Coupe de France 1941/42

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1941/42 season was the 25th play of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 469 clubs registered; that was almost twice as many as in the previous year , but the number was well below the previous record participation (778 clubs, 1939/40 ).

The defending champions were Girondins AS du Port from Bordeaux . The winner of the trophy was Red Star Olympique . This was Red Stars' fifth cup win after 1921 , 1922 , 1923 and 1928 - and has remained his last until the present ( 2009 ). For exactly one year, Red Star closed again to the record cup winner Olympique Marseille . His opponent FC Sète played his sixth and to this day last cup final in 1942.

The event was strongly influenced by the political circumstances of these war years . Since the German invasion (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, if you consider that of Germany annexed areas in Alsace and Lorraine , whose clubs played in the German league 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. 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 territories played their joint winner in an "interzone final", which then played the actual final against the one from "free France".

On the instructions of the Vichy government, the FFF football association had to limit the regular playing time to 80 minutes and - as in its early years - name the Coupe de France again Coupe Charles Simon . The former was due to the intentions of the responsible high sports commissioners in the government, Jean Borotra and Joseph Pascot (Borotra's successors from spring 1942), to make professional sport unattractive in order to finally be able to abolish it; The latter was intended to prevent the German occupiers from sensing the attempt behind the naming, so that claims to an undivided France - even if only in football - could be asserted.

After the qualifying rounds organized at regional level, the pairings for each round within the respective zone were drawn freely from the round of 16. As a rule, the games took place in a neutral place. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined. The Olympique Iris Club Lille and the RC Roubaix even made extensive use of this in the round of 16: it took four games, three of which with overtime, before it was known that the merged club from Lille had reached the next round.

Round of 16

Games on January 4, repetitions on January 18 and 25 and February 1, 1942; Since there was no official national championship this year , the league affiliation of the clubs is not stated .

Prohibited zone

Occupied zone

Unoccupied zone

Quarter finals

Games on February 1st, 15th and 22nd, 1942

Prohibited zone

Occupied zone
(a) The first game was canceled when the score was 0: 1 due to blowing snow

Unoccupied zone

Semifinals

Games on March 1st, 15th and 22nd, 1942

Prohibited zone

Occupied zone

Unoccupied zone

Zone finals

Game on April 12, 1942

Prohibited zone

Occupied zone

Unoccupied zone

Interzone finals

Games on May 3rd and 10th, 1942

Country finals

Game on May 17, 1942 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 44,654 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Red Star Olympique: Julien Darui - Helenio Herrera , Henri Roessler - Georges Meuris Team captain , Gabriel Braun , René Sergent - Alfred Aston , André Simonyi , Paul Bersoullé , Henri Joncourt , Roger Vandevelde
Trainer: unknown

FC Sète: Armenak "Armand" Erevanian - Jean Mathieu , René Franquès Team captain - Jules Robisco , Lucien Leduc , Charles Laurent - Mohamed Laïd , Edmond Novicki , Désiré Koranyi , Pierre Danzelle , Jean Miramon
Coach: René Dedieu

Referee: Georges Capdeville (Bordeaux)

Gates

1-0 Vandevelde (45th)
2-0 Aston (72nd)

Special occurrences

Sète's regular Marcel Tomazover did not even travel to Paris; In a political atmosphere that culminated only two months later in the Rafle du Vél 'd'Hiv' , this was too dangerous for him because he feared that, as a Jew, he would be arrested by the local police authorities. Oskar Rohr , who is considered a persona non grata in Germany, was also missing from Sète's final team.

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
  • François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-9512562-0-5

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , pp. 168-170; Alfred Wahl: Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). Gallimard, op. 1989 ISBN 2-07-071603-1 , pp. 263-265.
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333. The reasons why individual games took place in the stadium of one of the two clubs involved are currently in the dark.
  3. ↑ de Montvalon / Lombard / Simon, p. 91