Coupe de France 1958/59

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1958/59 season was the 42nd playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,168 clubs registered.

The defending champion was Stade Reims , who did not get past the round of 16 this year. The trophy was won by the traditional Le Havre Athletic Club . This was his first cup win in the second final in 39 years . It was also the first and so far ( 2008 ) only win of the Coupe de France by a second division . Final opponent FC Sochaux-Montbéliard was in their second final; unlike in May 1959, Sochaux left the stadium in 1937 as the winner of the competition.

In addition to the cup winners, another club from the second division, FC Metz, made a big leap forward, but then had to bow to Le Havre in the quarter-finals. The most successful amateur club was the third-rate SC Draguignan, which - also against "le HAC" - was only eliminated in the second round; Before that, like the fourth division ES Bully  , he had defeated a team from Division 1 .

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 20 top division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams. Games were generally held in a neutral place - including five in French-ruled Algeria (four in Oran and one in Algiers ), regardless of the bitter war of independence there . For the thirty-second finals, the FFF Cup Commission set the schedule to avoid an early clash between two top division clubs. From the sixteenth finals, the pairings were drawn freely. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined. This season even the final was affected; for the third time after 1925 and 1943 a final had to be repeated, and both finalists had already needed three matches in the sixteenth finals to advance.

Thirty-second finals

Games on the 11th, repeat matches on January 15th and 18th, 1959. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with CFA, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH or PH ("Division d ' Honneur "or" Promotion d'Honneur ").

Stade Rennes UC D1 - SC Bel-Abbès DH Algérie 1-0 aet US Forbach D2 - RC Strasbourg D2 3-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - AS Aulnoye PH 1: 0 Red Star OA D2 - RC Lens D1 1: 1 n.a., 2: 0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - FC Grenoble D2 6-1 Stade Français Paris D2 - FC Rouen D2 3-1 Racing Paris D1 - ESA Brive CFA 1-0 FC Perpignan D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 2-1 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Stade Ruffec DH 5: 1 OGC Nice D1 - US Graissessac DH 3-0 FC Metz D2 - AC Cambrai DH 1: 1 aet, 6: 3 Olympique Lyon D1 - La Voulte Valence Football CFA 4-0 FC Limoges D1 - FC Sète D2 1-0 Sporting Toulon D2 - FC Villefranche DH 5-1 Le Havre AC D2 - US Auchel CFA 1-0 Toulouse FC D1 - US Le Mans DH 3-0

CS Fontainebleau DH - AS Hautmont DH 3: 2 SC Draguignan CFA - AS Monaco D1 3-2 AS Cannes D2 - Olympique Avignon DH 0-0 aet, 4-1 ES Bully DH - US Valenciennes D1 2: 1 USO Bruay DH - AS Cherbourg CFA 2-1 Stade Saint-Brieuc DH - US Véloce Vannes DH 3-2 Girondins Bordeaux D2 - Arago Sports Orléans CFA 3: 1 AS Béziers D2 - FC Montauban DH 2-0 RCFC Besançon D2 - Olympique Hussein Dey DH Algérie 2-1 FC Annecy CFA - Rapid Menton DH 2-1 SCO Angers D1 - JA Armentières DH 5: 1 Olympique Alès D1 - AS Aix D2 1-0 OSC Lille D1 - US Fécamp DH 2-0 FC Sochaux D1 - CS Blénod DH 2: 1 nV AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - FC Nancy D1 1-0 Stade Reims D1 - CA Vitry DH 10: 1

Round of 16

Games on 1st, replay matches between 5th and 18th February 1959

Stade Rennes UC D1 - Stade Saint-Brieuc DH 2-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - Sporting Toulon D2 2: 1 Red Star OA D2 - AS Béziers D2 1-0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Stade Français Paris D2 2-0 Racing Paris D1 - US Forbach D2 6: 2 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Olympique Alès D1 1-0 aet FC Metz D2 - OSC Lille D1 3: 3 aet, 2: 0 Olympique Lyon D1 - ES Bully DH 4: 0

