2006–07 Olympique de Marseille season

Olympique de Marseille had a solid season, but did not manage to win the elusive trophy they had chased for 14 years, with the biggest disappointment being losing on penalty shootout against Sochaux in the Coupe de France final. The 2nd-place finish of Ligue 1 was the best for eight years, but the side were never in title contention, being 18 points adrift of Lyon.

Marseille

2006-07 season
Chairman	Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Manager	Albert Emon
Ligue 1	2nd
Coupe de France	Runners-up
League Cup	Round of 16
UEFA Cup	First round
Intertoto Cup	Progress
Top goalscorer	League: Mamadou Niang (12 goals) All: Mamadou Niang (17 goals)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Squad

Goalkeepers

• Cédric Carrasso
• Sébastien Hamel
• Mehdi Sennaoui

Defenders

• Renato Civelli
• Taye Taiwo
• Julien Rodriguez
• Alain Cantareil
• Garry Bocaly
• Ronald Zubar
• Hassoun Camara
• Boštjan Cesar
• Habib Beye

Midfielders

• Franck Ribéry
• Wilson Oruma
• Modeste M'Bami
• Lorik Cana
• Samir Nasri
• Mame N'Diaye
• Salomon Olembé
• Mathieu Valbuena

Attackers

• Djibril Cissé
• Mickaël Pagis
• Mamadou Niang
• Toifilou Maoulida
• Salim Arrache
• Habib Bamogo

Competitions

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lyon (C)	38	24	9	5	64	27	+37	81	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Marseille	38	19	7	12	53	38	+15	64
3	Toulouse	38	17	7	14	44	43	+1	58	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Rennes	38	14	15	9	38	30	+8	57	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[lower-alpha 1]
5	Lens	38	15	12	11	47	41	+6	57	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round

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

1. Bordeaux, the winner of the Coupe de la Ligue, is awarded entry to the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. The winners of the Coupe de France, Sochaux also have been awarded entry to the 2007–08 UEFA Cup.

