- Claude Puel
Claude Puel (born September 2, 1961 in Castres, France) is a former French footballer, now a manager, currently coach of Lille Olympique Sporting Club. He spent 17 years playing for AS Monaco. Before being appointed as the manager of Monaco, he was the physical trainer and manager of the Monaco's reserve team. He was appointed as the manager in January 1999. He won the French Championship in 2000, with players such as Ludovic Giuly or Marcelo Gallardo.
- Tony Sylva
Tony Mario Sylva (b. May 17, 1975 in Guediawaye, Senegal) is a Senegalese football international goalkeeper currently playing for Lille OSC in French Ligue 1. Sylva has also been on the books at AC Ajaccio and AS Monaco. He is greatly admired by his women followers, The T-Club. He is remembered for leading his country through the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where they managed to get all the way to the Quarter-finals, losing to Turkey by a Golden Goal.
- Kevin Mirallas
Kevin Mirallas (born October 5, 1987 in Liège) is a Belgian football striker. He played for his home town side Standard Liège at youth level, and has played for Lille OSC since the opening of the 2004-05 season. Mirallas participated in the UEFA Cup in his first season at the club.
- Stephan Lichtsteiner
Stephan Lichtsteiner (born January 16, 1984) is a Swiss footballer. Having represented Switzerland at every junior level, Lichtsteiner has played in the 1999 European Under-16 Football Championship and the 2004 Under-21 Championship. Born in Adligenswil, Lichtsteiner began his career at Grasshopper Zurich in 2001/02, and come the next year he became a first-team member, helping the Swiss team gain the league title.
- Mathieu Bodmer
Mathieu Bodmer is a French Norman footballer who currently plays for Olympique Lyonnais as a central midfielder.
- Jean Makoun
Jean II Makoun is a Cameroonian football player who plays for Lille OSC as a midfielder. He was part of the Cameroonian 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished top of their group in the first round of competition, before failing to secure qualification for the semi-finals. In April 2006, it was revealed that Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson was considering a £5 million bid for the Cameroonian.
- Daniel Gygax
Daniel Gygax is a Swiss football midfielder who currently, as of February 2007, plays for FC Metz on loan from Lille OSC. He currently has 20 caps for the Swiss national team, and has been called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He also participated at the 2004 European Football Championship.
- Bruno Cheyrou
Bruno Cheyrou (born May 5, 1978 in Suresnes, France) is a professional football player for Rennes of the Ligue 1.
- Ludovic Obraniak
Ludovic Obraniak is a French footballer born on November 10, 1984 in Longeville-Lès-Metz, France currently playing as a midfielder for Lille OSC. He previously played for Metz from 2003 until January 2007, when he transferred from Metz to Lille OSC. He stepped right into the action, even cracking the starting 11 for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League Quarterfinal pairing against Manchester United.
- Nicolas Plestan
Nicolas Plestan (born 2 June 1981 in Nice) is a French footballer who currently plays for Lille OSC as a defender.
- Daniel Moreira
Daniel Moreira is a French footballer who plays as a striker. He started his career with Valenciennes FC before moving to Guingamp. He finished as the runners-up of the 1997 Coupe de France playing for them. In 1998, he transferred to RC Lens. He won the Coupe de la Ligue with the "Les Sang et Or" in 1999. After spending six years at Stade Félix Bollaert, he was rewarded with a move to Toulouse FC. In the 2005-06 season, …
- Jacques Santini
Jacques Santini is a former football player and current manager. He played for AS Saint-Étienne during the 1970s, and reached the European Cup final with them in 1976. He was recently dismissed from his job as the head coach of AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1, due to the club's failure to qualify for European competition. He has previously managed the Toulouse FC, Lille OSC, AS Saint-Étienne, FC Sochaux, Olympique Lyonnais, the French national team, …
- Grégory Tafforeau
Grégory Tafforeau (born 29 September 1976 in Bois-Guillaume is a French Norman footballer who currently plays for Lille OSC as a defender.
- Mathieu Debuchy
Mathieu Debuchy is a professional footballer born on July 25, 1985 in Fretin. A midfielder, he currently plays for the French club Lille OSC, his original club. He is 21 years of age, and he and his wife Julie, are just announcing Julie's pregnancy. He has the number 2 shirt for his team LOSC.
- Souleymane Youla
Souleymane Youla is a Guinean football player. During the season 05/06 he was contracted to Turkish club Beşiktaş J.K., but sent on loan to FC Metz in France. He has just signed with French giants Lille OSC. He has previously played for R.S.C. Anderlecht, K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen and Gençlerbirliği SK. He was part of the Guinean 2004 African Nations Cup team who finished second in their group in the first round of competition.
