Coupe de France 1954/55

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1954/55 season was the 38th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,162 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 OGC Nice , which again advanced to the semi-finals this year. Olympique Lille won the cup ; for the northern French it was the fifth win of this trophy since 1946 , but then it remained their last for more than half a century. Final opponent Girondins Bordeaux reached a final for the Coupe de France for the fourth time, but this year it was the third time that they left the field as a loser.

The most successful amateur club was SC Draguignan, a third division, which only had to admit defeat in the quarterfinals. There the competition ended for the last remaining second division Le Havre AC .

For the thirty-second finals, the FFF returned to the mode, which was abolished in 1947, of having the fixtures set by its cup commission and avoiding encounters between two top division teams. From the sixteenth finals, the pairings were drawn freely. From this round on, games took place on a neutral pitch - including some in French North Africa ( Algiers and Casablanca ) - and 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 the 6th, repeat matches between February 9th and 24th, 1955. The respective league membership is indicated with D1 or D2 for the two professional leagues, CFA for the nationwide and DH and PH ("Division d'Honneur" or "Promotion d '" Honor ”) for the top regional amateur leagues.

Round of 16

Games on March 6th, re-matches on March 13th and 17th, 1955

Round of 16

Games on March 27th, replay on April 7th, 1955

Quarter finals

Games on March 17, re-matches on April 24, 1955

Semifinals

Games on May 8, 1955

final

Game on May 29, 1955 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 49,411 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Olympique Lille: Jean Van Gool - Antoine Pazur , Guillaume Bieganski , Robert Lemaître - Roland Clauws , Marceau Somerlinck - Yvon Douis , André Strappe Team captain , Gérard Bourbotte , Jean Vincent , Bernard Lefèvre
Trainer: André Cheuva

Girondins Bordeaux: Jean-Guy Astresses - Simon Janczewski , Manuel Garriga , Jacques Grimonpon Team captain - Jacques Debelleix , Joop de Kubber - Raymond Wozniesko , Édouard Kargulewicz , Abdelhamid Skander , Ben Mohammed Abdesselem , André Doye
Trainer: André Gérard

Referee: Louis Fauquemberghe (Paris)

Gates

1: 0 Vincent (7th)
2: 0 Douis (28th)
3: 0 Douis (31st)
4: 0 Bourbotte (35th)
4: 1 Wozniesko (41st)
4: 2 Skander (64th)
5: 2 bourbotte (75th)

Special occurrences

Marceau Somerlinck had played all five victorious Olympiques finals; so he is until today ( 2011 ) the French " Cup King". Decades later, two players ( Dominique Bathenay 1983 and Alain Roche 1998 ) set this record, but could not beat it - and Somerlinck is still the only one who managed to do this for a single club. He also wore Lille's dress - in which he had also become national champion twice - when the northern French were relegated to Division 2 twelve months after this triumph.

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. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 157
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 429