Lyon OU Rugby

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 four times in the six seasons since their 2011 promotion.

• European Rugby Challenge Cup
• Champions (1): 2022
• French championship Top 14
• Champions (2): 1932, 1933
• Runners-up (1): 1931
• Pro D2
• Champions (3): 2011, 2014, 2016
• Challenge Yves du Manoir
• Champions (1): 1933
• Runners-up (1): 1932
• Fédérale 1
• Champions: 2002
• Deuxième Division
• Champions: 1989, 1992

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• {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.lourugby.fr Lyon OU] Official website
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060824092348/http://www.lou-omnisports.com/ LOU Omnisports] Sportsclub

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