Abdoulaye Méïté Abdoulaye Méïté Abdoulaye Méïté (born 6 October 1980) is a French-born Ivorian footballer. He represents Côte d'Ivoire internationally and has been awarded 48 caps. His first club at the age of 17 was the Division 2 Paris side, Red Star 93. He joined in 1998 before being snapped up by Olympique de Marseille. Méïté joined Marseille in July 2000 and made 172 League appearances, as well as many in European competition – including one against Bolton in January 2006. Whilst at Marseille he started in the 2004 UEFA Cup Final. He moved to Bolton Wanderers in July 2006 from .
1996–97 UEFA Cup 1996–97 UEFA Cup The 1996–97 UEFA Cup was won by Schalke 04 in penalties over Internazionale. This was the last year in which the UEFA Cup Final was played in a two-legged, home-and-away format. Starting with the 1998 Final, the UEFA Cup was decided by a single-game final. "Dinamo Tbilisi won 6–2 on aggregate." "Dinamo-93 Minsk won 4–2 on aggregate." "Croatia Zagreb won 10–2 on aggregate." "Sliema Wanderers won 4–3 on aggregate." "FC Jazz won 4–1 on aggregate." "Vardar won 1–3 on aggregate." "Anorthosis Famagusta won 6–2 on aggregate." "Vojvodina won 1–5 on aggregate." "HJK Helsinki won 5–6 on aggregate."