page_title: List of Olympique Lyonnais players
section_title: Players with 50 or more appearances
hierarchical_section_title: List of Olympique Lyonnais players / Players with 50 or more appearances
caption_attribution_description: English: Karim Benzema Français&#160;: Karim Benzema
context_page_description: Olympique Lyonnais is a French professional association football club based in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, playing in Ligue 1, the top level of the French football league system, as of the 2010–11 season. The club was formed in 1899 as the football section of sports club Lyon Olympique Universitaire. In 1950, the section split from the club and formed the club that exists today. Lyon played their first competitive match in August 1950. The club's first major honor was winning the 1963–64 edition of the Coupe de France. Lyon won their first ever Ligue 1 title in the 2001–02 season. The title started a national record-breaking streak of seven successive league championships.
  Since playing their first competitive match, more than 500 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club.
  Olympique Lyonnais' record appearance-maker is Serge Chiesa, who made 541 total competitive appearances between 1969–1983. In 1981, Chiesa surpassed Fleury Di Nallo who was the first player in the club's history to make 400 competitive appearances. Di Nallo is the club's all-time leading goalscorer with 182 and finished his career at Lyon with 489 total appearances.
context_section_description: Position key:GK – Goalkeeper;
  DF – Defender;
  MF – Midfielder;
  FW – Forward
caption: Karim Benzema is the eighth on the list of the club's all-time leading goalscorers.
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