Coupe de France 1946/47

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1946/47 season was the 30th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 922 clubs registered.

Last year's winner was Lille Olympique SC , who managed to successfully defend the trophy. This was Lilles second cup win in the fourth final (first time: 1939 ). Final opponent Racing Club de Strasbourg contested a final for the Coupe for the second time after 1937 and lost it again.

It wasn't a particularly successful year for lower-class teams: none of the amateur teams made it through the sixteenth finals, and four of the last five second division players were eliminated in the last sixteen . The remaining AS Angoulême, however, caused a sensation: they defeated two teams from the top division with last year's finalist Red Star Olympique Audonien and Stade de Reims , before they were clearly defeated by RC Strasbourg in the semifinals. Exactly twenty years later , Angoulême's footballers should again cause a sensation in the cup competition.

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 20 top division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams . This season, the fixtures from the thirty-second finals were freely drawn; all encounters took place in a neutral place, the income was shared. There was also no longer any privileges for the first division players with regard to their claim to a lower-class first-round opponent. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 4th / 5th, repeat matches on 11th and 15th January 1947. The clubs in the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2; the other participants were amateurs (without specifying the respective division).

Racing Strasbourg D1 - RCFC Besançon D2 5-0 US Valenciennes D2 - ES face-off 2-0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - AS Beauvais 9-0 Toulouse FC D1 - Racing Paris D1 2-1 FC Sochaux D2 - Drapeau Fougères 8-0 Olympique Nîmes D2 - FC Sète D1 1-0 Lyon OU D2 - CEP Lorient 2-0 US Le Mans D2 - FC Gueugnon 3-1 RC Lens D1 - US Vésinet 4: 1 ES Castres - USA Perpignan D2 3: 3 aet, 4: 2 Olympique Lille D1 - OGC Nice D2 6-0 SCO Angers D2 - VGA Saint-Maur 2: 2 aet, 4: 1 AS Angoulême D2 - USA Saint-Aigulin 3-0 Stade Béthune - Sporting Toulon D2 1-0 AS Corbeil - AS Avignon D2 4: 2 SM Caen - UC Paris 1-0

SR Colmar D2 - US Busigny 2-1 AS Cannes-Grasse D1 - SO Montpellier D1 3-0 AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - Olympique Antibes-Juan-les-Pins D2 3-1 FC Nantes D2 - US Cazères 2-2 aet, 5-2 Red Star OA D1 - AS Amicale Paris 4-1 FC Nancy D1 - AC Amiens D2 3-1 FC Metz D1 - SA Douai D2 4-0 SO Mazamet 1-0 FC Annecy Olympique Marseille D1 - Arago Sports Orléans 3: 1 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - US Belfort 3-0 CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D1 - Stade Rennes UC D1 1: 0 Olympique Alès D2 - Colombes Sports 3-0 Stade Reims D1 - JA Saumur 9: 1 Stade Français Paris D1 - Olympique Saint-Quentin 3-1 Chamois Niort - Stade Clermont D2 4: 0 Le Havre AC D1 - FC Rouen D1 1: 0

Round of 16

Games on 1/2., Replay on February 13, 1947

Racing Strasbourg D1 - AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 3-1 US Valenciennes D2 - Olympique Nîmes D2 2-0 FC Sochaux D2 - AS Corbeil 4: 3 US Le Mans D2 - RC Lens D1 2: 1 Olympique Lille D1 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 3-1 SCO Angers D2 - Stade Béthune 1-0 AS Angoulême D2 - ES Castres 4-2 AS Cannes-Grasse D1 - FC Nantes D2 2-0

Red Star OA D1 - Lyon OU D2 4-2 FC Metz D1 - Olympique Alès D2 4: 3 Olympique Marseille D1 - SR Colmar D2 4-1 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - SO Mazamet 4: 1 CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D1 - FC Toulouse D1 1-0 Stade Reims D1 - FC Nancy D1 2-2 aet, 3-2 Stade Français Paris D1 - Chamois Niort 5: 2 Le Havre AC D1 - SM Caen 4-0

Round of 16

Games on March 2, 1947

Racing Strasbourg D1 - AS Cannes-Grasse D1 5: 0 Olympique Lille D1 - FC Sochaux D2 5-2 AS Angoulême D2 - Red Star OA D1 3: 1 n.v. FC Metz D1 - CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D1 2: 1 a.d.

Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 3-1 Stade Reims D1 - SCO Angers D2 2-1 Stade Français Paris D1 - US Le Mans D2 6: 1 Le Havre AC D1 - US Valenciennes D2 1-0

Quarter finals

Games on March 30, 1947

Olympique Lille D1 - FC Metz D1 3-2 AS Angoulême D2 - Stade Reims D1 2-1

Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 - Le Havre AC D1 3-2 Stade Français Paris D1 - Racing Strasbourg D1 1: 2

Semifinals

Games on 3rd, replay matches on April 14, 1947

Olympique Lille D1 - Girondins ASP Bordeaux D1 3-0

Racing Strasbourg D1 - AS Angoulême D2 6-0

final

Game on May 11, 1947 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 59,852 spectators

• Olympique SC Lille - RC Strasbourg 2-0 (1-0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Olympique Lille: Robert Germain - Joseph Jadrejak , Jean-Marie Prévost , Marceau Somerlinck - Albert Dubreucq , Jules Bigot - Boleslaw Tempowski , Roger Carré , Roger Vandooren , Jean Baratte , Jean Lechantre
Trainer: André Cheuva

RC Strasbourg: Marcel Lergenmuller - Segundo Pascual , Francisco Mateo , Gabriel Braun - Charles Heine , Joseph Lang - Oscar Heisserer , Aleksandrs Vanags , Joseph Heckel , Frédéric Woehl , Alphonse Rolland
Trainer: Émile Veinante

Referee: René Tranchon (Amiens)

Gates

1-0 Vandooren (1st),
2-0 long (70th, own goal)

Special occurrences

The attendance record that was only set up in 1946 was slightly improved again. Those present then saw the fastest goal of all French finals: the 1-0 came after 29 seconds and is a record that has remained until today ( 2016 ).

In the ranks of the cup winners were eight players who had already triumphed in the previous year's final; This experience was only new for Bigot (who, however, had already worn the red and white dress of the northern French in the lost 1945 final ) and Dubreucq. Goalkeeper Robert Germain had also been there 12 months earlier - but on the side of Olympique's opponent Red Star OA.

The second-round encounter between Lille and Saint-Étienne on the snow-covered lawn of the Parc des Princes was marked by an extremely tough game, a fight between players and highly questionable referee decisions. The AS Saint-Étienne ended the game after two dismissals and the injury-related elimination of a player only eight.

The draw for the pairings of the sixteenth finals on January 16, 1947 was the first to be broadcast on French television (Radiodiffusion Française - Télévision Française) - for a very small audience at the time. A six-year-old girl pulled the loose rolls.

See also

• Division 1 1946/47
• Division 2 1946/47

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

• This season the Coupe de France on the side of the FFF (French)

Remarks

1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
2. ↑ Beaudet, p. 56; L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 363
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 282