# 2019–20 Olympique de Marseille season

The 2019–20 season was Olympique de Marseille's 114th season in existence and the club's 24th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Marseille participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France, and the Coupe de la Ligue. The season covered the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

## Players
### Squad

    As of 3 September 2019.
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 | CMR | Simon Ngapandouetnbu |
| 2 | DF | JPN | Hiroki Sakai |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Álvaro (on loan from Villarreal) |
| 4 | MF | FRA | Boubacar Kamara |
| 7 | MF | SRB | Nemanja Radonjić |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Morgan Sanson |
| 9 | FW | ARG | Darío Benedetto |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Dimitri Payet (third-captain) |
| 12 | MF | NED | Kevin Strootman |
| 15 | DF | CRO | Duje Ćaleta-Car |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Yohann Pelé |
| 17 | DF | SEN | Bouna Sarr |
| 18 | DF | FRA | Jordan Amavi |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Valentin Rongier |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | MF | FRA | Grégory Sertic |
| 24 | MF | TUN | Saîf-Eddine Khaoui |
| 26 | FW | FRA | Florian Thauvin (vice-captain) |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Maxime Lopez |
| 28 | FW | FRA | Valère Germain |
| 29 | FW | FRA | Florian Chabrolle |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Steve Mandanda (captain) |
| 31 | DF | COM | Abdallah Ali Mohamed |
| 32 | DF | FRA | Lucas Perrin |
| 34 | MF | FRA | Alexandre Phliponeau |
| 36 | FW | FRA | Marley Aké |
| 38 | FW | FRA | Isaac Lihadji |
| 40 | GK | FRA | Ahmadou Dia |

### 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 |
| 11 | FW | GRE | Kostas Mitroglou (to PSV Eindhoven until 30 June 2020) |
| 20 | DF | FRA | Christopher Rocchia (to Sochaux until 30 June 2020) |

### Reserve squad

    As of 9 September 2019.
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 | ARM | Manuel Nazaretian |
| — | GK | CMR | Simon Ngapandouetnbu |
| — | GK | TOG | Geoffrey Agbolossou |
| — | DF | FRA | Dembo Gassama |
| — | DF | FRA | Aaron Nassur Kamardin |
| — | DF | FRA | Niels Nkounkou |
| — | DF | FRA | Joakim Kada |
| — | DF | FRA | Yoann Araujo |
| — | DF | FRA | Zacharie Iscaye |
| — | DF | FRA | Richecard Richard |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | FRA | Loïs Fauriel |
| — | MF | FRA | Nassim Ahmed |
| — | MF | FRA | Cyril Khetir |
| — | MF | FRA | Tony Vives |
| — | FW | ALG | Mehdi Baaloudj |
| — | FW | TUN | Mohamed Ben Fredj |
| — | FW | FRA | Yacine Ressa |
| — | FW | FRA | Isaac Lihadji |
| — | FW | FRA | Ayem Assou |
| — | FW | FRA | Sacha Guilhen |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Player | From | Type | Fee |
| 30 June 2019 | Saîf-Eddine Khaoui | Caen | Loan return | Loan return |
| 30 June 2019 | Grégory Sertic | Zürich | Loan return | Loan return |
| 19 July 2019 | Álvaro | Villarreal | Loan | Loan |
| 5 August 2019 | Darío Benedetto | Boca Juniors | Transfer | €14M |
| 3 September 2019 | Valentin Rongier | Nantes | Transfer | €13M |

