Coupe de France 1953/54

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1953/54 season was the 37th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,072 clubs registered.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the first division clubs also intervened in the thirty-second finals . The defending champion was Lille OSC , which this year was eliminated in the round of 16. The cup won the Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice (or Nice) ; for the team from the Côte d'Azur it was the second win of this trophy after 1952 . Final opponents Olympique Marseille reached a final for the Coupe de France for the ninth time, but this year they left the field as a loser for the third time.

It was a bad season for the amateur clubs: all eight representatives of the third and fourth leagues who had survived the thirty-second finals were eliminated in the sixteenth finals. It had last happened seven years earlier . In return, Division 2 drew attention to itself: in the quarter-finals, five second division and only three first division teams faced. With UA Sedan-Torcy and AS Troyes-Savinienne , two lower-class clubs reached the semi-finals, which two years later even contested the final against each other.

The pairings were drawn freely for each round. Games took place in a neutral place - including one in Algeria  , France - and the income was shared. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined. Due to this provision, the Sedan-Torcy players had to play eight games in five rounds and spent a total of thirteen and a half hours on the pitch instead of the usual seven and a half.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 17, 1954; Replay games on January 21 and 24, 1954. The respective division is D1 and D2 for the two professional leagues, CFA for the national and DH and PH ("Division d'Honneur" or "Promotion d'Honneur") for indicated the top regional amateur leagues.

FC Sète D1 - AS Aix D2 2: 1 AS Cannes D2 - CS Avion DH 2-0 FC Metz D1 - FC Sochaux D1 2-1 Olympique Marseille D1 - FC Grenoble D2 3-0 Olympique Lyon D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 3-0 USB Longwy DH - Faucigny CFA 2: 2 n.v., 2: 1 OSC Lille D1 - CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D1 2-0 AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - SO Cholet CFA 5: 1 US Normande Colombelles DH - Olympique Avignon DH 0: 0 aet, 4: 1 FC Nancy D1 - AS Monaco D1 4-1 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - Arago Sport Orléans CFA 1-0 SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux CFA - SC Abbeville PH 1-0 CS Blénod DH - Olympique Hesdin DH 1-0 Stade Béthune CFA - SC Choisy-le-Roi DH 6-1 RCFC Besançon D2 - SC Draguignan-Le Muy CFA 4: 2 Olympique Alès D2 - CA Paris D2 3-2

Le Havre AC D1 - RC Arras DH 5: 1 Stade Rennes UC D2 - Stade Quimper CFA 6: 2 Toulouse FC D1 - Stade Mont-de-Marsan DH 4-0 Sporting Toulon D2 - US Blanzy-Montceau DH 1-0 RC Strasbourg D1 - US Saint-Gaudens CFA 5-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D2 - SCO Angers D2 3: 3 n.V., 2: 1 Red Star Paris D2 - AS Giraumont DH 3: 2 FC Rouen D2 - US Boulogne DH 5-0 USAC Romilly DH - ES Bully CFA 4-1 CO Roche-la-Molière CFA - SO Montpellier D2 5: 1 OGC Nice D1 - RC Lens D1 5-0 Racing Paris D2 - Stade Reims D1 2: 6 US Quevilly CFA - FC Nantes D2 1-0 FC Perpignan D2 - CS Villedieu DH 3-0 Stade Français Paris D1 - AS Poissy DH 2-0 Olympique Nîmes D1 - AS Béziers D2 3-2

Round of 16

Games between 14th and 25th, re-match on February 21, 1954

FC Sète D1 - FC Toulouse D1 2: 1 aet AS Cannes D2 - CO Roche-la-Molière CFA 3-0 FC Metz D1 - Stade Béthune CFA 5: 2 Olympique Marseille D1 - Stade Reims D1 3-2 OSC Lille D1 - US Quevilly CFA 3-2 AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - Olympique Lyon D2 5-2 FC Nancy D1 - Olympique Nîmes D1 5-1 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux CFA 5-0

RCFC Besançon D2 - Stade Rennes UC D2 2-1 Le Havre AC D1 - USB Longwy DH 2: 1 Sporting Toulon D2 - US Normande Colombelles DH 2-1 RC Strasbourg D1 - FC Perpignan D2 2-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D2 - Red Star Paris D2 2: 0 FC Rouen D2 - USAC Romilly DH 3-0 OGC Nice D1 - CS Blénod DH 0: 0 aet, 6: 3 Stade Français Paris D1 - Olympique Alès D2 2-1

Round of 16

Games on March 8, repetitions on March 18 and 24, 1954

AS Cannes D2 - Le Havre AC D1 3-0 Olympique Marseille D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 2-1 AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - Sporting Toulon D2 1-0 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - FC Sète D1 3-2

RCFC Besançon D2 - FC Nancy D1 2-1 WP Sedan-Torcy D2 - FC Metz D1 0: 0 afterwards, 1: 1 afterwards, 2: 1 FC Rouen D2 - OSC Lille D1 2-0 OGC Nice D1 - Stade Français Paris D1 1-0

Quarter finals

Games on March 28th, re-matches on April 1st, 1954

Olympique Marseille D1 - FC Rouen D2 3-2 aet AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - AS Cannes D2 4: 1

WP Sedan-Torcy D2 - RCFC Besançon D2 2: 1 OGC Nice D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1: 1 aet, 3: 0

Semifinals

Games on April 25, 1954

Olympique Marseille D1 - UA Sedan-Torcy D2 2-1

OGC Nice D1 - AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 2-1

final

Game on May 23, 1954 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 56,803 spectators

• OGC Nice - Olympique Marseille 2: 1 (2: 0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

OGC Nice: Babkin Hairabedian - Mokhtar Ben Nacef , Guy Poitevin , César Hector Gonzalès - Antoine Cuissard , Abderrahman Mahjoub - Joseph Ujlaki , Émile Antonio , Luis Carniglia , Just Fontaine , Victor Nurenberg
Trainer: George William Berry

Olympique Marseille: Pierre Angel - Maurice Gransart , Gunnar Johansson , Ben Miloud Abdesselem Salem - Barthélémy Mesas , Gabriel Rossi - Larbi Ben Barek , Roger Scotti - Jan Palluch , Gunnar Andersson , François Mercurio
Trainer: Henri Roessler

Referee: Édouard Harzic (Amiens)

Gates

1: 0 Nurenberg (6th)
2: 0 Carniglia (11th)
2: 1 Andersson (55th)

Special occurrences

In the quarter-final replay between Nice and Bordeaux, the referee denied the Girondins a clear penalty when the score was 0-0 after Nice's Poitevin had only managed to prevent the ball from crossing the goal line with his hand. While Bordeaux's players protested violently, Ujlaki stormed towards the opposing goal and scored the 1-0. The Girondins then left the square in protest and for a long time refused to continue the encounter.

The final of 1954 was the last of two aged, non-European footballers. Nice's 36-year-old Argentine Carniglia was able to contribute one more goal to the cup win and had already scored the decisive goal in the semi-final against Troyes. The Moroccan Ben Barek , who was at least the same age and possibly even three years older and who had also hit the opponent's net in every round up to and including the quarter-finals, was even waiting for a final international match for France five months later  - against the newly crowned world champion Germany .

See also

• Division 1 1953/54
• Division 2 1953/54

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, p. 370
2. ↑ Beaudet, p. 68
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 370