Coupe de France 1945/46

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1945/46 season was the 29th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 811 clubs registered - a significant increase compared to the previous seasons during the Second World War and also the highest number of participants up to then.

The defending champion was Racing Club Paris , which this year failed in the quarter-finals due to the eventual winner of the competition, Lille Olympique SC . Ten months - and already seven years  - this was the final meeting. For Lille it was the first cup victory in its third appearance in the finals. Since the northern French also won the championship title this season , they were only the third team in French football to win the doublé . Final opponents Red Star Olympique Paris, on the other hand, were already in their sixth final, and the previous five had been won by the Saint-Ouen club . Until the present ( 2017 ), this should remain Red Stars' last cup final.

At least two teams from Division 2 made it to the semi-finals: Stade Français Paris (with France's “black pearl” Larbi Ben Barek ) and Stade Clermont . The most successful amateur team was the US Vésinet ; the team from the western Parisian banlieue eliminated two first division clubs with CO Roubaix-Tourcoing and Stade Rennes UC before they had to admit defeat in the round of 16 - and there only after extra time.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the national association FFF , in which some first division teams had to participate, 17 teams from Division 1 were in the thirty-second finals. Only AS Saint-Étienne had previously failed due to the amateurs of the US Annemasse; seven second divisions did not survive the qualification either. In this round the fixtures and home rights were determined by the Cup Commission; Replay games then took place in the opponent's stadium. This mainly served to protect the first division clubs who were entitled to a sub-class opponent, but also to avoid traveling further in the area of ​​France. From the sixteenth finals on, there was a free draw, there were only games in a neutral place and the income was shared. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined.

Thirty-second finals

Games on the 6th, repeat matches on January 13th, 1946. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2; all others were amateurs (without specifying the respective league).

AS Amicale Paris - FC Rouen D1 0-2 Olympique Mont-de-Marsan - FC Toulouse D2 0-9 RCFC Besançon D2 - Racing Strasbourg D1 1: 2 FC Mulhouse D2 - FC Sochaux D1 0-2 CA Vitry - CA Paris D2 1: 1 n.V., 0: 3 FC Sète D1 - AS Béziers D2 6-1 US Tourcoing - Red Star Olympique D1 2: 4 US Normande Colombelles - US Le Mans D2 0-3 Olympique Alès D2 - US Annemasse 3: 1 AC Amiens D2 - AS Française Paris 3-0 AS Brest - SCO Angers D2 1: 2 AS Angoulême D2 - EC Bordeaux 2-1 SC Aniche - CA Montreuil 3-0 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - Chamois Niort 2: 1 ESA Brive D2 - Olympique Nîmes D2 3: 1 US Valenciennes D2 - ES Bully 0: 0 aet, 0: 2

AS Cannes-Grasse D1 - AS Avignon D2 5: 2 Stade Clermont D2 - FC Gueugnon 4-0 Le Havre AC D1 - UC Paris 2-0 AS Parisienne du Cinéma - Stade Rennes UC D1 1: 3 FC Nancy D2 - Entente CG Chaumont 4-0 USA Perpignan D2 - US Cazères 3-1 WP Cognac - Stade Français Paris D2 0: 2 Racing Club Paris D1 - US Ruch Carvin 4-2 FC Metz D1 - SR Colmar D2 0-1 Arago Sports Orléans - Stade Reims D1 2-1 US Vésinet - CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D1 2: 1 AS Monaco - Olympique Marseille D1 1: 6 Lyon OU D1 - OGC Nice D2 2-0 AS Raismes - Olympique Lille D1 0-3 US Auchel - RC Lens D1 0: 5 SO Montpellier D2 - FC Hyères 4-1

Round of 16

Games on 2/3, re-matches between 7th and 17th February 1946

FC Rouen D1 - RC Lens D1 1-0 Toulouse FC D2 - ES Bully 2-0 FC Sochaux D1 - SO Montpellier D2 1-0 FC Sète D1 - ESA Brive D2 4-0 Red Star Olympique D1 - AS Angoulême D2 5-2 US Le Mans D2 - USA Perpignan D2 2: 2 aet, 5: 2 SCO Angers D2 - Racing Club Paris D1 2: 2 a.d., 0: 3 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - CA Paris D2 2: 1 a.d.

AS Cannes-Grasse D1 - AC Amiens D2 2-0 Stade Clermont D2 - SC Aniche 1-0 Stade Français Paris D2 - Arago Sports Orléans 1: 1 a.d., 1: 1 a.d., 2: 1 SR Colmar D2 - Racing Strasbourg D1 3-2 US Vésinet - Stade Rennes UC D1 2-1 Olympique Marseille D1 - Le Havre AC D1 2-2 aet, 1-0 Lyon OU D1 - Olympique Alès D2 3: 3 aet, 3: 1 Olympique Lille D1 - FC Nancy D2 3-2

Round of 16

Games between March 3 and 14, 1946

Red Star Olympique D1 - AS Cannes-Grasse D1 3: 1 Racing Club Paris D1 - SR Colmar D2 4: 3 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - FC Sète D1 3-1 Stade Clermont D2 - US Vésinet 2-1 aet

Stade Français Paris D2 - FC Toulouse D2 2-0 Olympique Marseille D1 - FC Sochaux D1 2-1 Lyon OU D1 - US Le Mans D2 2-1 Olympique Lille D1 - FC Rouen D1 1-0

Quarter finals

Games on March 31, 1946

Red Star Olympique D1 - Lyon OU D1 2-0 Stade Clermont D2 - Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 4: 1

Stade Français Paris D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 3-1 Olympique Lille D1 - Racing Club Paris D1 2-1 a.d.

Semifinals

Games on April 27, 1946

Red Star Olympique D1 - Stade Français Paris D2 3-2

Olympique Lille D1 - Stade Clermont D2 7-1

final

Game on May 26, 1946 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 59,692 spectators

• Olympique Lille - Red Star Olympique 4: 2 (2: 0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Olympique Lille: Georges Hatz - Joseph Jadrejak , Jean-Marie Prévost , Marceau Somerlinck - François Bourbotte , Roger Carré - Roger Vandooren , Jean Baratte , René Bihel , Bolek Tempowski , Jean Lechantre
Trainer: George Berry

Red Star Olympique: Robert Germain - Fernand Planquès , Roger Mindonnet , Justo Nuevo - Paul Bersoullé , Lucien Leduc - Alfred Aston , Ben Mohammed Kadmiri , André Simonyi , René Lozia , Albert Moulet
Trainer: Edmond Delfour

Referee: Louis Virolle (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Tempowski (13th)
2: 0 Bihel (24th)
2: 1 Moulet (47th)
3: 1 Vandooren (51st)
3: 2 Leduc (69th)
4: 2 Vandooren (85th)

Special occurrences

At the end of this draw of the Coupe de France, a new audience record for cup finals stood at almost 60,000; up to then the maximum number was 52,431 visitors ( 1939 ). This season shirt numbers made it easier to identify players for the first time .

Seven of the winner's players were already on the lawn of the Olympic Stadium with Lille last year , including captain François Bourbotte and Joseph Jadrejak, who had  lost a cup final for the first time in 1941 - at that time for SC Fives , which has since been lost to the LOSC . Marceau Somerlinck had also belonged to this 1941 team, but was missing in the 1945 final.

See also

• Division 1 1945/46
• Division 2 1945/46

literature

• Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3
• Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-867-6
• 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. ^ Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2 , p. 279
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 362