‘L’OM’ was founded in 1899 and is the best-supported club in France. As of 2009, Marseille had been French champions eight times and had won the Coupe de France ten times. It remains the only French team to have won the Champions League (in 1994) but was mired in a match-fixing scandal (and associated financial irregularities) under club president Bernard Tapie that same year, when the club was stripped of its championship title (but not the Champions League title) and demoted to the second division, and has only partially recovered since.
‘L’OM’ was founded in 1899 and is the best-supported club in France. As of 2009, Marseille had been French champions eight times and had won the Coupe de France ten times. It remains the only French team to have won the Champions League (in 1994) but was mired in a match-fixing scandal (and associated financial irregularities) under club president Bernard Tapie that same year, when the club was stripped of its championship title (but not the Champions League title) and demoted to the second division, and has only partially recovered since.
Olympique de Marseille’s home is the 60,031-person-capacity Stade Vélodrome football stadium in the south of the city, where they have played since 1937. In 1997, they were bought by Franco-Swiss billionaire Robert Louis-Dreyfus.
Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in Euro millions.
Financial Overview
Year |
Turnover |
Pre-tax profit |
Wages / Turnover ratio (%) |
Employees |
|
2007/08 |
117.776 |
21.069 |
50.8 |
121 |
|
2006/07 |
89.616 |
-7.772 |
58.5 |
106 |
|
2005/06 |
82.103 |
-9.546 |
54.1 |
110 |
|
2004/05 |
60.883 |
-28.998 |
73.9 |
106 |
|
2003/04 |
118.358 |
13.147 |
27.1 |
126 |
|
2002/03 |
80.924 |
-7.070 |
40.9 |
126 |
|
2001/02 |
104.303 |
-39.094 |
36.2 |
82 |
|
2000/01 |
93.117 |
-31.906 |
|
77 |
|
1999/00 |
105.459 |
-3.498 |
34.5 |
56 |
|
– – – |
– – – |
– – – |
– – – |
– – – |
|
1995/96 |
11.627 |
0.140 |
|
295 |