Coupe de France 1975/76

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1975/76 season was the 59th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 1,977 clubs registered, including those from overseas French possessions , of which CS Saint-Denis from Réunion even qualified for the first national round.

The defending champion was AS Saint-Étienne , which this year was eliminated in the thirty-second finals, although at the end of the season they were again French champions and were in the final of the European Cup . The winner of the trophy was Olympique Marseille . This was his ninth cup win in the twelfth final; Marseille had won the last title four years earlier . Final opponent Olympique Lyon was in a coupe final for the sixth time and lost for the third time; however, Lyon's last win ( 1973 ) was only a few years ago. Already in the sixteenth finals, the half dozen amateur teams that had survived the first national round ended the hope of further outsider successes. Even from the second division , only one reached the quarter-finals with the SCO Angers .

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 20 top division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams . The pairings were drawn freely for each round and took place in the thirty-second and semi-finals in a neutral place; if the score was tied after extra time there was a penalty shootout. From the sixteenth to the quarter-finals, home and return games were played. If both teams had scored the same number of goals (without the away goals counting twice), the second leg was first extended and then - if necessary - a penalty shoot-out was carried out.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 31, 1 and 8 (Béziers against Ajaccio only on February 29), 1976. The clubs in the two professional leagues are designated D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with D3, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH or PH ("Division d'Honneur" or "Promotion d'Honneur").

US Dunkerque D2 - SM Caen D2 2-0 US Valenciennes D1 - FC Nantes D1 4-2 aet Montpellier La Paillade SC DH - Sporting Toulon D2 2: 2 aet (4: 2 on pens) AS Nancy D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 2-1 Stade Brest D2 - SC Amiens D2 2: 2 n.V. (5: 3 on pi) Paris Saint-Germain D1 - AS Corbeil-Essonnes D3 3-1 Stade Rennes D2 - ES Juvisy D3 6: 0 FC Metz D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 5: 2 n.v. OGC Nice D1 - EDS Montluçon D2 2-1 Olympique Nîmes D1 - AS Monaco D1 1-0 Stade Reims D1 - RCFC Besançon D2 0: 0 aet (3: 1 on pens) FC Sète D2 - FC Martigues D2 4-1 FC Sochaux D1 - AS Cannes D2 1-0 a.d. Troyes Aube Football D1 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 2-0 AS Vauban Strasbourg PH - Racing Club Épernay D3 5-0 SR Saint-Dié D2 - Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours D2 3-1

US Toulouse D2 - FC Limoges D3 1-0 aet CS Thonon DH - UMS Montélimar DH 3: 1 SCO Angers D2 - FC Tours D2 4: 2 CS Meaux PH - Olympique Saint-Quentin D3 3: 1 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - FC Lorient D2 3: 2 aet EAC Chaumont D2 - CS Sedan D2 3: 1 SEC Bastia D1 - FC Annecy DH 1-0 EA Guingamp DH - CS Saint-Denis DH Réunion 4-0 SR Haguenau D3 - Red Star Paris D2 2: 1 Stade Laval D2 - FC Rouen D2 3-2 aet RC Lens D1 - AS Mutzig D3 2: 2 n.V. (5: 2 i. E.) OSC Lille D1 - USM Malakoff D2 2: 1 Olympique Lyon D1 - SC Saint-Symphorien PH 9: 0 Olympique Marseille D1 - Olympique Avignon D1 2-1 AJ Auxerre D2 - UES Montmorillon D3 3-0 AS Béziers D2 - Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 2-0

Round of 16

First leg on February 26th to 28th (Thonon versus Béziers on March 9th and 14th); Second legs on March 5-7, 1976

US Valenciennes D1 - Olympique Nîmes D1 3-0, 0-2 Montpellier La Paillade SC DH - US Dunkerque D2 2: 3, 1: 2 Stade Brest D2 - Olympique Lyon D1 0-3, 2-1 Stade Rennes D2 - FC Metz D1 0-2, 0-0 OGC Nice D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1-0, 2-1 Troyes Aube Football D1 - FC Sochaux D1 1-1, 2-3 AS Vauban Strasbourg PH - SEC Bastia D1 2: 2, 1: 3 SR Saint-Dié D2 - Stade Reims D1 0-3, 2-4

