Coupe de France 1978/79

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1978/79 season was the 62nd playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 2,473 clubs registered.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF had been completed , the 20 top division teams also intervened in the thirty-second finals . The pairings were drawn freely for each round; however, the clubs of the top division had the privilege of being set in the thirty-second finals and not being able to meet. All matches except for the first nationwide round and the final (only one match each on a neutral pitch, possibly with extra time and penalty shoot-outs to determine the winner) were played in home and away matches. If both teams scored the same number of goals, the one who scored more goals on the opponent's pitch won. If it was the same here, the second leg was first extended and then - if necessary - a penalty shoot-out was carried out.

FC Nantes won the cup this year ; it was his first win that trophy. Previously, the Canaris - so called because of their yellow dress - had played in three finals ( 1966 , 1970 , 1973 ) and lost all of them. For final opponent AJ Auxerre , who was still a second division until the summer of 1980 , this participation in the finals marked the beginning of the rise into the circle of top French clubs, which lasted into the 21st century.

Defending champion AS Nancy failed in the round of 16 against a second division team. Three clubs from France's overseas possessions had also qualified for the thirty-second finals, one each from Martinique (Good Luck Fort-de-France), Guadeloupe (La Gauloise Basse-Terre) and French Polynesia (CS Papeete). Only two amateur clubs made it into the round of the best 32 teams (third division clubs ES La Rochelle and CS Thonon); there came the cup-out for both, so that the professionals stayed among themselves from the round of 16.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 10/11, replay February 21, 1979; the respective league membership is indicated with D1 or D2 for the two professional leagues, D3 or D4 for the national and DH ("Division d'Honneur") for the top regional amateur leagues.

Girondins Bordeaux D1 - EA Guingamp D2 1-0 FC Metz D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 3-1 Olympique Lyon D1 - AS Cannes D2 3-0 Paris FC D1 - Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours D3 5-1 RC Lens D2 - Stade Laval D1 3: 2 FC Gueugnon D2 - Good Luck Fort-de-France DH 2-0 AS Nancy D1 - AS Creil D3 8: 2 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Saint-Pol-de-Léon DH 5-0 AS Angoulême D2 - US Saintes D3 3-2 Olympique Alès D2 - FC Sochaux D1 3: 3 aet (4: 3 pi) US Valenciennes D1 - CS Papeete DH 12-0 SR Saint-Dié D2 - SA Épinal D2 3-0 Stade Quimper D2 - LB Châteauroux D2 3: 1 a.d. AS Monaco D1 - AS Muret D3 1-0 Le Bourg-s.-La Roche D3 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 1: 6 RC Strasbourg D1 - CS Sedan D3 3-0

CS Thonon D3 - AS Béziers D2 2-1 OGC Nice D1 - INF Vichy D3 3-0 FC Nantes D1 - AS Beauvais D4 8-0 Stade Reims D1 - SM Caen D3 3-0 AJ Auxerre D2 - AC Chaumont D2 4: 2 n.v. Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 - FC Sète D3 1-0 SC Amiens D2 - FC Rouen D2 3-1 SCO Angers D1 - Le Havre AC D3 1-0 SEC Bastia D1 - Stade Brest D2 7-0 RCFC Besançon D2 - Olympique Saint-Quentin D3 1-0 ES La Rochelle D3 - Stade Saint-Brieuc D3 2-1 Olympique Avignon D2 - Vauban Strasbourg D3 1-0 OSC Lille D1 - Calais RUFC D3 2-0 Olympique Marseille D1 - Sporting Toulon D2 3-1 La Gauloise Basse-Terre DH - FC Martigues D2 2-3 aet (a) Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - Olympique Nîmes D1 1: 1 (b) , 1: 1 a.d. (3: 2 on p.

^(a)Game abandoned because of spectator riots in Pointe-à-Pitre after the guests' opening goal (100th minute of the game); the game was counted with the existing result for Martigues.

^(b) The first game was canceled after 90 minutes due to heavy rain.

