The Vélodrome is white-hot, OM's support is among the most passionate in Europe and a Marseille away day is football at its rawest. We find cheap flights and tickets for a weekend on the Med.
The Orange Vélodrome is the loudest ground in France, a huge, steep stadium where OM's ultras in the Virage Sud and Virage Nord build a wall of sound. Le Classique against PSG is French football's biggest and most hostile fixture. This is the game at its most raw, passionate and Mediterranean.
Marseille Provence airport has direct routes from the UK, with a shuttle bus and train into the city. The metro runs towards the stadium, and the old port area is easily walkable. As France's oldest city, Marseille has a rougher, sunnier, more southern edge than buttoned-up Paris.
Marseille is Mediterranean to its core — the Vieux-Port, the fish markets, the turquoise coves of the Calanques and bouillabaisse eaten by the water. Take the boat out to the Château d'If or climb to Notre-Dame de la Garde for the view. Sun, sea and football, all in one weekend.