Rating
48
Average — 31st percentile · Glicko-2 1429 ±97
Record
76-3-78
48.4% of 157 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-0.4
26.3 for, 26.7 against
Home advantage
+19.3
Points per match better at home
Attack
+3%
26.3 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-1%
26.7 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 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Montpellier Herault2026-06-06 · home25–28lost
Stade Toulousain2026-05-30 · away31–39lost- Bayonne2026-05-16 · home42–35won
Stade Francais Paris2026-05-09 · away17–59lost
Castres Olympique2026-04-25 · home26–21won
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 — 31st 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 68% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (23%) rises with more high-scoring matches, less close matches.
58 of 82 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 its name is in the tooltip.
- 1Sharks0.17
- 2Lions0.18
- 3Connacht0.22
- 4Benetton Treviso0.31
- 5Racing 920.33
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.