Founded in 1899, Olympique de Marseille is an iconic French football that plays in Ligue 1 and has spent most of its history in the top tier of French Football.  Marseille have been French champions ten times, have won the Coup de France a record ten times, and in 1993, became the only French club to win the UEFA Champions League.  Marseille's home ground is the 67,000-person Stade Velodrome.  In August 2016, Frank H. McCourt, Jr. announced a deal to acquire the club and on October 17, 2016 the acquisition was completed.

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