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").
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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
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Round of 16
First leg on April 6, second leg on April 10, 1976
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Quarter finals
First leg on 4th, second leg on 7th May 1976
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Semifinals
Games on May 29, 1976
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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
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