Weather alert in Marseille. OM-PSG Match Cancelled due to Storms and Heavy Rain

The meeting between OM and PSG scheduled at the Vélodrome stadium this Sunday 21st September is cancelled. A decision taken in view of the weather alert in force in Marseille.

The news has just broken: the meeting between OM and the PSG, scheduled for this Sunday 21st September, at 8:45 p.m., at Velodrome, will not take place. The match is postponed. Torrential rains expected in the evening has Marseilles and in the Bouches-du-Rhône, placed on orange alert by Météo-France, led the authorities to make this decision.

“Safety for everything”

The new Mediterranean episode which pushed Météo-France triggered the orange alert for “storms” but especially for the risk of “rain-flood” therefore got the better of the OM-PSG shock scheduled for this Sunday, September 21, as part of the 5th day of Ligue 1. Strong gusts of wind, hail and above all very heavy rainfall are expected, with potentially significant precipitation accumulations.

“In the city, and particularly in Marseille, significant urban runoff could occur. This Mediterranean episode leads the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône to urge everyone to avoid travel”, indicate his services which justify a decision taken “for the sake of consistency and safety for all”.

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Annulation du match OM-PSG ce dimanche 21 septembre 2025 pic.twitter.com/tGXV2R95M6

— Préfet de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (@Prefet13) September 21, 2025

At the very beginning of September, Georges-François Leclerc had already made the decision to postpone the start of the school year one day due to orange alert as well.

“Avoid being on the roads between 6 pm and 9 pm”

On Saturday evening, the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture confirmed that the match was, at this stage, “maintained” but specified: “if the weather conditions worsen, the situation may change. ”And that’s exactly what happened.

Independent meteorologist Paul Marquis, founder of La Météo du 13, speaks of “a serious deterioration […] with the arrival of the first storms at the beginning of the afternoon” and a real rise in disruption in the evening.

Rainfall accumulations “could sometimes exceed 100mm in a few hours ”, specifies the specialist, who calls for “avoid being on the roads between 6 pm. and 9 pm” at the very moment when the 70,000 supporters would have converged on the Vélodrome stadium.

“There is going to be strong urban runoff” with it “low points, even highway ramps, undoubtedly flooded”, he also explains to news Marseille.