The key numbers: Marseille v. Paris

Men's football•22 Sep 2025 08:00

Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, which kicks off at 20:00 CET tonight (Matchday 5 of Ligue 1) at the Orange Vélodrome

Les Rouge et Bleu have lost just one of their last 43 away games in Ligue 1 – 2-1 to Strasbourg on 3rd May 2025 – whilst also racking up 33 wins and nine draws in that time.

Les Parisiens haven’t kept four consecutive clean sheets at the start of a league season since 2015–2016, when they beat Lille 1-0, Gazélec Ajaccio 2-0, Montpellier 1-0 and Monaco 3-0. The club’s longest-ever streak of this kind dates back to 1996–1997, when they avoided conceding in each of their first eight games (1-0 v. Strasbourg, 2-0 v. Le Havre, 0-0 v. Nancy, 1-0 v. Nantes, 3-0 v. Montpellier, 0-0 v. Monaco, 1-0 v. Cannes and 4-0 v. Lens).

Paris’s defence has kept six straight clean sheets away to Marseille in Ligue 1 since Florian Thauvin scored for OM in a 2-2 draw between the two sides at the Vélodrome on 22nd October 2017. This is the longest such streak in the team’s history, ahead of its run of five straight clean sheets away to AS Nancy-Lorraine between 1986 and 1999.

Luis Enrique’s men are unbeaten in their last nine league clashes with Marseille, during which time they have recorded eight wins and one draw whilst scoring 20 goals and conceding just two.

Zlatan Ibrahimović is Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorer against OM across all competitions, with the Swede’s 11 goals putting him ahead of Kylian Mbappé (nine goals scored), Edinson Cavani (seven goals scored) and Pauleta (six goals scored).

52 players have plied their trade for both teams: Fabrice Abriel, Jérôme Alonzo, André Luiz Moreira, Jocelyn Angloma, William Ayache, Djamel Belmadi, Hatem Ben Arfa, Daniel Bravo, Boubacar Sarr, François Brisson, Zoumana Camara, Lorik Cana, Benoît Cauet, Edouard Cissé, Patrick Colleter, Lassana Diarra, Stéphane Dalmat, Marcel De Falco, Frédéric Déhu, Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, Kaba Diawara, Jean Djorkaeff, Jean-Pierre Dogliani, Fabrice Fiorèse, Laurent Fournier, Bruno Germain, Xavier Gravelaine, Gabriel Heinze, Thierry Laurey, Jean-Louis Leonetti, Yvon Le Roux, Jérôme Leroy, Claude Lowitz, Peter Luccin, Peguy Luyindula, Claude Makélélé, Florian Maurice, Modeste M’Bami, Fabrice Moreau, Michel N’Gom, Bruno Ngotty, Pascal Nouma, Jacky Novi, Ilija Pantelić, Bernard Pardo, Cyril Pouget, Adrien Rabiot, Alain Roche, Jean-Pierre Tokoto, George Weah, Timothy Weah and Daniel Xuereb. In fact, no side has shared more players with Les Rouge et Bleu than Marseille.

Les Parisiens are on a 12-game unbeaten run away to Marseille, with nine wins and three draws to their name since losing 3-0 there in Ligue 1 on 27th November 2011.

If he plays tonight, Marquinhos will be making his 23rd appearance in Le Classique, which is the most of any Paris player ever. The Brazilian’s record in this fixture stands at 18 wins, three draws and just one loss.

This will be the 34th competitive meeting between Paris and Marseille since 2011, with Les Rouge et Bleu enjoying an exceptional record of 26 wins, four draws and three losses in that time.

Les Olympiens have suffered a total of 52 competitive defeats at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, with only two sides having lost more often to the capital club’s men’s team: FC Nantes (55 defeats) and AS Saint-Étienne (53 defeats).

110

This will be the 110th all-time competitive meeting between Les Parisiens and Les Marseillais, with only two sides having faced the capital club’s men’s team more often – Monaco (115 times) and Lyon (112 times) – while tonight’s hosts are set to join Bordeaux in having taken on Paris on 110 occasions. As for Les Rouge et Bleu’s record in Le Classique, it currently stands at 52 wins, 23 draws and 34 losses.

164

Having scored 164 goals in their competitive meetings with Marseille, Les Parisiens boast a higher tally in this respect against just three other teams – Lyon (178), Saint-Étienne (175) and Lens (165) – while their tally against Nantes also stands at 164.

Blaise Matuidi v Marseille (3-2) le 05/04/2015

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The key numbers: Marseille v. Paris

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