2009–10 Olympique de Marseille season

Olympique de Marseille

2009–10 season
Chairman	Jean-Claude Dassier
Manager	Didier Deschamps
Ligue 1	1st
Coupe de France	Round of 32
Coupe de la Ligue	Winner
UEFA Champions League	Group stage (3rd)
UEFA Europa League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Mamadou Niang (18) All: Mamadou Niang (22)
Highest home attendance	56,282 (3 November vs Zürich, UEFA Champions League)
Lowest home attendance	19,217 (27 January vs Lille, Coupe de la Ligue)
Average home attendance	48,892 (Ligue 1)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2009–10 season of Olympique de Marseille (OM) had the club being involved in five competitions: the Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue, the UEFA Champions League, and the UEFA Europa League. They won the Ligue 1 for the first time in 18 years. They also won the Coupe de la Ligue. In the UEFA Champions League, they were eliminated in the group stage. They finished third and were given a place in the UEFA Europa League knockout stages. They were eliminated in the round of 16 by Benfica.

Club

Coaching staff

This is Didier Deschamps' first season with Marseille as a coach.

Position	Staff
Coach	Didier Deschamps
Assistant coach	Guy Stéphan
Goalkeeping coach	Laurent Spinosi
Fitness coach	Christophe Manouvrier
Club doctor	Christophe Baudot
Chief scout	Jean-Philippe Durand

Last updated: 15 May 2010
Source: Olympique de Marseille

Kit

This new season Adidas introduced Marseille's new kits, and these new ones are much different to last season, except the home kit, the colours of Marseille still stay white and sky blue. The away kit is an impressive kit with it being sky blue and has shades of black. The third kit was so far used in European competitions only. This kit is a full black kit but still has a little sky blue. In all of Marseille's kits there is one their main colour sky blue one.

Steve Mandanda in l'OM's training outfit.

Home

Away

Third

RLD

Supplier : Adidas

Sponsor : Direct Energie

Other information

Jean-Claude Dassier is the chairman of the club since June 2009.

Chairman	Jean-Claude Dassier
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Stade Vélodrome (60,013 / {{{d}}})

Last updated: 8 February 2009
Source:^{[citation needed]}

Squad

The professional staff of the 2009–10 season, led by Deschamps and his assistant Guy Stephan, has eight home-grown players. 13 are international players in the team, including two French team players.The goalkeeping coach is Laurent Spinosi, who has four players under his wing, including Steve Mandanda, one of the current choices of the French national team. Taye Taiwo and Mamadou Niang are the longest tenured OM players, with 193 and 179 games played, respectively, as of 25 June 2009.

First-team squad

Taye Taiwo is the current Marseille player with the most appearances. Since 2004 he has been appeared in 193 games for l'OM. As of 25 June 2009.

As of 15 May 2010.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Rudy Riou 3 DF Taye Taiwo 4 DF Julien Rodriguez 5 DF Vitorino Hilton 6 MF Édouard Cissé 7 MF Benoît Cheyrou 8 MF Lucho González 9 FW Brandão 10 MF Hatem Ben Arfa 11 FW Mamadou Niang (captain) 12 MF Charles Kaboré 14 FW Bakari Koné 15 MF Jordan Ayew 17 MF Stéphane Mbia

No. Position Player 18 MF Fabrice Abriel 19 DF Gabriel Heinze 20 DF Charley Roussel Fomen 21 DF Souleymane Diawara 22 DF Cyril Rool 23 FW Fernando Morientes 24 DF Laurent Bonnart 27 DF Pape M'Bow 28 MF Mathieu Valbuena 30 GK Steve Mandanda 31 FW Guy Gnabouyou 32 FW Alexander N'Doumbou 34 MF Kevin Osei 40 GK Elinton Andrade

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 13 DF Leyti N'Diaye (at Ajaccio until end of the 2009–10 season) 26 DF Jean-Philippe Sabo (at Ajaccio until end of the 2009–10 season) – FW Mamadou Samassa (at Valenciennes until end of the 2009–10 season) – FW André Ayew (at Arles-Avignon until end of the 2009–10 season) – FW Mohamed Amine Dennoun (at Amiens until end of the 2009–10 season) – DF Cédric D'Ulivo (at Cassis Carnoux until end of the 2009–10 season) 2 DF Garry Bocaly (at Montpellier until end of the 2009–10 season)