- Stéphane Dumont
Stéphane Dumont is a French footballer. He is a midfielder who has played with Lille OSC since 2003. Dumont is currently Lille's first-team captain. Born in Seclin, he came to the forefront thanks to the departure of Benoît Cheyrou. Having signed his first contract during the 2002/03 season, he enjoyed a good start to the season before a broken ankle led to a season of merely training and little else.
- Antoine Sibierski
Antoine Sibierski (born August 5, 1974 in Lille) is a French football player who currently plays for Wigan Athletic. He began his career at hometown club Lille, where he moved up the ranks and played for four complete seasons in the first team before playing for Auxerre and Nantes, where he won the French Cup in 2000. He then joined Lens, and he became club captain within his three years in the side.
- Sébastien Grax
Sébastien Grax is a French footballer who currently plays for FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He started life at Monaco in 2001 where he played 4 games in 3 years. He was then loaned out to ES Troyes AC in 2004 where he scored 16 goals in 35 games. His most famous goal came against Lille OSC in 2005 when Troyes were newly promoted and Lille were in the UEFA Champions League.
- Efstathios Tavlaridis
Efstathios Tavlaridis, sometimes known as Stathis Tavlaridis, is a Greek footballer. He currently plays for AS Saint-Étienne in the centre of defence. He started his career at Iraklis FC and in 2001 was transferred to Arsenal for a fee of $3,000,000 at the age of 21. He never fully broke into the first team, unable to displace Sol Campbell and Kolo Touré, and spent a period on loan to Portsmouth.
- Bernard Lama
Bernard Lama is a former French footballer born in the Indre-et-Loire "département" but originating from French Guiana who played as a goalkeeper, spending a number of years in goal for Lille and Paris Saint-Germain. He also played for Brest, Lens, Metz and West Ham. His debut with the France national team was on February 17, 1993 against Israel in a 4-0 victory, and he would go on to win 44 caps for his nation.
- Jean Baratte
Jean Baratte (born 7 June, 1923 - died 1 July, 1986) was a French football striker and manager. He is a historic player of Lille OSC and the twelth goalscorer in Ligue 1.
- Roger Boli
Roger Boli (born September 26, 1965 in Adjame) is a French former footballer who played striker for clubs in the French and British leagues. He is currently an agent in France. Boli, older brother of Basile, started his career with AJ Auxerre, where he spent four seasons. A season at Lille OSC followed, before a long spell with RC Lens. During his seven seasons with the club, Boli won promotion to Ligue 1, and finished joint-top scorer in the 1993-94 season.
- Mathieu Chalmé
Mathieu Chalmé is a French footballer born on October 7, 1980 in Bruges, Gironde, France currently playing as a midfielder for Lille OSC evolving in the Ligue 1.
- Laurent Pichon
Laurent Pichon (born March 8, 1981) is a French footballer. Born in Calais, the goalkeeper was named as one of the back-up players for Lille's UEFA Champions League campaign of 2005/06. Pichon is 6'1" tall and weighs 12 stone.
- Mile Sterjovski
Mile Sterjovski (born on May 27, 1979 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Ethnic Macedonian origin, who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League and the Australian national team. He was a member of the Australian national team at the under 20 1999 World Youth Cup finals in Nigeria and also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- André Strappe
André Strappe was a french football (soccer) player in striker role, and later manager. In career played for Lille OSC (1948-58), Le Havre AC (1958-61), FC Nantes (1961-63) and SC Bastia (1963). He scored 116 goals in Ligue 1 and won same tournament in 1954 with Lille. He also played for two times Coupe de France (1953, 1955). For France national football team he played 23 matches and scored 4 goals. He participated at 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland.
- Kennet Andersson
Kennet Andersson is a former Swedish football (soccer) player, a key member of the Swedish national team that finished third in the 1994 World Cup. He is 193 cm (6'3) and 92kg (200lbs). On the club level, Andersson played for Tunafors (1985), Eskilstuna (1985-88), Göteborg (1988-91), Mechelen (1991-92), Norrköping (1993), Lille (1993-94), Caen (1994-95), Bari (1995-96), Bologna (1996-99 and 1999-2000), Lazio (1999), and Fenerbahçe (2000-02).
- Yohan Lacroix
Yohan Lacroix, born February 1, 1983 in Thonon-les-Bains, France is a French footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper. Having previously played for Auxerre in the 2005-2006 season, he has played for Lille OSC since 2002. He is currently on loan to Championnat National side Sannois Saint-Gratien. Lacroix is 192cm tall and weighs 100kg.
