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{{Short description|Football rivalry}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{infobox football derby
| name                     = Derby Saint-Étienne - Lyon
| other names              = Le Derby
| team1logo                =
| team2logo                =
| team1                    = [[Olympique Lyonnais|Lyon]]
| team2                    = [[AS Saint-Étienne|Saint-Étienne]]
| city or region           = [[Rhône-Alpes]], France
| first contested          = {{nowrap|Lyon 4–2 Saint-Étienne}}<br />[[1951–52 French Division 1|Division 1]]<br />(28 October 1951)
| total                    = 125
| most wins                = Lyon (47)
| most player appearances  = [[Serge Chiesa]] (28)
| top scorer               = [[Hervé Revelli]]<br />[[Fleury Di Nallo]]<br />(14 each)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ol.fr/en/contents/articles/2010/09/22/the-men-of-the-derby|title=The Men of the Derby|website=Olympique Lyonnais|date=22 September 2010|access-date=8 December 2020}}</ref>
| mostrecent               = {{nowrap|Lyon 1–0 Saint-Étienne}}<br />[[2024–25 Ligue 1|Ligue 1]]<br />(10 November 2024)
| nextmeeting              =
| largestvictory           = Lyon 1–7 Saint-Étienne <br /> (5 October 1969)
}}
The '''Olympique Lyonnais–AS Saint-Étienne rivalry''', is a [[Association football|football]] rivalry between French clubs [[Olympique Lyonnais]] and [[AS Saint-Étienne]], with matches between them referred to as the '''Derby Rhône-Alpes''', '''Derby Rhônealpin''' or simply '''Le Derby'''.<ref name="derby_rhone">{{cite news |title=Power struggle on the Rhone |url=https://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicderby/news/newsid=1008724.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803153941/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicderby/news/newsid=1008724.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 August 2009 |work=[[FIFA|Fédération Internationale de Football Association]] |date=19 December 2009 |access-date=3 August 2010}}</ref> Both clubs are located in the [[Regions of France|region]] of [[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]]. The term '''Derby du Rhône''' is sometimes used by French media,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/article/briand-wins-derby-du-rhone-at-last-for-ol.htm |title=Ligue1.com - Briand wins derby du Rhône at last for OL |website=www.ligue1.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118191326/http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/article/briand-wins-derby-du-rhone-at-last-for-ol.htm |archive-date=2013-11-18}} </ref> despite the city of [[Saint-Étienne]] not being located along the [[Rhône]] River nor in the [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]] [[département]].
==Background==
The two clubs first met in 1951 and, due to the clubs' close proximity, being separated by only {{convert|50|km|mi}}, a hotly contested rivalry developed.<ref>{{cite news |title=OM-PSG D-2: The match that divides a nation |url=http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/lireArticle.asp?idArticle=14341 |work=[[Ligue de Football Professionnel]] |date=23 October 2009 |access-date=3 August 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The derby is cited as one of the high-points of the [[Ligue 1]] season and, like other major rivalries, extends outside of the pitch. The rivalry is considered a symbolic challenge between the two cities locally, as the city of Lyon is considered [[white-collar worker|white collar]] while its counterpart Saint-Étienne is viewed by the locals as more [[blue collar]].<ref name=derby_rhone/>
During the 20th century, Saint-Étienne was the most successful club in [[French football]] winning ten league titles between 1957 and 1981, a record that still stands today. During that span, the club also won six [[Coupe de France]] titles and performed well at the  [[UEFA|European level]].<ref name=derby_rhone/> However, the club's performance declined in the 1980s and it even suffered relegations to [[Ligue 2|the second division]] in both 1984 and 2022, causing its stranglehold on the national and regional consciousness to weaken. Lyon began a similar ascension into [[French football]] at the beginning of the new millennium when the club won their first-ever Ligue 1 championship in 2002. The initial title started a national record-setting streak of seven successive titles.
Currently, both clubs are among the best-supported in Ligue 1, and each has participated in European competition in recent years.
==Head-to-head record==
:''As of match played 10 November 2024''
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!width=160 rowspan=2 colspan=2|Competition
!width=60 rowspan=2|Matches
!colspan=3|Winners
!colspan=2|Goals scored
|-
!width=70|Lyon
!width=70|Draw
!width=70|Saint-Étienne
!width=60|Lyon
!width=60|Saint-Étienne
|-
|rowspan=2|League
|align=left|[[Ligue 1]]
|113
|42
|32
|39
|136
|139
|-
|align=left|[[Ligue 2]]
|4
|1
|1
|2
|3
|7
|-
|align=left colspan=2|[[Coupe de France]]
|5
|3
|1<ref>Penalty win for Lyon but officially counts as a draw</ref>
|1
|9
|3
|-
|align=left colspan=2|[[Coupe Charles Drago]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|0
|4
|-
|align=left colspan=2|[[Trophée des Champions]]
|1
|0
|0
|1
|0
|3
|-
|align=left colspan=2|[[Coupe de la Ligue]]
|1
|1
|0
|0
|2
|1
|-class="sortbottom"
!align=left colspan=2|Total
!125
!47
!34
!44
!150
!157
|}
==Switching clubs==
Due to the clubs' ongoing rivalry, few players have played for Lyon and Saint-Étienne. Since the two clubs first contested each other in 1951, only 27 players have played for both Lyon and Saint-Étienne and only 13 players have transferred directly from Lyon to Saint-Étienne and [[vice versa]]. The first player to "commit" the offense was Antoine Rodriguez in 1951, when after having a nine-year spell at Saint-Étienne, he moved to Lyon, where he spent only one season. Other notable players who made the switch were [[Aimé Jacquet]] who, after having a successful 13-year career with Saint-Étienne, departed the club for Lyon, where he spent three seasons. Jacquet later went on to manage Lyon and coached the team to the [[1973 Coupe de France Final]]. Similarly, [[Striker (association football)|striker]] [[Bernard Lacombe]] established himself as one of Lyon's all-time leading goalscorers before leaving the club for Saint-Étienne in 1978 where he was often booed and jeered, which led to the player departing the club for [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]] after one season. The other players who transferred directly between clubs are [[François Lemasson]], [[Alain Moizan]], André Calligaris, [[Romarin Billong]], [[Jean-Luc Sassus]], Christopher Deguerville, [[Grégory Coupet]], Franck Priou, [[Lamine Diatta]] and [[Bafétimbi Gomis]]. [[Steed Malbranque]], a product of Lyon youth system and a former Lyon first-team regular, signed for Saint-Étienne from [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]], but then resigned after one month, allegedly calling quit to his career. He surprisingly signed for Lyon a few months later.
