Coupe de France 1937/38

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1937/38 season was the 21st draw of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 679 clubs registered.

The defending champion was FC Sochaux , which fell out very early. The winner of the trophy was Olympique Marseille . This was Olympique's fifth cup win after 1924 , 1926 , 1927 and 1935 ; OM was thus the sole leader in the ranking of the most successful participants in the Coupe de France, ahead of Red Star Olympique (4 titles).

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 16 top division clubs 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. Local rivals Olympique Lille and SC Fives even made extensive use of this in the quarter-finals: it took three games before it was known that the Liller Vorstädter had reached the semi-finals. In the lap before this 330-minute marathon, Fives had also thrown Stade Béthune, the most successful amateur club in this competition, out of the race.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 19th, repeat games on December 26th, 1937; the clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, all others were amateur clubs (without specifying the respective league level).

Toulouse FC D2 - CA Bénauge 6-1 FC Rouen D1 - USO Bruay 5-0 Stade Rennes UC D2 - UC Saint-Brieuc 1: 2 Antibes FC D1 - Stade Clermont 5-1 Olympique Dunkerque D2 - US Valenciennes D1 3-1 FC Dieppe D2 - US Saint-Servan-Saint-Malo 4-1 ASSB Oignies - OFC Charleville D2 0: 0 aet, 1: 2 AS Cannes D1 - CS Marseillannais 4-0 AS Hautmont D2 - SO de l'Est 2-0 US Boulogne D2 - AS Troyes D2 5-0 Le Havre AC D2 - Stade Français Paris 3-0 CA Paris D2 - Stade Béthune 1: 1 a.d., 1: 2 Racing Calais D2 - SM Caen D2 2-1 FC Mulhouse D2 - Olympique Alès D2 2-0 Auberchicourt - Racing Paris D1 1: 2 CS Avion - US Tourcoing D2 0: 2

RCFC Besançon - Racing Strasbourg D1 1: 7 ES Mont-de-Marsan - FC Sète D1 1:12 Red Star Olympique D1 - CEP Lorient 11-0 US Quevilly - Racing Roubaix D1 0-5 Olympique Nîmes D2 - RC Agathois Agde 3: 1 Stade Compiègne - FC Nancy D2 2: 5 Excelsior Roubaix D1 - ES Hayange 6: 1 SO Montpellier D2 - FC Sochaux D1 4-0 FC Metz D1 - CA Mulhouse 11: 0 Olympique Marseille D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D2 4: 2 Olympique Lille D1 - US Vésinet 5-2 RC Arras D2 - Stade Reims D2 0-1 RC Lens D1 - US Auchel 2: 1 OGC Nice D2 - AS Valentigney 4-1 Véloce Club Beauvais - SC Fives D1 1:15 USB Longwy D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D2 2: 1

Round of 16

Games on the 9th, replay between January 13-20, 1938

Toulouse FC D2 - Olympique Nîmes D2 2-0 FC Antibes D1 - FC Dieppe D2 1: 1 n.V., 2: 1 OFC Charleville D2 - US Tourcoing D2 1-0 AS Cannes D1 - Racing Roubaix D1 6: 3 a.d. US Boulogne D2 - UC Saint-Brieuc 5-1 Le Havre AC D2 - Olympique Dunkerque D2 5: 2 a.d. Stade Béthune - Racing Calais D2 2-2 aet, 2-0 Racing Paris D1 - RC Lens D1 5-0

FC Sète D1 - Racing Strasbourg D1 2-0 Red Star Olympique D1 - SO Montpellier D2 2-1 Excelsior Roubaix D1 - FC Rouen D1 5-0 FC Metz D1 - Stade Reims D2 5-0 Olympique Marseille D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 2-1 Olympique Lille D1 - USB Longwy D2 1: 1 aet, 2: 0 OGC Nice D2 - FC Nancy D2 2-1 SC Fives D1 - AS Hautmont D2 4: 1

Round of 16

Games on the 6th, replay on February 17, 1938

AS Cannes D1 - OFC Charleville D2 4: 3 a.d. Le Havre AC D2 - OGC Nice D2 1: 1 aet, 2: 0 Racing Paris D1 - FC Antibes D1 2-0 Red Star Olympique D1 - FC Sète D1 3-2

FC Metz D1 - Excelsior Roubaix D1 2-1 Olympique Marseille D1 - US Boulogne D2 2-0 Olympique Lille D1 - FC Toulouse D2 1-0 SC Fives D1 - Stade Béthune 3-1

Quarter finals

Games on March 6th, replays on March 17th and 24th, 1938

FC Metz D1 - AS Cannes D1 3-0 Le Havre AC D2 - Red Star Olympique D1 1-0 aet

Olympique Marseille D1 - Racing Paris D1 6: 2 Olympique Lille D1 - SC Fives D1 2-2 aet, 0-0 ate, 0-2

Semifinals

Games on 3rd, replay on April 14, 1938

FC Metz D1 - SC Fives D1 1: 0 n.v.

Olympique Marseille D1 - Le Havre AC D2 0-0 aet, 1-0

final

Game on May 8, 1938 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 33,044 spectators

• Olympique Marseille - FC Metz 2: 1 aet (1: 1, 0: 0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Olympique Marseille: Jaguaré Vasconcelos - Abdelkader Ben Bouali , Henri Conchy , Jean Bastien - Ferdinand Bruhin , Joseph Gonzalès - Émile Zermani , Franz Olejniczak , Mario Zatelli , Emmanuel Aznar , Vilmos Kohut
Trainer: József Eisenhoffer

FC Metz: Charles Kappé - Henri Nock , Charles Zehren - Nicolas Hibst , Charles Fosset , Marcel Marchal - Jean Lauer , Ignace Kowalczyk , Marcel Muller , Karel Hes , Albert Rohrbacher
Trainer: Ted Maghner

Referee: Charles Munsch (Mulhouse)

Gates

1: 0 Kohut (49th)
1: 1 Rohrbacher (84th)
2: 1 Aznar (118th)

Special occurrences

This “pillow finale”, about which Gabriel Hanot wrote in the Miroir des sports that it was “the most remarkable and brilliant in years”, was about to be abandoned in the last minutes of the game. Several players from FC Metz pressed the referees and linesmen because they saw Aznar's decisive ball on but not over the goal line. It was raining red seat cushions from the stands because many spectators - supporters of the Lorraine region and neutral observers - shared this opinion and protested violently in some cases. After a long break, however, the encounter was brought to an end and the trophy was presented by President Albert Lebrun , himself born in Lorraine .

See also

• Division 1 1937/38
• Division 2 1937/38

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, pp. 332/333.
2. ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , pp. 81f.
3. ↑ Hanot's conclusion from the Miroir of May 10, 1938, printed in L'Équipe, Ejnès, p. 354.
4. ↑ Beaudet, p. 42f.