Coupe de France 1977/78

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1977/78 season was the 61st playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 2,544 clubs, including those from overseas possessions of France , registered, of which the Club Colonial Cayenne ( Guyane ) and Jeunesse Sportive Saint-Pierre ( Réunion ) even qualified for the first national round; the number of participants increased by more than a fifth compared to the previous record.

The defending champion was AS Saint-Étienne , which was eliminated in the sixteenth finals this year. The winner of the trophy was the Association Sportive de Nancy-Lorraine in its only finals participation to date ( 2009 ). Final opponent Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice had penetrated into the decisive game for the third time; in its first two appearances, the OGC had left the stadium as the winner, although that was around two and a half decades ago ( 1952 and 1954 ). Lower-class teams didn't get very far this season. There were still five second division players in the round of 16, but none of them reached the quarter-finals. There was even less to win for the amateur teams: only two of them - both third division clubs - had survived the first national round, but neither ES Viry-Châtillon nor Stade Saint-Brieuc made it to the round of 16.

After the qualification 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 ; they were seeded in it, so they could only meet from the sixteenth finals. The pairings were otherwise freely drawn 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 semifinals, home and return games were played. If both teams scored the same number of goals (with 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 28/29 January and February 7, 1978. The clubs of the two professional leagues are designated with D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with D3, the highest regional amateur league as DH ("Division d'Honneur").

Club Colonial Cayenne DH Guyane - OSC Lille D2 0-4 ES Viry-Châtillon D3 - LB Châteauroux D2 1-0 AS Angoulême D2 - JS Saint-Pierre DH Réunion 3-1 Stade Reims D1 - US Grand Boulogne D2 4: 2 a.d. Pierrots-Vauban Strasbourg D3 - AS Nancy D1 0: 1 US Toulouse D2 - Stade Laval D1 3: 1 a.d. Olympique Nîmes D1 - FC Sète D3 2-1 Red Star Paris D2 - AS Poissy D3 2: 1 n.v. Olympique Marseille D1 - Stade Brest D2 1-0 Stade Saint-Brieuc D3 - EA Guingamp D2 1-0 SR Saint-Dié D2 - EAC Chaumont D2 1: 1 a.d. (3: 2 on pens) AS Saint-Étienne D1 - SCO Angers D2 0: 0 aet (3: 1 on pens) Paris Saint-Germain D1 - Sporting Toulon D2 2-0 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 - Olympique Lyon D1 0-0 aet (3-1 pi) AC Arles D2 - SO Pont de Chéruy D3 1: 1 a.d. (7: 6 p.e.) Entente Fontainebleau-Bagneaux-Nemours D2 - SM Caen D2 1-0

US Dunkerque D2 - RC Lens D1 1-0 Paris FC D2 - RC Strasbourg D1 1: 4 FC Tours D2 - ESA Brive DH 2: 1 Troyes Aube Foot D1 - AJ Auxerre D2 1-0 US Valenciennes D1 - Calais RUFC D3 2-0 FC Sochaux D1 - US Tavaux-Damparis D3 3-0 FC Limoges D2 - FC Rouen D1 2-1 Olympique Avignon D2 - US Albi DH 2: 1 n.V. OGC Nice D1 - SA Épinal D2 2: 1 Amicale Lucé D2 - US Nœux-les-Mines D2 6-0 FC Martigues D2 - CS Thonon DH 2-0 FC Metz D1 - FC Masevaux DH 5-0 AS Monaco D1 - Olympique Alès D2 4-1 FC Nantes D1 - Le Havre AC D3 2-0 aet Girondins Bordeaux D1 - Stade Rennes D2 3-0 SEC Bastia D1 - AS Cannes D2 3-1

Round of 16

First legs between February 17 and March 2, second legs between February 22 and March 14, 1978

Troyes Aube Foot D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 2-2, 0-3 ES Viry-Châtillon D3 - Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 1: 1, 1: 3 Olympique Avignon D2 - US Valenciennes D1 3-1, 0-2 OGC Nice D1 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 2: 1, 3: 3 ate Stade Saint-Brieuc D3 - AS Nancy D1 0-2, 0-3 Entente Fontainebleau-Bagneaux-Nemours D2 - AS Monaco D1 1: 2, 1: 5 US Dunkerque D2 - Olympique Nîmes D1 0: 0, 1: 1 RC Strasbourg D1 - SEC Bastia D1 0-3, 0-0

Lille OSC D2 - SR Saint-Dié D2 1-0, 1-0 Tours FC D2 - Stade Reims D1 1: 1, 0: 2 AC Arles D2 - AS Angoulême D2 0-1, 0-2 Red Star Paris D2 - FC Metz D1 2-2, 0-2 FC Sochaux D1 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 0-0, 2-2 FC Limoges D2 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 3-2, 0-2 Amicale Lucé D2 - FC Nantes D1 1: 2, 1: 3 FC Martigues D2 - US Toulouse D2 1-0, 0-0

Round of 16

First legs on 17./18., Second legs on 21./22. March 1978

Olympique Marseille D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1-0, 2-0 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 - US Valenciennes D1 4-1, 0-5 AS Nancy D1 - FC Martigues D2 2-0, 1-1 Lille OSC D2 - AS Monaco D1 1: 1, 2: 3

Stade Reims D1 - SEC Bastia D1 0-1, 1-2 AS Angoulême D2 - FC Sochaux D1 0-0, 0-1 FC Metz D1 - OGC Nice D1 0-2, 0-3 FC Nantes D1 - US Dunkerque D2 2-0, 5-0

Quarter finals

First leg on 14/15, second leg on April 18, 1978

US Valenciennes D1 - AS Nancy D1 0-0, 0-3 SEC Bastia D1 - AS Monaco D1 2-1, 0-2

FC Sochaux D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 0-0, 1-0 OGC Nice D1 - FC Nantes D1 4-1, 0-1

Semifinals

First leg on 5th, second leg on 8th May 1978

FC Sochaux D1 - AS Nancy D1 1-0, 0-5

OGC Nice D1 - AS Monaco D1 1: 0, 1: 1

final

Game on May 13, 1978 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 45,998 spectators

• AS Nancy - OGC Nice 1-0 (0-0)

Team lineups

AS Nancy: Jean-Michel Moutier - Jacques Perdrieau ( Jean-Pierre Raczynski , 79th), Jean-Claude Cloët , Pierre Neubert , Carlos Curbelo - Bernard Caron , Philippe Jeannol , Francisco Rubio - Olivier Rouyer , Michel Platini , Fathi Chebel
Trainers: Antoine Redin

OGC Nice: Dominique Baratelli - Henri Zambelli , Dominique Morabito , Josip Katalinski , Robert Barraja - Roger Jouve , Jean-Marc Guillou , Jean-Noël Huck - Daniel Sanchez , Nenad Bjeković , Christian Cappadona ( Nabatingue Toko , 75th)
Trainer: Léon Rossi

Referee: Achille Verbecke (Lomme)

Gates

1-0 Platini (57th)

Special occurrences

In this event, the substitution of two players per team was permitted for the first time; In the final, no team took advantage of this opportunity. For his referee Verbecke, it was his second personal final after 1974 .

For four players, the season was not completed after the final for a long time: Rouyer, Platini (both Nancy), Baratelli and Guillou (both Nice) then traveled with the team to the first French World Cup appearance since twelve years .

See also

• Division 1 1977/78
• Division 2 1977/78

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