Coupe de France 1967/68

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1967/68 season was the 51st playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,378 clubs registered.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF had been completed , the 20 top division teams also intervened in the thirty-second finals . The pairings were drawn freely for each round; all encounters took place in a neutral place, the income was shared. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, replay games were played until a winner was determined.

The cup won that year AS Saint-Étienne ; it was their second win of this trophy after 1962. At the same time, the Verts - the ASSE is often referred to as “green” because of the color of their dress - won their first doublé in the club's history in 1968 . The most successful amateur club was the third division US Quevilly , which eliminated last year's cup winner Olympique Lyon in the round of 16 and made it to the semifinals; amateurs had last advanced that far in 1934 when the RC Roubaix succeeded. In the time before professionalism was introduced, in 1927 , Quevilly had even been in the final once.

Thirty-second finals

Games between January 13th and 24th, replay matches on January 21st and 27th, 1968; the respective league membership is indicated with D1 and D2 for the two professional leagues, CFA for the national league and DH ("Division d'Honneur") for the top regional amateur league.

Round of 16

Games on 10/11 February, re-matches on February 18 and 21, 1968

Round of 16

Games on 8th and 10th, re-match on March 13, 1968

Quarter finals

Games on 30./31. March, re-match on April 4, 1968

Semifinals

Games on April 17th and 20th, replay on May 1st, 1968

final

Game on May 12, 1968 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 33,959 spectators

Team lineups

AS Saint-Étienne: Georges Carnus - Vladimir Durković , Roland Mitoraj , Bernard Bosquier , Georges Polny - Aimé Jacquet , Robert Herbin Team captain - André Fefeu , Hervé Revelli , Rachid Mekhloufi , Georges Bereta
Trainer: Albert Batteux

Girondins Bordeaux: Christian Montes - Bernard Baudet , Didier Desremeaux , André Chorda , Robert Peri - Guy Calléja Team captain , Didier Couécou - Héctor De Bourgoing , Carlos Ruiter ( Henri Duhayot , 75th), Gabriel Abossolo , Edouard Wojciak
Trainer: "Jean-Pierre" Bakrim

Referee: Roger Barde (Lyon)

Gates

0: 1 Wojciak (5th)
1: 1 Mekhloufi (30th)
2: 1 Mekhloufi (78th, by penalty kick)

Special occurrences

Saint-Étienne's coach Batteux decided shortly before kick-off to replace Malian striker Salif Keïta with veteran Rachid Mekhloufi. He thanked Batteux with a great performance, not only because of his two goals.

The 75th minute of the game marked a first in the 51-year history of the competition: the replacement of Carlos Ruiter by Henri Duhayot was the first ever player change during a final for the Coupe de France. For this season, the French Football Association had generally allowed the exchange of one player per team.

When events came to a head in Paris in May 1968 , President de Gaulle had himself represented in the stadium by the President of the National Assembly , Jacques Chaban-Delmas . This, at the same time long-time mayor of Bordeaux , then had to hand over the trophy to Saint-Étienne's captain, while "his" Girondins after 1943 , 1952 , 1955 and 1964 attended a handover ceremony as losers for the fifth time in a row.

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, p. 384
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 333
  3. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 102/103