# 2021–22 Olympique de Marseille season

The 2021–22 season was the 116th season in the existence of Olympique de Marseille and the club's 26th 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, the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Europa Conference League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 18 January 2022
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 | Simon Ngapandouetnbu |
| 2 | DF | FRA | William Saliba (on loan from Arsenal) |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Álvaro González (3rd captain) |
| 4 | MF | FRA | Boubacar Kamara (4th captain) |
| 5 | DF | ARG | Leonardo Balerdi |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Matteo Guendouzi (on loan from Arsenal) |
| 7 | MF | MAR | Amine Harit (on loan from Schalke 04) |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Gerson |
| 9 | FW | POL | Arkadiusz Milik (on loan from Napoli) |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Dimitri Payet (vice-captain) |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Luis Henrique |
| 12 | FW | SEN | Bamba Dieng |
| 13 | FW | COD | Cédric Bakambu |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | DF | BRA | Luan Peres |
| 15 | DF | CRO | Duje Ćaleta-Car |
| 16 | GK | ESP | Pau López (on loan from Roma) |
| 17 | FW | TUR | Cengiz Ünder (on loan from Roma) |
| 20 | FW | USA | Konrad de la Fuente |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Valentin Rongier |
| 22 | MF | SEN | Pape Gueye |
| 23 | DF | BIH | Sead Kolašinac |
| 26 | MF | MAR | Oussama Targhalline |
| 29 | DF | ESP | Pol Lirola |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Steve Mandanda (captain) |
| 32 | FW | FRA | Salim Ben Seghir |

### 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 |
| — | DF | FRA | Jordan Amavi (on loan to Nice) |
| — | DF | FRA | Lucas Perrin (on loan to Strasbourg) |
| — | DF | FRA | Richecard Richard (on loan to Créteil) |
| — | MF | FRA | Nassim Ahmed (on loan to Sète) |
| — | MF | FRA | Alexandre Phliponeau (on loan to Sète) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | SRB | Nemanja Radonjić (on loan to Benfica) |
| — | MF | NED | Kevin Strootman (on loan to Cagliari) |
| — | FW | ARG | Darío Benedetto (on loan to Elche) |
| — | FW | ESP | Pedro Ruiz (on loan to NEC) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 32 | FW | Salim Ben Seghir | Nice | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 20 | FW | Konrad de la Fuente | Barcelona | €3,000,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| 5 | DF | Leonardo Balerdi | Borussia Dortmund | €11,000,000 | 3 July 2021 |
| 17 | FW | Cengiz Ünder | Roma | Loan | 4 July 2021 |
| 6 | MF | Matteo Guendouzi | Arsenal | Loan | 6 July 2021 |
| 16 | GK | Pau López | Roma | Loan | 8 July 2021 |
| 8 | MF | Gerson | Flamengo | €25,000,000 | 9 July 2021 |
| 14 | DF | Luan Peres | Santos | €4,500,000 | 14 July 2021 |
| 2 | DF | William Saliba | Arsenal | Loan | 15 July 2021 |
| 29 | DF | Pol Lirola | Fiorentina | €13,000,000 | 24 August 2021 |
| 7 | MF | Amine Harit | Schalke 04 | Loan | 2 September 2021 |
| 13 | FW | Cédric Bakambu | Free transfer | Free transfer | 13 January 2022 |
| 23 | DF | Sead Kolašinac | Arsenal | Free | 18 January 2022 |
| – | FW | Darío Benedetto | Elche | Loan return | 22 January 2022 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 16 | GK | Yohann Pelé | Free transfer | Free transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| 25 | DF | Yuto Nagatomo | Free transfer | Free transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| 28 | FW | Valère Germain | Free transfer | Free transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| – | MF | Maxime Lopez | Sassuolo | €2,000,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| 2 | DF | Hiroki Sakai | Urawa Red Diamonds | €1,500,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| – | MF | Kevin Strootman | Cagliari | Loan | 3 July 2021 |
| 24 | MF | Saîf-Eddine Khaoui | Clermont | Free | 14 August 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Darío Benedetto | Elche | Loan | 19 August 2021 |
| 7 | MF | Nemanja Radonjić | Benfica | Loan | 22 August 2021 |
| 23 | DF | Jordan Amavi | Nice | Loan | 5 January 2022 |
| – | FW | Darío Benedetto | Boca Juniors | €3,000,000 | 22 January 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overall record