Reserve Squad

As of 8 February 2010.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Johan Crespin GK Samir Kouakbi DF Sébastien Bregand DF Bradley Diallo DF Sébastien Fischetti DF Raphaël Lopes DF Senah Mango MF Samir Abbes MF Landing Bodian

No. Position Player MF Olivier Cano MF Alexander N'Doumbou MF Ahmed Nouri MF Thomas Pechart MF Emmanuel Schianchi FW Jordan Ayew FW Nicolas Crus FW Cédric Hachani FW Niko Maričić

Starting 11

Lineup of the season.

No. Pos Nat Name GS Notes 30 GK FRA Mandanda 50 24 RB FRA Bonnart 43 21 CB SEN Diawara 50 17 CB CMR Mbia 36 3 LB NGR Taiwo 35 6 DM FRA Cissé 39 8 CM ARG Lucho 40 7 CM FRA Cheyrou 41 28 RW FRA Valbuena 24 9 LW BRA Brandão 38 11 FW SEN Niang 42

Mandanda Bonnart Diawara Mbia Taiwo Cissé Lucho Cheyrou Valbuena Brandão Niang

Last updated: 15 May
Source: Squad stats and Start formations.
Only competitive matches.
Using the most used start formation.
Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).

Statistics

Overall

Last updated on 15 May 2010

Games played	54 (38 Ligue 1, 6 UEFA Champions League, 4 UEFA Europa League, 4 Coupe de la Ligue, 2 Coupe de France)
Games won	32 (23 Ligue 1, 2 UEFA Champions League, 2 UEFA Europa League, 4 Coupe de la Ligue, 1 Coupe de France)
Games drawn	11 (9 Ligue 1, 1 UEFA Champions League, 1 UEFA Europa League)
Games lost	11 (6 Ligue 1, 3 UEFA Champions League, 1 UEFA Europa League, 1 Coupe de France)
Goals scored	100 (69 Ligue 1, 10 UEFA Champions League, 8 UEFA Europa League, 10 Coupe de la Ligue, 3 Coupe de France)
Goals conceded	59 (36 Ligue 1, 10 UEFA Champions League, 5 UEFA Europa League, 5 Coupe de la Ligue, 3 Coupe de France)
Yellow cards	92 (64 Ligue 1, 12 UEFA Champions League, 8 UEFA Europa League, 7 Coupe de la Ligue, 1 Coupe de France)
Red cards	5 (2 Ligue 1, 2 UEFA Champions League, 1 UEFA Europa League)
Best result	6–1 (H) v FC Zürich - UEFA Champions League - 3 Nov 2009
Worst result	0–3 (A) v Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League - 30 Sep 2009
Most appearances	Diawara and Mandanda (50 matches)
Top scorer	Niang (22 goals)

Squad stats

The list is sorted by position and total appearances.

Last updated on 15 May 2010.

Marseille's captain Mamadou Niang is the top scorer of Marseille and the Ligue 1.

