Olympique de Marseille

2009–10 season
Manager	Didier Deschamps
Chairman	Jean-Claude Dassier
Ligue 1	2nd
Coupe de France	Round of 64
Coupe de la Ligue	Round of 16
UEFA Champions League	Group stage (3th)
UEFA Europa League	First knockout round (round of 32)
Top goalscorer	League: Mamadou Niang (7) All: Mamadou Niang (7)
Highest home attendance	55,920 vs Bordeaux (30 August 2009)
Lowest home attendance	26,965 vs Lille (16 August 2009)
Average home attendance	47,429
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2009–10 season of Olympique de Marseille (OM) has the club being involved in four competitions: the Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, the League Cup, and the UEFA Champions League. They will be trying to win the Ligue 1 after their last season second place finish due to a Bordeaux first place finish by a margin of three points.

Contents 1 Club Kits 2 Preseason 3 Squad 3.1 First-team squad[1] 3.2 Out on loan 4 Reserve Squad 5 Pre-season friendlies 5.1 Results 6 Overall 7 Ligue 1 8 League table 9 Matches 10 Champions League 10.1 Group C 11 UEFA Europa League 11.1 Round of 32 12 References

[edit] Club Kits

This new season Adidas introduced Marseille's new kits, and these new ones are much different to last season, actpt 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 Europian compertations 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

[edit] Preseason

At his first press conference, the new coach Didier Deschamps set goals for his club's first season: "a direct qualification into the Champions League and a title in any national competition."

[edit] Squad

The professional staff of the 2009–10 season, led by Deschamps and his assistant Guy Stephan, has six home-grown players. 12 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.

[edit] First-team squad^[1]

As of 29 October 2009.

No. Position Player 1 GK Rudy Riou 16 GK Hilaire Muñoz 30 GK Steve Mandanda 40 GK Elinton Andrade 2 DF Garry Bocaly* 3 DF Taye Taiwo 4 DF Julien Rodríguez 5 DF Vitorino Hilton 19 DF Gabriel Heinze 20 DF Charley Roussel Fomen 21 DF Souleymane Diawara 22 DF Cyril Rool 24 DF Laurent Bonnart 27 DF Pape M'Bow* - DF Cedric D'Ulivo* 0 DF Bradley Diallo* 6 MF Édouard Cissé

No. Position Player 7 MF Benoît Cheyrou 8 MF Lucho González 10 MF Hatem Ben Arfa 12 MF Charles Kaboré 17 MF Stéphane Mbia 18 MF Fabrice Abriel 28 MF Mathieu Valbuena 34 MF Kevin Osei* - MF Alexander N'Doumbou* - MF Jordan Ayew* 9 FW Brandão 11 FW Mamadou Niang (captain) 14 FW Bakari Koné 23 FW Fernando Morientes 31 FW Guy Gnabouyou*

(*) Homegrown player

[edit] Out on loan

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)

[edit] Reserve Squad

No. Position Player GK Samir Kouakbi GK Brice Krizman DF Fabien Barrillon DF Varanth Bezdikian DF Sébastien Bregand DF Sébastien Fischetti DF Raphaël Lopes DF Senah Mango DF Thierry Rodríguez MF Landing Bodian MF Olivier Cano MF Gaëtan D'Acunto MF Mathias Guedj

No. Position Player MF Cédric Hachani MF Daouda Haidari MF Niko Maričić MF Anthony Marin MF Ahmad Nouri MF Driss Sahraoui FW Jordan Ayew FW Thierry Batret FW Nicolas Crus FW Riad Dob FW Chris Gadi FW Noël Sciortino

[edit] Pre-season friendlies

Marseille started their season with seven pre-season friendlies; they won four, drawed one, and lost two. During the friendles, they scored ten 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.

[edit] Results

2009-07-10	Dinamo Bucureşti	1 – 2	Marseille	Thonon-les-Bains, France Attendance: 6,000 Referee: ?
			Ben Arfa  14' Niang  22'

2009-07-17	Ajaccio	0 – 1	Marseille	Le Pontet, France Attendance: 5,000 Referee: ?
			Taiwo  20'

2009-07-21	Bordeaux	2 – 1	Marseille	Dax, France Attendance: 10,900 Referee: ?
	?		Taiwo  17'

2009-07-25	Ajaccio	1 – 1	Marseille	Albi, France Attendance: 6,000 Referee: ?
	?		Koné  7'

2009-08-29	Saint-Étienne	0 – 1	Marseille	Valence, France Attendance: 12,500 Referee: ?
			Koné  62'

2009-08-01	Lens	0 – 2	Marseille	Lens, France Attendance: 36,000 Referee: ?
			Brandão  47' Mbia  74'

