Coupe de France 1922/23

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1922/23 season was the sixth draw of the French football cup for men's teams.

305 clubs registered for this event. This year's cup was won by defending champion Red Star Paris . It was the third win in a row for Red Star; In the more than 90-year history of the competition, only one other team succeeded, namely OSC Lille from 1946 to 1948. It defeated FC Cette in the final  - this is how the club and the city of Sète were still written until the beginning of 1928.

The FC Cette was also the trigger of an affair that overshadowed this playout. A deeper cause for this was, however, the smoldering conflict in French football between proponents of the pure amateur idea and those who "underhand" the payment of players practiced in numerous clubs - in France then as now as "amateurisme marron" ("tricky amateurism" ) - wanted to legalize (more on this topic see here ) . The national association Fédération Française de Football Association (FFFA), which rejected professionalism, had passed a regulation according to which foreign football players had to reside in France for at least six months before they were eligible to play for a club. It was hoped that this would at least curb the obligation of foreigners, which was obviously achieved through financial offers. On this basis, AS Française from Paris protested after their 0-1 defeat in the round of 16 (scorer for Cette: Englishman Victor Gibson ) on the grounds that Cette's Swiss striker Georges Kramer had not lived in France for six months. The FFFA gave in to the complaint and disqualified the southern French, also rejected their appeal. In the subsequent appointment procedure, club president Georges Bayrou , a French ex-international , used his contacts to journalists and association officials and was successful: with a majority of one vote, the responsible association committee reinstated FC Cette in its old rights and determined that the team - although the quarter and semi-finals had now been played - was allowed to catch up on the games of these two rounds. The team from Languedoc came into conflict with the paragraphs regulating the number of foreign players when they first participated in the cup ( 1920 ).

A cup commission set all matches for the thirty-second and sixteenth-finals, with questions of travel distances in large-scale France playing just as much as the quality of the venues and infrastructure at the respective locations. The home law was also established. From the round of 16, pairings and venue were drawn freely. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, a replay was played on the opponent's court.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 3rd, replayed on December 17, 1922

Round of 16

Games on January 7th, replays on January 21st, 1923

Round of 16

Games on February 4, 1923

(a)The protest of the AS Française because of the unauthorized participation of a player at Cette was the FFFA on February 28th. On March 6th, the association confirmed its decision and finally declared the ASF qualified for the quarter-finals.

Quarter finals

Games on March 4, 1923, the match between AS Française and Rennes on March 18, after the protest from the round of 16 has been confirmed.

(b)Appointment and result were canceled on April 15th after the FFFA association approved Cette's pardon for the round of 16. At this point, Rennes had even played its semi-final against Rouen.

Semifinals

Games on April 8, 1923

(c) Appointment and result were canceled on April 15th after the FFFA association approved Cette's pardon for the round of 16.

Cette FC catch-up games

April 22 and 29, 1923; the home right was drawn anew for both matches.

final

Game on May 6, 1923 at the Stade Pershing in Paris in front of 20,000 spectators

Team lineups

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

Red Star: Pierre Chayriguès - Maurice Meyer , Lucien Gamblin Team captain - Robert Joyaut , François Hugues , Philippe Bonnardel - Lucien Cordon , Juste Brouzes , Paul Nicolas , Marcel Naudin , Raymond Sentubéry

FC Cette: François Encontre - Léon Huot , Ernest Gravier - Oskar Berntsson , Albert Jourda , René Dedieu - William Cornelius , Georges Kramer , Arthur Parkes , Marcel Dangles Team captain , Pujol

Referee: Gabriel Jandin (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Naudin (2nd)
2: 0 Naudin (7th)
3: 0 Cordon (11th)
3: 1 Cornelius (16th)
4: 1 Joyaut (17th)
4: 2 Kramer (27th)

Special occurrences

Six players in Red Star dress had also been part of the Cup winners' eleven in the previous two years, namely Bonnardel, Chayriguès, Gamblin, Meyer, Naudin and Nicolas. François Hugues, who had also won the trophy with Red Star in 1921, also took part in the 1922 final - albeit in the dress of the Stade Rennais UC .

Cette's final team was missing the round of 16 goalscorer Gibson, but with Cornelius and Parkes there were two other Englishmen in the team, plus a Swede (Berntsson) and a Swiss (Kramer) - more than seventy years before the Bosman judgment ...

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, p. 339.
  2. ↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333.