Coupe de France 1968/69

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1968/69 season was the 52nd draw of the French soccer cup for men's teams. This year 1,377 clubs registered.

The defending champion was AS Saint-Étienne , which was eliminated in the round of 16 this year. The winner of the trophy was Olympique Marseille . This was his seventh cup win in the tenth final; However, Marseille's last success was already 26 years ago and was only won after a replay against the Girondins Bordeaux - the same opponent as in this year's final. The Girondins were in a final for the sixth time in 1969 - the last time this was 12 months earlier -; But they only won one of them, namely the one from 1941 .

Several lower-class clubs came relatively far in the 1968/69 competition. So the second division SCO Angers made it to the semifinals, where he only had to bow to the eventual cup winner. And of the amateur teams, three third division teams were in the top eight: FC Gueugnon , FC Mulhouse and Stade Saint-Germain were eliminated “in lockstep”.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 18 top division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams . The pairings were drawn freely for each round. In the thirty-second and sixteenth-finals there was only one game in a neutral place. If an encounter ended in a draw even after extra time, repeated games were played until a winner was determined. From the last sixteen to the semi-finals, the pairings were decided in the first and second legs; this mode was introduced from this season at the request of the first division, who hoped for higher income from it. If there was then a tie between the two teams - goals scored away from home did not count twice - a playoff match was played on a neutral pitch.

Thirty-second finals

Games on the 12th, repeat matches on January 19th, 1969. The clubs of the two professional leagues are designated D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with CFA, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH and PH ("Division d'Honneur" or . "Promotion d'Honneur").

Stade Saint-Germain CFA - AC Ajaccio D1 3-2 FC Metz D1 - SO Merlebach CFA 2: 0 EDS Montluçon CFA - FA Cournon-Le Cendre CFA 4: 1 FC Nantes D1 - FC Limoges D2 6-3 OGC Nice D1 - Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours CFA 2: 1 Olympique Nîmes D2 - SC Challans DH 1: 1 aet, 6: 1 Stade Reims D2 - FC Saint-Louis 1911 CFA 3-2 aet Olympique Marseille D1 - Olympique Avignon D2 1-0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - UO Albertville DH 3-0 Stade Mont-de-Marsan CFA - FC Lorient D2 3-0 Red Star Paris D1 - SEC Bastia D1 4-1 Racing Paris -Sedan D1 - CA Mantes CFA 4-0 AS Strasbourg CFA - RCFC Besançon D2 3-2 RC Strasbourg D1 - FC Sochaux D1 2: 1 n.v. Sporting Toulon D2 - AS Montferrand CFA 2-0 US Valenciennes D1 - US Dunkerque D2 1-0

Stade Rennes UC D1 - Bagnères-Luchon Sports CFA 11: 1 AC Évreux DH - CO Roubaix-Tourcoing DH 2: 1 AS Aix D2 - AS Cannes D2 2-1 SCO Angers D2 - SM Caen CFA 2: 1 AS Angoulême D2 - AS Béziers D2 3-0 RC Bollène DH - RC Agathois Agde DH 1: 2, 2: 0 (a) Girondins Bordeaux D1 - SO Montpellier D2 5-0 FC Mulhouse CFA - AC Chaumont D2 1-0 SO Cholet CFA - SO Châtellerault CFA 2: 1 Olympique Lyon D1 - AS Nancy D2 2-0 aet FC Grenoble D2 - AS Monaco D1 4-3 a.d. FC Gueugnon CFA - US Vésinet PH 3: 1 a.d. ESCN La Ciotat CFA - FC Sète CFA 2-0 RC Lens D2 - Olympique Saint-Quentin CFA 3-0 OSC Lille D2 - US Quevilly CFA 0-0 aet, 1-0 AC Cambrai CFA - FC Rouen D1 1-0

^(a)The first game was canceled. The referee also stopped the scheduled replay; the FFF rated the encounter as a victory for Bollène. The reasons for both game abandons cannot yet be determined.