- Erwin Vandenbergh
Erwin Vandenbergh (born January 26, 1959) was a legendary Belgian football striker. Between 1979 and 1991, he finished six times topscorer of the Belgian First Division, with three different clubs (the first three with Lierse S.K., the following two with R.S.C. Anderlecht, and the last one with K.A.A. Gent). In 1979 he was European topscorer with 39 goals out of 34 games.
- Eric Braamhaar
Frederikus Johannes ("Eric") Braamhaar (born October 13, 1966) is a Dutch football referee. He lives in Enter in the province of Overijssel. In the 2007 UEFA Champions League knockout stage, he awarded a controversial goal to Manchester United against Lille OSC. Four weeks later, while refereeing an Eredivisie game between Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, he was seen celebrating a goal scored by Ajax (who won 5-1).
- Matthieu Delpierre
Matthieu Delpierre (born February 4, 1981 in Nancy, France) is a French professional football player. Delpierre plays as a centre back previously for Lille OSC and currently for VfB Stuttgart. He has represented France at the U-18, U-20 and under-21 levels, making appearances during the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.
- Vahid Halilhodžić
Vahid Halilhodžić is a former Bosnian football player and now manager. Halilhodžić was capped 32 times, scoring eight goals for the Yugoslav national team. He was twice the leading scorer of the French league with FC Nantes Atlantique. After retiring, he coached a number of teams, including Lille and Rennes, and Paris Saint-Germain, where he was between 2003 and 2005. He was the head coach of Trabzonspor in the season 2005-2006.
- Yvon Douis
Yvon Douis (born 16 May 1935 in Les Andelys) is a former French footballer. During his career he played for Lille OSC (1953-59), Le Havre AC (1959-61), AS Monaco (1961-67) and AS Cannes (1967-69). He earned 20 caps and scored 4 goals for the France national football team between 1957 and 1965, and played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup when France finished third.
- Aliou Cissé
Aliou Cissé is a Senegalese football player. He has recently signed for a second spell at French Ligue 1 side CS Sedan on a free transfer, after being released by Portsmouth in England at the end of the 2005/06 season. Cisse is an aggressive defensive midfield player who can also play at full back. He began his career with Lille OSC before moving onto CS Sedan and then Paris Saint-Germain. He also spent the majority of the 2001-02 season on loan at Montpellier Herault SC.
- Gérard Soler
Gérard Soler is a former French-Moroccan footballer, who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. Soler represented France at the 1982 World Cup, scoring their goal in a 3-1 defeat to England in Bilbao. He was the only player to score against England in the tournament. In total, Soler won 16 caps for France between 16th November 1974 and May 31, 1983, scoring four goals. Soler played from 1972 until 1988, for Sochaux, Monaco, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Strasbourg, …
- Amara Simba
Amara Simba (born 23rd December 1961), Dakar, Senegal is a retired French football player. During his career he played for Paris SG, AS Cannes, AS Monaco, SM Caen and Lille OSC in France, Club Leon in Mexico and Leyton Orient, Kingstonian, Kettering Town, Barnet, St. Albans City and Billericay in England. He was also selected to play for the French national team on three occasions by then manager Michel Platini in which he scored one goal, …
- Pascal Nouma
Pascal Nouma is a French footballer. He is particularly famous for his eccentric behaviour both on and off the pitch. He started his career in the Paris Saint-Germain youth team before moving around other teams in France. He played for Lille and Caen before moving back to PSG for two seasons in 1994. In 1996 he left for Strasbourg, spending two seasons there before he moving to Lens. After two seasons at Lens, he left for the Turkish club Beşiktaş, …
- Slavoljub Muslin
Slavoljub Muslin (born June 15, 1953 in Belgrade, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian football manager and a former player. He began his head coaching career in 1988 and has since had stints in France, Morocco, Serbia-Montenegro, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belgium and Russia. Prior to that, Muslin was a notable football player. He played as a defender for Red Star Belgrade and later Lille OSC.
- Boro Primorac
Boro Primorac (born December 5, 1954 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian former football player and currently the first team coach at Arsenal. As a player, Primorac was an accomplished international centre half who captained Yugoslavia in the early 1980s. Now a respected coach, Primorac works as right hand man to Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger. He worked with the Frenchman at Grampus Eight in Japan before joining him at Highbury in March 1997.
- Milenko Ačimovič
Milenko Ačimovič is a Slovenian footballer who plays for FK Austria Vienna. He was born in Ljubljana, 1977 to Serbian parents. He started his career in the young ranks of Olimpija Ljubljana. As an extremely gifted youngster, he made three first-team appearances for Zeleznicar when he was just 17 years old. From 1996 until 1998 he found himself again playing for Olimpija, scoring 7 goals in 34 matches. Then he joined Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade).