125 years after its creation, Olympique de Marseille still exists. And even if the versions diverge on the real date and the name of the club’s creators, the date of August 31, 1899 has remained as that of the birth of the Marseille club under the years of René Dufaure de Montmirail, president of OM at the time of the transition to the 20th century.
Since then, Olympique de Marseille has crossed the ages, winning several competitions, first local ones like the Coastal Championship, which it won ten times between 1900 and 1919, or even national competitions that have now disappeared. In 1937, Marseille won the French Championship for the first time, thirteen years after its first French Cup. Since then, it has won the championship nine times and the cup ten times.
Finalist of the Champions League in 1991 against Red Star Belgrade, Marseille would change the situation two years later against Milan to win what is still today the only French victory in the European competition. In total, OM has won in its history, 125 years old, around thirty trophies and has not won one since 2012 and a League Cup.
On its social networks, the club wanted to pay tribute to its history on this August 31, 2024, the club’s anniversary. By unveiling a retro-looking logo, reminiscent of that of the 1980s and 1990s, OM is honoring its history before facing Toulouse this Saturday in Ligue 1, at 9 p.m.