Coupe de France 1920/21

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1920/21 season was the fourth play of the French football cup for men's teams. 202 clubs registered to take part - almost twice as many as in the previous year .

The defending champion was CA Paris , who this time didn't make it through the quarter-finals. Red Star AC Paris won the trophy straight away when it played for the first time in the final . The team, which has meanwhile moved to Saint-Ouen , to the northern periphery of the city , and is therefore increasingly referred to as the Red Star Audonie , defeated the winner of the first edition of 1917/18 , Olympique Paris . As with the premiere at the time, this season was again a “duel between Paris and the provinces”: three of the four semi-finalists were capital city clubs. For Olympique this was the third and, until the 21st century, the last participation in the final.

After the qualifying rounds organized at the regional level by the Fédération Française de Football Association , the competition entered its “hot phase” in November 1920 with 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.

Thirty-second finals

Play on the 7th, replay on November 21, 1920

US Tourcoing - SC Choisy-le-Roi 5-0 Olympique Marseille - AS Cannes 0: 1 aet Section Burdigalienne Bordeaux - FC Cette 2: 5 FC Dieppe - CA Vitry 1-0 n.V. Le Havre AC - Gallia Club Paris 3-1 CA du Rosaire Paris 1-2 Stade Le Havre RC Strasbourg - AS Française Paris 0-2 FEC Levallois - AS Creil 5-0 SC Sélestat - CS des Terreaux Lyon 2-5 Stade Raphaëlois - SO Montpellier 2: 2 aet, 0: 1 CA Metz - Lyon OU 5: 3 Olympique Paris - VS Sens 9-0 FC Thonon - AS Strasbourg 0: 7 US Saint-Servan - SCO Angers 5-0 Red Star AC Paris - Lutetia SC Paris 6-0 SC Tourcoing 1-3 JA Saint-Ouen

OSC Boulogne - Club des X 6: 1 Stade Saint-Brieuc - Stade Laval 1-0 aet CA Paris - Raincy Sports 3-0 AS Cherbourg-Stella - FC Rouen 1: 4 Alliance Vélo Sportive Auxerre - Stade Français Paris 0-5 Racing Club de France - US Forbach 6-0 CASG Paris - AS Cheminots Rennes 3-0 Lille Olympique - US Suisse Paris 1: 2 aet FC Lyon 3-2 SA Provençaux US Belfort - Cercle Nageurs Lyon 6-0 Racing Calais 3-1 AS Amicale Paris L'Armoricaine Brest - CS Rennes 1-0 AF La Garenne-Colombes - Racing Roubaix 2-0 Bordeaux AC - US Le Mans 1-0 Stade Nantes UC - VGA du Médoc 0-4 Club Français Paris - Stade Bordeaux UC 2: 4

Round of 16

Games on December 5, 1920

AS Cannes - SO Montpellier 3: 2 FC Cette - Bordeaux AC 4-0 FC Dieppe - CASG Paris 0-2 Stade Le Havre - US Suisse Paris 2-3 AS Française Paris - OSC Boulogne 5-1 CS des Terreaux Lyon - US Belfort 1: 2 AS Strasbourg - Olympique Paris 0-2 US Saint-Servan - L'Armoricaine Brest 6-0

JA Saint-Ouen - Le Havre AC 2: 1 aet Stade Saint-Brieuc - Red Star AC Paris 1-3 FC Rouen - CA Metz 4: 1 Stade Français Paris - US Tourcoing 0-1 FC Lyon - CA Paris 1: 5 Racing Calais - FEC Levallois 2-1 VGA du Médoc - AF La Garenne-Colombes 6: 0 (a) Stade Bordeaux UC - Racing Club de France 0-4

^(a)In mid-December, FFFA declared La Garenne-Colombes the winner of the game. The reason for this cannot yet be determined.

Round of 16

Games on January 9, 1921

AS Cannes - YES Saint-Ouen 6: 4 CASG Paris - Racing Calais 2-3 n.V. US Suisse Paris - AF La Garenne-Colombes 2-0 US Belfort - Red Star AC Paris 0-3

Olympique Paris - FC Cette 2-0 US Saint-Servan - CA Paris 1: 3 FC Rouen - Racing Club de France 1: 4 US Tourcoing - AS Française Paris 2-1

Quarter finals

Games on March 13, 1921

Racing Calais - US Tourcoing 0-2 Red Star AC Paris - AS Cannes 4-0

CA Paris - Olympique de Paris 1: 2 Racing Club de France - US Suisse Paris 4-2

Semifinals

Games on April 3, 1921

US Tourcoing - Olympique Paris 2-3 n.V.

Racing Club de France - Red Star AC Paris 3-4

final

Game on April 24, 1921 at the Stade Pershing in Paris in front of 18,000 spectators

• Red Star AC Paris - Olympique Paris 2: 1 (0: 0)

Team lineups

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

Red Star Paris: Pierre Chayriguès - Maurice Meyer , Lucien Gamblin - Raoul Marion , François Hugues , Philippe Bonnardel - Émile Bourdin , Juste Brouzes , Paul Nicolas , Marcel Naudin , Robert Clavel

Olympique Paris: Maurice Cottenet - Eugène Langenove , Jules Huysmans - Paul Baron , Antoine Parachini , Georges Haas - Jules Dewaquez , Antoine Rouches , Paul Landauer , Louis Darques , Henri Rebut

Referee: Marcel Slawick (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Clavel (53.)
2: 0 Naudin (77.)
2: 1 Landauer (78.)

Special occurrences

This year, by far the greatest number of spectators up to this point saw the cup final; the maximum was 10,000 visitors to the 1919 final . They were offered a squad of 13 national players in a very open encounter, six of whom were involved in France 's first victory over England less than two weeks later in the same place . Was outstanding goalkeeper Pierre Chayrigues who could ward off a variety of dangerous shots from Olympiques attackers, including a penalty of Jules Dewaquez in the closing stages of the game (88 minutes). Red Stars Juste Brouzes was injured in the second half.

This only fourth final in the history of the competition was already their third for Olympique strikers Jules Dewaquez, Louis Darques and Paul Landauer after 1918 and 1919.

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

1. ↑ Audonia is the adjective for Saint-Ouen; the residents of the Paris suburbs are appropriately referred to as Audoniens .
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 337
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-9519605-3-0 , p. 295
5. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 12/13; Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , p. 93