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| • | 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 A.C. Milan in the final, only to be stripped of the domestic title that they had won in the same season following a match fixing scandal involving then president Bernard Tapie.
In 1994, they suffered forced relegation to the second division due to financial irregularities. 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. Marseille's vast support continues to show unwavering and impressive loyalty to the club, despite having several average seasons since their return to the top flight. The fans continue to hope that Marseille will regain its former glory.
Marseille is one of the largest and most successful clubs in France. It is the best-supported club in the country, and the only French team to win the Champions League. Yet the club has not won a major trophy in over a decade. The closest Marseille have got to another trophy was when they reached the UEFA Cup Final in 2004, impressively beating Inter Milan, Liverpool and Newcastle United along the way, largely thanks to the efforts of Didier Drogba. But they were beaten in the final by newly-crowned Spanish champions Valencia and once again fans were forced to continue waiting for the next cup to come along. Marseille also lost Drogba to Chelsea, selling him for £24.5 million.
Recently, Marseille succeeded in winning the 2005 Intertoto Cup, beating the likes of SS Lazio and Deportivo La Coruna in doing so, and earning another shot at the UEFA Cup. In their recent seasons back in Ligue 1, Marseille have been beaten regulary by rival teams such as Lyon,
Source: [wikipedia: olympique de marseille]
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