Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, Marseille has won 9 French championships and 10 French Cups. The club also won the Champions League in 1993, defeating AC Milan in the final, only to be relegated and stripped of their domestic title following a match fixing scandal involving then president Bernard Tapie. By 1996, backed by Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus , the club had worked their way back to the top flight. The team regularly fills their imposing home of the Stade Vélodrome, which seats 60,000.

Honours

French division 1 winners

1936/1937, 1947/1948, 1970/1971, 1971/1972, 1988/1989, 1989/1990, 1990/1991 and 1991/1992

French division 3 winners

1928/1929

French Cup winners

1923/1924, 1925/1926, 1926/1927, 1934/1935, 1937/1938, 1942/1943, 1968/1969, 1971/1972, 1975/1976 and 1988/1989

French Cup runners up

1933/1934, 1939/1940, 1953/1954, 1985/1986, 1986/1987 and 1990/1991

Champions League winners

1992/1993

Champions League runners up

1990/1991

UEFA Cup runners up

1998/1999 and 2003/2004

External link

• Official site (in French)
• Fabulous No-Official site (in French)