Coupe de France 1951/52

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1951/52 season was the 35th draw of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,024 clubs registered.

The defending champion was the Racing Club Strasbourg , which was eliminated in the round of 16 this year. The winner of the trophy was Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice . This was Nice's first cup win in its first appearance in the finals. Since the team from the Côte d'Azur was able to defend the championship title from the previous year this season , they also won the doublé  - as only the fourth team in French football . For Nice's opponents Girondins Bordeaux it was the third participation in the final and after 1943 the second defeat.

This season was a successful one for lower-class teams: in the round of 16 there were still seven teams that did not belong to the elite league. Among them were with AS Monaco , Stade Français Paris , US Valenciennes and FC Rouen - which advanced to the semi-finals - four second division partners ; there were also three amateur clubs, of which Olympique Saint-Quentin was only based in the fourth-class Division d'Honneur.

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. All games 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. This hit the Girondins Bordeaux particularly often: from the sixteenth to the semi-finals, they played seven instead of the usual four games and spent a total of thirteen (instead of six) hours on the pitch.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 13th, repeat matches on January 20, 1952. The clubs of the two professional leagues are designated D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with CFA, members of the highest regional amateur league with DH ("Division d'Honneur").

Round of 16

Games on 3rd, replay matches on February 7th, 1952

Round of 16

Games on February 24th, re-matches on March 6th, 1952

Quarter finals

Games on the 16th, replay on March 20, 1952

Semifinals

Games on April 6, 1952

final

Game on May 4, 1952 in the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 61,485 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

OGC Nice: Marcel Domingo - Ahmed Firoud , Guy Poitevin , César Hector Gonzalès - Antoine Bonifaci , Jean Belver Team captain - Victor Nurenberg , Luis Carniglia , Jean Courteaux , Georges Césari , Abdelaziz Ben Tifour
Trainer: Numa Andoire

Girondins Bordeaux: Christian Villenave - Guy Meynieu , Manuel Garriga , Jean Swiatek Team captain - René Gallice , Joop de Kubber - René Persillon , André Doye , Henri Baillot , Édouard Kargulewicz , Lambertus de Harder
Trainer: André Gérard

Referee: Jacques Devillers (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Nurenberg (10th)
1: 1 Baillot (11th)
2: 1 Carniglia (12th)
3: 1 Belver (32nd)
3: 2 Kargulewicz (40th)
3: 3 Baillot (55th)
4: 3 Ben Tifour (61.)
5-3 Césari (65.)

Special occurrences

The contemporaries were enthusiastic about the final - not only because it was the highest-scoring goal in cup history to date (previously: seven goals in 1949 ), but also because the game was absolutely open for well over an hour. Both teams - champions and runners-up in this season's final ranking - were unconditionally offensive and gave the goalkeepers many opportunities to excel; L'Équipe recorded 27 shots on goal from Bordeaux and 20 from Nice the next day. Nice coach Andoire surprisingly left two regular players on the bench, Pär Bengtsson and team captain Désiré Carré , and replaced them with Nurenberg and Carniglia; After a good 10 minutes it turned out that this was not a bad decision. President Vincent Auriol raved about the handover of the trophy: "This match reminds me of a Viennese waltz ".

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 978-2-915-53562-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  2. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003² ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , p. 214
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 368