The professional staff of the 2009–10 season, led by Deschamps and his assistant Guy Stéphan, has eight home-grown players.

The goalkeeping coach is Laurent Spinosi, who has four players under his wing, including Steve Mandanda, one of the current choices of the France national team.

Taye Taiwo and Mamadou Niang are the longest tenured OM players, with 193 and 179 games played, respectively, as of 25 June 2009.

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Now that it has reached the firing line in the league, Marseille are in the lead but there are many challengers for the Ligue 1 with only 3 points splitting the top five teams.

Source: lfp.fr Win Draw Loss Marseille entered the Coupe de France in the round of 64 some other Ligue 1 sides.

Marseille were put into pot three in group C with two big football giants Real Madrid and Milan.

Marseille easily went past the Danish champions in the Europa league, but then they had a very hard task ahead of them coming up against the 2008–09 Primeira Liga third-place finishers Benfica.