Round of 16

Play on 9th, re-matches between February 16-26, 1969

AC Évreux DH - RC Bollène DH 2: 2 a.d., 1: 1 a.d., 2: 1 Stade Saint-Germain CFA - ESCN La Ciotat CFA 1: 1 a.d., 0: 0 a.d., 2: 1 FC Gueugnon CFA - Stade Mont-de-Marsan CFA 2-0 OGC Nice D1 - AS Strasbourg CFA 1: 1 aet, 3: 0 Olympique Marseille D1 - Stade Rennes UC D1 3-2 a.d. AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Stade Reims D2 1-0 Red Star Paris D1 - EDS Montluçon CFA 2: 1 n.a. RC Strasbourg D1 - OSC Lille D2 1: 1 n.V., 2: 1

FC Metz D1 - Olympique Nîmes D2 5-2 SCO Angers D2 - RC Lens D2 0: 0 a.d., 3: 1 AS Angoulême D2 - Sporting Toulon D2 2-0 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - FC Grenoble D2 2-1 FC Mulhouse CFA - AS Aix D2 2-0 Olympique Lyon D1 - US Valenciennes D1 3-1 Racing Paris -Sedan D1 - FC Nantes D1 2-0 AC Cambrai CFA - SO Cholet CFA 2-0

Round of 16

1st leg on 2nd, 2nd leg on 9th, replay on March 18, 1969

AC Évreux DH - Stade Saint-Germain CFA 0-1, 1-2 FC Gueugnon CFA - OGC Nice D1 2-3, 2-0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 0-1, 2-2 Red Star Paris D1 - Racing Paris -Sedan D1 3: 2, 0: 1, 1: 3

FC Metz D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 2-0, 1: 4 SCO Angers D2 - Olympique Lyon D1 1-0, 1-2, 3-1 AS Angoulême D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 3: 3, 0: 2 AC Cambrai CFA - FC Mulhouse CFA 0-1, 0-1

Quarter finals

First leg on 29./30. March, second legs between 5th and 9th, repeat match on April 19, 1969

Stade Saint-Germain CFA - Olympique Marseille D1 0-2, 1-5 FC Gueugnon CFA - SCO Angers D2 0-1, 1-2

RC Strasbourg D1 - Racing Paris -Sedan D1 1: 0, 0: 1 a.d. , 2: 3 FC Mulhouse CFA - Girondins Bordeaux D1 0-2, 0-1

Semifinals

1st leg on April 26th, 2nd leg on 3rd / 4th May 1969

SCO Angers D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 0-0, 1-2

Racing Paris -Sedan D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 0: 0, 3: 4

final

Game on May 18, 1969 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 39,460 spectators

• Olympique Marseille - Girondins Bordeaux 2: 0 (0: 0)

Team lineups

Olympique Marseille: Jean-Paul Escale - Jean-Pierre Lopez , Jean-Louis Hodoul , Jules Zvunka , Jean Djorkaeff - Jacques Novi , Jean-Pierre Destrumelle - Roger Magnusson , Joseph Yegba Maya , Joseph Bonnel , Hubert Guéniche
Trainer: Mario Zatelli

Girondins Bordeaux: Christian Montes - Gérard Papin , André Chorda , Bernard Baudet , Robert Péri - Guy Calléja , Claude Petyt - Jacques Simon , Carlos Ruiter , Félix Burdino ( Didier Couécou , 65), Édouard Wojciak
Trainer: "Jean-Pierre" Bakrim

Referee: Roger Machin (Nancy)

Gates

1-0 Papin (82nd, own goal)
2-0 Yegba Maya (89th)

Special occurrences

The final pairing between Marseille and Bordeaux has taken place four times to date ( 2008 ), namely in addition to 1943 and 1969, also in 1986 and 1987 . This makes it one of the most frequent in the 91-year history of the competition; both clubs won twice each.

Olympiques "Zizou" Bonnel had scored at least one goal in each round of the competition, including the decisive 2-1 in the final minute of the semi-final against Angers; only in the endgame he came away empty-handed.

See also

• Division 1 1968/69
• Division 2 1968/69

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. 385; Bonnel actually had the nickname a good two decades before another "Zizou" .