Coupe de France 1940/41

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1940/41 season was the 24th playout of the French football cup for men's teams; with regard to the occupying power of Germany , it was again referred to as Coupe Charles Simon , as in its very first events . This year, due to the military and political situation in France, only 236 clubs registered, far less than a third of the previous year's figure and fewer than since 1921 . As a result, the question of the sporting value of the competitions from 1939/40 to 1943/44 was often discussed, especially in the first post-war decade . Ultimately, however, these cup seasons were  rated as official events with officially counting titles up to the 21st century - in contrast to the “war championships” of the professional league - certainly also in order to be able to maintain the tradition of the competition without interruption.

The defending champion was the Racing Club de Paris , which this year was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the occupied zone. The winners of the trophy were Girondins AS du Port de Bordeaux . This was Bordeaux's first cup win when it entered the finals. The final opponent Sporting Club Fivois (or SC Fives for short) also played a national cup final for the first time, and the Liller suburbs only needed to win two games.

The event was strongly influenced by the circumstances of these war years . Since the German invasion (May / June 1940) , the occupation of the entire north and west as well as the formation of a formally independent “free France” (also known as Vichy France) in the south-east of the country, France was practically three in terms of sport, too Including the areas annexed by Germany in Alsace and Lorraine , whose clubs now played in the German Gaulig system , even divided into four. The extreme north and northeast was directly under the German military administration in Brussels and was subject to special restrictions ( zone interdite , the "forbidden zone"); between this and the zone occupée or the zone non occupée (“occupied” or “unoccupied zone”) regulated sports traffic was only possible to a very limited extent. In this and the following season, only cup and friendly matches could be played within the forbidden zone. This was also reflected in the way the trophy was held: each of the three zones initially determined its own winner; then the two winners of the occupied and the unoccupied zone played their joint winner in an "interzone final", who then played the actual final against the one from the forbidden zone.

After the qualifying rounds organized at regional level, the pairings and home rights for each round within the respective zone were drawn freely from the sixteenth finals; The Cup Commission of the FFF Football Association carried out a certain pre-sorting according to travel distances up to and including the round of 16. From the quarter-finals, and even earlier in individual cases, the games took place on a neutral pitch, with the exception of the prohibited zone. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined.

Round of 16

Games on December 15, 1940. The 16 clubs in the two-tier, top professional league are labeled D1, all others without any indication of their division.

Prohibited zone

Due to the particularly limited game operations in this zone, only three teams registered and a fourth with Excelsior AC Roubaix , which, however, had applied to participate in the occupied zone. Because of this minimal number of registrations, the competition in this part of France started immediately in the zone semi-finals (see below) .

Occupied zone

Bye to the quarter-finalists of the preseason (CA Paris, Racing Paris and FC Rouen). Three other teams from the "forbidden zone" who also benefited from this did not need this because they only had to intervene in the semifinals (SC Fives and RC Lens) or due to the temporary suspension of the game ( FC Sochaux ).

(a)On their journey to Roubaix , the team of CS Rhodania was denied the transfer over the demarcation line between the occupied and prohibited zone, so that they could not play the game. The FFF then declared Excelsior Roubaix the winner, but changed this decision shortly afterwards: the CSR advanced one round and Excelsior was able to compete in the semi-finals of the prohibited zone.

Unoccupied zone

Bye to the quarter-finalists of the preseason (Olympique Marseille and FC Sète)

Round of 16

Games on 5th and 12th respectively, replay on January 25, 1941

Occupied zone

Bye to US Normande Colombelles, US Saint-Servan and CS Rhodaniens

Unoccupied zone

Quarter finals

Games on the 2nd, replay on February 16, 1941

Occupied zone

Unoccupied zone

Semifinals

Games on the 2nd, replay matches on March 16 and 23, 1941

Prohibited zone

Occupied zone

Unoccupied zone

Zone finals

Games on April 6th, 13th and May 1st, 1941

Prohibited zone

Occupied zone

Unoccupied zone

Interzone finals

Game between the winners of the occupied and unoccupied zones on May 18, 1941; the winner of the forbidden zone qualified directly for the country finals due to the travel problems.

Country finals

Game on May 25, 1941 at the Stade Municipal in Saint-Ouen in front of 15,230 spectators

Team lineups

Captains and referees before kick-off

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Girondins ASP Bordeaux: André Gérard - Michel Homar , Jaime Mancisidor Team captain - Nordine Ben Ali , Joseph Plesiak , Émile Rummelhardt - François Szego , Emmanuel Lopez , Santiago Urtizberea , Claude Pruvot , Henri Arnaudeau
Trainer: Benito Diaz

SC Fives: Tadeusz Juszczyk - Pollet, Robert Gyselinck - Trenelle, Joseph Jadrejak , François Bourbotte Team captain - Marceau Somerlinck , Albert Tancré , Norbert Van Caeneghem , Marius Dudziak , Édouard "Waggi" Wawrzyniak
Player- coach : François Bourbotte

Referee: Léon Boes (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Urtizberea (60th)
2: 0 Urtizberea (84th)

Special occurrences

The turmoil in the competition and preoccupation with more existential worries than sport were also reflected in the audience figures; they were as low as at this national final only in the first three draws of the Coupe de France - during and immediately after the First World War  . In addition, at the beginning of the season not even the exact mode of the event was set; The fact that there was an inter-zone and a national final beyond the zone finals was primarily due to the initiative of the sports newspaper L'Auto, which clubs, associations, occupiers and French politicians then joined.

See also

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 332
  2. ↑ For example, Stade Reims played its first round match in Paris.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 357