Coupe de France 1919/20

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1919/20 season was the third draw of the French football cup for men's teams. It was the first event that did not start during the World War , and for the first time teams from the parts of Lorraine , which belonged to France again, and Alsace took part as well as those from the northern and eastern regions particularly hard hit by the war. That is why 114 clubs registered - almost twice as many as in the previous year .

Game scene from the quarter-final match between Cannes and Lille

Game scene from the final between Le Havre and CA Paris

This was also the first cup season organized by the national association, the Fédération Française de Football Association , founded in 1919 . The FFFA gave the competition, which until then had been called Coupe Charles Simon - named after a sportsman who had fallen at the front and an association official - its name Coupe de France, which was valid into the 21st century (with the exception of the years of World War II ) .

The defending champion was CASG Paris , but this time it did not make it through the quarter-finals. The winner of the cup was CA Paris ; CAP defeated the " doyen of French football ", Le Havre AC in the final . It was their first participation in the finals.

In November 1919, a qualifying round with 100 teams was initially held; 14 clubs qualified directly for the thirty-second finals. A cup commission set all encounters in rounds, whereby questions of travel distances in large-scale France played a role as well as the quality of the venues and the 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 on the opponent's court. The FFFA introduced another innovation: no team was allowed to have more than three foreigners. With this regulation came the first club of the FC Cette - so wrote the city of Sète until 1928 - in conflict (see ^(a) and ^(d) ) .

Thirty-second finals

Games on December 7, 1919

Olympique Marseille - FC Lyon 5: 1
FC Cette - SO Montpellier ^(a)
Arago Sport Orléans - AS Française Paris ^(b)
CA Paris - CO Billancourt 6-2
CASG Paris - FC Paris 12-0
Gallia Club Paris - Club Français Paris ^(c)
AS Cannes - SC Marseille 0-0 aet, 4-0
Stade Rennes - Stade Dinan 9-0
Olympique Paris - Premiere du Chantier 8: 1
Racing Club de France - AF La Garenne-Colombes 3-1
Racing Roubaix - Stade Roubaix 5-1
FC Rouen - FC Dieppe 1: 0
Légion Saint-Michel 0-2 JA Saint-Ouen
Red Star AC Paris - JA Levallois 8-0
US Saint-Servan - AS Brest ^(c)
AS Strasbourg - FC Mulhouse 1893 7: 2

US Le Mans - CS Jean-Bouin Angers 2-3
CA Vitry - Enghien Sports 1: 2
SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux - Jeanne d'Arc Angoulême 5-1
Stade Toulouse 0-4 Stade Bordeaux UC
VGA du Médoc - SA Bordeaux 6: 1
US Boulogne - US Tourcoing 2-1
ES Tours - ASPO Châteauroux 1: 5
SGPM Caen - SM Caen 2: 1
US Romilly - SS Stade Jean-Macé Troyes 2-0
Alliance Vélo Sportive Auxerre - US Troyes 7-2
Stade Laval - Cadets de Bretagne Rennes 2: 3
Le Havre AC - Stade Français Paris 2-1
Lille Olympique 7-0 AS Creil
Lyon OU - CS des Terreaux Lyon 0-1
FEC Levallois - US Asnières 2-0
USA Clichy - Étoile des Deux Lacs 4: 1

^(a) Cette won the game but was disqualified on December 27 for violating the three foreigners rule.

^(b) The home team did not appear for the game.

^(c) The visiting team did not appear for the game.

Round of 16

Games on January 1st and 4th, 1920

SO Montpellier - VGA du Médoc 0: 2 ^(d)
AS Cannes - Olympique Marseille 2-0
Racing Roubaix - Gallia Club Paris 1: 2
FC Rouen - US Boulogne 1: 0
Red Star AC Paris - JA Saint-Ouen 1-0
AS Strasbourg - Racing Club de France 0-4
CS Jean-Bouin Angers - Stade Rennes 0: 8
Stade Bordeaux UC - SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux 3-1

ASPO Châteauroux - USA Clichy 1: 7
SGPM Caen - Le Havre AC 0: 6
US Romilly - CA Paris 0-8
Alliance Vélo Sportive Auxerre - CASG Paris 1: 7
Cadets de Bretagne Rennes 1-2 US Saint-Servan
Lille Olympique - AS Française Paris 3: 1
CS des Terreaux Lyon - Olympique Paris 1: 7
FEC Levallois - Enghien Sports 2-0

^(d)On January 5, the disqualification of FC Cette in the thirty-second finals was canceled and VGA Médoc's victory over Montpellier was annulled. Instead, the new sixteenth-final pairing between Médoc and Cette was scheduled for January 16 in Bordeaux. Cette did not play for this game.

Round of 16

Games on February 1, 1920

Le Havre AC - FEC Levallois 2-1
CA Paris - US Saint-Servan 3: 2
CASG Paris - Gallia Club Paris 5-0
Olympique de Paris - Lille Olympique 1: 2

Quarter finals

Games on the 7th, replay on March 21, 1920

VGA du Médoc - CASG Paris 3-0
AS Cannes - Lille Olympique 2-1

Le Havre AC - USA Clichy 3: 2 ^(e)
CA Paris - Red Star AC Paris 1: 1 aet, 2: 0

^(e)The match result was corrected to 1-0 a few days later by the FFFA; the reason for this is not known.

Semifinals

Games on April 11, 1920

VGA du Médoc - CA Paris 1: 2

Le Havre AC - AS Cannes 2-0 aet

final

Game on May 9, 1920 at the Stade Bergeyre in Paris in front of 7,000 spectators

CA Paris - Le Havre AC 2: 1 (0: 0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at that time; most French clubs did not have permanent coaches at that time.

CA Paris: Ivan "Jean" Dreyfus - Marcel Vanco , Louis Mesnier - Charles McDewitt , Maurice Bigué , André Allègre - Raoul Dupé , Robert Pache , André Poullain , Henri Bard , Ernest Gravier

Le Havre AC: Drancourt - Grivel, Henry Gibbon - Victor Dial , Fernand Mérieult , Maurice Avenel - Raymond Cantais , Robert Accard , Louis Blouin , Alfred Thorel , Bernard Lenoble

Referee: Edmond Gérardin (Paris)

Gates

0: 1 Thorel
1: 1 Bard (penalty kick)
2: 1 Bard

Special occurrences

L'Auto , a forerunner of L'Équipe , ran the headline on the day after the final: “CA Paris is French champion”. The designation of the cup winner as national champion was widespread in France until the early 1930s, because before the introduction of a professional league (1932) there was no official, uniform, national competition apart from the Coupe de France.

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

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

Remarks

↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 336
↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333
↑ Excerpt from the article from May 10, 1920 in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 336

[1] L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 336

[2] L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333

[3] Excerpt from the article from May 10, 1920 in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 336