Rating
42
Average — 27th percentile · Glicko-2 1487 ±97
Record
77-4-81
47.5% of 162 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-0.8
26.6 for, 27.4 against
Home advantage
+19.0
Points per match better at home
Attack
+4%
26.6 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-6%
27.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Karim Ghezal
- Captain
- Baptiste Couilloud
- Founded
- 1896
- Ground
- Stade de Gerland
- Capacity
- 35,029
- Based in
- Lyon, France
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Sharks2026-10-17 · home33–40lost
La Rochelle2026-10-10 · home16–28lost
Bordeaux Begles2026-10-03 · away28–51lost
Stade Francais Paris2026-09-26 · away10–31lost
Pau2026-09-19 · home51–25won
Newest first, from Lyon's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.
Biggest win: 73-12 v US Montauban
Heaviest defeat: 0-45 v Stade Toulousain
Average — 27th percentile
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Lyon. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.
Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (46%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (25%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
52 of 84 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and hovering one names it.
- 1Pau0.16
- 2Benetton Treviso0.18
- 3Lions0.24
- 4Connacht0.25
- 5Clermont Auvergne0.36
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.