Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille was founded as an omnisport club in 1892 by René Dufaure de Montmirail, a French sports official. Known as Football Club de Marseille in the first seven years after its foundation, the club adopted the name Olympique de Marseille in 1899, with the name Olympique coming from ancient Olympic Games in honour of the Greeks from Phocaea, founders of Marseille's some 25 centuries earlier. At first, rugby union was the most important team sport of the club, the motto Droit au but coming from rugby. Affiliated with the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA) since 1898, it was only in 1902, thanks to English and German people (according to André Gascard), that football began to be played by Olympique de Marseille. Richer and better organised than other football teams of Marseille (Sporting, Stade, Phocéenne), Olympique de Marseille, then playing at the Stade de l'Huveaune, took the leadership in the city. In 1904, Olympique de Marseille won the first Championnat du Littoral, involving opposing teams from Marseille and its suburbs, and took part in the final rounds of the 11th French championship. At that time, the word "football" applied to rugby, and people used the word "Association" (which would be soccer in North America) for football.

During the 1920s, Olympique de Marseille became an important team in France, winning the Coupe de France in 1924, 1926 and 1927. The team won the French championship in 1929, defeating Club français. The…

Marseille have won the French national championship nine times; with nine Ligue 1 titles they are behind only Paris Saint-Germain, who have fourteen, and Saint-Étienne, who have ten. However, the first championship won by Marseille was in 1929, before the professional era of French football. Marseille also have the second best record in the Coupe de France, with ten titles. Marseille have achieved two championship and cup "Doubles", in 1972 and 1989. They are the first French club to win the UEFA Champions League, doing so in 1993.

Ligue 1 Winners (9): 1936–37, 1947–48, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2009–10 Runners-up (14): 1937–38, 1938–39, 1969–70, 1974–75, 1986–87, 1993–94, 1998–99, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2024-25 Ligue 2 Winners (1): 1994–95 Runners-up (2): 1965–66, 1995–96 Coupe de France Winners (10): 1923–24, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1934–35, 1937–38, 1942–43, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1975–76, 1988–89 Runners-up (9): 1933–34, 1939–40, 1953–54, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1990–91, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2015–16 Coupe de la Ligue Winners (3): 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 Trophée des Champions Winners (3): 1971, 2010, 2011 Runners-up (4): 1969, 1972, 2020, 2025 Coupe Charles Drago Winners (1): 1957

International competitions

European Cup / UEFA Champions League Winners (1): 1992–93 Runners-up (1): 1990–91 UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League Runners-up (3): 1998–99, 2003–04, 2017–18 UEFA Intertoto Cup Winners (1): 2005

UNFP Player of the…