2009–10 Olympique de Marseille season

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

Club

Coaching staff

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.

Supplier : Adidas

Sponsor : Direct Energie

Other information

Last updated: 8 February 2009
Source:

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

As of 15 May 2010.^[1]

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

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.

Reserve Squad

As of 8 February 2010.^[2]

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

Starting 11

Lineup of the season.

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

Squad stats

The list is sorted by position and total appearances.

Last updated on 15 May 2010.

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.

Other friendlies

Competitions

Overall

Last updated: 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 spliting the top five teams.

League table

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

Source: lfp.fr

Results by round

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

Matches

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

Green = advance to the round of 16.

Purple = Relegated to the Europa League round of 32.

Red = Eliminated from all European competitions

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

Second leg

Marseille won 6–2 on aggregate.

Round of 16

First Leg

Second Leg

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 this years 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.

Honours

Team

Ligue 1

• Winners

Coupe de la Ligue

• Winners

Individuals

References