Coupe de France 1960/61

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1960/61 season was the 44th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,193 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 AS Monaco , which was eliminated early this year. The winner of the competition was Union Athlétique Sedan-Torcy . For Sedan it was the second win of this trophy after 1956 , and that in their second final. Final opponent Olympique Nîmes was also in his second final after 1958 and left the place again with a defeat. This negative experience was even to be repeated a third time in 1996 - as the club from the Gard department is considered an “eternal runner-up” because it was runner-up in Division 1 five times , but never won a title. The most successful amateur clubs were the third-rate US Faucigny from Savoy and the Normans from SM Caen , who were there up to the round of the best 16 teams. Two second division partners were even more successful : SO Montpellier and Girondins Bordeaux only failed in the semi-finals.

The participants in the thirty-second final were regionally pre-sorted and drawn together using a rough quarter of the country. From the sixteenth finals onwards, the cup pairings were drawn freely and basically took place on a neutral spot; 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 January 15th, repeat matches on January 19th, 1961. The respective league membership is indicated with D1 or D2 for the two professional leagues, CFA for the nationwide and DH or PH ("Division d'Honneur" or "Promotion d'Honneur") ) for the top regional amateur leagues.

Olympique Marseille D2 - AS Brignoles DH 1-0 Racing Paris D1 - Arago Sports Orléans CFA 3: 0 Olympique Nîmes D1 - US La Seyne DH 6: 1 OGC Nice D1 - AS Cannes D2 2-1 FC Nancy D1 - RCFC Besançon D2 2: 1 aet Girondins Bordeaux D2 - FA Cournon-Le Cendre DH 7-0 SO Montpellier D2 - AS Bagneaux-Nemours DH 5-0 US Faucigny CFA - RC Agathois Agde DH 2-0 AS Monaco D1 - ASP Belfort CFA 1-0 AS Cherbourg D2 - US Boulogne D2 2: 1 aet Olympique Lyon D1 - FC Grenoble D1 2-1 OSC Lille D2 - AS Corbeil-Essonnes CFA 1-0 US Forbach D2 - FC Metz D2 0: 0 nV, 2: 0 Stade Français Paris D1 - RC Arras DH 2-0 SM Caen CFA - RC Lens D1 2: 1 n.v. RC Strasbourg D2 - US Auchel CFA 2: 1

USM Montargis DH - Stade Rennes UC D1 1-0 Toulouse FC D1 - Limoges FC D1 0-0 aet, 2-1 Olympique Alès D2 - ESCN La Ciotat DH 2-0 SCO Angers D1 - FC Pau CFA 9: 1 AS Aulnoye DH - AC Cambrai PH 0: 0 a.d., 2: 0 US Valenciennes D1 - Le Havre AC D1 3: 3 aet, 3: 1 WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - JA Armentières DH 3: 1 AS Troyes-Savinienne D1 - JS Audun DH 2-1 Stade Reims D1 - SC Amiens CFA 6-0 Sporting Toulon D2 - AS Aix D2 2-1 AS Béziers D2 - CA Paris D2 1-0 AS Brest CFA - FC Sochaux D2 0-2 US Saint-Malo DH - US Quevilly CFA 2-1 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - FC Nantes D2 1-0 CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D2 - FC Rouen D1 2-0 SA Rochefort DH - US Saint-Gaudens DH 3: 1

Round of 16

Games on February 12th, repeat games on February 19 and 23, 1961

Racing Paris D1 - Olympique Marseille D2 3: 2 n.a. Olympique Nîmes D1 - AS Béziers D2 2-1 OGC Nice D1 - AS Troyes-Savinienne D1 2-0 FC Nancy D1 - OSC Lille D2 1-0 Girondins Bordeaux D2 - SA Rochefort DH 5: 2 SO Montpellier D2 - AS Aulnoye DH 2-0 US Faucigny CFA - AS Cherbourg D2 3: 1 a.d. Olympique Lyon D1 - SCO Angers D1 1: 1 aet, 4: 2

SM Caen CFA - US Forbach D2 2: 2 aet, 3: 2 RC Strasbourg D2 - USM Montargis DH 4-0 Olympique Alès D2 - Sporting Toulon D2 2-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - FC Toulouse D1 2-1 Stade Reims D1 - US Saint-Malo DH 5-0 FC Sochaux D2 - Stade Français Paris D1 3-1 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - US Valenciennes D1 1-0 CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D2 - AS Monaco D1 2: 1 a.d.

