Coupe de France 1969/70

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1969/70 season was the 53rd playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,375 clubs registered.

After completing the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the FFF regional association , the 18 top division clubs also intervened in the thirty-second finals  . The pairings were drawn freely for each round; In the thirty-second and sixteenth finals, 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. From the last sixteen up to and including the semi-finals, however, there was a return leg. If there was then a tie between the goals scored - away goals not counting twice - the second leg was extended. If there was still no winner, the decision had to be brought about in a third game, again on a neutral pitch and possibly with extra time and penalty shoot-out.

Defending champion Olympique Marseille failed in the thirty-second finals, albeit against an opponent from Division 1. The cup won this year by AS Saint-Étienne ; it was her third win of this trophy after 1962 and 1968. At the same time, the Verts - the ASSE is often referred to as "green" because of the color of their dress - also won their fourth championship title in a row in 1970 and thus also their second doublé in the club's history. For final opponents FC Nantes, however, this was the second defeat in their second participation in the final.

The most successful amateur clubs were the third division US Baume-les-Dames, US Le Mans and AC Arles , which made it to the round of 16. From the second division , FC Limoges and RFC Paris-Neuilly made it to the quarter-finals; Neuilly did not even admit defeat until after a play-off.

Thirty-second finals

Games on the 8th, repeat matches on February 15, 1970. The respective league membership is given as D1 or D2 for the two professional leagues, CFA for the national and DH ("Division d'Honneur") for the top regional amateur league.

Round of 16

Play on February 28th and March 1st, re-match on March 8th, 1970

Round of 16

First legs on 22nd, second legs between 26th and 28th March, play-off matches between 1st and 5th April 1970

(a)The play-off in Nîmes was abandoned in the 89th minute because Bastia supporters stormed onto the field, beating the referee and even Bastia's goalkeeper Paul Orsatti, who wanted to protect him and injured his hand. The FFF evaluated the match with the score when it was canceled.

Quarter finals

First legs between 10th and 12th, second legs on 18th and 19th, decider match on April 26, 1970

Semifinals

First leg on 9th, second leg on 15th / 16th May 1970

final

Game on May 31, 1970 at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes in front of 32,894 spectators

Team lineups

AS Saint-Étienne: Georges Carnus - Vladimir Durković , Robert Herbin Team captain , Bernard Bosquier , Georges Polny - Jean-Michel Larqué , Aimé Jacquet - Patrick Parizon , Hervé Revelli , Salif Keïta , Georges Bereta
Trainer: Albert Batteux

FC Nantes: Jean-Michel Fouché - Jean-Claude Osman , Vincent Estève , Roger Lemerre Team captain , Gabriel De Michèle - Georges Eo ( Claude Arribas , 56th), Michel Pech - Bernard Blanchet , Philippe Gondet , Henri Michel , Philippe Levavasseur
Trainer: José Arribas

Referee: Robert Héliès (Toulon)

Gates

1: 0 Parizon (26th)
2: 0 Bereta (40th)
3: 0 Herbin (51st)
4: 0 Revelli (74th)
5: 0 Revelli (87th)

Special occurrences

This competition ended with the highest final win in cup history; five goals difference has not existed before and after (up to and including 2012 ) in any final. Until then, the record was two 4-0 wins ( 1943 and 1944 ).

With the exception of Larqué, Parizon and Keïta, all the finalists in the "Verts" - including coach Batteux - had already won the final two years earlier . For Robert Herbin it was the third victory in the Coupe de France since 1962 , and three more were to be added, but then as coach of this club.

In the round of 16 play-off between Nîmes and Saint-Étienne on April 1 on the “ Parc des Princes construction site ”, which was overcrowded by several thousand spectators , roof tiles fell off due to the fresh snow load, seriously injuring three visitors and another 16 slightly.

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. 386