2009-09-04	Monaco	2 – 0	Marseille	Cannes, France Attendance: 6,000 Referee: ?
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[edit] Overall

Games played	12 (9 Ligue 1, 3 UEFA Champions League)
Games won	6 (5 Ligue 1, 1 UEFA Champions League)
Games drawn	2 (2 Ligue 1)
Games lost	4 (2 Ligue 1, 2 UEFA Champions League)
Goals scored	17
Goals conceded	?
Goal difference	+?
Yellow cards	?
Red cards	?
Worst discipline	? (1 )
Best result	3-0 (H) v AS Nancy-Lorraine - Ligue 1 - 17 Oct 2009
Worst result	0-3 (A) v Real Madrid - Champions League - 30 Sep 2009
Most appearances	?
Top scorer	Niang (5 goals)
Points	?/39 (?%)

[edit] Ligue 1

Marseille started their Ligue 1 campaign with an impressive 2-0 victory.

[edit] League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bordeaux	15	10	1	4	24	10	+14	31	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Marseille	15	8	4	3	28	17	+11	28
3	Montpellier	14	8	3	3	23	17	+6	27	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
4	Auxerre	16	8	3	5	16	14	+2	27	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
5	Lorient	16	7	5	4	24	14	+10	26
6	Rennes	16	7	5	4	23	16	+7	26
7	Valenciennes	16	8	2	6	28	23	+5	26
8	Lyon	15	7	5	3	27	22	+5	26
9	Lille	16	7	4	5	26	19	+7	25
10	Toulouse	16	7	3	6	17	12	+5	24
11	Paris Saint-Germain	15	6	4	5	23	16	+7	22
12	Monaco	14	7	1	6	17	16	+1	22
13	Lens	16	6	3	7	17	23	−6	21
14	Nancy	16	6	2	8	22	25	−3	20
15	Nice	16	6	2	8	17	27	−10	20
16	Sochaux	15	6	1	8	14	21	−7	19
17	Saint-Étienne	16	4	3	9	11	22	−11	15
18	Le Mans	16	4	2	10	15	24	−9	14	Relegation to Ligue 2
19	Boulogne	16	3	3	10	13	31	−18	12
20	Grenoble	15	1	3	11	9	26	−17	6

Updated to games played on 12 December 2009
Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
¹Winner of the Coupe de France 2009–10 competition will qualify for the play-off round of UEFA Europa League 2010-11.
²Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue 2009–10 competition will qualify for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League 2010-11.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Matches

2009-08-08	Grenoble	0 – 2	Marseille	Stade des Alpes, France Attendance: 19,622 Referee: Philippe Kalt
	Matsui 54' Dieuze 75'		2' Niang  80' Cheyrou 90 +2' Abriel

2009-08-16	Marseille	1 – 0	Lille	Stade de la Mosson et du Mondial 98, France Attendance: 26,965 Referee: Fredy Fautrel
	Brandão  11'

2009-08-22	Rennes	1 – 1	Marseille	Stade de la Route de Lorient, France Attendance: 28,631 Referee: Philippe Malige
	Leroy  37' (pen.)		52' Niang

2009-08-22	Marseille	0 – 0	Bordeaux	Stade Velodrom, France Attendance: 55,920 Referee: Antony Gautier
	Valbuena 54' Cissé 68'		41' Trémoulinas 45+1' Chamakh 53' Wendel 77' Chalmé 83' Plašil

2009-08-22	Le Mans	1 – 2	Marseille	Stade Léon-Bollée, France Attendance: 55,920 Referee: Tony Chapron
			14' Niang  70' Brandão

2009-09-19	Marseille	4 – 2	Montpellier	Stade Velodrome, France Attendance: 52,351 Referee: Olivier Thual
	Gonzalez  31' Niang  34' Cissé  39' Diawara  50'		Belhanda  75' Camara  88' (pen)

2009-09-26	Valeciennes	3 – 2	Marseille	Stade Nungesser, France Attendance: 16,208 Referee: Fredy Fautrel
	Bisevac  21' Ducourtioux  28' Rafael  84'		Morientes  13' Niang  22'

[edit] Champions League

Marseille were put into pot three in group C with two big football giants Real Madrid and AC Milan.

[edit] 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

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

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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	Heinze  69'

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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	Alphonse  31'

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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	Lucho  16'

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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	Ronaldo  5', 80' Albiol  60'

[edit] UEFA Europa League

Because of Marseille's theird 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 the 18th of December 2009, and Marseille will go up against Danish champions Copenhagen.

[edit] Round of 32

First Leg

18 February 2010	Copenhagen	v	Marseille	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Second Leg

25 February 2010	Marseille	v	Copenhagen	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

[edit] References

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