Matches

6 August 2006 1

Sedan

0–0

Marseille

13 August 2006 2	Marseille	2–0	Rennes
	Pagis  38' Maoulida  85'

19 August 2006 3	Auxerre	0–3	Marseille
			Ribéry  45' Maoulida  49' Pagis  70'

27 August 2006 4	Marseille	2–0	Le Mans
	Bamogo  69' Niang  79' (pen.)

10 September 2006 5	Paris Saint-Germain	1–3	Marseille
	Pauleta  22' (pen.)		Niang  7' (pen.) Nasri  67' Pagis  88'

17 September 2006 6	Marseille	2–1	Bordeaux
	Pagis  49' Taiwo  53'		Chamakh  63' (pen.)

24 September 2006 7	Nantes	2–1	Marseille
	Payet  38' Norbert  49'		Niang  78'

1 October 2006 8	Marseille	3–0	Toulouse
	Taiwo  44' Bamogo  45+2' Cana  47'

15 October 2006 9	Lens	1–1	Marseille
	Dindane  79' (pen.)		Niang  62' (pen.)

22 October 2006 10	Marseille	1–4	Lyon
	Bamogo  70'		Juninho  20', 78' Benzema  48' Källström  87'

29 October 2006 11	Nice	2–1	Marseille
	Rool  25' Ederson  90' (pen.)		Pagis  62'

4 November 2006 12	Marseille	0–1	Lorient
			Gignac  48'

12 November 2006 13	Lille	1–0	Marseille
	Bodmer  45+2'

19 November 2006 14	Marseille	1–0	Valenciennes
	Pagis  60'

25 November 2006 15	Troyes	1–1	Marseille
	Lachuer  18'		Maoulida  60'

3 December 2006 16	Sochaux	1–0	Marseille
	Afolabi  76'

9 December 2006 17	Marseille	2–1	Monaco
	Pagis  37' Niang  77'		Di Vaio  58'

16 December 2006 18	Nancy	2–0	Marseille
	Gavanon  43' Kim  71'

23 December 2006 19	Marseille	2–1	Saint-Étienne
	Cissé  9' Pagis  63'		Heinz  45+1'

14 January 2007 20	Rennes	0–2	Marseille
			Cissé  58' Maoulida  90+2'

24 January 2007 21	Marseille	3–1	Auxerre
	Ribéry  7, 38' Taiwo  87'		Jeleń  16'

28 January 2007 22	Le Mans	2–0	Marseille
	Fanchone  38' Grafite  83' (pen.)

4 February 2007 23	Marseille	1–1	Paris Saint-Germain
	Cissé  68'		Pauleta  74'

11 February 2007 24	Bordeaux	1–0	Marseille
	Faubert  74'

18 February 2007 25

Marseille

0–0

Nantes

25 February 2007 26	Toulouse	3–0	Marseille
	Elmander  39', 48' Emana  63'

4 March 2007 27	Marseille	0–1	Lens
			Dindane  58' (pen.)

11 March 2007 28	Lyon	1–1	Marseille
	Baroš  19'		Niang  86'

17 March 2007 29	Marseille	3–0	Nice
	Niang  6', 40' Civelli  13'

31 March 2007 30	Lorient	2–1	Marseille
	Saïfi  60' Le Pen  74'		Cissé  81' (pen.)

7 April 2007 31	Marseille	4–1	Lille
	Niang  9' (pen.), 90+1' Civelli  38', 63'		Bastos  11' (pen.)

14 April 2007 32

Valenciennes

0–0

Marseille

21 April 2007 33	Marseille	2–1	Troyes
	Cissé  55' M'Bami  86'		Jaziri  80'

29 April 2007 34	Marseille	4–2	Sochaux
	Cana  13' Cissé  68' Nasri  73' Ribéry  85'		Leroy  5' Rodriguez  90+2' (o.g.)

6 May 2007 35	Monaco	1–2	Marseille
	Ménez  12'		Ribéry  45' Niang  84' (pen.)

9 May 2007 36	Marseille	2–1	Nancy
	Niang  78' (pen.) Cissé  81'		Puygrenier  80'

19 May 2007 37	Saint-Étienne	1–2	Marseille
	Feindouno  69'		Cissé  54' Valbuena  86'

26 May 2007 38	Marseille	1–0	Sedan
	Nasri  61'

Intertoto Cup

Third round

15 July 2006 First leg	Marseille	0–0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Fos-sur-Mer, France
				Stadium: Stade Parsemain Attendance: 6,884 Referee: Bernardino González Vázquez (Spain)

22 July 2006 Second leg	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–2 (2–2a agg.)	Marseille	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
	Nazarenko  78' Rusol  87'		Niang  71' Oruma  75'	Stadium: Meteor Stadium Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Howard Webb (England)

UEFA Cup

Second qualifying round

10 August 2006 First leg	Young Boys	3–3	Marseille	Bern, Switzerland
	Yakin  20' João Paulo  49' Marcos  73'		Zubar  18' Niang  44', 57'	Stadium: Wankdorf Stadium Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

24 August 2006 Second leg	Marseille	0–0 (3a–3 agg.)	Young Boys	Marseille, France
20:45		Report		Stadium: Stade Vélodrome Referee: Emil Božinovski (Macedonia)

First round

14 September 2006 First leg	Marseille	1–0	Mladá Boleslav	Marseille, France
20:45	Bamogo  31'	Report		Stadium: Stade Vélodrome Referee: Espen Berntsen (Norway)

28 September 2006 Second leg	Mladá Boleslav	4–2 (4–3 agg.)	Marseille	Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
17:30	Pecka  34' Holub  62' (pen.), 82' Sedláček  90+2'	Report	Maoulida  19' Taiwo  56'	Stadium: Městský stadion Referee: Ruud Bossen (Netherlands)

Sources

• FootballSquads - Marseille 2006/2007
• LFP.fr - Ligue de Football Professionel