Coupe de France 1957/58

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1957/58 season was the 41st playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,163 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 Toulouse FC , which this year was kicked out of the race by an amateur club in the last 64 teams. The winner of the competition was Stade Reims . For Reims it was the second win of this trophy after 1950 and, after the team had also won the division 1 championship again , the first doublé in the club's history. Final opponent Olympique Nîmes remained in cup and league only the role of the second behind the red-whites from Champagne . The most successful amateur club was the third-class FC Mulhouse , which made it into the top 16 teams. But also second division FC Sète , which eliminated three first division players one after the other, drew lasting attention to how many teams managed to prevail against higher-class opponents this year.

French football was overshadowed this season by the worsening Algerian struggle for independence , which between the quarter and semi-finals meant that teams suddenly had to do without some regular players because they left for North Africa in mid-April to compete for the football team of the FLN Algeria . AS Monaco was particularly hard hit, with five footballers lost in Bekhloufi , Ben Tifour , goalkeepers Boubekeur , Chabri and Zitouni ; 14 days later the Monegasque were promptly defeated in the semifinals.
The crisis of the 4th Republic also preoccupied people and the media in France much more than sport - even though the national team had qualified for the World Cup finals in Sweden in the summer of 1958 .

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 in a neutral place - including four games in Algiers and Oran  - 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 rule, the players of the Stade Rennes UC had to play five games in two rounds and stood on the pitch for nine hours instead of the usual three.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 13th, repeated games on January 16 and 17, 1958. 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 February 2, replay between February 6 and February 20, 1958

Round of 16

Games on 2nd, replay on March 6, 1958

Quarter finals

Games on April 6, 1958

Semifinals

Games on April 27, 1958

final

Game on May 18, 1958 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 56,523 spectators

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Stade Reims: Dominique Colonna - Simon Zimny , Robert Jonquet Team captain , Raoul Giraudo - Armand Penverne , Robert Siatka - Robert Lamartine , René Bliard , Just Fontaine , Roger Piantoni , Jean Vincent
Trainer: Albert Batteux

Olympique Nîmes: Alexandre Roszak - Mustapha Bettache , Maurice Lafont Team captain , Robert Venturi - André Schwager , Pierre Barlaguet - Emilio Salaber , Hassan Akesbi , Henri Skiba , Abdelkader Mazzouz , Bernard Rahis
Trainer: Kader Firoud

Referee: Augustin Le Menn (Quimper)

Gates

1: 0 Bliard (42nd)
1: 1 Mazzouz (49th)
2: 1 Fontaine (56th)
3: 1 Bliard (89th)

Special occurrences

Olympique's outside runner -in-law injured himself so badly after just 13 minutes that he had to leave the field. Substitutions were not allowed at the time, so that Nîmes played the game to ten to the end and Reims was able to stand up to it for a long time. Colonna and Akesbi clashed eight minutes before the final whistle; The Reims goalkeeper was able to continue as a field player, while in his place left winger Vincent guarded the goal - without allowing another goal.

Incidentally, the shooter for the consolation goal from Nîmes, Abdelkader Mazzouz, later left the French “motherland” to play for the Algerian “independence eleven” .

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. ↑ Beaudet, p. 79
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 374; Beaudet, p. 80
  4. ↑ according to the illustrated report "Dominique Colonna à Delaune" from October 29, 2014 on the website of the Alumni Association of Stade de Reims