Coupe de France 1921/22

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1921/22 season was the fifth draw of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 259 clubs registered.

Defending champion was now in Saint-Ouen -based Red Star club , who won the trophy again - a first in the fledgling competition. This was his second cup win in the second final. Final opponents Stade Rennes Université Club were in a final for the first time, and the Bretons were only the third team that did not come from Paris or its immediate vicinity to succeed. As in 1919 and 1920 , when they even reached the semi-finals, La Vie au Grand Air du Médoc from Bordeaux again penetrated the phalanx of teams from the north of the country as the only southern French team.
The competition was overshadowed - as was often the case before the introduction of a professional league (1932) - by the conflict between the advocates of “pure amateurism” and those clubs that more or less openly attracted players with material benefits.

After the regionally organized qualification rounds - with the exception of all teams that had reached the sixteenth finals in the previous year - the national competition began with the round of the last 64 teams. The cup commission of the national association FFF set all matches and the respective home rights for the thirty-second and sixteenth-finals, 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. For the first time ever, the fixtures were drawn freely from the round of 16; from this round onwards there were only games on neutral seats. If a match ended in a draw after extra time, repeated games were played - in the thirty-second and sixteenth finals, theoretically alternating between both teams - until a winner was determined.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 19th, replay matches on December 18, 1921, and January 15, 1922

(a) The game was stopped when the score was 3: 1 because night fell and rescheduled without taking the result into account, but in Mulhouse and not again in Lyon.

Round of 16

Games on January 8th, re-matches on January 22nd and 29th, 1922

(b)The FFF had placed FC Cette after the thirty-second finals with a game ban until January 31, 1922, because their British footballer Stevenson had been convicted of professional play. Amiens won without a fight.
(c) Due to Roubaix's protest against one of the FEC Levallois goals, the result was canceled and a replay was scheduled, which - like the third game - took place in Levallois.

Round of 16

Games on February 5, 1922

Quarter finals

Games on 5th, replay matches on March 18, 1922

Semifinals

Games on April 2, 1922

final

Game on May 7, 1922 at the Stade Pershing in Paris in front of 25,000 spectators

Team lineups

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

Red Star Club: Pierre Chayriguès - Maurice Meyer , Lucien Gamblin Team captain - Raoul Marion , Robert Joyaut , Philippe Bonnardel - Lucien Cordon , Maurice Thédié , Paul Nicolas , Marcel Naudin , Raymond Sentubéry

Stade Rennes UC: Charles Berthelot - Ernest Molles , Bernard Lenoble - Pierre Gastiger , François Hugues Team captain , Georges Scoones - Émile Bourdin , Maurice Gastiger , Jean Caballero , Hervé Marc , Raoul Delalande

Referee: Edmond Gérardin (Paris)

Gates

1-0 Nicolas (14th)
2-0 Sentubéry (87th)

Special occurrences

The audience interest increased again significantly; the number of visitors to the final increased by around 7,000 compared to the previous year. Referee Gérardin, who was leading his second final after 1920 , had to send Marion (Red Star) and Scoones (Rennes) off the field.

Seven Red Star players won their second coupe; only Joyaut, Cordon, Thédié and Sentubéry were newcomers to the endgame. François Hugues and Émile Bourdin, who were also in the victorious final team last year, were on the other side this time.

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. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 338