Coupe de France 1938/39

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1938/39 season was the 22nd draw of the French football cup for men's teams and the last before the outbreak of World War II . This year 727 clubs registered.

The defending champion was Olympique Marseille , who was eliminated early this season. The winner of the trophy was the Racing Club de Paris . This was his second cup win after 1936 when he took part in the finals for the third time. Final opponent Olympique de Lille was in a decider for the Coupe de France for the first time. From the last sixteen the professional clubs were among themselves; until the round of the last eight teams, SO Montpellier , FC Nancy and Stade Reims also had three second division partners . In contrast, only two amateur teams - Stade Béthune from the northern French mining region and SO de l'Est from the eastern Parisian banlieue  - made it to the sixteenth finals.

After the qualifying rounds organized at regional level, 15 of the 16 first division clubs were in the first national round with 64 teams; only Racing Strasbourg was missing. The cup commission of the regional association FFF set all encounters and also the home law for the thirty-second finals; first division clubs could not meet in this round. If a match ended in a draw after extra time, the first replay was played in the opponent's stadium, and others on a neutral pitch - until a winner was determined. In the sixteenth finals there was also the determination of the matches by the commission, but from this round onwards the game was generally played on a neutral place and the final traditionally took place in the Paris area. From the round of 16, the pairings were drawn freely for each round.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 17./18. December, repeat matches on December 25, 1938 and January 1, 1939. The clubs in the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, all others were amateurs (without specifying the respective division).

Olympique Marseille D1 - AL Gironde 9: 1 Stade Béthune - FC Dieppe D2 2-1 SR Colmar D2 - RC Lens D1 3: 1 (a) FC Antibes D1 - CO Saint-Chamond 6-0 Girondins Bordeaux D2 - SCO Angers 4-0 AS Cannes D1 - Élan Béarnais Orthez 8-0 SO de l'Est - USB Longwy D2 2: 1 OFC Charleville D2 - US Auchel 2: 2 n.V., 2: 2 a Olympique Dunkerque D2 - USO Bruay 3-0 SC Fives D1 - US Tourcoing D2 4-0 Stade Rennes UC D2 - SM Caen 5-0 AS Troyes D2 - CO Billancourt 2: 2 ate, 4: 4 ate, 7: 0 Toulouse FC D2 - CD Español Bordeaux 6-0 Stade Raphaëlois - FC Sochaux D1 0-2 SC Draguignan - FC Sète D1 0:10 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - FC Menton 4-2

ASJ Châteaudun - Red Star Olympique D2 0-1 FC Rouen D1 - US Boulogne D2 4: 3 ES Hayange - AS Hautmont D2 0: 3 Racing Calais - Excelsior Roubaix D1 0: 1 RC Arras - Le Havre AC D2 3: 4 Stade Reims D2 - Stade Français Paris 1-0 Racing Paris D1 - US Quevilly 3-0 Stade Saint-Brieuc UC - CA Paris D2 1: 9 CA Bessèges - OGC Nice D2 1: 6 US Wittenheim - FC Nancy D2 1: 3 SO Merlebach - FC Mulhouse D2 1: 2 FC Bordeaux-Bouscat - SO Montpellier D2 1: 3 ES Juvisy - Olympique Lille D1 1: 2 Racing Roubaix D1 - CS Orne 1919 1-0 Olympique Alès D2 - FC Annecy 3-0 AC Amiens - FC Metz D1 0-1

^(a) Colmar was subsequently disqualified for the involvement of an ineligible player.

Round of 16

Games on the 8th, replay matches on January 12th and 19th, 1939

Antibes FC D1 - OFC Charleville D2 2-0 Girondins Bordeaux D2 - CA Paris D2 4: 4 a.d., 2: 1 AS Cannes D1 - AS Troyes D2 4: 2 SC Fives D1 - OGC Nice D2 1-0 Stade Rennes UC D2 - Olympique Dunkerque D2 4: 1 FC Sète D1 - Le Havre AC D2 3-0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Stade Béthune 1-0 Excelsior Roubaix D1 - FC Rouen D1 3-0

Stade Reims D2 - AS Hautmont D2 2-1 Racing Paris D1 - RC Lens D1 2-0 FC Nancy D2 - Olympique Alès D2 3-0 FC Mulhouse D2 - Red Star Olympique D2 2-1 SO Montpellier D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 1-0 Olympique Lille D1 - FC Toulouse D2 4-1 Racing Roubaix D1 - SO de l'Est 3: 1 FC Metz D1 - FC Sochaux D1 1: 1 aet, 2: 0

Round of 16

Games on 5th, replay matches on 9th and 16th February 1939

SC Fives D1 - FC Antibes D1 3-2 FC Sète D1 - FC Metz D1 3-0 Stade Reims D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 0-0 ate, 1: 1 ate, 1-0 Racing Paris D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 4-0

FC Nancy D2 - Stade Rennes UC D2 1-0 SO Montpellier D2 - AS Cannes D1 0-0 a.m., 2-1 Olympique Lille D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D2 2-1 Racing Roubaix D1 - Excelsior Roubaix D1 4: 2

Quarter finals

Games on the 5th, replay on March 23, 1939

SC Fives D1 - SO Montpellier D2 3-0 FC Sète D1 - Stade Reims D2 5-0

Racing Paris D1 - Racing Roubaix D1 3-1 Olympique Lille D1 - FC Nancy D2 1: 1 aet, 4: 1

Semifinals

Games on April 2, 1939

Racing Paris D1 - SC Fives D1 1-0

Olympique Lille D1 - FC Sète D1 1-0

final

Game on May 14, 1939 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 52,431 spectators

• Racing Paris - Olympique Lille 3: 1 (3: 1)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Racing Paris: Rudolf Hiden - Maurice Dupuis , "Gusti" Jordan , Raoul Diagne - Ramón de Zabalo , Louys Wojtkowiak - José Pérez , Oscar Heisserer , Henri Ozenne , Émile Veinante , Jules Mathé
Trainer: Sid Kimpton

Olympique Lille: Julien Darui - Jules Vandooren , János Móré , Laurent Walczak - Jules Carly , Jean Cléau - Jules Bigot , André Cheuva , Jacques Delannoy , Jean-Marie Prévost , Géza Kalocsay
Trainer: Jenő Konrád

Referee: Paul Marenco (Nice)

Gates

1: 0 Pérez (4th)
1: 1 Kalocsay (19th)
2: 1 Veinante (25th)
3: 1 Mathé (40th)

Special occurrences

The number of spectators was by far the largest at a French cup final; previously it was a maximum of 40,000 visitors (from 1934 to 1937 ). They saw a dominating team from Racing in the first half. In the second half, Veinante and de Zabalo were injured and formed a “rump storm” with Pérez, while a massed defense of seven players - successfully - fought against Lille's attacks. In the end, seven players and the Racing coach won the trophy for the second time; only de Zabalo, Wojkowiak, Pérez and Heisserer had not been there in 1936 .

Racing's team was a small "world eleven"; It was composed of players whose birthplaces were in Argentina (de Zabalo), French Guiana (Diagne, Senegalese by descent), Austria (Hiden, Jordan), Hungary (Mathé), Poland (Wojkowiak), Spain (Pérez) , which at that time came from Alsace and Lorraine (Heisserer, Veinante) and France (Dupuis, Ozenne). She was trained by a Briton.

See also

• Division 1 1938/39
• Division 2 1938/39

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. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 355