Coupe de France 1930/31

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1930/31 season was the 14th playout of the French football cup for men's teams.

The 1931 Club Français cup winning team

423 clubs registered for this event. Defending champion FC Sète was eliminated in the last 32 teams. The winner of this year's cup was the Club Français from Paris , one of the oldest football clubs in the country and the oldest, which was exclusively open to the French until after the First World War . This season, however, mostly the three permitted foreigners came up at Club Français, for example one Swiss (Séchehaye), British (Parkes) and Hungarian (Boros) each. For “le club”, as it was often briefly called west of the Rhine, this was the first time that the trophy had been won; until today ( 2020 ) it was his only participation in the final. In it he defeated SO Montpellier , which had reached the final for the second time after 1929 .

In the round of 16 - a theme repeated during the cup competitions in the 1920s - a protest against the participation of a foreign player led to a veritable "repeat marathon", and it was the Club Français that initiated it. In his first replay game against Olympique Marseille , which was lost 2-0, a German in Olympique's team, striker Wernicke, was "possibly" banned from the German Football Association shortly before for being a "professional player" ; the club argued that this is why he was not eligible to play in France either. Olympique countered with the accusation that the Paris goalkeeper, a Swiss, should not have been set up and that the studs under the Paris football boots were too long. The French association FFFA decided Solomonically to cancel the game and started another replay, which, like the first encounter between the two opponents, ended in a draw after extra time, so that a fourth game was required. In total, Paris and Marseille faced each other on the pitch for eight hours.

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, the pairings were drawn freely, the games took place in a neutral place from the round of 16. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, one or more replay matches were played. There were, however, exceptions to the home law regulation; the justification for this can possibly be found in the fact that clubs could be bought off the right to play in a neutral place - as was the case at the first of the four games between Olympique Marseille and Club Français.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 21st and 25th respectively, replay matches on December 28th, 1930

Round of 16

Games on the 11th, replay on January 18, 1931

Round of 16

Games on February 8, 1931; Re-matches on February 22, March 15 (a) and March 22 (b) , 1931

(a)This game was originally supposed to take place on March 8th in Strasbourg ; but since the Tivoli field was covered with snow, Marseille and the Club Français left again and met a week later in Sète .
(b) At this point the other quarter-finals had already been played.
(c) Result canceled (see above in the introduction)

Quarter finals

Games on March 8 and 29, 1931

Semifinals

Games on April 7, 1929

final

Game on May 3, 1931 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 30,000 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at that time; Most French clubs did not have a permanent coach at that time.

Club Français Paris: Frank Séchehaye - Arthur Parkes , Huvier Team captain- Émile Rigolet , Adrien Hudry , Georges Logez - Hennequin, Miklos Boros , Robert Mercier , Georges Haas , Pierre Miramon
Trainer: Robert Fischer

Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains: André Guillard - André Boutet , Désiré Boutet - Pierre Hornus , René Dedieu , Yves Dupont - Charles Matte , Charles Cros , Roger Rolhion , Jacques Temple Team captain , Pierre Temple

Referee: Georges Courbot (Amiens)

Gates

1-0 Boros (14th)
2-0 Parkes (18th, by penalty)
3-0 Mercier (32nd)

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 .
  • Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Beaudet, p. 28.
  2. ↑ A footballer in question with this (or similar) name cannot be found in Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , pp. 408-417; according to Pécheral, pp. 63–64, Wernicke was often used near Marseille from 1929 to 1932.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 347; more detailed in Pécheral, pp. 62–66.
  4. ↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333.
  5. ↑ Pécheral, p. 63.