| 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 | 8 August 2021 | 21 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 38 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 63 | 38 | +25 | 055.26 |
| Coupe de France | 19 December 2021 | 9 February 2022 | Round of 64 | Quarter-finals | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 16 September 2021 | 9 December 2021 | Group stage | Group stage | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 016.67 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 17 February 2022 | 5 May 2022 | Knockout round play-offs | Semi-finals | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | +8 | 075.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 56 | 30 | 14 | 12 | 93 | 58 | +35 | 053.57 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Paris Saint-Germain (C) | 38 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 90 | 36 | +54 | 86 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Marseille | 38 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 63 | 38 | +25 | 71 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Monaco | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 65 | 40 | +25 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Rennes | 38 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 82 | 40 | +42 | 66 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Nice | 38 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 36 | +16 | 66 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-off round |
* ↑ Nice were deducted one point for uncontrolled crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their match against Marseille.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | L | L | W | D | W | D | L | W | W | L | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | W |
| Position | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | GAL | LAZ | MAR | LOK |
| 1 | Galatasaray | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–1 |
| 2 | Lazio | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 9 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Marseille | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 7 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–0 | 2–2 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 2 | | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | — |

### UEFA Europa Conference League
#### Knockout phase
##### Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 13 December 2021.

##### Round of 16

The round of 16 draw was held on 25 February 2022.

##### Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 March 2022.

##### Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 March 2022, after the quarter-final draw.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Ligue 1 | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de France | UEFA Europa League | UEFA Europa League | UEFA Europa Conference League | UEFA Europa Conference League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | FRA | Simon Ngapandouetnbu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | ESP | Pau López | 36 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Steve Mandanda | 20 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | FRA | William Saliba | 52 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Álvaro | 11 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ARG | Leonardo Balerdi | 24 | 0 | 10+7 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | BRA | Luan Peres | 50 | 0 | 29+5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | CRO | Duje Ćaleta-Car | 38 | 2 | 24+2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | BIH | Sead Kolašinac | 17 | 0 | 6+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | ESP | Pol Lirola | 51 | 1 | 19+15 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | FRA | Boubacar Kamara | 48 | 1 | 31+3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Matteo Guendouzi | 56 | 5 | 35+3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7+1 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | MAR | Amine Harit | 34 | 5 | 12+11 | 4 | 1+1 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Gerson | 48 | 11 | 29+6 | 9 | 2+1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 2 |
| 17 | MF | TUR | Cengiz Ünder | 47 | 13 | 25+7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4+3 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Valentin Rongier | 46 | 1 | 25+7 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6+1 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | SEN | Pape Gueye | 42 | 1 | 17+11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 | 6+1 | 1 |
| 34 | MF | FRA | Paolo Sciortino | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | MAR | Oussama Targhalline | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | POL | Arkadiusz Milik | 37 | 20 | 15+8 | 7 | 3+1 | 5 | 4+1 | 4 | 2+3 | 4 |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Dimitri Payet | 46 | 16 | 28+3 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 | 6+1 | 3 |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Luis Henrique | 25 | 1 | 7+13 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | SEN | Bamba Dieng | 36 | 8 | 11+14 | 7 | 0+1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 2+3 | 1 |
| 13 | FW | COD | Cédric Bakambu | 21 | 4 | 5+7 | 4 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | USA | Konrad de la Fuente | 23 | 1 | 9+7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 32 | FW | FRA | Salim Ben Seghir | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||||
| 7 | FW | SRB | Nemanja Radonjić | 4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ARG | Darío Benedetto | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Jordan Amavi | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 21 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of 14 February 2022
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | | Arkadiusz Milik | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 2 | 10 | FW | | Dimitri Payet | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 17 | FW | | Cengiz Ünder | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 4 | 12 | FW | | Bamba Dieng | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 8 | MF | | Gerson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | 6 | MF | | Matteo Guendouzi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | 13 | FW | | Cédric Bakambu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 13 | MF | | Amine Harit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 15 | DF | | Duje Ćaleta-Car | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 11 | FW | | Luis Henrique | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 4 | MF | | Boubacar Kamara | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 29 | DF | | Pol Lirola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 37 | 7 | 6 | 50 |