Coupe de France 1943/44

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1943/44 season was the 27th draw of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 772 participants registered, of which 756 clubs and 16 regional “federal selections ” (Équipes Fédérales) .

Last year's winner was Olympique Marseille , who was not allowed to defend his title this time because professional football in France had been abolished for this one year through political decisions and the grown club structures of at least the “big clubs” had been smashed. During the Second World War , the country was divided into one annexed by Germany ( Alsace and parts of Lorraine ), one militarily occupied by the Wehrmacht (the entire north and west as well as the north-eastern border region, which is also under separate administration) and a "free" Part, the so-called Vichy France in the center and the southeast.

On the instructions of the Vichy regime, the FFF football association had to call the Coupe de France - as in its early years - Coupe Charles Simon again and had to limit the regular playing time to 80 minutes as early as 1941. The former was intended to prevent the German occupiers from sensing the attempt behind the naming, so that claims to an undivided France could be asserted - even if only in football. The latter was due to the intentions of the government's high sports commissioner, Colonel Joseph Pascot (who had replaced Jean Borotra in this position in the spring of 1942 ) to make professional sport unattractive so that it could eventually be abolished entirely.

In 1943/44 all professional departments of the clubs were de facto dissolved; the players who were not ready to take on the amateur status were hired as government employees - and paid as such - and distributed over a total of 16 regional selections (Équipes fédérales) , which were named after traditional French landscapes. However, these teams were often identical in terms of personnel to the cadres of the dissolved clubs and also used their infrastructure. The two final teams, for example, in the case of Nancy-Lorraine consisted mainly of players from FC Sochaux and AS Lorraine Nancy , in the case of Reims-Champagne from Stade Reims and AS Troyes . The club presidents of Nancy and Reims, Marcel Picot and Henri Germain , respectively, were unceremoniously appointed "organizational heads" of the respective selection team. What was put together by the government officials did not always grow together: AS Saint-Étienne preferred to give up their professional status - at least officially - than to form an Équipe Fédérale with players from Lyon .

After all, this year the championship and national cup no longer had to be held in separate competitions according to zones. The 16 Équipes Fédérales played in a uniform, cross-zonal first division for the championship title (after the war only considered unofficial); all remaining clubs competed in lower class amateur leagues. And in the French Cup, too, the teams did not first determine their respective regional winner in three sub-competitions, which then played out the winner of all three zones.

After the qualifying rounds organized at regional level, the pairings were drawn freely only from the round of 16; Before that, the selection teams were set with two exceptions, so they did not have to compete against each other, and a regional preselection was made for amateurs. As a rule, the games took place on the site of the amateur clubs or on a neutral site. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined.

Thirty-second finals

Games on December 19, repeat matches on December 26, 1943 and January 2, 1944. All clubs or their syndicates are listed without any league affiliation, the regional selections are identified as EF.

(a) A reason for these repetitions cannot currently be determined.
(b) The host eleven did not appear.

Round of 16

Games on January 8, 9, and 20, 1944

Round of 16

Games on February 6th, re-matches on February 13th and 17th, 1944

  • EF Bordeaux-Guyenne - EF Toulouse-Pyrénées 1: 1 aet, 2: 1
  • EF Reims-Champagne 3-1 Stade Orchies
  • EF Rouen-Normandie 1-0 EF Lille-Flandres
  • EF Lens-Artois 4-0 EF Marseille-Provençe

Quarter finals

Games on March 5, 1944

  • EF Bordeaux-Guyenne 1-0 EF Montpellier-Languedoc
  • EF Reims-Champagne 3-1 EF Rouen-Normandie

Semifinals

Games on 1st / 2nd, repeat match on April 13, 1944

  • EF Reims-Champagne - EF Lens-Artois 0-0 aet, 2-1
  • EF Nancy-Lorraine - EF Bordeaux-Guyenne 2-1 aet

final

Game on May 7, 1944 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 31,995 spectators

  • Équipe Fédérale Nancy-Lorraine - Équipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne 4: 0 (1: 0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Nancy-Lorraine: Roger Guérin Coulon - Lucien Rué , Jean Mathieu - Pierre Givert , Roger Magnin Team captain , Jean Grandidier - Georges Sesia , Jean Pessonneaux , Marcel Poblome , Marcel Parmeggiani , Michel Jacques
Trainer: Paul Wartel

Reims-Champagne: Alfred Dambach - Daniel Prince , Louis Carrara - Ignace , Pierre Brembilla Team captain , Henri Roessler - Jean-Louis Pradel , Albert Batteux , Pierre Flamion , André Petitfils , François Szego
Trainers: Sarkis Garabedian

Referee: Charles Tibaldi (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Parmeggiani (21st)
2: 0 Poblome (54th)
3: 0 Jacques (66th)
4: 0 Poblome (74th)

Special occurrences

Marcel Poblome scored 16 times in the six rounds and was by far the most successful goalscorer in this competition. A final win with four hits difference had given it for the first time in the replay of the previous year ; In 1970 it was outbid once, but has never been reached again until the present ( 2012 ).

From the summer of 1944, due to the landing of the Allies in Normandy and their advance through France to the east - Paris was liberated from August 25th - the experiments with the selection teams and the abolition of professionalism were no longer seriously and effectively pursued. The Coupe de France 1944/45 were carried out exclusively by club teams, including again those with professional footballers.

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. ^ 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, supra, 1989 ISBN 2-07-071603-1 , pp. 263-265; Beaudet, p. 50f.
  2. ^ Henry Rousso: Vichy. France under German occupation 1940–1944. CH Beck, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-406-58454-1 , p. 70
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 360