Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille , also known simply as Marseille, or by the abbreviation OM (IPA: [o.ɛm], locally [oˈɛmə]), is a French professional <a href="/facts/Association_football/yttjeD0D">football</a> club based in <a href="/facts/Marseille/kj7te1HG">Marseille</a> which competes in <a href="/facts/Ligue_1/jtGrnX8g">Ligue 1</a>, the <a href="/facts/French_football_league_system/FdeFy4Nj">top flight</a> of <a href="/facts/Football_in_France/qA0jkuIz">French football</a>. Founded in 1899, OM has <a href="/facts/Football_records_and_statistics_in_France/ra0KclCJ">won 26 domestic trophies</a>: nine <a href="/facts/Ligue_1/jtGrnX8g">Ligue 1</a> titles, 10 <a href="/facts/Coupe_de_France/tMtVcqDN">Coupe de France</a>, three <a href="/facts/Coupe_de_la_Ligue/rQvy0T1j">Coupe de la Ligue</a>, and three <a href="/facts/Troph%25C3%25A9e_des_Champions/pIJ6q29T">Trophée des Champions</a>. Continentally, the club holds a joint national record of one <a href="/facts/UEFA_Champions_League/h1ao7NDp">UEFA Champions League</a> and a joint national record of one <a href="/facts/UEFA_Intertoto_Cup/FwI4KKDc">UEFA Intertoto Cup</a>. Additionally, Marseille has played in three <a href="/facts/UEFA_Europa_League/aQeea4zp">UEFA Europa League</a> finals. In <a href="/facts/1992%25E2%2580%259393_UEFA_Champions_League/YUoHo8A1">1993</a>, coach <a href="/facts/Raymond_Goethals/WfryLBWn">Raymond Goethals</a> led the team to become the first French club to win the <a href="/facts/UEFA_Champions_League/h1ao7NDp">UEFA Champions League</a>, defeating <a href="/facts/A.C._Milan/yDRPqvJI">Milan</a> 1–0 in the <a href="/facts/1993_UEFA_Champions_League_final/0s2NKaDk">final</a>, the first under the UEFA Champions League branding of the tournament. In 2010, Marseille won its first Ligue 1 title in 18 years under the management of former club captain <a href="/facts/Didier_Deschamps/7ws7L8DV">Didier Deschamps</a>.
Marseille's home ground is the 67,394-capacity <a href="/facts/Stade_V%25C3%25A9lodrome/SWC0Rl7I">Stade Vélodrome</a> in the southern part of the city, where they have played since 1937. The stadium underwent renovations between 2011 and 2014, increasing its capacity to 67,000 in preparation for France's hosting of <a href="/facts/UEFA_Euro_2016/FT4X5tYG">UEFA Euro 2016</a>. The club has a large fan-base, having regularly averaged the highest attendance in French football. Marseille's average home gate for the <a href="/facts/2018%25E2%2580%259319_Ligue_1/AEu9YnJJ">2018–19 season</a> was 50,361, the highest in <a href="/facts/Ligue_1/jtGrnX8g">Ligue 1</a>. The club have a long-standing rivalry with <a href="/facts/Paris_Saint-Germain_F.C./pyF66zLV">Paris Saint-Germain</a>, against whom they contest <a href="/facts/Le_Classique/wkWd4G1W">Le Classique</a>.
In 1997, Marseille was purchased by Franco-Swiss businessman <a href="/facts/Robert_Louis-Dreyfus/fIjAbP5v">Robert Louis-Dreyfus</a>. Following his death in 2009, his widow <a href="/facts/Margarita_Louis-Dreyfus/Pqud11Ac">Margarita</a> became the club's majority shareholder in 2010. American businessman <a href="/facts/Frank_McCourt_(executive)/IhhQDr5V">Frank McCourt</a> bought 95% of the club's stake in 2016, and appointed businessman <a href="/facts/Jacques-Henri_Eyraud/xzAblspd">Jacques-Henri Eyraud</a> as the club president, later replaced by <a href="/facts/Pablo_Longoria/hWRjIs9z">Pablo Longoria</a> in 2021.
Marseille was listed in the <a href="/facts/Deloitte_Football_Money_League/3eP3KRe3">Deloitte Football Money League</a> at the end of the 2023–2024 season, making it the football club with the 19th highest revenue in the world, approximated at <a href="/facts/Euro/NWG2nlCx">€</a>287 million.
In 2023, Marseille was 28th in the global ranking by British consultancy organisation Brand Finance in terms of brand power, where it was rated with a <a href="/facts/Credit_rating/YmREsKwr">credit rating</a> AA ("very strong") with a <a href="/facts/Score_(statistics)/gnBI7IEy">score</a> of 71.3 out of 100, as well as 28th in <a href="/facts/Brand_valuation/FBSVvdm4">brand value</a> (€173 million) and <a href="/facts/Enterprise_value/Rt3XWJXQ">enterprise value</a> (€458 million as of 2023).

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