Coupe de France 1972/73

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1972/73 season was the 56th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 1,596 clubs registered.

The defending champion was Olympique Marseille , who this year failed in the quarter-finals at the eventual winner of the trophy, Olympique Lyon . This was Lyon's third cup win - he last achieved it in 1967 - when he made it to the finals for the fifth time in just ten years . Final opponents FC Nantes, on the other hand, also lost their third final after 1966 and 1970 , but could console themselves by winning the championship again . Most of the lower class participants dropped out early this season; with En Avant Guingamp only one amateur team survived the sixteenth finals. After the Breton fifth division had thrown two second division players out of the race, they failed at the third, FC Rouen , in the round of 16. For its part, Rouen met in the quarterfinals on the only other Ligue 2 representative remaining in the competition, Olympique Avignon , who then lost to Lyon.

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional associations of the Fédération Française de Football , the 20 first division clubs also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams . In this thirty-second final there was still a certain regional pre-sorting of the teams, after which the fixtures for each round were freely drawn. In the thirty-second and sixteenth finals, all encounters took place in a neutral place. If an encounter ended in a draw after extra time, only one replay was played, which was decided by a penalty shoot-out after extra time. 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 the penalty shootout.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 28th, repeat matches on February 4th and 7th, 1973. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with D3, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH and DHR (“Division d'Honneur ”or“ Division d'Honneur Régionale ”).

Stade Reims D1 - FC Limoges D2 6-1 Olympique Marseille D1 - AS Monaco D2 3-2 EDS Montluçon D2 - Sporting Toulon D2 2-0 AS Mutzig D3 - AJ Auxerre D3 1: 1 a.d., 1: 0 FC Nantes D1 - SCO Angers D1 3-1 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Montpellier-Littoral FC D3 3-1 Paris FC D1 - SA Épinal D3 1-0 US Valenciennes D1 - SC Amiens D2 1-0 Stade Poitiers D2 - AS Libourne D3 3-1 CA Mantes D2 - US Toulouse D2 2-1 FC Rouen D2 - Paris Saint-Germain D3 4-0 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Troyes Aube Football D2 2-1 Red Star Paris D1 - Stade Rennes UC D1 3-1 CS Sedan D1 - US Dunkerque D2 2: 1 FC Sochaux D1 - AS Nancy D1 2-1 Racing Club de France DH - AS Aix D3 0-0 ae, 3-2

AS Cannes D2 - RC Strasbourg D1 1-0 SC Abbeville D3 - CA Lisieux D3 2-1 AC Ajaccio D1 - FC Metz D1 1-0 AS Angoulême D2 - Stella Maris Douarnenez DH 1-0 AC Arles D2 - ASCA Wittelsheim D3 1: 1 aet, 2: 0 Olympique Avignon D2 - SO Mazamet DH 3: 1 SEC Bastia D1 - OGC Nice D1 2-0 UMS Montélimar D2 - CS Beaucourt DHR 4: 0 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - SM Caen D2 2-0 Olympique Lyon D1 - US Nœux-les-Mines D3 3-1 LB Châteauroux D2 - FC Sète D2 4-2 AC Chaumont D2 - CS Cuiseaux-Louhans D2 3-2 FC Gueugnon D2 - FC Bourges D2 3-0 EA Guingamp DHR - US Le Mans D2 4: 2 OSC Lille D2 - RC Lens D2 1: 1 aet, 2: 0 FC Lorient D2 - ES La Rochelle D3 3-0

Round of 16

Games on 18th, replay on February 25, 1973

Stade Reims D1 - AS Mutzig D3 1-0 Olympique Marseille D1 - AC Ajaccio D1 2-0 EDS Montluçon D2 - UMS Montélimar D2 2-0 FC Nantes D1 - CS Sedan D1 1-0 Olympique Nîmes D1 - US Valenciennes D1 3: 2 a.d. Paris FC D1 - SEC Bastia D1 3-2 FC Rouen D2 - FC Gueugnon D2 3: 2 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - AS Cannes D2 1-0

Red Star Paris D1 - SC Abbeville D3 2-0 FC Sochaux D1 - AC Chaumont D2 3-0 AC Arles D2 - LB Châteauroux D2 2-0 Olympique Avignon D2 - CA Mantes D2 1-0 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - AS Angoulême D2 3-1 Olympique Lyon D1 - Racing Club de France DH 2: 1 EA Guingamp DHR - FC Lorient D2 2: 1 OSC Lille D2 - Stade Poitiers D2 1: 1 aet, 4: 3

Round of 16

First legs between 9 and 11, second legs between 13 and 18 March 1973

Olympique Marseille D1 - OSC Lille D2 0-1, 2-0 EDS Montluçon D2 - Olympique Avignon D2 0: 4, 1: 2 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Stade Reims D1 2-1, 2-0 Paris FC D1 - FC Nantes D1 2-4 , 1-0

AS Saint-Étienne D1 - AC Arles D2 3-0, 4-0 FC Sochaux D1 - Red Star Paris D1 3: 1, 1: 3 a.d. (4: 5 on p. Olympique Lyon D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 3-0, 1-3 EA Guingamp DHR - FC Rouen D2 0-5, 0-3

Quarter finals

First legs on 13/14, second legs on 18 April 1973

Olympique Marseille D1 - Olympique Lyon D1 1-0, 0-4 Olympique Nîmes D1 - Red Star Paris D1 4: 2, 1: 2

AS Saint-Étienne D1 - FC Nantes D1 2-0, 1: 5 aet FC Rouen D2 - Olympique Avignon D2 2-0, 0-6

Semifinals

1st leg on 6th, 2nd leg on 8th / 9th June 1973

Olympique Nîmes D1 - FC Nantes D1 0-0, 0-3

Olympique Avignon D2 - Olympique Lyon D1 1-0, 1: 4

final

Game on June 17, 1973 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 45,734 spectators

• Olympique Lyon - FC Nantes 2-1 (1-0)

Team lineups

Olympique Lyon: Yves Chauveau - Raymond Domenech , Ljubomir Mihajlović , Robert Cacchioni , Bernard Lhomme - Georges Prost , Dobrivoje Trivić , Serge Chiesa , Daniel Ravier - Bernard Lacombe , Fleury Di Nallo Trainer: Aimé Mignot

FC Nantes: Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes - Jean-Claude Osman , "Hugo" Bargas , Bernard Gardon , Gabriel De Michèle - Henri Michel , Michel Pech - Bernard Blanchet , Didier Couécou , Gilles Rampillon , Erich Maas
Coach: José Arribas

Referee: Robert Wurtz (Strasbourg)

Gates

1-0 Trivić (29th, by penalty)
2-0 Lacombe (63rd)
2-1 Couécou (85th)

Special occurrences

Referee Wurtz attracted the derision of both teams and the criticism of the specialist press because he recognized two goals in the final, each of which was preceded by an obvious handball by the goalscorers Lacombe (Lyon) and Couécou (Nantes). Couécou, who played his third final with the third club - after 1969 with Bordeaux and 1972 with Marseille - was quoted after the game as saying: "Today the referee was Ray Charles ". Robert Wurtz, one of the most prominent French referees of the 1970s, was supposed to lead another final of the Coupe de France in 1976 despite these mistakes .

See also

• Division 1 1972/73
• Division 2 1972/73

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. 389; similar to Beaudet, p. 113