Olympique de Marseille: departure of Franckie Tourdre, director of communications & media

Franckie Tourdre, director of communications and media at Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1 McDonald's) since August 2023, has stepped down from his post in August 2025, he announced via LinkedIn, on 07/10/2025.

Since the departure of Franckie Tourdre, who was previously at AS Monaco and AS Saint-Étienne, Bel-Abbès Bouaissi has taken up the post of director of sports communications at the club, while the institutional side is headed by Maxime Quinart.

"Consolidating OM's position as one of the top 20 most-followed clubs in the world on digital platforms, with the symbolic milestone of 25 million followers mark passed" (F. Tourdre)

• "I've had the privilege of carrying out a number of sports and corporate communications projects at local, national and international level:

• strengthening the club's roots in Marseille through coverage of a number of initiatives run by the 13e Homme (Thirteenth Man) organisation, and by making new players official in the city's various districts;

• celebrations of the club's 125^th anniversary with the design of a collectable shirt, as steeped in…