2009–10 Olympique de Marseille season
| 2009–10 season | ||||
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| Chairman | Jean-Claude Dassier | |||
| Manager | Didier Deschamps | |||
| Ligue 1 | 1st | |||
| Coupe de France | Round of 32 | |||
| Coupe de la Ligue | Winners | |||
| 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 league attendance | 48,892 (Ligue 1) | |||
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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.
Season summary
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Club
Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Coach |  Didier Deschamps
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| Assistant coach | Guy Stéphan
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| Goalkeeping coach | Laurent Spinosi
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| Fitness coach | Christophe Manouvrier
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| Club doctor | Christophe Baudot
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| Chief scout | Jean-Philippe Durand
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Last updated: 15 May 2010
Source: Olympique de Marseille
Kit
This new season Adidas introduced Marseille's new kits, and these new ones are very different from 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.
          Home |
     Away |
     Third |
     RLD |
Supplier : Adidas
Sponsor : Direct Energie
Other information
| Chairman | Jean-Claude Dassier
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| Ground (capacity and dimensions) | Stade Vélodrome (60,013 / {{{d}}}) |
Updated to match played 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
- Updated 15 May 2010.[1]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Reserve squad
- Updated 8 February 2010.[2]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Statistics
Overall
- Last updated on 15 May 2010
Squad stats
The list is sorted by position and total appearances.
Last updated on 15 May 2010.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Ligue 1 | Champions League & Europa League |
Coupe de la Ligue | Coupe de France | |||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
| Goalkeepers | |||||||||||||
| 30 | GK | FRA
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Steve Mandanda | 50 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 40 | GK |  BRA
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Elinton Andrade | 6 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders | |||||||||||||
| 21 | DF |  SEN
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Souleymane Diawara | 50 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | FRA
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Laurent Bonnart | 44 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF |  NGA
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Taye Taiwo | 38 | 3 | 25+3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | FRA
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Stéphane Mbia | 37 | 2 | 26+1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | DF |  ARG
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Gabriel Heinze | 36 | 6 | 26+1 | 4 | 6+1 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BRA
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Vitorino Hilton | 20 | 2 | 9+3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | SEN
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Pape M'Bow | 8 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA
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Julien Rodriguez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders | |||||||||||||
| 18 | MF | FRA
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Fabrice Abriel | 47 | 2 | 18+14 | 1 | 7+2 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | FRA
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Benoît Cheyrou | 46 | 8 | 27+5 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | FRA
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Édouard Cissé | 45 | 1 | 27+5 | 1 | 7+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ARG
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Lucho González | 44 | 8 | 28+4 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | FRA
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Mathieu Valbuena | 43 | 7 | 19+12 | 5 | 2+4 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF |  BFA
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Charles Kaboré | 35 | 2 | 17+8 | 1 | 2+4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | BRA
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Cyril Rool | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF |  GAB
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Alexander N'Doumbou | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| Forwards | |||||||||||||
| 11 | FW | SEN
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Mamadou Niang | 46 | 22 | 29+3 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | BRA
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Brandão | 43 | 13 | 27+3 | 8 | 7+1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | FRA
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Hatem Ben Arfa | 41 | 7 | 17+12 | 3 | 1+6 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | FW |  CIV
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Bakari Koné | 36 | 6 | 11+16 | 4 | 3+4 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | FW |  ESP
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Fernando Morientes | 19 | 1 | 4+8 | 1 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 15 | FW |  GHA
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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 | FRA
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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, drew 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.
Dinamo București  | 1 – 2 | Marseille |
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Dănciulescu  44' |
14' Ben Arfa 22' Niang |
| Saint-Étienne | 0 – 1 | Marseille |
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| 60' Koné |
Other friendlies
Languedoc-Roussillon XI  | 1 - 4 | Marseille |
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| 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 |
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| Ligue 1 | 4th | — | 1st | 8 Aug 2009 | 15 May 2010 |
| UCL | GS | — | GS | 15 Sept 2009 | 8 Dec 2009 |
| UEL | 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 |
Updated to match played 5 Apr
Source: Competitions
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 splitting the top five teams.
League table
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Results summary
| Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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| 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
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Matches
| Marseille | 4 – 2 | Montpellier |
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| González 31' Niang 34' Cissé 39' Diawara 50' |
(Report) | 75' Belhanda 88' (pen.) Camara |
| Valenciennes | 3 – 2 | Marseille |
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| Biševac 21' Ducourtioux 28' Rafael 84' |
(Report) | 13' Morientes 22' Niang |
| Lyon | 5 – 5 | Marseille |
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| Pjanić 5' Govou 14' López 80', 83' (pen.) Bastos 90+1' |
(Report) | 11' Diawara 44' Cheyrou 47' Koné 74' Brandão 90+2' (o.g.) Toulalan |
| Marseille | 1 – 0 | Paris Saint-Germain |
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| Heinze 25' |
(Report) |
| Marseille | 5 – 1 | Valenciennes |
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| González 33' Brandão 43' Cheyrou 53' Valbuena 77' Niang 90+1' |
(Report) | 66' Sánchez |
| Marseille | 3 – 1 | Nancy |
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| Niang 10', 34', 67' |
(Report) | 13' André Luiz |
| Marseille | 1 – 0 | Saint-Étienne |
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| Valbuena 6' |
(Report) |
UEFA Champions League
Marseille were put into pot three in group C with two big football giants Real Madrid and Milan. Marseille started off poorly, losing their opening game at home to Milan. In their next game, Marseille also lost by a large 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 Swiss champions Zürich in both of their away and home matches. Marseille still continued their fine form but failed to get three points away at Italy. They could only earn 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 Milan lose to Zürich, 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 |
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| Real Madrid
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | +8 | 13 |
 Milan
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6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 9 |
| Marseille
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 7 |
 Zürich
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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
| Marseille | 6 – 1 | Zürich |
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| Aegerter 3' (o.g.) Abriel 11'Niang 51'Hilton 80'Cheyrou 87'Brandão 90' |
Report | 31' Alphonse |
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 went up against Danish champions Copenhagen. Marseille easily went past the Danish champions in the Europa league, but then they had a very hard task ahead of them coming up against the 2008–09 Primeira Liga 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
Second leg
Marseille won 6–2 on aggregate.
Round of 16
First leg
Benfica  | 1 – 1 | Marseille |
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| M. Pereira 76' |
Report | 90' Ben Arfa |
Second Leg
| Marseille | 1 – 2 | Benfica |
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| Niang 70' |
Report | 75' M. Pereira 90+1' Alan Kardec |
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
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
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
Round of 32
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 | |
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| 11 |
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Mamadou Niang | Senegal
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2 | 2 | |
| 3 |
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Taye Taiwo | Nigeria
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3 | 0 |
Honours
Team
Individuals
| Name | Number | Country | Award |
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| Benoît Cheyrou | 7 | France
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2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year |
| Lucho González | 8 | Argentina
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2009–10 Ligue 1 top passer |
| UNFP Player of the Month (February 2010) | |||
| Mamadou Niang | 9 | Senegal
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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
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UNFP Player of the Month (February 2010) |
| Fabrice Abriel | 18 | France
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UNFP Player of the Month (November 2009) |
| Souleymane Diawara | 21 | Senegal
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2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year |
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