Olympique Lyonnais Reserves and Academy

As of 15 April 2023[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  MAR Achraf Laaziri 29 DF  FRA Mamadou Sarr 31 DF  FRA Irvyn Lomami 33 FW  ALG Djibrail Dib 36 FW  FRA Sekou Lega 38 MF  FRA Mohamed El Arouch 39 FW  FRA Gaël Nsombi 41 MF  FRA Noam Bonnet 43 DF  NIG Philippe Boueye 44 DF  FRA Marley Felix 45 DF  FRA Ahmed Djimé 46 MF  ALG Idris Bounaas 47 MF  FRA Sofiane Augarreau 50 GK  FRA Mathieu Patouillet

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  FRA Justin Bengui — DF  CRO Téo Barisic — DF  FRA Gwendal Degorce — DF  GNB Celestino Iala — MF  FRA Samuel Bossiwa — MF  TUN Chaïm El Djebali — MF  FRA Islam Halifa — MF  SEN Pathé Mboup — FW  FRA Thibaut Ehling — FW  FRA Breyton Fougeu — FW  ALG Yannis Lagha — FW  FRA Madyan Sounni — FW  FRA Eli Wissa

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  FRA Matéo Pereira — GK  FRA Enzo Vita — DF  FRA Évan Abran — DF  FRA Ali Alamine — DF  ALG Farès Benarbia — DF  FRA Lilian Coponat — DF  FRA Yacine Chaib — DF  FRA Yanis Cheikh — DF  ALG Steeve Kango — DF  FRA Prince Mbatschi — DF  FRA Jérémy Mounsesse

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FRA Evan Abran — MF  FRA Romain Berthelin — MF  POR Mathys De Carvalho — MF  SUI Pape Fuhrer — MF  FRA Antonin Marsin — MF  FRA Olivier Mvouama — MF  MAR Ryad Talbi — FW  FRA Tidiane Diawara — FW  TUN Rayan El Djebali — FW  MTN Thiema Gueye — FW  FRA Romain Perret

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  FRA Axel Barreau — GK  FRA Matthias Da Silva — GK  SUI Yvann Konan — GK  FRA Estéban Pourchet — GK  FRA Léo Ripert — DF  FRA Léo Bamballi — DF  FRA Imdad Charifou — DF  FRA Emeric Etondé — DF  FRA Erawan Garnier — DF  FRA Mark Hérinirainy — DF  FRA Baptiste Monveneur — DF  FRA Helder Oliveira — DF  FRA Kelyan Yahia — MF  FRA Manny Allegret — MF  FRA Daryll Benlahlou

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FRA Elliot Branco — MF  FRA Lenny Djouad — MF  POR Tiago Gonçalves — MF  FRA Paul Guivier — MF  FRA Ali Ali Hassan — MF  FRA Ottman Katirag — MF  FRA Khalis Merah — MF  FRA Emerson Pedro Vanga — MF  USA Axel Perez — MF  FRA Khalil Rekaoui — FW  FRA Djibrail Bahlouli — FW  FRA Amal Boura — FW  FRA Nourdine El Azzouzi — FW  FRA Bryan Meyo — FW  FRA Enzo Molébé

Since the 2010s, Lyon youth academy gained reputation all around Europe as being one of the top football academies in the continent, producing several players playing in European top tier competitions.[7] Between 2012 and 2019, Lyon appears successively eight times in top 4 of the International Centre for Sports Studies list of the best football academies in Europe. Lyon was also rated by the French Football Federation as the best football academy in France for six seasons in a row, between 2013 and 2019.[8]

In February 2014, L'Équipe writes that Olympique Lyonnais ranks second in terms of the number of players trained at the club and playing in the "five major European championships" (Germany, England, Spain, France and Italy) tied with Real Madrid, and the first being FC Barcelona.[9][10] In 2015, France Football rated Lyon youth academy as one of the best in Europe, as it is used to feed the first team, and also having a pool of players with value on the transfer market, without this being in the heart of the club's policy.[11] Indeed, the competition level in Lyon's youth team is very difficult for young players, they will regularly, voluntarily or not, emancipate themselves in other very young clubs. Just as regularly, a certain number of them manage to have a good national or international career.

According to Faouzi Djedou-Benabid, the scout for Niort and the co-author of Pourquoi le foot français va dans le mur (Why French football goes into wall) (2015), published by Hugo Sport, the training provided by Olympique Lyonnais favors the technical learning of football over match results, like FC Barcelona: thus, "Lyon educators do not hesitate to have defenders play in midfield so that 'they can learn to use their feet better". In addition, the formation does not favor any pattern of play, allowing the players to adapt easily to all positions during the game.[12] Below is a non-exhaustive list of notable players who trained in the youth teams of Olympique Lyonnais: