Olympique Lyonnais Féminin will now go by OL Lyonnes, club owner Michele Kang announced Monday.
The updated name comes with a new badge that reflects the team’s status as the most successful women’s soccer side in the world. In addition to the rebrand, the club will build a bespoke performance center designed specifically for female athletes that Kang says will set the new global standard. The team will also start playing its matches at Grouparama Stadium starting next season.
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“This is not about just a name change and some graphic changes,” Kang told reporters at a news conference in Lyon. “This is really to redefine what’s possible for women’s football.”
The announcement comes on the heels of the team winning its 18th league title in 19 years. “This is an enormous success,” the 65-year-old added. “So we wanted to respect that and give the right platform and their own identity to our women’s team.”
Founded in 2004 as Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, OL Lyonnes is the most successful club in women’s soccer with a record 39 titles, including eight UEFA Women’s Champions Leagues (UWCL). Acquired by Kang in 2024, OL Lyonnes is part of Kynisca — the first women-owned and women-led multi-club organization in football — alongside the Washington Spirit of the NWSL and London City Lionesses, which was promoted to the Women’s Super League two weeks ago after beating Birmingham City in the final round of the Championship season. Earlier this year, she committed $25 million to U.S. Soccer, building on her previous $30 million investment to grow the women’s game through youth development, coaching education and talent identification.
Kang at Lyon’s Champions League semifinal first leg against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium earlier this year (Paul Harding/Getty Images)
he OL Lyonnes name, Kang said, maintains the club’s heritage while signaling her desire to separate its identity from the men’s side. The new moniker has a twist: while ‘lionne’ is French for lioness, Kang explained the team opted for the spelling with a ‘y’ to reinforce the team’s identity as rooted in the city of Lyon.
The new logo replaces the club’s traditional male lion with the image of a lioness. Kang, referencing a trip she made to Africa, recalled learning from her safari guide how lionesses do the real work in the jungle — hunting, protecting and feeding the young — while the male lions mostly sleep.
“I’m talking in real life, male lions sleep 22 hours out of 24 hours. So if you think about lioness, who’s really roaring, the fears, competitiveness, protecting and surviving, all those things to us, that was the spirit of lioness,” she said. The new crest also reflects the team’s successful heritage featuring a crown that symbolizes the team’s dominance in global women’s soccer.
A mock-up of the new training center (OL Lyonnes)
The new training center, located in Meyzieu, approximately eight miles from the center of Lyon, will house women’s first team, reserves and the youth academy under one roof. “From day one, I was impressed with how the women’s team has achieved this kind of success with the amount of resources that was available to them,” Kang said.
The club have appointed specialist architects F3 to lead the design project, who have most recently worked on the Tottenham Hotspur men’s and women’s training facilities in England. Kang said F3 specifically designed the training center based on feedback from players and staff and included unique elements such as childcare and nursery spaces, custom locker rooms and medical/rehab areas, private and group meeting rooms and natural lighting and open spaces for training and recovery.
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To expand its fan base and global presence, OL Lyonnes’ home games — including the Arkema Premier League, the French Cup and the UWCL – will take place at the 59,186 seat Grouprama Stadium from the start of the 2025-2026 season. This transformation also aligns directly with Kynisca’s mission of professionalizing women’s soccer and proving its commercial viability while also amplifying its global cultural impact.
“This is about giving the most successful women’s team in the world its own platform, its own identity,” Kang said. “We’re not a subset of the men’s team. We are a standalone force.”
(Top photo: OL Lyonnes)
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