| Club: | Lyon |
| Season: | 2017–18 |
| Manager: | Bruno Génésio |
| Chairman: | Jean-Michel Aulas |
| Owner: | OL Groupe |
| Stadium: | Parc Olympique Lyonnais |
| League: | Ligue 1 |
| League Result: | 3rd |
| Cup1: | Coupe de France |
| Cup1 Result: | Quarter-finals |
| Cup2: | Coupe de la Ligue |
| Cup2 Result: | Round of 16 |
| Cup3: | UEFA Europa League |
| Cup3 Result: | Round of 16 |
| League Topscorer: | Memphis Depay (19) |
| Season Topscorer: | Nabil Fekir (23) |
| Highest Attendance: | 57,582 vs. Paris Saint-Germain (21 January 2018) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 26,972 vs. Apollon Limassol (23 November 2017) |
| Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
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The 2017–18 season was Olympique Lyonnais's 68th professional season since its creation in 1950.
| Date | Player | Loaned to | Return date | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jean-Philippe Mateta | Le Havre | 30 June 2018 | |||||
| Gaëtan Perrin | Orléans | 30 June 2018 | |||||
| | Gazélec Ajaccio | 30 June 2018 | |||||
| Aldo Kalulu | Sochaux | 30 June 2018 | |||||
 |  Torino | 30 June 2018 | |||||
| Romain Del Castillo | Nîmes | 30 June 2018 | |||||
 | Espanyol | 30 June 2018 | [3] |
See main article: 2017 International Champions Cup.
See main article: 2017–18 Ligue 1.
See main article: 2017–18 Coupe de France.
See main article: 2017–18 Coupe de la Ligue.
See main article: 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.
See main article: 2017–18 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players transferred out during the season
| Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=170 | Name | width=150 | Ligue 1 | width=150 | Coupe de France | width=150 | Coupe de la Ligue | width=150 | UEFA Europa League | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | | 18 | Nabil Fekir | 18 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 23 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW | 11 | Memphis Depay | 19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22 | ||||||||||
| 3 | FW |  | 9 | Mariano | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21 | |||||||||
| 4 | FW | 10 | Bertrand Traoré | 13 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18 | ||||||||||
| 5 | MF | | 8 | Houssem Aouar | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
| FW |  | 27 | Maxwel Cornet | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 7 | DF |  | 6 | Marcelo | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
| 8 | FW | | 17 | Myziane Maolida | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| 9 | DF | | 5 | Mouctar Diakhaby | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 10 | MF | | 28 | Tanguy Ndombele | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| DF | 23 | Kenny Tete | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| DF | | 4 | Rafael | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 85 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 111 | |||||||||||||
In Ligue 1 match at Angers, Lyon wore their away kit from 2015–16 season. Their third kit was released on late November 2017.[4]
