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Club facts: Marseille

Marseille's Mathieu Valbuena and Taye Taiwo celebrate
Marseille's Mathieu Valbuena and Taye Taiwo celebrate ©Getty Images

Olympique de Marseille
Formed:
1899
Nicknames: Les Olympiens (The Olympians), Les Phocéens (The Phocians), OM

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
European Cup/UEFA Champions League (1): (1991), 1993
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League: (1999), (2004), (2018)
UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2005

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 9 (2010)
French Cup: 10 (1989)
League Cup: 3 (2012)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23:
UEFA Champions League group stage
2021/22: UEFA Europa Conference League semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Europa League group stage)
2020/21:
UEFA Champions League group stage
2019/20:
did not take part in UEFA competition
2018/19:
group stage
2017/18:
runners-up
2016/17:
did not take part in UEFA competition
2015/16: round of 32
2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition
2013/14: UEFA Champions League group stage

Records 
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
7-1: Marseille v US Luxembourg
03/10/73, UEFA Cup first round second leg
6-0: Marseille v CSKA Moskva
17/03/93, UEFA Champions League group stage

Biggest away win
0-7: Žilina v Marseille
03/11/10, UEFA Champions League group stage

Heaviest home defeat
0-4: Marseille v Liverpool
11/12/07, UEFA Champions League group stage

Heaviest away defeat
6-0: Köln v Marseille
06/11/73, UEFA Cup second round second leg

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
7-1: Marseille v US Luxembourg (see above)

Biggest away win
0-5: US Luxembourg v Marseille
18/09/73, first round first leg

Heaviest home defeat
1-3 twice, most recently v Apollon
13/12/18, group stage

Heaviest away defeat
6-0: Köln v Marseille (see above)