Coupe de France 1956/57

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1956/57 season was the 40th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,149 clubs registered; teams from French Algeria were also allowed again.

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 the UA Sedan-Torcy , which this year failed in the quarter-finals at the eventual cup winners FC Toulouse . It was the first time that Toulouse had won this trophy. Final opponent SCO Angers was also a newcomer to the final - and for both clubs it was their only participation in the final to date .

With Girondins Bordeaux , a second division team advanced to the semi-finals, and in the round of 16 there were two amateur clubs with fifth-rate AC Denain and fourth-rate SCU El Biar. The Sporting Club Union d'El Biar from the Algerian Division d'Honneur achieved the most cited surprise in the over 90-year history of France's cup in the round of sixteen. Although the eleven had already cleared a second division side out of the way with AS Aix in the previous round , the next opponent was a completely different caliber: Six months earlier, Stade Reims was only the “Royal” from Madrid in the very first final of the European Cup just inferior and also competed in Toulouse against the absolute outsider - with the exception of Just Fontaine  , who is indispensable in military service - with the best cast. After four minutes El Biar led 1-0 with a free kick by his player-coach Guy Buffard (who was himself a member of the Stade fan club "Allez Reims"), increased it to 2-0 in the first half by Roland Almodovar and survived the subsequent 50- minute assault run by the favorite with commitment, luck and a goalkeeper named Benoît who outgrown himself on this day without conceding a goal. In the next round of 16 the club was knocked out without a sound, but the name El Biar is still a synonym for “cup sensation” in France decades later.

For the thirty-second finals, the FFF Cup Commission set the game schedule in order to avoid an early clash between two top division teams. From the sixteenth finals onwards, the pairings were drawn freely and basically took place on a neutral pitch - including two games in Algiers  - the income was shared. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined. Because of this provision, the players of Olympique Nîmes had to play seven games in four rounds; Toulouse, who later won the coupe, also needed two additional encounters. All four quarter-finals were at least extended.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 13th, repeat matches on January 16th and 17th, 1957. The respective league membership is indicated with D1 or D2 for the two professional leagues, CFA for the national league, and DH and PH ("Division d'Honneur" or "Promotion d 'Honor') for the top regional amateur leagues.

Round of 16

Games on 3rd / 4th, re-matches between 7-21 February 1957

Round of 16

Games on 3rd, replay on March 7th, 1957

Quarter finals

Games on April 7th, replay matches on April 11th and 18th, 1957

Semifinals

Games on May 5, 1957

final

Game on May 26, 1957 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 43,125 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Toulouse FC: Guy Roussel - Richard Boucher , René Pleimelding Team captain , Guy Nungesser - Robert Bocchi , Pierre Cahuzac - Saïd Brahimi , René Dereuddre , Eduardo Di Loreto , Aulis Rytkönen , Abdelhamid Bouchouk
Coach: Jules Bigot

SCO Angers: Eugène Fragassi - Wladislaw Kowalski , Jules Sbroglia Team captain , Antoine Pasquini - Kazimir Hnatow , Claude Bourrigault - Alphonse Le Gall , Kurt Schindlauer , Jean Tison , Henri Biancheri , Marcel Loncle
Trainer: Walter Presch

Referee: Jack Clough (England)

Gates

1: 0 Dereuddre (11th)
2: 0 Dereuddre (24th)
3: 0 Bouchouk (28th)
3: 1 Biancheri (35th)
4: 1 Bocchi (61st)
4: 2 Boucher (83rd, own goal)
5: 2 Di Loreto (85.)
5: 3 Bourrigault (88.)
6: 3 Brahimi (89.)

Special occurrences

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Coupe de France, the French federation commissioned a foreign referee to manage the finals for the first and so far ( 2014 ) only time . The Englishman Jack Clough brought the finals with the highest number of goals in cup history with nine goals - until then, the match of 1952 (8 goals, also scored in just 90 minutes) with this record - without any problems. However, only a good 43,000 visitors attended the shooting festival; this was the lowest number of spectators at a final since 1944 .

The Algerian War of Independence , in which France has found itself since 1954, did not leave sport unaffected. While the member of the National Assembly Ali Chekkal was attending this final in the main stand of the Olympic Stadium , a member of the FLN liberation movement carried out an assassination attempt on the politician, who was described as a “traitor” because of his moderate stance.

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. ↑ This statement includes the “old” FC Toulouse, which existed from 1937 to 1967, as well as the “new” FC Toulouse founded in 1970.
  2. ↑ This paragraph is based on L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 209–213; Beaudet, p. 76; Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 , pp. 216f .; Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, p. 68; Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 2003² ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 , pp. 274f .; Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981, p. 115; Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5 , pp. 89-92.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  4. ^ Paul Dietschy / David-Claude Kemo-Keimbou (co-editors FIFA): Le football et l'Afrique. EPA, o. O. 2008, ISBN 978-2-85120-674-9 , p. 97 (with the incorrect date 29 May)