Coupe de France 1936/37

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1936/37 season was the 20th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 658 clubs registered.

The defending champion was RC Paris , who were eliminated in the quarter-finals against second division US Boulogne . Boulogne was able to eliminate three top division teams before the soaring ended in the semi-finals. There the FC Sochaux-Montbéliard presented too high a hurdle and then crowned its first final appearance against another newcomer to the final, the Racing Club Strasbourg , by winning the trophy. The fact that two teams from the east fought the decisive encounter for the Coupe de France was also a first.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 16 first division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams. A cup commission set all matches for the thirty-second and sixteenth-finals; First division clubs could not meet in the first round. The home law was also established for the thirty-second finals; from the sixteenth finals on, the games took place on a neutral pitch. From the round of 16, the pairings were drawn freely. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, one or more replay matches were played.

Thirty-second finals

Games on December 20, 1936. The clubs in the three professional leagues are labeled D1, D2 and D3, respectively. All the others were lower class amateur clubs.

RC Agathois Agde - Olympique Alès D2 1-0 FC Antibes D1 - US Annemasse 3-2 RC Arras D3 - AC Amiens D2 1-0 CA Montreuil - US Boulogne D2 1: 3 AS Brest - AS Cherbourg 2: 0 Racing Paris D1 - Stade Béthune 9-0 US Valenciennes D2 - Stade de l'Est 9-0 AS Troyes D2 - AC Amboise 9-2 FC Nancy D2 - Racing Strasbourg D1 0-1 FC Sochaux D1 - Stade Saint-Dié 10-0 FC Sète D1 - ASA Vauzelles 8-0 Red Star Olympique D1 - US Normande Colombelles 3-1 AS Saint-Étienne D2 - AS Néris 7-0 FC Rouen D1 - SO de l'Est 6-0 CA Paris D2 - Excelsior Roubaix D1 0-4 Racing Roubaix D1 - UL Moyeuvre 4: 3

FC Lorient - SM Caen D2 1: 2 Stade Reims D2 - ASSB Oignies 8-0 Racing Calais D2 - US Tourcoing D3 1-0 OGC Nice D2 - Stade Raphaëlois 2-0 SO Montpellier D2 - US Saint-Gaudens 5: 1 Olympique Marseille D1 - CD Español Bordeaux 8: 0 Stade Laval - Olympique Lille D1 1: 4 SC Choisy-le-Roi - RC Lens D2 0-5 Le Havre AC D2 - SC Albert D3 3-0 SC Fives D1 - US Pontoise D3 9-0 Olympique Dunkerque D2 - FC Dieppe D3 3-0 OFC Charleville D2 - ASPTT Paris 7-0 AS Cannes D1 - Stade Sainte-Barbe 7-1 AS Strasbourg - FC Metz D1 0-3 Stade Rennes UC D1 - US Saint-Servan 7-2 FC Mulhouse D1 - AS Saint-Dizier 9-0

Round of 16

Games on 17th, replay matches on January 21st and 28th, 1937

US Boulogne D2 - FC Mulhouse D1 6-5 aet Racing Paris D1 - FC Antibes D1 4-0 Racing Strasbourg D1 - OGC Nice D2 0-0 aet, 1-0 FC Sochaux D1 - AS Brest 3-0 FC Sète D1 - SO Montpellier D2 3: 1 a.d. Red Star Olympique D1 - SM Caen D2 3-1 FC Rouen D1 - Olympique Lille D1 2-0 Excelsior Roubaix D1 - Le Havre AC D2 0: 0 aet, 3: 2

Racing Roubaix D1 - US Valenciennes D2 1-0 Stade Reims D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D2 2-1 RC Lens D2 - RC Agathois Agde 5-0 SC Fives D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 1: 1 aet, 2: 0 Olympique Dunkerque D2 - RC Arras D3 1-0 OFC Charleville D2 - AS Troyes D2 3-1 AS Cannes D1 - FC Metz D1 3-1 n.V. Stade Rennes UC D1 - Racing Calais D2 0-0 aet, 1-0

Round of 16

Games on February 7, 1937

US Boulogne D2 - Racing Roubaix D1 3-1 Racing Paris D1 - Stade Rennes UC D1 1-0 Racing Strasbourg D1 - Excelsior Roubaix D1 2-0 FC Sochaux D1 - FC Sète D1 3: 2 a.d.

Red Star Olympique D1 - RC Lens D2 3-2 FC Rouen D1 - SC Fives D1 4-2 Olympique Dunkerque D2 - Stade Reims D2 4: 2 AS Cannes D1 - OFC Charleville D2 2-0

Quarter finals

Games on 7th, replay on March 11, 1937

US Boulogne D2 - Racing Paris D1 1-0 FC Sochaux D1 - AS Cannes D1 0-0 a.m., 3-1

Red Star Olympique D1 - Racing Strasbourg D1 1: 3 FC Rouen D1 - Olympique Dunkerque D2 2-0

Semifinals

Games on April 4th and 5th, 1937

FC Sochaux D1 - US Boulogne D2 6-0

Racing Strasbourg D1 - FC Rouen D1 3-1

final

Game on May 9, 1937 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 39,538 spectators

• FC Sochaux - Racing Strasbourg 2: 1 (1: 1)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

FC Sochaux: Laurent Di Lorto - Gabriel Lalloué , Étienne Mattler - Roger Hug , János Szabó , Maxime Lehmann - Miguel Angel Lauri , André "Trello" Abegglen , Roger Courtois , Vojtěch Bradáč , Bernard Williams
Trainer: Conrad Ross

Racing Strasbourg: Ferenc "François" Mayer - Alphonse Lohr , Alexander "Elek" Schwartz - Lucien Halter , Karl Humenberger , Henri Roessler - Fritz Keller , Johann Hoffmann , Oskar Rohr , Oscar Heisserer , Ernest Waechter
Trainer: Josef "Pepi" Blum

Referee: Eugène Olive (Roubaix)

Gates

0: 1 pipe (32nd)
1: 1 Lauri (40th)
2: 1 Williams (88th)

Special occurrences

FC Sochaux, founded only nine years before this final, had to wait exactly 70 years before winning the second cup in 2007 , despite the financial support of the car manufacturer Peugeot . Final opponent Strasbourg managed to do this in a much shorter time: after the Alsatians were successful for the first time in 1951 , they got the Coupe again in 1966 .

See also

• Division 1 1936/37
• Division 2 1936/37

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

1. ↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 353.
2. ↑ L'Équipe, Ejnès, pp. 332/333.