No.	Nat	Pos	Player	Total		Ligue 1		Champions League & Europa League		Coupe de la Ligue		Coupe de France
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
30		GK	Steve Mandanda	50	0	36	0	10	0	2	0	2	0
40		GK	Elinton Andrade	6	0	2+1	0	0	0	2+1	0	0	0
Defenders
21		DF	Souleymane Diawara	50	5	36	4	9	0	4	1	1	0
24		DF	Laurent Bonnart	44	0	30+1	0	8	0	4	0	1	0
3		DF	Taye Taiwo	38	3	25+3	3	8	0	1	0	1	0
21		DF	Stéphane Mbia	37	2	26+1	2	7	0	2	0	1	0
19		DF	Gabriel Heinze	36	6	26+1	4	6+1	2	1+1	0	0	0
5		DF	Vitorino Hilton	20	2	9+3	1	3	1	2+1	0	2	0
27		DF	Pape M'Bow	8	0	0+3	0	0+1	0	0+2	0	1+1	0
4		DF	Julien Rodriguez	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
18		MF	Fabrice Abriel	47	2	18+14	1	7+2	1	2+2	0	2	0
7		MF	Benoît Cheyrou	46	8	27+5	5	10	1	2	0	2	2
6		MF	Édouard Cissé	45	1	27+5	1	7+1	0	4	0	1	0
8		MF	Lucho González	44	8	28+4	5	8	2	4	1	0	0
28		MF	Mathieu Valbuena	43	7	19+12	5	2+4	0	2+2	2	1+1	0
12		MF	Charles Kaboré	35	2	17+8	1	2+4	1	3	0	1	0
22		MF	Cyril Rool	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32		MF	Alexander N'Doumbou	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0
Forwards
11		FW	Mamadou Niang	46	22	29+3	18	9	3	3+1	1	1	0
9		FW	Brandão	43	13	27+3	8	7+1	1	3	4	1+1	0
10		FW	Hatem Ben Arfa	41	7	17+12	3	1+6	3	3+1	0	1	1
14		FW	Bakari Koné	36	6	11+16	4	3+4	2	0+1	0	1	0
23		FW	Fernando Morientes	19	1	4+8	1	2+3	0	0	0	1+1	0
15		FW	Jordan Ayew	4	1	0+4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Player(s) who left the club after the start of the season:
2		DF	Garry Bocaly	6	0	3+1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0

Friendlies

Pre-season friendlies

Marseille started their season with six pre-season friendlies; they won four, drawed one, and lost one. During these friendlies, they scored eight goals and only conceded four. Mamadou Niang, Brandão, Hatem Ben Arfa, and Stéphane Mbia each scored a goal while Bakari Koné and Taye Taiwo scored two goals each.

10 July 2009	Dinamo Bucureşti	1 – 2	Marseille	Stade Joseph-Moynat, Thonon-les-Bains Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Olivier Dumoulin
	Dănciulescu  44'		14' Ben Arfa  22' Niang

17 July 2009	Ajaccio	0 – 1	Marseille	Stade de Fargues, Le Pontet Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Didier Falcone
			20' Taiwo

21 July 2009	Bordeaux	2 – 1	Marseille	Stade Maurice Boyau, Dax Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Damien Ledentu
	Gonzalez  37' (o.g.) Gourcuff  48'		18' Taiwo

25 July 2009	Ajaccio	1 – 1	Marseille	Stadium Municipal, Albi Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Vincent Teulet
	Gignac  73'		7' Koné

29 August 2009	Saint-Étienne	0 – 1	Marseille	Stade Georges Pompidou, Valence Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Sébastien Dessiage
			60' Koné

1 August 2009	Lens	0 – 2	Marseille	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Ruddy Buquet
			46' Brandão  74' Mbia

Other friendlies

4 September 2009	Monaco	2 – 0	Marseille	Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Cannes Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Didier Falcone
	Coutadeur  1' Muratori  60'

9 October 2009	Nîmes Olympique	1 - 2	Marseille	Stade des Costières, Nîmes Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Philippe Malige
	Poulain  31'		11' Morientes  87' Ben Arfa

13 November 2009	AC Arles-Avignon	2 - 2	Marseille	Parc des Sports, Avignon Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Didier Falcone
	Psaume  21' Guise  54'		61' Abriel  79' Morientes

9 October 2009	Languedoc-Roussillon XI	1 - 4	Marseille	Stade Gilbert Brutus, Perpignan Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Abdelali Chaoui
	Aabiza  48'		49', 62' Gnabouyou  78' N'Doumbou  90' Abriel

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Ligue 1	4th	—	1st	8 Aug 2009	15 May 2010
UEFA Champions League	Group stage	—	Group stage	15 Sept 2009	8 Dec 2009
UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	—	Round of 16	18 Feb 2010	18 Mar 2010
Coupe de France	Round of 64	—	Round of 32	10 Jan 2010	10 Feb 2010
Coupe de la Ligue	Round of 16	—	Winner	13 Jan 2010	27 Mar 2010