### Out

| Date | Player | To | Type | Fee |
| 1 July 2019 | Florian Escales | Laval | Transfer | Free |
| 1 July 2019 | Yusuf Sari | Trabzonspor | Transfer | €250k |
| 3 July 2019 | Lucas Ocampos | Sevilla | Transfer | €15M |
| 25 July 2019 | Clinton N'Jie | Dynamo Moscow | Transfer | €6M |
| 27 August 2019 | Adil Rami | Fenerbahçe | Transfer | Free |
| 2 September 2019 | Luiz Gustavo | Fenerbahçe | Transfer | €6M |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Ligue 1 | 10 August 2019 | 6 March 2020 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 41 | 29 | +12 | 057.14 |
| Coupe de France | 5 January 2020 | 12 February 2020 | Round of 64 | Quarter-finals | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 050.00 |
| Coupe de la Ligue | 30 October 2019 | 30 October 2019 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 33 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 49 | 34 | +15 | 054.55 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Paris Saint-Germain (C) | 27 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 75 | 24 | +51 | 68 | 2.52 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Marseille | 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 41 | 29 | +12 | 56 | 2.00 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Rennes | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 38 | 24 | +14 | 50 | 1.79 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Lille | 28 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 35 | 27 | +8 | 49 | 1.75 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Nice | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 41 | 38 | +3 | 41 | 1.46 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the winners of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue, Paris Saint-Germain, qualified for the Champions League, the spot given to the Coupe de France winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the fifth-placed team and the spot given to the Coupe de la Ligue winners (Europa League second qualifying round) was passed to the sixth-placed team.
* 1 2 Nice finished ahead of Reims on head-to-head points: Nice 2–0 Reims, Reims 1–1 Nice.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 6 March 2020. Source: Ligue 1

#### 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 | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | W | W | D | D | D | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | L | W | D | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Position | 18 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches

The Ligue 1 schedule was announced on 14 June 2019. The Ligue 1 matches were suspended by the LFP on 13 March 2020 due to COVID-19 until further notices. On 28 April 2020, it was announced that Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 campaigns would not resume, after the country banned all sporting events until September. On 30 April, The LFP ended officially the 2019–20 season.

### Coupe de la Ligue
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Ligue 1 | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Coupe de la Ligue |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | CMR | Simon Ngapandouentnbu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Yohann Pelé | 5 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Steve Mandanda | 29 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | FRA | Ahmadou Dia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | JPN | Hiroki Sakai | 25 | 0 | 19+2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Álvaro | 24 | 1 | 19+1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | CRO | Duje Ćaleta-Car | 26 | 1 | 20+3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | SEN | Bouna Sarr | 32 | 2 | 25+2 | 1 | 3+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | FRA | Jordan Amavi | 29 | 1 | 24+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | COM | Abdallah Ali Mohamed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | FRA | Lucas Perrin | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | FRA | Boubacar Kamara | 28 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | SRB | Nemanja Radonjić | 25 | 6 | 8+13 | 5 | 1+2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Morgan Sanson | 30 | 5 | 26+1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Dimitri Payet | 27 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | NED | Kevin Strootman | 30 | 2 | 15+10 | 2 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Valentin Rongier | 28 | 0 | 20+3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | FRA | Grégory Sertic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | TUN | Saîf-Eddine Khaoui | 11 | 0 | 0+7 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | FRA | Florian Thauvin | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Maxime Lopez | 27 | 0 | 13+10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | FRA | Alexandre Philiponeau | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | FRA | Marley Aké | 13 | 0 | 0+9 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ARG | Darío Benedetto | 28 | 11 | 25+1 | 11 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | FW | FRA | Valère Germain | 30 | 2 | 14+11 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | FRA | Florian Chabrolle | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | FW | FRA | Isaac Lihadji | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 19 | MF | BRA | Luiz Gustavo | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 6 March 2020 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of matches played until 6 March 2020
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Total |
| 1 | 10 | FW | Dimitri Payet | 9 | 3 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | 9 | FW | Darío Benedetto | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 3 | 7 | MF | Nemanja Radonjić | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | 8 | MF | Morgan Sanson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | 28 | FW | Valère Germain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 4 | MF | Boubacar Kamara | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 17 | DF | Bouna Sarr | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 12 | MF | Kevin Strootman | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 18 | DF | Jordan Amavi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 15 | DF | Duje Ćaleta-Car | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 3 | DF | Álvaro González | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 41 | 7 | 1 | 49 |

### Clean sheets

    As of 6 March 2020
| Rank | Name | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Total |
| 1 | Steve Mandanda | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | Yohann Pelé | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10 |