Le Havre AC D2 - FC Annecy CFA 1: 1 a.d., 1: 1 a.d., 3: 1 Toulouse FC D1 - OGC Nice D1 2-1 SC Draguignan CFA - FC Perpignan D2 1-0 RCFC Besançon D2 - CS Fontainebleau DH 3-0 SCO Angers D1 - FC Limoges D1 3-1 FC Sochaux D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D2 1: 1 aet, 0: 0 a little, 2: 1 AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 - AS Cannes D2 4: 1 Stade Reims D1 - USO Bruay DH 8-0

Round of 16

Play on February 22nd, re-match on March 5th, 1959

Stade Rennes UC D1 - AS Troyes-Savinienne D2 2-0 Racing Paris D1 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 3-2 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Red Star OA D2 4-0 FC Metz D2 - RCFC Besançon D2 2: 1 n.a.

Olympique Lyon D1 - Stade Reims D1 3-1 aet Le Havre AC D2 - SC Draguignan CFA 2-0 Toulouse FC D1 - WP Sedan-Torcy D1 1: 1 aet, 3: 1 FC Sochaux D1 - SCO Angers D1 2-0

Quarter finals

Games on March 29, 1959

Stade Rennes UC D1 - Olympique Lyon D1 3-2 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Racing Paris D1 4-0

Le Havre AC D2 - FC Metz D2 2-0 FC Sochaux D1 - FC Toulouse D1 2: 1 aet

Semifinals

Games on April 12, 1959

Le Havre AC D2 - Olympique Nîmes D1 1-0

FC Sochaux D1 - Stade Rennes UC D1 2-1

final

1. Endgame

Game on May 3, 1959 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 50,778 spectators

• Le Havre AC - FC Sochaux 2: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Le Havre AC: Christian Villenave - Kassem Hassouna , Albert Eloy , Jean-Louis Lagadec - Jacques Meyer , Édouard Salzborn - Jean Saunier , Jacques Ferrari , André Strappe , Hocine Bouchache , Frédéric N'Doumbé
Trainer: Lucien Jasseron

FC Sochaux: Raymond Barthelmebs - Pierre Lubrano , André Mazimann , Lucien Mille - Georges Bout , Joseph Tellechea - Samuel Edimo , Yngve Brodd , Julien Stopyra , Serge Bourdoncle , René Gardien Trainers: Gabriel "Gaby" Dormois and Paul Wartel

Referee: Jean-Louis Groppi (Nîmes)

Gates

1: 0 Ferrari (1st)
1: 1 Eloy (45th, own goal)
1: 2 Gardien (109th)
2: 2 Bouchache (113th)

Replay

Game on May 18, 1959 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 36,655 spectators

• Le Havre AC - FC Sochaux 3-0 (2-0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

Le Havre AC: Christian Villenave - Kassem Hassouna , Albert Eloy , Jean-Louis Lagadec - Jacques Meyer , Édouard Salzborn - Valentin Navarro , Jacques Ferrari , André Strappe , Hocine Bouchache , Frédéric N'Doumbé
Trainer: Lucien Jasseron

FC Sochaux: Paul Wendé - Pierre Lubrano , André Mazimann , Lucien Mille - Georges Bout , Joseph Tellechea - Samuel Edimo , Yngve Brodd , Julien Stopyra , Raphaël Tellechea , René Gardien Trainers: Gabriel "Gaby" Dormois and Paul Wartel

Referee: Jean-Louis Groppi (Nîmes)

Gates

1-0 Meyer (21st)
2-0 N'Doumbé (31st)
3-0 Navarro (87th)

Special occurrences

In the first final, referee Groppi did not recognize a goal from Sochaux's half-right Yngve Brodd - it would have been the 3-2 lead - because he had blown the first half of extra time into the Swede's shot.

Le Havre's captain André Strappe had already been in his first cup final ten years earlier with Lille OSC ; In 1953 and 1955 he won his first two trophies in this competition with the northern French .

See also

• Division 1 1958/59
• Division 2 1958/59

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, pp. 332/333
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 375