In recent times, the OL Academy has been criticized a lot. Fallen from the podium of French centers in the last ranking of the FFF (4th), Rhone training crosses some turbulence. In a saga in three components, in the past, in the present and the future, But Football Club offers you an inventory of the situation.
The past and the present swept, it is now time to talk about the future of the Lyon training. A future far from Meyzieu since Michele Kang, the president of Ol Lyonnes, will recover the premises of the Academy against € 20 million to build her 100% female performance center. On May 19, the American and its managing director Vincent Ponsot presented their project supposed to get out of the ground by 2026 on the site of the current Academy. Opposite, male OL has not yet activated to present the draft of its project, but there is already confirmation: the training center will be re -emigrated on the side of Décines. With the pennant team.
A few weeks ago, Nasser Larguet, the former boss of the OM training center and current DTN of Saudi Arabia, established a report in the direction of the will already displayed at all levels of the club: recreate the Tola Vologe spirit. “For me, this distance between the first team, the reserve and all the rest of training no longer has to be. OL needs a place unit. This is one of the primordial points if you want to find an identification. We must continue to work on the Lyonnais Olympic DNA, “notably supported the educator, as he revealed to us during an interview on June 6.
The football school and pre -training far from Décines?
The unit of place within the current Groupama OL Training Center will only concern the training. But there will be no disappearance of pre -training or the soccer school for all that. On the set of “As long as there are gones” a few weeks ago, Matthieu Louis-Jean, the technical director of OL, confirmed it. To our microphone, Nasser Larguet nodded, explaining that it would be “shooting himself in the foot” to save himself from an educational project which begins at the age of 6. According to our information, pre -training and the football school may not be in Décines. The club discusses with several municipalities, already having infrastructure capable of welcoming all residents. An outcome would be close and could even appear in the summer announcements of Olympique Lyonnais.
A new building in the heart of Groupama OL Training Center
The women leaving GOLTC, OL will be able to release a little space to accommodate its workforce U19, U17 and U15 but there will be a little space, one or two land and especially a place of life for the interns. In the agreement between John Textor and Michele Kang, young people are not expected to be hunted. A gradual move of the premises will take place during the 2025-26 season to be ready for 2026-27. If the new housing units are not ready in time, other provisional options exist: the Country-Club “All-in” stuck to the Groupama OL Training Center (already used last year for a few residents) or the boarding school of the Marists (the school establishment that has worked with OL for many years).
While the idea of cropping in the stadium car parks was envisaged time, there will ultimately be no modification of the local urban plan (PLU) too heavy and tedious in this time available to the reimplantation of the Center with Décines. OL will still have to deposit a building permit at the town hall and have it validated in order to make the changes. At a time when we write these lines, we are not yet at this stage.
On the other hand, there is already a draft of the project that has been circulating for many months. The addition of a training lawn parallel to the field of honor Gérard Houllier is envisaged but it is above all the construction of a brand new training center instead of the current and not used land which promises to be the very large project to get out of the ground. OL is also thinking of making one stone two strokes using this place of life as a green center for its pennant team. On the model of what the biggest clubs do.
As for the operating budget and the financing of the redesign project, Olympique Lyonnais has not yet communicated anything. One thing is certain: despite the sakes of stewardship known this season on the side of Meyzieu following the non-payment of certain suppliers, the club has not for the moment proceed to any cup in its operating costs for the training. The budget of the academy has been stable for many years (between 10 and 15 M €)…
To read on the same theme:
OL Academy file (1/3): Autopsy of a fall (Tuesday June 17)
OL Academy file (2/3): a dark season, really? (Wednesday June 18)
