Coupe de France 1947/48

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1947/48 season was the 31st playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 933 clubs registered.

Defending champion Lille Olympique SC won the trophy again this year. It was Lille's third success in his fifth appearance in the final and also his third in a row since 1946 . The northern French were the only ones to set the record for Red Star Paris , who managed this feat from 1921 to 1923 , until the present ( 2014 ) . Lille's opponent and neighbor Racing Club Lens , only represented in the second division this season , was in a final for the first time in the club's history. With Sports Réunis Colmar , another second division team even made it to the semi-finals. The most successful amateurs were the third-rate clubs Stade Béthune and FC Gueugnon , who made it to the round of 16.

After completion of the regional subdivisions of the state association FFF organized qualifying rounds - where four teams of professional Division 2 ( Lyon OU , RCFC Besancon , AS Béziers and AS Avignon ) Been fallen by the wayside - intervened in Zweiunddreißigstelfinale the Erstdivisionäre in the competition a . The pairings were drawn freely for each round. Games basically took place in a neutral place, 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 between 1st and 8th, replay between 8th and 22nd January 1948; the respective league membership is indicated with D1 and D2 for the two professional leagues, DH ("Division d'Honneur") for the highest and PH ("Promotion d'Honneur") for the second highest amateur league.

SO Montpellier D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 2: 1 Toulouse FC D1 - UC Paris DH 1-0 CS Le Thillot DH - Cheminots Hirson DH 5: 1 ES Versailles DH - Gallia Club Angoulême PH 7: 2 CA Valenciennes PH - ES Juvisy DH 2: 1 AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - ES Thaon DH 1-0 Stade Reims D1 - US Le Mans D2 1-0 RC Lens D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 3-0 Lille OSC D1 - EDS Montluçon DH 7: 0 Olympique Marseille D1 - FC Sète D1 5-2 FC Metz D1 - SA Douai D2 1: 1 aet, 8: 0 AS Bayeux PH - ES Audenge DH 4-0 Stade Béthune DH - ES Bully DH 3: 1 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D2 - Stade Bordeaux UC DH 4-0 FC Gueugnon DH - AS Aix DH 4: 3 Stade Rennes UC D1 - CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D1 1: 1 a.d., 2: 2 a.d., 3: 0

FC Dieppe DH - SC Choisy-le-Roi PH 3: 1 Stade Quimper DH - UF Barbézieux PH 5: 1 Stade Français Paris D1 - FC Nantes D2 1: 1 aet, 1-0 Racing Paris D1 - ES Castres DH 7: 2 CA Paris D2 - CS Alençon PH 2: 1 Olympique Nîmes D2 - SC Orange DH 6: 1 OGC Nice D2 - Olympique Alès D1 1: 1 aet, 0-0 aet, 5: 1 FC Nancy D1 - AS Angoulême D2 2-1 AS Cannes-Grasse D1 - CO Cholet DH 3-0 FC Rouen D2 - SO Mazamet DH 6-1 FC Sochaux D1 - Red Star Olympique Paris D1 1: 1 aet, 3: 0 SCO Angers D2 - CO Roche-la-Molière DH 2: 1 CO Saint-Chamond DH - SO Merlebach DH 5: 0 Le Havre AC D2 - US Valenciennes D2 1-0 SR Colmar D2 - AC Amiens D2 1-0 Olympique Saint-Quentin DH - US Melun PH 6: 1

Round of 16

Games on 1st, replay matches on 5th and 12th February 1948

AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - CO Saint-Chamond DH 3-1 Stade Reims D1 - Le Havre AC D2 2-2 aet, 3-0 RC Lens D2 - AS Bayeux PH 2-0 OSC Lille D1 - Olympique Saint-Quentin DH 6-0 FC Metz D1 - SO Montpellier D1 1: 1 aet, 4: 0 Stade Béthune DH - CA Valenciennes PH 6: 0 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D2 - FC Dieppe DH 3-0 FC Gueugnon DH - ES Versailles DH 4: 1 a.d.