CS Meaux PH - FC Sète D2 0-2, 0-3 EAC Chaumont D2 - SCO Angers D2 3-1, 0-4 EA Guingamp DH - Lille OSC D1 1: 2, 0: 4 SR Haguenau D3 - AS Nancy D1 0-2, 0-3 Stade Laval D2 - US Toulouse D2 5-1, 0-0 RC Lens D1 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 0-3, 1-1 AJ Auxerre D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 0-0, 0-2 CS Thonon DH - AS Béziers D2 1: 2, 1: 1

Round of 16

First leg on April 6, second leg on April 10, 1976

US Valenciennes D1 - FC Sochaux D1 4-0, 0-0 FC Metz D1 - US Dunkerque D2 4: 1, 1: 2 OGC Nice D1 - SEC Bastia D1 2: 2, 0: 4, (a) x: x (b) Stade Reims D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 1: 1, 1: 3

OSC Lille D1 - Olympique Lyon D1 0-2, 0-4 Stade Laval D2 - AS Nancy D1 1: 3, 1: 1 Paris Saint-Germain D1 - FC Sète D2 3-0, 2-2 AS Béziers D2 - SCO Angers D2 1: 4, 0: 2

^(a)After a very tough first leg, in which Bastias Dragan Džajić injured himself , several OGC players were attacked by spectators before the second leg kicked off in Bastia. As a result, three of them ( Josip Katalinski , Jean François Douis and Jean-Paul Rostagni ) could not or did not want to appear; Nice finally played ten. The FFF canceled the result of this game.

^(b)For the replay scheduled by the FFF on April 30 in Nancy , Nice did not appear in protest; Bastia was declared the winner without a fight.

Quarter finals

First leg on 4th, second leg on 7th May 1976

SEC Bastia D1 - FC Metz D1 0: 1, (c) 0: 0 AS Nancy D1 - US Valenciennes D1 2: 0, 1: 2 aet

Paris Saint-Germain D1 - Olympique Lyon D1 1-1, 0-2 SCO Angers D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 1-0, 0-2

^(c)Since the FFF Bastias Stade Furiani had been suspended due to the incidents in the round of 16, the match took place in Rennes .

Semifinals

Games on May 29, 1976

Olympique Lyon D1 - FC Metz D1 2-0

Olympique Marseille D1 - AS Nancy D1 4-1

final

Game on June 12, 1976 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 45,661 spectators

• Olympique Marseille - Olympique Lyon 2: 0 (0: 0)

Team lineups

Olympique Marseille: Gérard Migeon - Jacky Lemée , Victor Zvunka , Marius Trésor , François Bracci - Robert Buigues , Jean Fernandez , Raoul Noguès ( Jean Martinez , 88th) - Sarr Boubacar , Héctor Yazalde , Georges Bereta
Trainer: Jules Zvunka

Olympique Lyon: Gilles De Rocco - Guy Garrigues , Jean-François Jodar , Ljubomir Mihajlovic , Raymond Domenech - Jean-Paul Bernad , Robert Cacchioni , Ildo Maneiro ( Robert Valette , 74th), Serge Chiesa - Bernard Lacombe , Bernard Ferrigno
Trainer: Aimé Jacquet

Referee: Robert Wurtz (Strasbourg)

Gates

1-0 Noguès (67th)
2-0 Boubacar (84th)

Special occurrences

For Marseilles Georges Bereta, this was the fourth and last coupe of his career, having won the competition three times with AS Saint-Étienne between 1968 and 1974 . Except for Jules Zvunka, who had since moved from the field to the coaching bench, none of the team that won for OM in 1972 was there.

At Lyon, it would have been his fifth cup final for coach Aimé Mignot had his club not replaced him with Aimé Jacquet a few weeks earlier.

Referee Wurtz led his second cup final after 1973 .

See also

• Division 1 1975/76
• Division 2 1975/76

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. 425