Coupe de France 1944/45

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1944/45 season was the 28th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year only 510 clubs registered; the previous record was 778 participants ( 1940 ). It was the last of a total of seven seasons - five of them during World War II  - that the competition was held under the name Coupe Charles Simon .

In the second half of 1944, especially since the Allied landings on the French Channel coast (June 6th), France was a combat zone. This severely impaired the holding of the competition, even after the liberation of the capital Paris (August 25). The area, which was still under German (or Italian) influence, shifted relatively quickly in an easterly direction and became smaller in the process. But at the beginning of January 1945, two teams, Racing Strasbourg and FC Mulhouse, had to cancel their games of the thirty-second final because from mid-December 1944 the German armed forces had launched a counter-offensive that resulted locally - such as in central Alsace , near Colmar  - until February 1945 military bridgeheads of the Wehrmacht existed. The final of the Coupe de France took place just a few hours before the German surrender and less than 150 km from the place where it was signed ( Reims ). In addition, numerous young men were still under arms and, for example, were involved in the advance of the French army into the Palatinate, Baden and Württemberg from April 1945. The football players among them were therefore only available to their teams to a very limited extent.

There was no cup defender in the narrower sense, because in the preseason the professional clubs and their players were grouped together in so-called “Equipes fédérales” (regional selections) for each city; this one-year experiment, carried out on the instructions of the Vichy government , was abandoned in 1944/45. The players of ÉF Nancy-Lorraine , victorious in 1944 , had essentially returned to their old clubs (notably FC Sochaux and FC Nancy ). Racing Paris won this year's trophy . After 1936 , 1939 and 1940, this was Racing's fourth cup win in just ten years. For his final opponent Lille Olympique SC, on the other hand - shortly before the merger of the three traditional local rivals Olympique Lille, Iris Club Lillois and SC Fives - began a series of five cup finals in a row and the rise to the dominant team in the immediate post-war period.

After the qualifying rounds organized at regional association level, the pairings and home rights were drawn from the thirty-second finals; Up to and including the round of 16 there was a certain pre-sorting of the participants by the Cup Commission (along the rough division into a north-western and a south-eastern half of the country). First division clubs were again privileged by not being able to meet in the first round. From the round of 16 onwards, the pairings were drawn freely and played in a neutral location. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, one or more replays were played, up to the round of sixteen on the opponent's place.

Thirty-second finals

Games on the 7th, repeat match on January 21, 1945. Since there was no official national championship this year , only the clubs playing in the highest war division , which is distributed over two seasons, are marked with D1, but no league membership information is given for the other clubs.

(a) This was the Racing Paris amateur team
(b) The visiting team could not compete (see article introduction, 2nd paragraph)

Round of 16

Games on 4th / 5th and 18th, re-match on February 11, 1945

Round of 16

Games on 3rd / 4th, replay on March 8, 1945

Quarter finals

Games on 17./18. March 1945

Semifinals

Games on April 15, 1945

final

Game on May 6, 1945 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 49,983 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Racing Paris: José Molinuevo - Maurice Dupuis , August Jordan Team captain , Marcel Salva - Jean-Claude Samuel , Lucien Jasseron - André Philippot , Oscar Heisserer , Émile Bongiorni , Pierre Ponsetti , Ernest Vaast
Trainer: Paul Baron

Olympique Lille: Julien Darui - Joseph Jadrejak , Casimir Stefaniak , Jean Cardon - François Bourbotte Team captain , Jules Bigot - Roger Vandooren , Jean Baratte , René Bihel , Roger Carré , Jean Lechantre
Trainer: George Berry

Referee: Georges Capdeville (Bordeaux)

Gates

1: 0 Philippot (30.)
2: 0 Ponsetti (40.)
3: 0 Heisserer (65.)

Special occurrences

With Salva, Samuel, Jasseron, Philippot and Ponsetti - the latter two also scorers in the final - half the team of the victorious Racing Club consisted of “Pieds-noirs” born in French Algeria who served as soldiers with the French Air Force stationed near Paris . Maurice Dupuis and "Gusti" Jordan already wore the sky blue dress of the capital city club in the previous three final wins since 1936 ; in doing so they set Jean Boyer's record from 1927 , which Paul Nicolas was the only one who had been able to equalize in 1928 . This peak was only exceeded ten years later by another French footballer, Marceau Somerlinck . For Oscar Heisserer it was the third cup win with Racing since 1939 . Referee Capdeville, who had already denied the 1938 World Cup final, was in charge of his third cup final after 1936 and 1942 .

To date ( 2018 ) there have been three finals between Racing and Lille - apart from the one in 1945, also in 1939 and 1949 . Each time, in the end, Olympique Lille only left the place as the “second winner”.

Racing Lens was one of the big favorites of the competition - due to its “bomb storm”, from which Stefan Dembicki (“Stanis”) and Ladislas Smid (“Siklo”) stood out. In fact, the northern French exceeded all expectations and scored 33 goals in the first three rounds of the cup. In the quarter-finals, however, this only succeeded three times against Toulouse, which meant the surprising end.

The contemporary coverage of this competition was comparatively patchy: journals such as L'Auto and Football had been discontinued in August 1944, L'Équipe first appeared in February 1946. However, there was the Miroir des Sports and the sports reports in the daily newspapers, albeit also theirs Appearance at this time was only possible to a limited extent due to the war situation.

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, pp. 332/333
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès, Coupe, p. 429.
  3. ^ Robert Franta: Football World Cup 1938 France. Agon, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-018-9 , p. 76
  4. ↑ Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia 1930-2006. Agon, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-261-0 , p. 87.
  5. ^ Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, p. 51
  6. ^ Paul Hurseau, Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-867-6 , pp. 117 and 127
  7. ↑ L'Équipe, Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, p. 361.