Stade Rennes UC D1 - Olympique Nîmes D2 4: 2 Stade Français Paris D1 - CA Paris D2 4-0 Racing Paris D1 - AS Cannes-Grasse D1 4: 3 a.d. OGC Nice D2 - Stade Quimper DH 4: 2 Nancy FC D1 - Toulouse FC D1 2-1 FC Sochaux D1 - CO Le Thillot DH 6: 1 SCO Angers D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 3: 3 aet, 3: 2 SR Colmar D2 - FC Rouen D2 6-1

Round of 16

Games on February 29, 1948

RC Lens D2 - Stade Rennes UC D1 3: 2 OSC Lille D1 - SCO Angers D2 3-1 Stade Béthune DH - Stade Français Paris D1 0-4 Girondins ASP Bordeaux D2 - FC Metz D1 2-0

Racing Paris D1 - OGC Nice D2 1-0 FC Nancy D1 - AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 2-1 FC Sochaux D1 - Stade Reims D1 2: 1 aet SR Colmar D2 - FC Gueugnon DH 3: 0

Quarter finals

Play on the 21st, replay on March 25th, 1948

RC Lens D2 - Stade Français Paris D1 2-1 Racing Paris D1 - OSC Lille D1 3: 3 aet, 1: 2

FC Nancy D1 - FC Sochaux D1 4-1 SR Colmar D2 - Girondins ASP Bordeaux D2 1-0

Semifinals

Games on April 18, 1948

RC Lens D2 - SR Colmar D2 5: 1

OSC Lille D1 - FC Nancy D1 2-1

final

Game on May 10, 1948 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 60,739 spectators

• Lille OSC - RC Lens 3: 2 (1: 1)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Lille OSC: Félix Witkowski - Joseph Jadrejak , Jean-Marie Prévost , Marceau Somerlinck - Albert Dubreucq , Jules Bigot - Bolek Tempowski , Roger Carré , Roger Vandooren , Jean Baratte , Jean Lechantre
Trainer: André Cheuva

RC Lens: Georges Duffuler - René Gouillard , Stanislas Golinski , Élias Mellul - Ladislas "Siklo" Smid , Marcel Ourdouillé - Maryan "Marrech" Jedrzejczak , Maryan Pachurka , Jean Mankowski , Stefan "Stanis" Dembicki , Michel Habera
Trainer: Nicolas Hibst

Referee: Léon Boes (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Vandooren (23rd)
1: 1 Stanis (39th)
2: 1 Baratte (52nd)
2: 2 Stanis (77th)
3: 2 Baratte (86th)

Special occurrences

With the exception of goalkeeper Witkowski, Lille's cup winners this year was identical to last year's, including their coach. Eight of them (Baratte, Carré, Jadrejak, Lechantre, Prévost, Somerlinck, Tempowski and Vandooren) have even been used in all three finals won since 1946.

With one exception (Bordeaux), only clubs from the north-eastern parts of France, particularly from the mining and heavy industry areas (including the cities of the most successful amateur clubs, Béthune and Gueugnon , were among those in the quarter-finals ). France Football summed this up as "The elite of French football is growing up in the shadow of the coal heaps". The highlight of this year's competition for the Coupe de France, "the Ch'tis final", was the first purely northern French final since 1933 . Not only in the regional press this pairing gave rise to repeated rumors of the “cup saga” of the “big and (successful) rich” (Lille) against the “miners' club” (Lens) - a legend as Marion Fontaine demonstrated. In view of the large number of Polish miners and industrial workers in the two teams (six at Lens, three at Lille), Lilles Bolek Tempowski remembered, albeit over-pointed, years later:

"On the field and in the stands you could only hear conversations in Polish ."

In the "semi-finals of the second division" Lens still had the better end for itself; but in the final table of Division 2 Colmar was six places ahead of the northern French and rose to the top division.

See also

• Division 1 1947/48
• Division 2 1947/48

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. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , p. 121
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 364 - les Ch'tis is a somewhat derogatory term for northern French people; see. also the film Welcome to the Sch'tis
3. ^ Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". Essai d'histoire sociale. Les Indes savantes, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7 , pp. 127ff.
4. ↑ Article "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis - 10 may 1948" , France Football from May 6, 2014, p. 64