Last updated: 5 Apr
Source: Competitions

Ligue 1

See also: 2009–10 Ligue 1

Marseille started their Ligue 1 campaign with an impressive 2-0 victory and continued through a very fine form usually never being below 6th so they did have some very hard times, dropping points and losing or drawing important games but soon after they were flying high and now after 30 games, l'OM tops the Ligue 1 with a game in hand. Now that it has reached the firing line in the league, Marseille are in the lead but there are lots of challengers for the Ligue 1 with only 3 points spliting the top five teams.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marseille (C)	38	23	9	6	69	36	+33	78	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Lyon	38	20	12	6	64	38	+26	72
3	Auxerre	38	20	11	7	42	29	+13	71	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
4	Lille	38	21	7	10	72	40	+32	70	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
5	Montpellier	38	20	9	9	50	40	+10	69	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round 1
6	Bordeaux	38	19	7	12	58	40	+18	64

Updated to games played on 30 April 2010
Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
¹ If Coupe de la Ligue winners Marseille finish in 4th place or above, their Europa League Third qualifying round berth will go to the 5th placed team in the league.
² Winners of the Coupe de France 2009–10 competition will qualify for the play-off round of UEFA Europa League 2010-11.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	23	9	6	69	36	+33	78	14	3	2	37	14	+23	9	6	4	32	22	+10

Source: lfp.fr

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	D	D	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	D	D	W	L	W	W	D	L	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W
Position	4	3	4	5	1	3	3	5	5	3	3	3	3	1	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	4	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Last updated: 5 May.
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

8 August 2009	Grenoble	0 – 2	Marseille	Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 19,622 Referee: Philippe Kalt
		(Report)	2' Niang  80' Cheyrou

16 August 2009	Marseille	1 – 0	Lille	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 26,965 Referee: Fredy Fautrel
	Brandão  11'	(Report)

22 August 2009	Rennes	1 – 1	Marseille	Stade de la Route de Lorient, Rennes Attendance: 28,631 Referee: Philippe Malige
	Leroy  37' (pen.)	(Report)	52' Niang

30 August 2009	Marseille	0 – 0	Bordeaux	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,920 Referee: Antony Gautier
		(Report)

12 September 2009	Le Mans	1 – 2	Marseille	Stade Léon-Bollée, Le Mans Attendance: 16,301 Referee: Tony Chapron
	Maiga  61'	(Report)	14' Niang  70' Brandão

19 September 2009	Marseille	4 – 2	Montpellier	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 52,351 Referee: Olivier Thual
	Lucho  31' Niang  34' Cissé  39' Diawara  50'	(Report)	75' Belhanda  88' (pen.) Camara

26 September 2009	Valenciennes	3 – 2	Marseille	Stade Nungesser, Valenciennes Attendance: 16,208 Referee: Fredy Fautrel
	Bisevac  21' Ducourtioux  28' Rafael  84'	(Report)	13' Morientes  22' Niang

4 October 2009 21:00	Marseille	1 – 2	Monaco	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 48,566 Referee: Stéphane Bre
	Niang  85'	(Report)	20' Nenê  42' Park

17 October 2009 19:00	Nancy	0 – 3	Marseille	Stade Marcel Picot, Nancy Attendance: 20,057 Referee: Philippe Kalt
		(Report)	5' Valbuena  79' Brandão  81' Abriel

31 October 2009 19:00	Marseille	1 – 1	Toulouse	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 53,340 Referee: Saïd Ennjimi
	Brandão  75'	(Report)	27' Sissoko

8 November 2009 21:00	Lyon	5 – 5	Marseille	Stade de Gerland, Lyon Attendance: 38,018 Referee: Stéphane Bré
	Pjanić  5' Govou  14' Lisandro  80', 83' (pen.) Bastos  90+1'	(Report)	11' Diawara  44' Cheyrou  47' Koné  74' Brandão  90+2' (o.g.) Toulalan

