1989–90 Olympique de Marseille season

The 1989–90 season saw Olympique de Marseille compete in the French Division 1 as reigning champions as well as the 1989–90 Coupe de France and the 1989–90 European Cup.

Olympique de Marseille

1989–90 season
President	Bernard Tapie
Manager	Gérard Gili
Stadium	Stade Vélodrome
French Division 1	1st
Coupe de France	Semi-finals
European Cup	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Jean-Pierre Papin (30) All: Jean-Pierre Papin (38)
Average home league attendance	31,727
← 1988–89 1990–91 →

Overview

In the summer of 1989, Marseille lost many big name players including prolific German striker Klaus Allofs who went to rivals Bordeaux and Franch defender Yvon Le Roux who transferred to PSG.^[1] Owner, Bernard Tapie, brought in reinforcements for the double winners though, signing Enzo Francescoli, Carlos Mozer, Jean Tigana, Alain Roche, Manuel Amoros, and Chris Waddle. Of the transfers, Waddle was the most high-profile and the £4.5m Marseille paid Tottenham for Waddle equalled a British record fee and the sixth highest ever paid at that point.^[1][2]

Marseille went into the season as defending French Division 1 champions and successfully defend their crown, winning their seventh French league title overall.^[3] Marseille would go deep in both the Coupe de France and the European Cup but lost in the semi-finals in both competitions.^[3]

Competitions

Division 1

Main article: 1989–90 French Division 1

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marseille (C)	38	22	9	7	75	34	+41	53	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Bordeaux	38	22	7	9	51	25	+26	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Monaco	38	15	16	7	38	24	+14	46
4	Sochaux	38	17	9	12	46	39	+7	43
5	Paris Saint-Germain	38	18	6	14	50	48	+2	42

Source: Histoire du PSG
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	22	9	7	75	34	+41	75	15	3	1	46	12	+34	7	6	6	29	22	+7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H
Result	W	W	L	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	L	W	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	D	D	W	L	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	L
Position	1	1	3	3	3	2	3	2	3	3	2	1	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Coupe de France

Main article: 1989–90 Coupe de France

Semi-final

Marseille v RC Paris

25 May 1990	Marseille	2–3	RC Paris	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
	Germain 3' Sauzée 61'	(Report)	Bouderbala 37' Milojevic 83' Aïd 88'

European Cup

Main article: 1989–90 European Cup

First round

Marseille v Brøndby

13 September 1989	Marseille	3–0	Brøndby	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
	Sauzée 62' Papin 67' Vercruysse 81'	Report		Attendance: 18,686 Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)

Brøndby v Marseille

27 September 1989	Brøndby	1–1	Marseille	Brøndby Stadion, Brøndbyvester
	Olsen 54'	Report	Papin 64'	Attendance: 10,300 Referee: Rodger Gifford (Wales)

Marseille won 4–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Marseille v AEK Athens

18 October 1989	Marseille	2–0	AEK Athens	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
22:00	Papin 55' Manolas 80' (o.g.)	Report		Attendance: 24,263 Referee: Georges Sandoz (Switzerland)

AEK Athens v Marseille

1 November 1989	AEK Athens	1–1	Marseille	AEK Stadium, Athens
21:00	Savevski 79' (pen.)	Report	Papin 84'	Attendance: 33,260 Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

Marseille won 3–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-final

CSKA Sofia v Marseille

7 March 1990	CSKA Sofia	0–1	Marseille	Narodna Armia, Sofia
		Report	Thys 85'	Attendance: 26,300 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Marseille v CSKA Sofia

21 March 1990	Marseille	3–1	CSKA Sofia	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
	Waddle 25' Papin 28' Sauzée 72'	Report	Urukov 84'	Attendance: 34,665 Referee: Lajos Nemeth (Hungary)

Marseille won 4–1 on aggregate.

Semi-final

Marseille v Benfica

4 April 1990	Marseille	2–1	Benfica	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
	Sauzée 13' Papin 44'	Report	Lima 10'	Attendance: 36,859 Referee: George Courtney (England)

Benfica v Marseille

18 April 1990	Benfica	1–0	Marseille	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
	Vata 82'	Report		Attendance: 120,000 Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

Marseille 2–2 Benfica on aggregate. Benfica won on away goals.