Marseille vs. Newcastle: Head-to-head record and past meetings before Champions League clash

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 3

Marseille wins: 2

Draws: 1

Newcastle United wins: 0

The 2025-26 Champions League season marked the first time in history that Marseille and Newcastle United have done battle in Europe’s top competition.

Newcastle managed to take the lead after just six minutes into November’s contest, with Harvey Barnes pouncing on a loose ball in the penalty area.

However, Marseille dominated much of the game, and two quickfire goals from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang early in the second half gave the hosts a 2-1 win.

While meetings between the two sides have been rare, they did meet in the continent’s secondary tournament over 20 years ago.

Indeed, the Magpies and the Olympiens’ inaugural meetings took place in the semi-finals of the 2003-04 UEFA Cup, in which Newcastle took down PSV Eindhoven and Marseille stunned Inter Milan to reach the last four.

St James’ Park was the venue for the first leg in April 2004, but Sir Bobby Robson’s Newcastle – boasting Alan Shearer and Shola Ameobi up front – were nullified by the French team, who held out for a 0-0 draw.

Injuries hit Newcastle hard in that contest, as the Magpies were missing the key quartet of Lee Bowyer, Craig Bellamy, Kieron Dyer and Jermaine Jenas for the visit of Didier Drogba‘s Marseille.

The future Chelsea striker would make the difference in the return fixture, though, scoring either side of the half-time whistle to send Marseille to the final with a 2-0 second-leg win at the Orange Velodrome.

Drogba would firstly produce a brilliant Ronaldo chop to evade Aaron Hughes before slotting home the game’s first goal into the bottom corner, and the Ivorian doubled the hosts’ lead with a crisp first-time strike from a smart set-piece routine.

Marseille went on to suffer a 2-0 defeat to Valencia in the final, though, and even when factoring in their win in November 2025, they have failed to win 12 of their last 13 games against English clubs in European competitions, losing nine of them.

Last three meetings

Nov 25, 2025: Marseille 2-1 Newcastle (Champions League)

May 06, 2004: Marseille 2-0 Newcastle (UEFA Cup)

Apr 22, 2004: Newcastle 0-0 Marseille (UEFA Cup)

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