20 November 2009 21:00	Marseille	1 – 0	Paris Saint-Germain	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,623 Referee: Laurent Duhamel
	Heinze  25'	(Report)

28 November 2009 21:00	Lens	1 – 0	Marseille	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 41,052 Referee: Damien Ledentu
	Eduardo  90+4'	(Report)

5 December 2009 19:00	Nice	1 – 3	Marseille	Stade Municipal du Ray, Nice Attendance: 15,047 Referee: Lionel Jaffredo
	Couibaly  33'	(Report)	19' Niang  77' Lucho  86' Koné

12 December 2009 19:00	Marseille	2 – 0	Boulogne	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 47,575 Referee: Alexandre Castro
	Heinze  48' Taiwo  54' (pen.)	(Report)

16 December 2009 19:00	Lorient	1 – 2	Marseille	Stade du Moustoir, Lorient Attendance: 11,634 Referee: Clément Turpin
	Vihirau  53' (pen)	(Report)	68' Ayew  90+2' Diawara

19 December 2009 19:00	Saint-Étienne	0 – 0	Marseille	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 27,614 Referee: Antony Gautier
		(Report)

16 December 2009 19:00	Marseille	0 – 2	Auxerre	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 49,966 Referee: Philippe Malige
		(Report)	40', 79' Oliech

18 January 2010 21:00	Bordeaux	1 – 1	Marseille	Stade Chaban Delmas, Bordeaux Attendance: 32,771 Referee: Laurent Duhamel
	Mandanda  45+1' (o.g.)	(Report)	81' Cheyrou

20 January 2010 19:00	Marseille	2 – 1	Le Mans	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 44,907 Referee: Damien Ledentu
	Niang  30', 56' (pen)	(Report)	16'Le Tallec

30 January 2010 21:00	Montpellier HSC	2 – 0	Marseille	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 29,051 Referee: Fredy Fautrel
	Aït-Fana  49' Cheyrou  76' (o.g.)	(Report)

7 February 2010 21:00	Marseille	5 – 1	Valenciennes	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 46,306 Referee: Wilfried Bien
	Lucho  33' Brandão  43' Cheyrou  53' Valbuena  77' Niang  90+1'	(Report)	66' Sánchez Moreno

13 February 2010 19:00	Monaco	1 – 2	Marseille	Stade Louis II, Monaco Attendance: 13,063 Referee: Saïd Ennjimi
	Maazou  40'	(Report)	37' (pen.) Niang  89' (o.g.) N'Koulou

21 February 2010 17:00	Marseille	3 – 1	Nancy	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 47,975 Referee: Clément Turpin
	Niang  10', 34', 67'	(Report)	13' André Luiz

28 February 2010 21:00	Paris Saint-Germain	0 – 3	Marseille	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 43,813 Referee: Antony Gautier
		(Report)	15' Ben Arfa  54' Lucho  71' Cheyrou

7 March 2010 17:00	Marseille	1 – 1	Lorient	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 48,290 Referee: Philippe Kalt
	Niang  42'	(Report)	64' Koscielny

13 March 2010 21:00	Toulouse	1 – 1	Marseille	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Attendance: 27,249 Referee: Saïd Ennjimi
	Machado  39'	(Report)	30' Brandão

21 March 2010 21:00	Marseille	2 – 1	Lyon	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 52,557 Referee: Fredy Fautrel
	Kaboré  68' Taiwo  81'	(Report)	80' Gomis

4 April 2010 17:00	Marseille	1 – 0	Lens	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 54,839 Referee: Philippe Malige
	Brandão  22'	(Report)

7 April 2010 19:00	Marseille	3 – 0	Sochaux	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 48,198 Referee: Stéphane Bré
	Heinze  9' Ben Arfa  27' (pen) Koné  90'+1'	(Report)

11 April 2010 21:00	Marseille	4 – 1	Nice	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 51,229 Referee: Lionel Jaffredo
	Koné  42' Mbia  52' Valbuena  70' Diawara  74'	(Report)	Faé  90'+2'

14 April 2010	Sochaux	0 – 1	Marseille	Stade Auguste Bonal, Montbéliard Attendance: 19,992 Referee: Wilfried Bien
		(Report)	Mbia  88'

