Coupe de France 2009/10

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since the 2007/08 season

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2009/10 season was the 93rd edition of the French football cup for men's teams. This season, 7,317 clubs from France and its overseas departments and territories took part, which again set a new record.

The defending champion , the Breton second division side En Avant Guingamp , was eliminated this time in the round of 16. Cup winner was Paris Saint-Germain , who won the trophy for the eighth time in his eleventh appearance in the final. Opponent Association Sportive de Monaco played their ninth cup final and is still waiting to bring the Coupe back to the Principality after 1991 .

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the first division teams and the lower-class defending champions also intervened in the thirty-second finals . From this round onwards, the competition will be held in the classic cup mode; This means in particular that the respective fixtures are drawn without seed lists or a performance or regional pre-sorting of the clubs from all clubs still in competition and only one game is played, at the end of which a winner has to be determined (be it through overtime and penalty shoot-outs ), who then qualifies for the next round, while the loser is eliminated. Home rights are also determined by drawing lots for every match, but since 2003/04 with the restriction that clubs that have to compete against an eleven that play at least two levels - not to be confused with league levels - automatically receive home rights. Occasionally, however, amateur clubs agreed to forego their home advantage in exchange for payment (this season the FC Municipal d'Aubervilliers, who played their thirty-second final match against Paris Saint-Germain in Parc des Princes ), or they soaked in against an attractive opponent larger stadium in the region (like FC Trélissac, which hosted Olympique Marseille in Périgueux ). The general schedule was drawn up so early that the wishes of the broadcasting TV stations TF1 and Eurosport could be taken into account.

For the second division, the competition turned out to be disappointing: only ten of the 20 clubs even reached the first main round. There were three clubs from La Grande-Motte , Seclin and Marquette-lez-Lille , which compete in the eighth and ninth highest leagues. Only three second division clubs made it to the round of 16, for which the cup ended there as well as for the last two third and one of the two fourth division clubs . The last remaining participant from overseas, AS Excelsior Saint-Joseph from Réunion , was eliminated in the 8th round. The role of the most successful "little ones" fell to two fourth-rate leagues: Vesoul Haute-Saône Football made it to the round of 16 and the US Quevilly was able to prevail on their course up to the semifinals even against two first division, before they were defeated by the eventual winner and with the Victory in the “Thumble's Cup” had to console.

This competition suffered badly from the severe onset of winter in December, which, in connection with a particularly tight schedule due to the World Cup in South Africa , meant that numerous catch-up games were required up to and including the round of 16; some games could only be played when the next cup round was already running. In addition, the competition was affected by measures against violent fan groups from Paris Saint-Germain, which, however, suffered from PSG's respective opponents at their "home" games: the AJ Auxerre had to play their quarter-finals in front of completely empty spectators, the US Quevilly in the semi-finals in Caen and thus compete in a neutral place.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 8th to 10th, due to winter conditions also on January 11th, 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th, 2010 L1, L2 and D3 stand for membership in the first to third leagues, CFA and CFA2 for the two national amateur leagues, DH and DSR for the next lower regional ("Division d'Honneur" and "Division Supérieure Régionale", ie sixth) or seventh league level), without information for even lower divisions at the department level .

Grenoble Foot L1 - HSC Montpellier L1 3: 2 aet (c) UC Le Mans L1 - Valenciennes FC L1 1-0 RC Strasbourg L2 - Olympique Lyon L1 1: 3 Stade Plabennec D3 - OGC Nice L1 2-1 Girondins Bordeaux L1 - AF Rodez D3 1-0 VF Les Herbiers CFA - FC Toulouse L1 0-1 (d) FC Saint-Louis Neuweg CFA2 - FC Sochaux L1 0: 1 (c) Paris Saint-Germain L1 - FCM Aubervilliers CFA2 5: 0 (a) Guard Saint-Ivy Pontivy CFA - Stade Brest L2 0: 1 a.d. (c) AS Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône DH - CS Sedan L2 0: 3 (c) ES Bonchamp-lès-Laval DH - EA Guingamp L2 0: 2 (f) FC Pau CFA - FC Evian Thonon Gaillard D3 0-2 FC Versailles 78 DSR - AS Beauvais D3 0-3 US Avranches CFA - Olympique Saumur CFA2 0: 1 a.d. (b) US Quevilly CFA - Olympique Saint-Quentin DH 6-0 (b) FC Pyramid Grande-Motte - FC Villefranche CFA 0-2 (b)

