2000–01 Olympique de Marseille season

Olympique de Marseille was once again forced to fight for its top-flight survival following a dire season, in which the club almost went bankrupt, despite the expensive sale of Robert Pires to Arsenal. Former Spain national team coach Javier Clemente was sacked following the poor run of results, and his replacement Tomislav Ivić just saved Marseille from relegation.

Marseille

2000-01 season
Chairman	Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Manager	Javier Clemente Tomislav Ivić
Division 1	15th
Coupe de France	Last 32
League Cup	Last 32
Top goalscorer	Djamel Belmadi (8)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Squad

Goalkeepers

• Cédric Carrasso
• Stéphane Trévisan
• Damien Grégorini

Defenders

• Patrick Blondeau
• Jérôme Pérez
• Jacques Abardonado
• Pierre Issa
• Zoumana Camara
• Manuel dos Santos
• Lilian Martin
• Abdoulaye Méïté
• Bruno N'Gotty
• William Gallas
• Jean-Christophe Marquet

Midfielders

• Jérôme Leroy
• Sébastien Pérez
• Frédéric Brando
• Djamel Belmadi
• Brahim Hemdani
• Lucas Bernardi
• Jovan Stanković
• Mickaël Marsiglia
• Karim Dahou
• Klas Ingesson
• Daniel Montenegro
• Adriano
• Pablo Calandria

Attackers

• Ibrahima Bakayoko
• George Weah
• Florian Maurice
• Marcelinho Paraíba
• Fernandão
• Dramane Coulibaly
• Cyrille Pouget
• Cédric Mouret

Competitions

Division 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
13	Auxerre	34	11	8	15	31	41	−10	41
14	Lens	34	9	13	12	37	39	−2	40
15	Marseille	34	11	7	16	31	40	−9	40
16	Toulouse (R)	34	9	10	15	34	49	−15	37	Administratively relegated to Championnat National[lower-alpha 1]
17	Saint-Étienne (R)	34	8	10	16	42	56	−14	34	Relegated to French Division 2

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Toulouse was administratively relegated to Championnat National by the DNCG due to financial difficulties.

Matches

1	Marseille	3–1	Troyes
	Maurice  9' (pen.) Gallas  45' Adriano  90'		Boutal  20'

2	Saint-Étienne	3–0	Marseille
	Sarr  28' Dias  70', 72'

3

Marseille

0–0

Lens

4	Nantes	3–2	Marseille
	Olembé  30' Fabbri  78' Moldovan  90'		Leroy  23' Paraíba  63'

5	Marseille	3–1	Guingamp
	Gallas  23' Paraíba  60' Belmadi  85'		Rodriguez  90' (pen.)

6	AS Monaco	0–2	Marseille
			Abardonado  76' Belmadi  88'

7	Toulouse	2–0	Marseille
	Petrović  31' (pen.), 35'

8	Marseille	0–1	Bordeaux
			Batlles  62'

9	Auxerre	0–1	Marseille
			Belmadi  63'

10	Marseille	1–1	Lyon
	Belmadi  7'		Anderson  52' (pen.)

11	Paris SG	2–0	Marseille
	Robert  62' Christian  90'

12	Marseille	0–1	Lille
			Beck  70'

13	Strasbourg	1–1	Marseille
	Luyindula  9'		Weah  54'

14	Marseille	0–1	Rennes
			Delaye  35'

15	Sedan	2–0	Marseille
	Quint  57' (pen.) Mionnet  70'

16	Marseille	4–1	Metz
	Belmadi  15' Leroy  45', 63' Adriano  73'		Meyrieu  20'

17	Bastia	3–0	Marseille
	Trévisan  43' (o.g.) Née  53' André  77'

18	Marseille	2–1	Saint-Étienne
	Weah  81' Adriano  88'		Huard  87'

19	Lens	1–0	Marseille
	Sibierski  86'

20	Marseille	2–0	Nantes
	Belmadi  1' Paraíba  19'

21	Guingamp	1–0	Marseille
	Carnot  37'

22	Marseille	2–1	AS Monaco
	Weah  32', 58'		Simone  15'

23	Marseille	1–1	Toulouse
	Belmadi  76'		Dieuze  61'

24	Bordeaux	3–0	Marseille
	Dugarry  24' Batlles  45', 61'

25	Marseille	0–1	Auxerre
			Deblock  24'

26	Lyon	1–1	Marseille
	Anderson  52' (pen.)		Leroy  76'

27	Marseille	1–0	Paris SG
	Bakayoko  74'

28	Lille	1–0	Marseille
	Cheyrou  23'

29

Marseille

0–0

Strasbourg

30	Rennes	2–0	Marseille
	Le Roux  49', 53'

31	Marseille	2–1	Sedan
	Belmadi  11' Weah  28'		Quint  6'

32	Metz	1–0	Marseille
	Espartero  65'

33	Marseille	2–1	Bastia
	Bakayoko  35', 74'		Née  51'

34	Troyes	1–1	Marseille
	Gousse  33'		Camara  43'

Topscorers

• Djamel Belmadi 8
• George Weah 5
• Jérôme Leroy 4
• Ibrahima Bakayoko 3
• Adriano 3

Sources

• RSSSF - France 2000/01