17 April 2010 19:00	Boulogne	1 – 2	Marseille	Stade de la Libération, Boulogne-sur-Mer Attendance: 15,249 Referee: Pascal Vileo
	Blayac  82'	(Report)	Valbuena  44' Taiwo  90' (pen)

25 April 2010	Marseille	1 – 0	Saint-Étienne	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,056 Referee: Clemente Turpin
	Valbuena  6'	(Report)

2 May 2010	Auxerre	0 – 0	Marseille	Stade l'Abbé-Deschamps, Auxerre Attendance: 20,005 Referee: Herve Piccirillo
		(Report)

5 May 2010	Marseille	3 – 1	Rennais	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,377 Referee: Ruddy Buquet
	Heinze  5' Niang  76' Lucho  77'	(Report)	38' Briand

8 May 2010	Lille	3 – 2	Marseille	Stadium Lille-Metropole, Lille Attendance: 17,688 Referee: Fred Frautel
	Cabaye  28' (pen.) de Melo  81'	(Report)	6' Niang  44' Hilton

15 May 2010	Marseille	2 – 0	Grenoble	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,808 Referee: Philippe Kalt
	Niang  41' (pen.) Ben Arfa  90'	(Report)

UEFA Champions League

See also: 2009–10 UEFA Champions League

Marseille were put into pot three in group C with two big football giants Real Madrid and AC Milan. Marseille started off very bad losing their opening game at home to AC Milan. In their next game Marseille also lost by a huge margin, 3-0 to Real Madrid. Marseille had to win games if they are to stay in the Champions league and they did just that winning against the Swiss champions Zürich in both of their away and home match. Marseille still contunied their fine form but failed to get 3 points away at Italy. They could only get one point meaning that they must win their next clash against Real Madrid or else they are in the Europa League and also hope that AC Milan lose to Zurich but it was not to be Marseille lost 3-1 to Madrid meaning that they will go into the Europa League as a seeded team.

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	15	7	+8	13
Milan	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9
Marseille	6	2	1	3	10	10	0	7
Zürich	6	1	1	4	5	14	−9	4

Green = advance to the round of 16.

Purple = Relegated to the Europa League round of 32.

Red = Eliminated from all European competitions

15 September 2009 20:45	Marseille	1 – 2	Milan	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,434 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
	Heinze  49'	Report	28', 74' Inzaghi

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30 September 2009 20:45	Real Madrid	3 – 0	Marseille	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 67,244 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
	Ronaldo  58', 64' Kaká  61' (pen.)	Report

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21 October 2009 20:45	Zürich	0 – 1	Marseille	Letzigrund, Zürich Attendance: 22,300 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
		Report	69' Heinze

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3 November 2009 20:45	Marseille	6 – 1	Zürich	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 56,282 Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)
	Aegerter  3' (o.g.) Abriel  11' Niang  51' Hilton  80' Cheyrou  87' Brandão  90'	Report	31' Alphonse

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25 November 2009 20:45	Milan	1 – 1	Marseille	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 49,063 Referee: Howard Webb (England)
	Borriello  10'	Report	16' Lucho

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8 December 2009 20:45	Marseille	1 – 3	Real Madrid	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 55,722 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)
	Lucho  11'	Report	5', 80' Ronaldo  60' Albiol

UEFA Europa League

See also: 2009–10 UEFA Europa League

Because of Marseille's third place finish at the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League, they were relegated to the Europa League along with other third place finishers. The draw for the Europa League was made on 18 December 2009, and Marseille will go up against Danish champions Copenhagen. Marseille easily went passed the Danish champions in the Europa league, but now they will have a very hard task ahead of them coming up against the Portuguese Liga 2008-09 third place finishers Benfica. After their double 3-1 wins; Marseille are hot favorites to progress to the final 8.

