Coupe de France 1932/33

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1932/33 season was the 16th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. It took place at the same time as the introduction of professionalism in local football and the creation of a national highest league , which this year was still without a substructure .

472 clubs registered for this competition. The defending champion was AS Cannes , which again advanced to the semi-finals this year, but was eliminated there against RC Roubaix, who had been defeated in the previous year's final. The 20 top division teams already had to take part in the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the FFF regional association ; with Olympique Alès only one of them failed before the nationally scheduled thirty-second finals.

The winner of the cup was Excelsior AC - this remained his only national title - after a final against local rivals Racing Club from the northern French border town of Roubaix . The fact that two clubs from the same city contest the final of the Coupe de France - apart from three duels between clubs from the metropolis of Paris in the early years of the competition - has not otherwise occurred in the long history of the Cup up to and including 2010. There was another premiere: not a single one of the numerous capital city clubs that dominated the competition in the first few years and had provided nine of the 15 previous winners, could qualify for the round of the best eight teams.

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. The professional clubs could not meet in the first round. From the round of 16, the pairings were drawn freely; they took place from the last sixteen on a neutral place. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, one or more replay matches were played.

Thirty-second finals

Games on December 18, 1932; Repetitions on December 25th and January 2nd, 1933. The clubs in professional division 1 are labeled D1, all others were amateur clubs (without specifying the respective league level).

Round of 16

Games on January 8, 1933; Replay matches between January 19th and 28th. All the remaining amateur clubs played in one of the regional relays of the "Division d'Honneur", the second highest league this season.

Round of 16

Games on February 8, 1933

Quarter finals

Games on February 26, 1933

Semifinals

Games on April 8th and 9th, 1933

final

Scene of the endgame

Game on May 7, 1933 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 38,000 spectators

Team lineups

Most of the lower-class clubs did not have a permanent coach at that time.

Excelsior AC Roubaix: Lucien Gianelloni - Ernest Payne , Albert Dhulst - David Bartlett , Célestin Delmer , Robert Barbieux - Henri Burghraeve , Julien Buge , Norbert Van Caeneghem , Noël Liétaer , Marcel Langiller Trainer: Charles GriffithsTeam captain

Racing Roubaix: François Encontre - Jules Cottenier , William Hewitt Team captain - Marcel Lechanteux , Georges Verriest , Albert Lerouge - Jules Cossement , André Van Vooren , Edmond Leveugle , André Chauvel , Robert Van Vooren
Trainers: no fixed

Referee: Roger Conrié (Bordeaux)

Gates

1-0 Langiller (3rd)
2-0 Bugé (23rd)
3-0 Van Caeneghem (26th)
3-1 R. Van Vooren (72nd)

Special occurrences

After ten minutes, Racing's outer runner Lechanteux was seriously injured. Since substitutions were not allowed at the time, the amateurs had to go through the rest of the game in a shortfall. Seven of the eleven racing players - at that time Lerouge, the Van Vooren brothers and Chauvel were missing - had already been in the final a year earlier .

Referee Conrié led his second cup final after 1930 - and that in front of a new record crowd at a French final; the previous record (36,143) was set in the previous year.

Two opposing stories and concepts faced each other with the northern French neighboring clubs: On the one hand, the professional club EAC, which was founded in 1928 and supported by parts of the local industry and its workers, and on the other, the amateur club Racing, which was founded in 1895 and was very successful before the First World War , between 1902 and 1908 five-time national champion of the USFSA association , whose ranks were still predominantly sons from middle-class families. In this respect, "this endgame marked a turning point in the development of French football, at which two philosophies collided".

See also

Division 1 1932/33

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 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333.
  2. ↑ including, according to contemporary estimates, 8,000 to 10,000 from Roubaix - L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 103 and 349.
  3. ↑ L'entraîneur heureux . In: Le Miroir des sports , May 9, 1933, p. 303. 
  4. ^ "Cette finale marque un tournant dans l'évolution du football français. Ce sont un peu deux philosophies qui s'opposent à Colombes. ”  - L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 103.