Coupe de France 1950/51

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1950/51 season was the 34th draw of the French soccer cup for men's teams. This year, for the first time in cup history, a four-digit number of reporting clubs was reached: exactly 1,010 clubs wanted to win the coupe.

The defending champion was Stade Reims , who retired early this year. The winner of the trophy was the Racing Club de Strasbourg . This was his first cup win in the third final after 1937 and 1947 . For final opponents US Valenciennes it was the first and so far ( 2009 ) only participation in the final. The team from the northern French mining district was only the fourth second division since the introduction of professional football, which reached the final - after Racing Roubaix ( 1933 , as an amateur), OFC Charleville ( 1936 ) and RC Lens ( 1948 ). Amateur clubs have not done much this season; when they reached the round of 16, the third-class FC Annecy and again the "workers' footballers from the Ardennes" from the UA Sedan-Torcy came the furthest.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 18 top division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams . 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 on January 14, 1951. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with CFA, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH or PH ("Division d'Honneur" or "Promotion d '" Honoreur ").

Round of 16

Games on 4th, replay on February 11, 1951

Round of 16

Games on February 25, 1951

Quarter finals

Games on 18th, re-matches on March 29th and April 5th, 1951

Semifinals

Games on April 15, 1951

final

Game on May 6, 1951 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 61,492 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

RC Strasbourg: Lucien Schaeffer - René Hauss , Michel Wawrzyniak Team captain , René Démaret - Raymond Krug , Aleksandrs Vanags - Andrej Prean Nagy , Michel Jacques , Claude Battistella , René Bihel , Edmond Haan
Trainer: Charles Nicolas

US Valenciennes: Félix Witkowski Team captain - Antoine Pazur , Simon Blaczyk , Marcel Gaillard - Gregor Izidorczyk , Émile Wassmer - Carlos Verdeal , Marcel Léturgeon , Émile Vrand , Marius Rozé , Pierre Goffart
Trainer: Henri Pérus

Referee: Paul Olivia (Marseille)

Gates

1-0 Bihel (24th)
2-0 pitcher (34th)
3-0 Nagy (87th)

Special occurrences

The only player who had made it to the final with Racing Strasbourg in 1947 was Aleksandrs Vanags , who was born in Latvia . Striker René Bihel, on the other hand, had even won the coupe once - that was in 1946 with Olympique Lille .

After the second division player from Valenciennes had knocked out three top division teams on his course until the final, Émile Vrand, scorer of a hat-trick in the semifinals , promised : “The child I'm expecting [sic!] Will take his first bath in the cup bowl. “Even with the promotion of his team to Division 1 it didn't work out this season ...

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. ↑ Sedan's teams of the 1950s were referred to as "footballeurs-ouvriers" because almost all of the players worked in a local cloth factory - L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 116ff.
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 367