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===1986–1996: Tapie era, Champions League win, bribery scandal, and decline===
{{Main|French football bribery scandal}}
Thanks to [[Marseille]] mayor [[Gaston Defferre]], [[Bernard Tapie]] became the new club president on 12 April 1986, and promptly proceeded to assemble the greatest football team seen in France up to that point. His first signings were [[Karl-Heinz Forster]] and [[Alain Giresse]], who were bought after the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]]. Over the subsequent six years, in his pursuit of the European Cup, Tapie signed a number of highly regarded players such as [[Jean-Pierre Papin]], [[Abedi Pele]], [[Klaus Allofs]], [[Eric Cantona]], [[Chris Waddle]], [[Enzo Francescoli]], [[Manuel Amoros]], [[Carlos Mozer]], [[Jean Tigana]], [[Didier Deschamps]], [[Dragan Stojković]], [[Basile Boli]], [[Marcel Desailly]], [[Rudi Völler]],
This triumph, however, was followed by a decade of decline. In 1994, due to financial irregularities and a match-fixing scandal involving then-president [[Bernard Tapie]], they suffered enforced relegation to [[Ligue 2|the second division]], where Marseille stayed for two years before returning to the [[Ligue 1|First division]]. Moreover, they lost their 1992–93 Division 1 title and the right to play in the [[UEFA Champions League 1993-94|1993–94 UEFA Champions League]], the [[1993 European Super Cup]] and the [[1993 Intercontinental Cup]]. This scandal, called ''l'affaire VA-OM'' (VA for [[Valenciennes FC|Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin]] and OM for Olympique de Marseille), was exposed by [[Valenciennes FC|Valenciennes]], whose players [[Jacques Glassmann]],<ref name="iht2">{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1995/03/14/tapie.php|title=Tapie Directly Implicated As Marseille Trial Opens|work=International Herald Tribute|date=14 March 1995|access-date=12 March 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061128001024/http://www.iht.com/articles/1995/03/14/tapie.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 28 November 2006}}</ref> [[Jorge Burruchaga]]<ref name="nyt">{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D61F3DF931A35754C0A965958260|work=The New York Times|date=2 July 1993|access-date=12 March 2007|title=Argentine Charged in Marseille case|archive-date=12 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012213815/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D61F3DF931A35754C0A965958260|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Christophe Robert]]<ref name="nyt" /> were contacted by Marseille player [[Jean-Jacques Eydelie]]<ref name="eurosport">{{cite web|url=http://www.eurosport.com/football/sport_sto817893.shtml|title=Wenger slams former Marseille Chairman|date=23 January 2006|access-date=12 March 2007|work=Eurosport|archive-date=19 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219101947/https://www.eurosport.com/geoblocking.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> to let OM win and, more importantly, not to injure any OM player ahead of the [[UEFA Champions League]] final.
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