Round of 16

First legs on 9-11, second legs between 23 and 25 March 1979

Girondins Bordeaux D1 - SEC Bastia D1 1-0, 0-2 FC Metz D1 - AS Angoulême D2 0-2, 0-1 Olympique Lyon D1 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 1: 1, 0: 3 Paris FC D1 - SCO Angers D1 0-2, 0-0 RC Lens D2 - AS Nancy D1 1: 2, 3: 3 FC Gueugnon D2 - Olympique Alès D2 3-0, 1-2 US Valenciennes D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 0-4, 1-3 Stade Quimper D2 - AJ Auxerre D2 0-1, 0-0

AS Monaco D1 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 2-1, 4-1 CS Thonon D3 - FC Nantes D1 1: 1, 1: 3 OGC Nice D1 - FC Martigues D2 1-0, 2-2 SC Amiens D2 - OSC Lille D1 0-2, 0-3 RCFC Besançon D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 1-2, 0-1 ES La Rochelle D3 - Stade Reims D1 1: 1, 1: 2 Olympique Avignon D2 - Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 4-1, 0-2 Olympique Marseille D1 - SR Saint-Dié D2 3-1, 3-1

Round of 16

First legs on 12th and 13th, second legs on April 17, 1979

SEC Bastia D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 0-2, 1-4 AS Nancy D1 - AS Angoulême D2 1-0, 0-3 FC Gueugnon D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 3-0, 0-2 AJ Auxerre D2 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 0-0, 2-0

FC Nantes D1 - OGC Nice D1 2-1, 2-1 OSC Lille D1 - AS Monaco D1 2-1, 3-1 Stade Reims D1 - Olympique Avignon D2 1: 1, 0: 1 Olympique Marseille D1 - SCO Angers D1 4-2, 2-1

Quarter finals

First leg on 9th, second leg on 12th May 1979

AS Angoulême D2 - Olympique Avignon D2 1-0, 1-0 FC Gueugnon D2 - RC Strasbourg D1 0-6 , 0-2

AJ Auxerre D2 - Lille OSC D1 0-0, 2-1 FC Nantes D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 3-1, 2-4

Semifinals

First leg on 6th, second leg on 9th June 1979

AJ Auxerre D2 - RC Strasbourg D1 0-0, 2-2

FC Nantes D1 - AS Angoulême D2 6-2, 1-1

final

Game on June 16, 1979 in the Prinzenpark Stadium in Paris in front of 46,070 spectators

• FC Nantes - AJ Auxerre 4: 1 (1: 1, 1: 0) n.v.

Team lineups

FC Nantes: Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes - Maxime Bossis , Patrice Rio ( Raynald Denoueix , 85th), Henri Michel , Thierry Tusseau - Oscar Muller , Omar Sahnoun , Gilles Rampillon - Enzo Trossero ( Bruno Baronchelli , 61st), Éric Pécout , Loïc Amisse
Coach: Jean Vincent

AJ Auxerre: Maryan Szeja - Lucien Denis , Olivier Borel , Christian Roque , Jean-Paul Noël - Dominique Cuperly , Paul Brot , Serge Mesonès - Josef Klose , Jean-Marc Schaer ( André Truffaut , 78th), Philippe Delancray ( Gérard Hallet , 106.)
Coach: Guy Roux

Referee: Michel Vautrot (Besançon)

Gates

1: 0 Pécout (11th)
1: 1 Mesonès (49th)
2: 1 Pécout (104th)
3: 1 Muller (113th)
4: 1 Pécout (120th)

Special occurrences

Éric Pécout was the first player in cup history to score three goals in a final; to date ( 2009 ) this has only been successful in Jean-Pierre Papin ( 1989 with Olympique Marseille).

For Nantes' Jean Vincent it was the fourth win of a Coupe de France after 1953 , 1955 and 1958 - but his first as a coach.

There had not been four second division players among the remaining eight quarter-finalists in France for 21 years ; and they also made up half of the participants in the semifinals and final.

See also

• Division 1 1978/79
• Division 2 1978/79

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, p. 333
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 395
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 430
4. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 123/124