Coupe de France 1923/24

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1923/24 season was the seventh draw of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 305 clubs registered. Professional football with a national league was not introduced until 1932; that is why contemporaries often referred to the winner of this competition as the French champion ("champion de France").

The defending champion was Red Star AC Paris , but after three successes in a row they were eliminated in the round of 16 this year. The winner of the trophy was Olympique Marseille . This was his first cup win in the first final. Final opponent FC Cette had already been in the final last year. For the first time in the short history of the Cup, the title did not go to a club from Paris and its immediate vicinity ; What's more, none of them had even qualified for the semi-finals. The last two capital city clubs remaining in the competition, Olympique and Stade Français , failed in the round of the top eight teams.

After the qualifying rounds that took place at regional level, the cup commission of the national association FFF set all matches 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. The home law was also established; in individual cases this could also be a neutral place. From the round of 16, pairings and venue were drawn freely. If a match ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined.

Thirty-second finals

Games on the 16th, replay on December 31, 1923

Racing Club Rouen 1-0 SC Abbeville
Olympique Paris 4-0 SC Grenoble
CS Jean Bouin Angers - Racing Club de France 0-4
Gallia Club Lunel 2-3 AS Valentigney
US Suisse Paris - SC Reims 5-0
Stade Rennes UC - US Quevilly 2-1
US Tourcoing - US Saint-Aubin 6-0
YES Saint-Ouen - FC Rouen 1: 3
Red Star AC Paris - Excelsior Tourcoing 2: 1 a.d.
US Saint-Servan - FEC Levallois 4-1
Stade Français Paris - US Beauregard 9-0
Racing Strasbourg - CA Vitry 3-0
AF La Garenne-Colombes 2-3 SC Red Star Strasbourg
SM Caen - CASG Paris 2-3
Racing Roubaix - CA Montrouge 2-1
Stade Nantes UC - Stade Bordeaux UC 1: 5

US Dunkerque-Malo - AS Française Paris 1: 1 aet, 0: 3
CA Paris - US Boulogne 3: 0
AC Amiens 2-1 SC Choisy-le-Roi
SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux - Stade Raphaëlois 3: 0
RC Calais 3-1 AS Amicale Paris
CS Lyon - AS Cannes 0-4
FC Cette - SA Bordeaux 6-0
RC Arras - Le Havre AC 1: 3
Stade Le Havre 0-3 Olympique Lille
Les Scouts Gap - Olympique Marseille 0-9
CA Metz - US Belfort 7: 1
FC Dieppe - Olympique Saint-Quentin 4-0
Club Français Paris - FC Bischwiller 07 2: 3
EC Bordeaux 4-5 SC Nîmes
FC Mulhouse 1893 - UL Moyeuvre Grande 2-0
US Vergèze - Floirac Club 2-0

Round of 16

Games on 6th, re-matches on January 20th, 1924

Olympique Paris - US Vergèze 4-0
Racing Club de France - US Tourcoing 3-0
AS Valentigney - Red Star AC Paris 2: 4
Stade Rennes UC - SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux 4-2
FC Rouen - AC Amiens 1: 0
US Saint-Servan - CA Paris 3-0
SC Red Star Strasbourg 0-2 FC Cette
CASG Paris - CA Metz 1: 1 a.d., 4: 1

Stade Bordeaux UC - US Suisse Paris 2-1
AS Française Paris 0-1 Racing Club Rouen
AS Cannes - Stade Français Paris 1: 3
Le Havre AC - RC Calais 1-0
Olympique Lille - FC Dieppe 0: 1
Olympique Marseille - FC Mulhouse 1893 4: 1
FC Bischwiller 07 - Racing Roubaix 1: 1 aet, 1: 4
SC Nîmes - Racing Strasbourg 2-1

Round of 16

Games on January 27, 1924

FC Cette - Red Star AC Paris 1-0
Stade Français Paris - Racing Club de France 4-2
Le Havre AC - SC Nîmes 2-0
Olympique Marseille - FC Dieppe 4-1

Quarter finals

Games on February 24th, re-matches on March 9th, 1924

FC Rouen - US Saint-Servan 3: 1
FC Cette - Stade Rennes UC 0: 0 a.d. ^(a)

Le Havre AC - Olympique Paris 2-1
Olympique Marseille - Stade Français Paris 2-2 aet, 3-2

^(a) Rennes was disqualified by the association on February 29 because two of its footballers were not eligible to play.

Semifinals

Games on 16th, replay matches on March 30th and April 6th, 1924

FC Cette - Le Havre AC 1: 1 aet, 1: 1 ate, 2: 0

Olympique Marseille - FC Rouen 3: 1

final

Game on April 13, 1924 at the Stade Pershing in Paris in front of 29,000 spectators

Olympique Marseille - FC Cette 3-2 aet (2-2, 2-1)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at that time; most teams in France did not have a permanent coach at the time.

Olympique Marseille: Paul de Ruymbecke - Louis Jacquier , Paul Seitz - Raoul Blanc , Jean Cabassu , Apollon Torta - Adolphe Michel , Jean Boyer , Louis Subrini , Édouard Crut , Douglas de Ruymbecke
Trainer: Peter Farmer

FC Cette: Laurent Henric - Ernest Gravier , William Hewitt - Antoine Parachini , Marcel Domergue , Albert Jourda - William Cornelius , Louis Cazal , Jean Caballero , Marcel Dangles , Victor Gibson

Referee: Louis Fourgous (Paris)

Gates

1-0 Crut (3rd)
1: 1 Cazal (15th)
2: 1 Boyer (42nd)
2: 2 Torta (67th, own goal)
3: 2 Crut (101st)

Special occurrences

In Cette's final eleven there were only four players (Gravier, Jourda, Cornelius and Dangles) who had also failed in the final of the previous competition ; Gibson was also part of the regular formation of the team from Languedoc at the time , but was missing in the decisive encounter.

For the round of 16 match between FC Cette and defending champion Red Star AC in Marseille - the new edition of last year's final - special trains from Paris and Cette were used in view of the great interest of the audience . However, Red Star had to replace his national goalkeeper Pierre Chayriguès before kick-off and played ten for more than an hour after an early injury to his connector Robert Joyaut , so that Cette could ultimately win the revenge.

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

^ For example, L'Auto , a forerunner of L'Équipe , as early as 1920; An extract from the article dated May 10, 1920 can be found in L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 336.
↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333.
↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 340.

[1] For example, L'Auto , a forerunner of L'Équipe , as early as 1920; An extract from the article dated May 10, 1920 can be found in L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 336.

[2] L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333.

[3] L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 340.