Coupe de France 1917/18

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1917/18 season was the first play of the French football cup for men's teams. It took place in the middle of the First World War ; therefore teams from Alsace, which is part of Germany, and parts of Lorraine took part, as did those from the northern and eastern regions particularly affected by the war.

48 clubs registered for this competition; Of these, 26 belonged to the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA), twelve to the ecclesiastical Fédération Gymnastique et Sportive des Patronages Français (FGSPF), nine to the Ligue de Football Association (LFA) and one of the Fédération Cycliste et Athlétique de France (FCAF) on. The uniform national association, Fédération Française de Football (FFF), was not established until 1919 (see here for more details ) . The first winner of the cup - this was named Coupe Charles Simon at the first two events , named after a sportsman who had fallen at the front and an association official - was the Paris club Olympique Pantin , which was organized in the USFSA.

16 teams, including eleven from Paris , received a bye for the first round, while the other 32 contested a qualifying round. A cup commission set all the encounters in rounds, whereby - not illogically under the war conditions - questions of travel distances in large-scale France played just as much a role as the quality of the venues and infrastructure at the respective locations. The home law was also established. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, a replay was played.

1 round

Games between October 7 and 21, 1917

  • CA Vitry - Paris British Aviation FC 2: 3 (a)
  • USA Clichy - Avenir Gentilly 4-1
  • WP Cognac - VGA du Médoc 1-0
  • Raincy Sports 4-3 CA Boulogne-sur-Seine
  • CO Saint-Chamond - AS Lyon 2-4
  • Lyon OU - Éveil Sportif Dijon 4-1
  • ES Mont-de-Marsan - ISC Toulouse 3-1
  • Légion Saint-Michel - US Voltaire Paris 8-0
(a) Vitry was subsequently declared the winner
(b) The Cadets were declared 4-0 winners

Round of 16

Games between November 4th and 25th, 1917

Round of 16

Games on December 2, 1917

Quarter finals

Games on February 3, 1918

Semifinals

Games on March 3, 1918

final

Game on May 5, 1918 in the Stade de la Légion Saint-Michel in Paris in front of 2,000 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at that time; the clubs had no coaches at that time.

Olympique Pantin: René Decoux - Théo Van Roey, Louis Lambrechts - Henk van Steck, Charles Olivan, Julien Lina - Jules Dewaquez , Paul Landauer, Louis Darques Team captain , Émile Fiévet , Henri Delouys

FC Lyon: Paul Weber - André Bellon, Louis Orvain - Louis Allemand, Roger Ebrard Team captain, Maurice Meunier - Alexis Soulignac, Jacques Salmson, Henri Bard , André Weber, Richard (or Richer)

Referee: Jacques Bataille (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Fiévet
2: 0 Fiévet
3: 0 Darques

Special occurrences

Both teams were personally affected by the fact that this first of a long series of cup finals took place while the world war was still in full swing, especially on French soil. There were several Belgian soldiers in Pantin's ranks, and at Lyon the regular goalkeeper Carlos Mutty had to be replaced by the attacker Paul Weber. As a member of the Foreign Legion, Mutty had received an order to march to the front, and although his club tried to obtain a delay, Mutty had no question that he would obey the order. He then fell at the end of August 1918, a good two months before the end of the fighting, on the Somme at the Battle of Amiens .

The referee of the final was drawn shortly before kick-off; Jacques Bataille, who belonged to the Ligue de Football Association , had better luck than his colleague Fougerons from the rival association Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques .

In this final, Olympiques captain Darques missed a penalty just before half-time . Bataille also referred the goalkeeper of the Paris district club of the field after he had punched André Weber in the face, but withdrew his decision on the intervention of Lyon's captain Ebrard.

literature

  • Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-958-3
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The fact that two southern French clubs (from Lyon and Mont-de-Marsan ) each competed against a Paris team in the round of 16 of this season is due to the fact that roads and railways in France had a star shape until well after the Second World War Central Paris, but there were hardly any direct, supra-regional transport connections between the cities on the periphery.
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  3. ↑ a b After the article linked under web links “5. May 1918, first cup final ”.
  4. ^ Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 77
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 77