Round of 32

First leg

18 February 2010 21:05	Copenhagen	1 – 3	Marseille	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)
	Grønkjær  79' (pen.)	Report	Niang  72' Ben Arfa  84' Kaboré  90'

Second leg

25 February 2010 19:00	Marseille	3 – 1	Copenhagen	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 27,195 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)
	Ben Arfa  43' Koné  62', 78'	Report	Aílton  87'

Marseille won 6–2 on aggregate.

Round of 16

First Leg

11 March 2010 21:05	Benfica	1 – 1	Marseille	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 46,635 Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
	M. Pereira  76'	Report	90' Ben Arfa

Second Leg

18 March 2010 19:00	Marseille	1 – 2	Benfica	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 38,386 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
	Niang  70'	Report	75' M. Pereira  90+1' Kardec

Coupe de la Ligue

See also: 2009–10 Coupe de la Ligue

Marseille started their Coupe de la Ligue campaign in the round of 16 where they came up against a team that they drew with in Ligue 1 but instead they were focased this time and deternmined to stay in this compertation so they beat Saint-Étienne at the very last moment with a Niang goal in the 90+4 minute. In the quarter finals Marseille beat Lille then Toulouse FC after extra time in the semi-finals. For the final, l'OM will play against the winner of the match FC Lorient–Girondins de Bordeaux.

Round of 16

13 January 2010 20:45 CET	Saint-Étienne	2 - 3	Marseille	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 15,774 Referee: Lionel Jaffredo
	Sako  18' Bergessio  30'		28', 50' Brandão  90' Niang

Quarter-finals

27 January 2010 20:45 CET	Marseille	2 - 1	Lille	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 19,217 Referee: Hervé Piccirillo
	Lucho  9' Valbuena  81'	Report	4' de Melo

Semi-finals

3 February 2010 20:45 CET	Toulouse	1 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Marseille	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Attendance: 26,548 Referee: Lionel Jaffredo
	Gignac  59'	Report	86', 105' Brandão

Final

See also: 2010 Coupe de la Ligue Final

27 March 2010 20:50 CET	Marseille	3 – 1	Bordeaux	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 79,000 Referee: Stéphane Lannoy
	Diawara  60' Valbuena  67' Chalmé  77' (o.g.)	Report	84' Sané

Coupe de France

See also: 2009–10 Coupe de France

Marseille entered the Coupe de France in the round of 64 some other Ligue 1 sides. They won their first game against Trélissac thanks to Ben Arfa and Cheyrou. Marseille's next game in the Coupe de France is against Lens a team that they lost to in 2009–10 Ligue 1. l'OM lost the round of 32 clash being knockout at the same round last season when they lost to Lyon but this time it was against Lens.

Round of 64

10 January 2010	Trélissac	0 – 2	Marseille	Stade Francis Rongerias, Périgueux
			16' Ben Arfa  74' Cheyrou

Round of 32

23 January 2010	Lens	3 - 1	Marseille	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 27,044 Referee: Pascal Viléo
	Jemâa  20', 45' Maoulida  57'		62' Cheyrou

National selection

The table shows the players selected to parcitipate in National football matches for their countries. There were lots of International football compertations this season such as the 2010 FIFA World cup qualifications and other things such as the 2010 African Cup of Nations as well as international friendlies. Marseille have players who are often chosen to represent their countries in international football compertations and there are many who were chosen to represent their country in those compertations above.

	Number	Nation	Name	Nationality	Selections	Goals
	11		Mamadou Niang	Senegal	2	2
	3		Taye Taiwo	Nigeria	3	0

Honours

Team

Ligue 1

• Winners

Coupe de la Ligue

• Winners

Individuals

Name	Number	Country	Award
Benoît Cheyrou	7	France	2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year
Lucho Gonzalez	8	Argentina	2009–10 Ligue 1 top passer
			UNFP Player of the Month (February 2010)
Mamadou Niang	9	Senegal	2009–10 Ligue 1 top goalscorer
			2009 Senegalese Player of the Year
			2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year
			2009–10 Ligue 1 Goal of the Year
Hatem Ben Arfa	10	France	UNFP Player of the Month (February 2010)
Fabrice Abriel	18	France	UNFP Player of the Month (November 2009)
Souleymane Diawara	21	Senegal	2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year