===OL, then ASSE===
[[File:David Hellebuyck.jpg|thumb|170px|right|[[David Hellebuyck]] started his career at Lyon before making over 100 appearances with Saint-Étienne.]]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan=2|Name
!rowspan=2|Pos
!colspan=3|Lyon
!colspan=3|Saint-Étienne
|-
!Career!!Apps!!Goals
!Career!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Bernard Lacombe]]||FW
|1969–78||230||128
|1978–79||32||14
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Alain Moizan]]||MF
|1980–82||–||–
|1982–84||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Franck Priou||MF
|1980–88||–||–
|1988–90||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Laurent Fournier]]||MF
|1986–88||53||15
|1995||10||3
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|CMR}} [[Romarin Billong]]||DF
|1988–95||111||5
|1995–2000||102||5
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Patrice Ferri]]||DF
|1992–93||–||–
|1995–96||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Jean-Luc Sassus]]||DF
|1994–97||–||–
|1997–98||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[David Hellebuyck]]||MF
|1996–2000||3||0
|2001–06||167||14
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Laurent Morestin||DF
|1997–98||3||0
|2003–04||24||0
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Patrice Carteron]]||DF
|1997–2000||101||6
|2001–05||100||16
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|SEN}} [[Lamine Diatta]]||DF
|2004–06||40||0
|2006–08||27||1
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Sylvain Monsoreau]]||DF
|2005–06||19||0
|2008–12||30||0
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Steed Malbranque]]||MF
|1997–01||110||10
|2011–12||1||0
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Mathieu Bodmer]]||MF
|2007–10||91||8
|2013||16||2
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[François Clerc]]||DF
|2005–09||78||1
|2012–15||85||3
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Jérémy Clément]]||MF
|2004–06||54||1
|2011–17||192||1
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Timothée Kolodziejczak]]||DF
|2008–12||14||0
|2018–22||122||7
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Lenny Pintor]]||FW
|2018–22||2||0
|2022–23||22||1
|}
===ASSE, then OL===
[[File:Bafetimbi Gomis 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[Bafétimbi Gomis]] joined Lyon from Saint-Étienne in 2009.]]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan=2|Name
!rowspan=2|Pos
!colspan=3|Saint-Étienne
!colspan=3|Lyon
|-
!Career!!Apps!!Goals
!Career!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Michel Cristobal||DF
|1945–49||–||–
|1950–52||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Antoine Rodriguez||DF
|1942–51||–||–
|1951–52||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Andre Calligaris||DF
|1957–60||–||–
|1960–61||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Aimé Jacquet]]||MF
|1960–73||176||12
|1973–76||26||2
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[André Guy]]||FW
|1962–65||82||52
|1967–71||116||66
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[José Broissart]]||MF
|1969–73||–||–
|1976–80||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Jean-François Larios]]||MF
|1973–83||167||36
|1984–85||27||1
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Olivier Roussey||MF
|1977–78||–||–
|1979–80||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Patrice Ferri]]||DF
|1981–88||–||–
|1992–93||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[François Lemasson]]||GK
|1986–87||5||0
|1987–90||101||0
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Christopher Deguerville||DF
|1987–95||–||–
|1995–97||–||–
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Grégory Coupet]]||GK
|1993–97||88||0
|1997–2008||518||0
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Frédéric Piquionne]]||FW
|2004–07||97||27
|2008–09||26||4
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|SEN}} [[Pape Diakhaté]]||DF
|2010||18||1
|2010–11||3||0
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Bafétimbi Gomis]]||FW
|2003–09||162||49
|2009–14||244||95
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Steed Malbranque]]||MF
|2011–12||1||0
|2012–14||129||9
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Mouhamadou Dabo]]||DF
|2005–10||123||1
|2011–15||91||1
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Jordan Veretout]]||MF
|2016–17||43||4
|2024–present||9||0
|}
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
==External links==
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.asse.fr AS Saint-Étienne Official Site]
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.olweb.fr Olympique Lyonnais Official Site]
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