Coupe de France 1955/56

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1955/56 season was the 39th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,203 clubs registered.

Defending champion was Lille OSC , which was eliminated early this season. The trophy was won by the Union Athlétique Sedan-Torcy , which, like their final opponent AS Troyes-Savinienne, reached a cup final for the first time. For lower-class teams this was not a very successful competition; although four second division and two third class amateur teams ( AS Brest and SM Caen ) had reached the round of 16, not a single one of them survived this round.

After the qualifying rounds organized at the regional level, the 18 top division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams . For the thirty-second finals, the Cup Commission of the FFF regional association set the game schedule in order to avoid early encounters between two first division teams. From the sixteenth finals, the pairings were drawn freely. Games generally took place on a neutral pitch - including some in French North Africa ( Casablanca and Oran ) - only amateur teams had home rights in the thirty-second finals if they met a professional game. 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 8th, repeat matches on January 15th and 19th, 1956. The clubs of the two professional leagues are designated D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with CFA, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH, PH and LD (" Division d'Honneur "," Promotion d'Honneur "or league of a district).

Round of 16

Games on 5th, replay matches between 9th and 23rd February 1956

Round of 16

Games on 4th, replay on March 15, 1956

Quarter finals

Games on April 8, 1956

Semifinals

Games on May 6, 1956

final

Game on May 27, 1956 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 47,258 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

WP Sedan-Torcy: Pierre Vincent - Daniel Carpentier , Albert Eloy Team captain , Maxime Fulgenzy - Marcel Pascal , Christian Oliver - Claude Brény , Michel Lefèbvre , Pierre Tillon , Célestin Oliver , Diego Cuenca
Trainer: Louis Dugauguez

AS Troyes-Savinienne: Pierre Landi - Jean Thuane , Jacques Diebold , François Czapski - Jean Thomas , Saïd Ferrad - Erik Kuld Jensen , Åke Hjalmarsson , Fernand De Vlaeminck , Bernard Delcampe , Pierre Flamion Coach: Roger CourtoisTeam captain

Referee: Maurice Guigue (Marseille)

Gates

1-0 Cuenca (13th)
2-0 Thuane (34th, own goal)
3-0 Tillon (57th)
3-1 De Vlaeminck (62nd)

Special occurrences

No specialist journalist would have guessed on this pairing of the final at the beginning of the year: the first division newcomer from the Ardennes , only competing in professional football in his third year and with numerous semi-professionals ("worker footballers"), met the bottom of the table and later relegated from Troyes. In the championship, Troyes had won both games against his opponent - two of his only five league victories this season . For the cup final, Sedan's supporters traveled to the capital with a live stream ; "Dudule" caused some damage to the lawn of the Olympic Stadium, but brought the team the luck they had hoped for.

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. 372
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 294, with a photo by Dudule