AS Saint-Étienne L1 - FC Lorient L1 4-1 (c) AS Monaco L1 - FC Tours L2 0: 0 n.V. (4: 3 p. Stade Rennes L1 - SM Caen L2 2-0 SC Amiens D3 - AJ Auxerre L1 0: 1 SR Colmar CFA - Lille OSC L1 0: 0 n.V. (10: 9 on pi) (c) RC Lens L1 - AFC Compiègne CFA 1: 0 (a) (c) FC Trélissac CFA2 - Olympique Marseille L1 0: 2 (e) SA Thiers CFA2 - AS Nancy L1 1: 1 n.V. (2: 3 in good condition) (c) FC Seclin - US Boulogne L1 1: 4 (g) AC Ajaccio L2 - AS Cannes D3 3-0 OC Vannes L2 - ES Troyes AC D3 1: 1 n.V. (8: 7 in good condition) Stade Laval L2 - HSF Vesoul CFA 1: 2 a.d. AS Lattes DH - SCO Angers L2 0: 1 (h) CO Saint-Dizier CFA2 - US Raon CFA 0-4 US Marquette - FC Mulhouse CFA 1-2 (b) FC Chauray DH - SU Agen CFA2 0-1

^(a) Home rights exchanged

^(b)Catch-up game on 16./17. January

^(c)Catch-up game on 23/24 January

^(d)in La Roche-sur-Yon

^(e)in Périgueux

^(f)in Changé

^(G)in Villeneuve-d'Ascq

^(H)in Sussargues

Round of 16

Games on January 22nd to 24th, 2010, catch-up games due to the postponements in the thirty-second finals on January 26th / 27th. January, 3rd and 10th February - in the latter case, while games of the round of 16 were already being played.

FC Sochaux L1 - UC Le Mans L1 3: 0 (k) AJ Auxerre L1 - CS Sedan L2 1: 1 n.V. (3: 0 i. E.) (j) OC Vannes L2 - Grenoble Foot L1 4: 3 a.d. (j) Girondins Bordeaux L1 - AC Ajaccio L2 5: 1 Paris Saint-Germain L1 - FC Evian Thonon Gaillard D3 3-1 AS Nancy L1 - Stade Plabennec D3 0: 2 (y) FC Villefranche CFA - AS Saint-Étienne L1 2: 2 n.V. (1: 3 p.e.) (k) Olympique Saumur CFA2 - Stade Rennes L1 0: 4 (i)

AS Monaco L1 - Olympique Lyon L1 2-1 SR Colmar CFA - US Boulogne L1 1-2 (y) FC Mulhouse CFA - EA Guingamp L2 0: 1 US Quevilly CFA - SCO Angers L2 1-0 AS Beauvais D3 - SU Agen CFA2 3-0 US Raon CFA - HSF Vesoul CFA 0-1 RC Lens L1 - Olympique Marseille L1 3: 1 (l) Toulouse FC L1 - Stade Brest L2 0: 2 (l)

⁽ⁱ⁾in Cholet

^(j)Catch-up game on 26/27 January

^(k) Catch-up game on February 3rd

^(l) Catch-up game on February 10th

Round of 16

Games on 9th and 10th, catch-up game on February 17th, 2010

Girondins Bordeaux L1 - AS Monaco L1 0: 2 AS Saint-Étienne L1 - OC Vannes L2 2-0 AJ Auxerre L1 - Stade Plabennec D3 4-0 HSF Vesoul CFA - Paris Saint-Germain L1 0: 1

US Boulogne L1 - EA Guingamp L2 1-0 RC Lens L1 - Stade Brest L2 2: 1 n.a. (m) AS Beauvais D3 - FC Sochaux L1 1: 4 US Quevilly CFA - Stade Rennes L1 1: 0 (n)

^(m) Catch-up game

⁽ⁿ⁾in the Stade Robert-Diochon

Quarter finals

Games on March 23 and 24, 2010

AJ Auxerre L1 - Paris Saint-Germain L1 0: 0 a.s. (5: 6 on perk) (o) US Quevilly CFA - US Boulogne L1 3: 1 (p)

RC Lens L1 - AS Saint-Étienne L1 3-1 AS Monaco L1 - FC Sochaux L1 4-3 n.v.