Round of 16

Games on March 5, 1961

Racing Paris D1 - Olympique Lyon D1 3-1 Olympique Nîmes D1 - FC Nancy D1 2-1 OGC Nice D1 - CO Roubaix-Tourcoing D2 6: 2 Girondins Bordeaux D2 - SM Caen CFA 3: 1

SO Montpellier D2 - US Faucigny CFA 4-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - RC Strasbourg D2 2: 0 Stade Reims D1 - Olympique Alès D2 3-1 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - FC Sochaux D2 3-1

Quarter finals

Games on March 26th, replay matches on April 6th and 12th, 1961

Racing Paris D1 - Olympique Nîmes D1 2: 3 a.d. Girondins Bordeaux D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 2: 2 aet, 1: 1 ate, 2: 0

SO Montpellier D2 - Stade Reims D1 2-0 WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - OGC Nice D1 2: 1

Semifinals

Games on the 16th, replay on April 20, 1961

Olympique Nîmes D1 - SO Montpellier D2 2-1

WP Sedan-Torcy D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D2 2: 2 aet, 1: 0

final

Game on May 7, 1961 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 39,070 spectators

• WP Sedan-Torcy - Olympique Nîmes 3: 1 (1: 0)

Team lineups

Substitutions were not possible at the time.

WP Sedan-Torcy: Pierre Bernard - Zacharie Noah , Thadée Polak , Louis Lemasson - Maryan Synakowski , Guy Hatchi - Emilio Salaber , Marcel Mouchel , Mohamed Salem , Maxime Fulgenzy , Claude Brény
Trainer: Louis Dugauguez

Olympique Nîmes: Alexandre Roszak - Mustapha Bettache , Daniel Charles-Alfred , Jean Bandera - Pierre Barlaguet , Christian Oliver - Alain Garnier , Pires Constantino , Hassan Akesbi , Alphonse Cassar , Bernard Rahis
Trainer: Kader Firoud

Referee: Marcel Bois (Tours)

Gates

1: 0 Fulgenzy (16.)
2: 0 Brény (74.)
3: 0 Salem (82.)
3: 1 Constantino (86.)

Special occurrences

The winner of the competition was France's first participant in the newly created European Cup Winners' Cup . There, however, the footballers from the Ardennes were eliminated in the preliminary round against Atlético Madrid .

The oldest player of this cup season was the almost 47-year-old André Simonyi ; now working as a coach at AS Cherbourg , he had to line up himself in two rounds without being able to prevent his eleven from being eliminated by the amateurs of the US Faucigny. In Sedan's ranks stood a footballer, Zacharie Noah, whose son would later become even better known than his father - although Yannick only achieved this in tennis .

The 1961 final is often referred to as a game between "boars" and "crocodiles"; these have been the nicknames of Sedan ( les sangliers ) and Nîmes ( les crocodiles ) for decades . Sedan's supporters brought  a live stream into the stadium for every final their club was involved in - most recently in 2005 . In 1961 the Talis woman was called Dora and was transported in a special SNCF wagon between Sedan and Paris; unlike her predecessor Dudule in 1956, however, she was not allowed to step on the lawn. Nîmes' fans, however, only brought a stuffed reptile with them to the stands.

See also

• Division 1 1960/61
• Division 2 1960/61

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. 377
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 294, with photos by Dudule and Dora.