# 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.

## Club
### Coaching staff

| 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 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 |
| Ground (capacity and dimensions) | Stade Vélodrome (60,013 / {{{d}}}) |
Updated to match played 8 February 2009 Source:

## Squad

The professional staff of the 2009–10 season, led by Deschamps and his assistant Guy Stéphan, has eight home-grown players. 13 are international players in the team, including two France team members. The goalkeeping coach is Laurent Spinosi, who has four players under his wing, including Steve Mandanda, one of the current choices of the France 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.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | FRA | Rudy Riou |
| 3 | DF | NGA | Taye Taiwo |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Julien Rodriguez |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Hilton |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Édouard Cissé |
| 7 | MF | FRA | Benoît Cheyrou |
| 8 | MF | ARG | Lucho González |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Brandão |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Hatem Ben Arfa |
| 11 | FW | SEN | Mamadou Niang (captain) |
| 12 | MF | BFA | Charles Kaboré |
| 14 | FW | CIV | Bakari Koné |
| 15 | MF | GHA | Jordan Ayew |
| 17 | MF | CMR | Stéphane Mbia |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Fabrice Abriel |
| 19 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Heinze |
| 20 | DF | CMR | Charley Roussel Fomen |
| 21 | DF | SEN | Souleymane Diawara |
| 22 | DF | FRA | Cyril Rool |
| 23 | FW | ESP | Fernando Morientes |
| 24 | DF | FRA | Laurent Bonnart |
| 27 | DF | SEN | Pape M'Bow |
| 28 | MF | FRA | Mathieu Valbuena |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Steve Mandanda |
| 31 | FW | FRA | Guy Gnabouyou |
| 32 | FW | GAB | Alexander N'Doumbou |
| 34 | MF | FRA | Kevin Osei |
| 40 | GK | BRA | Elinton Andrade |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | DF | SEN | Leyti N'Diaye (at Ajaccio until end of the 2009–10 season) |
| 26 | DF | FRA | Jean-Philippe Sabo (at Ajaccio until end of the 2009–10 season) |
| – | FW | MLI | Mamadou Samassa (at Valenciennes until end of the 2009–10 season) |
| – | FW | GHA | André Ayew (at Arles-Avignon until end of the 2009–10 season) |
| – | FW | FRA | Mohamed Amine Dennoun (at Amiens until end of the 2009–10 season) |
| – | DF | FRA | Cédric D'Ulivo (at Cassis Carnoux until end of the 2009–10 season) |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Garry Bocaly (at Montpellier until end of the 2009–10 season) |

### Reserve squad

    Updated 8 February 2010.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | FRA | Johan Crespin |
| — | GK | FRA | Samir Kouakbi |
| — | DF | FRA | Sébastien Bregand |
| — | DF | FRA | Bradley Diallo |
| — | DF | FRA | Sébastien Fischetti |
| — | DF | FRA | Raphaël Lopes |
| — | DF | TOG | Sénah Mango |
| — | MF | FRA | Samir Abbes |
| — | MF | FRA | Landing Bodian |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Olivier Cano |
| — | MF | FRA | Alexander N'Doumbou |
| — | MF | FRA | Ahmed Nouri |
| — | MF | FRA | Thomas Pechart |
| — | MF | FRA | Emmanuel Schianchi |
| — | FW | FRA | Jordan Ayew |
| — | FW | FRA | Nicolas Crus |
| — | FW | FRA | Cédric Hachani |
| — | FW | CRO | Niko Maričić |

## 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 November 2009 |
| Worst result | 0–3 (A) v Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League - 30 September 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.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Ligue 1 | Ligue 1 | Champions League & Europa League | Champions League & Europa League | Coupe de la Ligue | Coupe de la Ligue | Coupe de France | Coupe de France |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||
| 30 | GK | FRA | Steve Mandanda | 50 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | BRA | Elinton Andrade | 6 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||
| 21 | DF | SEN | Souleymane Diawara | 50 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | FRA | Laurent Bonnart | 44 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | NGA | Taye Taiwo | 38 | 3 | 25+3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | CMR | Stéphane Mbia | 37 | 2 | 26+1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Heinze | 36 | 6 | 26+1 | 4 | 6+1 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Hilton | 20 | 2 | 9+3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | SEN | Pape M'Bow | 8 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Julien Rodriguez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||
| 18 | MF | FRA | Fabrice Abriel | 47 | 2 | 18+14 | 1 | 7+2 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | FRA | Benoît Cheyrou | 46 | 8 | 27+5 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Édouard Cissé | 45 | 1 | 27+5 | 1 | 7+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ARG | Lucho González | 44 | 8 | 28+4 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | FRA | Mathieu Valbuena | 43 | 7 | 19+12 | 5 | 2+4 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | BFA | Charles Kaboré | 35 | 2 | 17+8 | 1 | 2+4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | BRA | Cyril Rool | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | GAB | Alexander N'Doumbou | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||
| 11 | FW | SEN | Mamadou Niang | 46 | 22 | 29+3 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Brandão | 43 | 13 | 27+3 | 8 | 7+1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Hatem Ben Arfa | 41 | 7 | 17+12 | 3 | 1+6 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | CIV | Bakari Koné | 36 | 6 | 11+16 | 4 | 3+4 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | ESP | Fernando Morientes | 19 | 1 | 4+8 | 1 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | GHA | 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 | 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.

### Other friendlies
## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| Ligue 1 | 4th | — | 1st | 8 August 2009 | 15 May 2010 |
| Coupe de France | Round of 64 | — | Round of 32 | 10 January 2010 | 10 February 2010 |
| Coupe de la Ligue | Round of 16 | — | Winner | 13 January 2010 | 27 March 2010 |
| UEFA Champions League | Group stage | — | Group stage | 15 September 2009 | 8 December 2009 |
| UEFA Europa League | Round of 32 | — | Round of 16 | 18 February 2010 | 18 March 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 many challengers for the Ligue 1 with only 3 points splitting the top five teams.

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Marseille (C) | 38 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 69 | 36 | +33 | 78 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Lyon | 38 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 64 | 38 | +26 | 72 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Auxerre | 38 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 42 | 29 | +13 | 71 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 4 | Lille | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 72 | 40 | +32 | 70 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 5 | Montpellier | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 50 | 40 | +10 | 69 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
* ↑ Coupe de France winners Paris Saint-Germain qualify for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round of 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.
* ↑ Coupe de la Ligue winners Marseille finished as champions, fulfilling a finish of at least 4th place, thus their Europa League Third qualifying round berth will go to the 5th placed team in the league.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
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 |

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

### 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.

### 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 focused this time and determined to stay in this competition 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.

### 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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 2 | Milan | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 9 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Marseille | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 7 | Transfer to Europa League |
| 4 | Zürich | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 4 | |

### 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 were favourites to progress to the quarter-finals.

#### Round of 16
## National selection

The table shows the players selected to participate in National football matches for their countries. There were many International football competitions 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 competitions and there are many who were chosen to represent their country in those competitions 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 González | 8 | Argentina | 2009–10 Ligue 1 top passer |
| Lucho González | 8 | Argentina | UNFP Player of the Month (February 2010) |
| Mamadou Niang | 9 | Senegal | 2009–10 Ligue 1 top goalscorer |
| Mamadou Niang | 9 | Senegal | 2009 Senegalese Player of the Year |
| Mamadou Niang | 9 | Senegal | 2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year |
| Mamadou Niang | 9 | Senegal | 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 |