roodt	Lock	South Africa
Francois van der Merwe	Lock	South Africa
Andres Zafra	Lock	France
Virgile Bruni	Flanker	France
Teophile Cotte	Flanker	France
Carl Fearns	Flanker	England
Liam Gill	Flanker	Australia
Julien Puricelli	Flanker	France
Dylan Cretin	Number 8	France
Tanginoa Halaifonua	Number 8	Tonga
Taiasina Tuifu'a	Number 8	Samoa

Player	Position	Union
Baptiste Couilloud	Scrum-half	France
Jonathan Pelissie	Scrum-half	France
Delord Quentin	Scrum-half	France
Lionel Beauxis	Fly-half	France
Leo Berdeu	Fly-half	France
Piero Dominguez	Fly-half	Argentina
Mike Harris	Fly-half	Australia
Frederick Michalak	Fly-half	France
Pierre-Louis Barassi	Centre	France
Theo Belan	Centre	France
Hemani Paea	Centre	Tonga
Thibaut Regard	Centre	France
Adrien Seguret	Centre	France
Rudi Wulf	Centre	New Zealand
Toby Arnold	Wing	New Zealand
Xavier Mignot	Wing	France
Alexis Palisson	Wing	France
Timilai Rokoduru	Wing	Fiji
Jone Tuva	Wing	Fiji
Delon Armitage	Fullback	England
Jean-Marcellin Buttin	Fullback	France

References

External links

(in French) Lyon OU Official website
LOU Omnisports Sportsclub

Top 14
2017–18 Teams	Agen Bordeaux Brive Castres Clermont La Rochelle Lyon Montpellier Oyonnax Pau Racing Stade Français Toulon Toulouse
Early years	1892 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–00 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19
Interbellum era	1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39
World War II	1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45
Post-war years	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60
1960–80	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80
1980–95	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Professional era and Top 16	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05
Top 14	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Trophy	Bouclier de Brennus

European Rugby Challenge Cup

Organised by European Professional Club Rugby
Formerly the "European Challenge Cup", organised by European Rugby Cup

2017–18 teams

European Challenge Cup
(1996–2014)

Seasons	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14
Pool stages	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14
European Shield	2002–03 2003–04 2004–05

European Rugby Challenge Cup
(2014–present)

Seasons	2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Pool stages	2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

Qualification play-offs

Continental Shield	European Rugby Continental Shield
Play-offs	2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

Rugby union in France

Governing body

Fédération Française de Rugby

National teams

Men's	France A 7s France amateur U-20 U-18
Women's	Women's 7's

Competitions

International	World Cup Six Nations Rugby World Cup Sevens World Rugby Sevens Series Sevens Grand Prix Series
Professional clubs	European Rugby Champions Cup European Rugby Challenge Cup National Rugby League (France) Top 14 Pro D2 Fédérale 1 Fédérale 2 Fédérale 3 Challenge Yves du Manoir
Hosted events	2007 Rugby World Cup France Sevens France Women's Sevens

Lyon – current squad
Forwards	David Attoub Josh Bekhuis Julien Bonnaire Curtis Browning Virgile Bruni Albertus Buckle Stéphane Clément Carl Fearns Deon Fourie Liam Gill Francisco Gómez Kodela Mickaël Ivaldi Giorgi Javakhia Cameron Mapusua Sami Mavinga Alexandre Menini Zaza Navrozashvili Christian Njewel Maselno Paulino Ti’i Paulo Julien Puricelli Taïasina Tuifua Karena Wihongi
Backs	Delon Armitage Toby Arnold Robin Aulas Théo Belan Paul Bonnefond Henry Clunies-Ross Nicolas Durand Agustín Figuerola Mike Harris Romain Loursac Frédéric Michalak Napolioni Nalaga Hemani Paea Jérôme Porical Jacques-Louis Potgieter Thibaut Regard Franck Romanet Jone Tuva Rudi Wulf
Coaches	Matthieu Lazerges Raphaël Saint-André

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