^(O)This game took place in an agreement between the French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux , the two clubs, the prefecture of the Yonne department and the FFF in a stadium with no spectators. The background to this is the increasing, violent clashes between various Parisian fan groups, which again claimed a fatality at the end of February. PSG had to play two league games this season in front of empty ranks.

^(p) in the Stade Robert-Diochon

Semifinals

Games on April 13th and 14th, 2010

AS Monaco L1 - RC Lens L1 1: 0 a.d.

US Quevilly CFA - Paris Saint-Germain L1 0-1 (q)

^(q)The USQ also wanted to play this game in the Stade Robert-Diochon of neighboring FC Rouen ; However, by order of the French Interior Ministry, Quevilly's home game was moved to Caen , about 110 km away, for security reasons . In order to have as few problems as possible with violent PSG fans, there were also massive restrictions on the purchase of tickets: tickets could only be purchased personalized (with name imprint; no online sale) at advance booking offices in Quevilly, Rouen and Caen, and only by people residing in one of the five Norman departments.

final

Game on May 1st 2010 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 75,000 spectators

• Paris Saint-Germain - AS Monaco 1-0 aet (1-0, 0-0)

Team lineups

Paris: Apoula Edel - Christophe Jallet ( Sammy Traoré , 115.), Zoumana Camara , Mamadou Sakho , Sylvain Armand - Ludovic Giuly ( Peguy Luyindula , 77th), Claude Makélélé , Jérémy Clément , Stéphane Sessegnon - Guillaume Hoarau , Mevlut Erdinç ( Ceará , 105.)
Trainer: Antoine Kombouaré

Monaco: Stéphane Ruffier - François Modesto , Cédric Mongongu , Sébastien Puygrenier , Djimi Traoré - Eduardo Costa ( Nicolas N'Koulou , 111.), Thomas Mangani ( Lukman Haruna , 55.) - Juan Pablo Pino ( Moussa Maâzou , 86.), Alejandro Alonso , Nenê - Park Chu-young
Trainer: Guy Lacombe

Referee: Lionel Jaffredo (Saint-Avé, Morbihan)

Gates

1-0 Hoarau (105th + 2)

Special occurrences

The final pairing Monaco against PSG, both only in midfield in this season's league table, had already existed 25 years earlier . For Monaco coach Lacombe this was the third participation in the national cup in five years after 2006 (victory with Paris Saint-Germain) and 2009 (defeat with Stade Rennes). His counterpart won his third coupe - albeit the first on the dugout after Kombouaré had already won two trophies as a player ( 1993 and 1995 ), and that in Paris Saint-Germain dress.

At the capital club there were five players from its last final ( 2008 ), namely Armand (this was the only one who had already been in the winning final in 2006), Camara, Ceará, Clément and Luyindula (he was already successful with Racing Strasbourg in 2001 ).

The attendance record for a cup final from the previous year was not achieved. The separation of the hostile PSG fan groups was obviously successful: there were no noteworthy arguments in the area surrounding the game.

See also

• Ligue 1 2009/10
• Ligue 2 2009/10
• Challenge de France féminin 2009/10

Web links

• This edition of the Coupe de France on the side of the FFF (French)

Remarks

1. ↑ Number of participants as reported by the FFF ( memento of the original from September 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ With one exception: in the thirty-second finals, the clubs across the country are divided into four regional pots of 16 teams each, in which almost the same number of teams from the same league are represented - this season five first, two or three second, two or one third division ( en) etc. Within these groups there is a free draw. From the sixteenth finals onwards, this regional presorting will no longer exist either.
3. ↑ According to Article 6.2 of the Implementing Regulations (Règlement de la Coupe de France) the following five levels exist:
   (1) Ligue 1
   (2) Ligue 2 and National
   (3) CFA and CFA 2
   (4) Division d'Honneur and the ( Division Supérieure d'Élite or others)
   (5) all lower leagues, i.e. from the eighth highest division.
   Download of the regulations as PDF under archive link ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 333
5. ↑ The pairings can be found here ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
6. ↑ Awarding of the Trophée des Petits Poucets  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the endgame  
7. ↑ Details on these disputes in France Football of March 23, 2010, pp. 32–35
8. ↑ Message from the PSG club website (English)
9. ↑ according to this article ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from France Football 
10. ↑ see this other FF article ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ according to this message from France Football ( Memento des original from May 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.