2009–10 Olympique de Marseille season

Marseille

2009–10 season
Chairman	Jean-Claude Dassier
Manager	Didier Deschamps
Ligue 1	1st
Coupe de France	Round of 32
Coupe de la Ligue	Winners
UEFA Champions League	Group stage (3rd)
UEFA Europa League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Mamadou Niang (18) All: Mamadou Niang (22)
Highest home attendance	56,282 (3 November vs Zürich, UEFA Champions League)
Lowest home attendance	19,217 (27 January vs Lille, Coupe de la Ligue)
Average home league attendance	48,892 (Ligue 1)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

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

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}}})

Last updated: 8 February 2009
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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

Updated 15 May 2010.^[1]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Rudy Riou 3 DF Taye Taiwo 4 DF Julien Rodriguez 5 DF Hilton 6 MF Édouard Cissé 7 MF Benoît Cheyrou 8 MF Lucho González 9 FW Brandão 10 MF Hatem Ben Arfa 11 FW Mamadou Niang (captain) 12 MF Charles Kaboré 14 FW Bakari Koné 15 MF Jordan Ayew 17 MF Stéphane Mbia

No. Position Player 18 MF Fabrice Abriel 19 DF Gabriel Heinze 20 DF Charley Roussel Fomen 21 DF Souleymane Diawara 22 DF Cyril Rool 23 FW Fernando Morientes 24 DF Laurent Bonnart 27 DF Pape M'Bow 28 MF Mathieu Valbuena 30 GK Steve Mandanda 31 FW Guy Gnabouyou 32 FW Alexander N'Doumbou 34 MF Kevin Osei 40 GK 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. 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) – FW Mohamed Amine Dennoun (at Amiens until end of the 2009–10 season) – DF Cédric D'Ulivo (at Cassis Carnoux until end of the 2009–10 season) 2 DF Garry Bocaly (at Montpellier until end of the 2009–10 season)

Reserve squad

Updated 8 February 2010.^[2]

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

No. Position Player GK Johan Crespin GK Samir Kouakbi DF Sébastien Bregand DF Bradley Diallo DF Sébastien Fischetti DF Raphaël Lopes DF Senah Mango MF Samir Abbes MF Landing Bodian

No. Position Player MF Olivier Cano MF Alexander N'Doumbou MF Ahmed Nouri MF Thomas Pechart MF Emmanuel Schianchi FW Jordan Ayew FW Nicolas Crus FW Cédric Hachani FW 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 Nov 2009
Worst result	0–3 (A) v Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League - 30 Sep 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		Ligue 1		Champions League & Europa League		Coupe de la Ligue		Coupe de France
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
30	GK		Steve Mandanda	50	0	36	0	10	0	2	0	2	0
40	GK		Elinton Andrade	6	0	2+1	0	0	0	2+1	0	0	0
Defenders
21	DF		Souleymane Diawara	50	5	36	4	9	0	4	1	1	0
24	DF		Laurent Bonnart	44	0	30+1	0	8	0	4	0	1	0
3	DF		Taye Taiwo	38	3	25+3	3	8	0	1	0	1	0
21	DF		Stéphane Mbia	37	2	26+1	2	7	0	2	0	1	0
19	DF		Gabriel Heinze	36	6	26+1	4	6+1	2	1+1	0	0	0
5	DF		Hilton	20	2	9+3	1	3	1	2+1	0	2	0
27	DF		Pape M'Bow	8	0	0+3	0	0+1	0	0+2	0	1+1	0
4	DF		Julien Rodriguez	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
18	MF		Fabrice Abriel	47	2	18+14	1	7+2	1	2+2	0	2	0
7	MF		Benoît Cheyrou	46	8	27+5	5	10	1	2	0	2	2
6	MF		Édouard Cissé	45	1	27+5	1	7+1	0	4	0	1	0
8	MF		Lucho González	44	8	28+4	5	8	2	4	1	0	0
28	MF		Mathieu Valbuena	43	7	19+12	5	2+4	0	2+2	2	1+1	0
12	MF		Charles Kaboré	35	2	17+8	1	2+4	1	3	0	1	0
22	MF		Cyril Rool	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF		Alexander N'Doumbou	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0
Forwards
11	FW		Mamadou Niang	46	22	29+3	18	9	3	3+1	1	1	0
9	FW		Brandão	43	13	27+3	8	7+1	1	3	4	1+1	0
10	FW		Hatem Ben Arfa	41	7	17+12	3	1+6	3	3+1	0	1	1
14	FW		Bakari Koné	36	6	11+16	4	3+4	2	0+1	0	1	0
23	FW		Fernando Morientes	19	1	4+8	1	2+3	0	0	0	1+1	0
15	FW		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		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 Aug 2009	15 May 2010
UEFA Champions League	Group stage	—	Group stage	15 Sept 2009	8 Dec 2009
UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	—	Round of 16	18 Feb 2010	18 Mar 2010
Coupe de France	Round of 64	—	Round of 32	10 Jan 2010	10 Feb 2010
Coupe de la Ligue	Round of 16	—	Winner	13 Jan 2010	27 Mar 2010

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 splitting the top five teams.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marseille !Marseille (C)	38	23	9	6	69	36	+33	78	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Lyon !Lyon	38	20	12	6	64	38	+26	72
3	Auxerre !Auxerre	38	20	11	7	42	29	+13	71	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
4	Lille !Lille	38	21	7	10	72	40	+32	70	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
5	Montpellier !Montpellier	38	20	9	9	50	40	+10	69	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round 1
6	Bordeaux !Bordeaux	38	19	7	12	58	40	+18	64

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; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	23	9	6	69	36	+33	78	14	3	2	37	14	+23	9	6	4	32	22	+10

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

Last updated: 5 May.
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; 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 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

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

Green = advance to the round of 16.

Purple = Relegated to the Europa League round of 32.

Red = Eliminated from all European competitions

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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 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 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.

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.

	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
			UNFP Player of the Month (February 2010)
Mamadou Niang	9	Senegal	2009–10 Ligue 1 top goalscorer
			2009 Senegalese Player of the Year
			2009–10 Ligue 1 Team of the Year
			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

References