Coupe de France 1979/80

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1979/80 season was the 63rd play of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 2,473 clubs registered.

Defending champion was FC Nantes , which was eliminated early this time. The winner of the trophy was the Association Sportive de Monaco . This was the third Cup victory of the Monegas in their fourth participation in the finals; however, the last success was 17 years ago . Final opponent Union Sportive d'Orléans , at home in the second division , played its first final and was only the sixth subclass club since the introduction of professional football in France (1932) to advance that far.

In general, this season developed into the "year of the second division": in the second round they made up half of the remaining participants, in the quarter-finals they were five and in the semifinals they were three against only one first division team . That had never happened since 1932. In contrast, there was not much to gain for the amateur teams: the only three who had survived the thirty-second finals (the third-class Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours, Calais RUFC and the US Montagnarde from Inzinzac-Lochrist in Brittany ) were already eliminated in the following round out.

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; however, the clubs of the top division had the privilege of being set in the thirty-second finals and not being able to meet. This season, however, this protection turned out to be counterproductive: eight first division leaders failed in the first round nationwide, all of them inevitably on lower-class teams. This provision was abolished for the following draw .
All encounters with the exception of the thirty-second finals and the final (only one encounter in each case on a neutral pitch, possibly with extra time and penalty shoot-out to determine the winner) were played in home and return 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.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 9/10 February 1980. The clubs of the two professional leagues are designated D1 and D2, those of the national amateur leagues with D3 or D4, the highest regional amateur leagues as DH ("Division d'Honneur").

EA Guingamp D2 - US Véloce Vannes D4 2-0 FC Mulhouse D2 - Pierrots Vauban Strasbourg D3 2-0 Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - INF Vichy D3 4-1 Stade Quimper D2 - UES Montmorillon D2 5-1 US Orléans D2 - US Nœux-les-Mines D2 2: 1 a.d. US Montagnarde D3 - SCO Angers D1 1-0 Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours D3 - Stade Brest D2 2-1 AS Cannes D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 1: 1 n.V. (4: 2 p. FC Sochaux D1 - FC Thionville D2 2-1 AJ Auxerre D2 - AS Libourne D3 2-1 AS Angoulême D2 - Olympique Lyon D1 0: 0 aet (4: 2 on pens) US Valenciennes D1 - FC Limoges D2 1: 1 n.V. (4: 3 p. AS Saint-Étienne D1 - AS Saint-Médard-en-Jalles D4 4-0 FC Nantes D1 - FC Tours D2 4-1 RC Strasbourg D1 - EDS Montluçon D2 4: 0 Olympique Avignon D2 - Norcap Olympique Grenoble DH 1: 1 aet (6: 5 on pens )

Stade Reims D2 - Racing Club de France D3 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain D1 - AS Creil D3 2-0 Paris FC D2 - ASM Belfort D3 2-1 n.V. FC Rouen D2 - LB Châteauroux D2 2-0 Le Havre AC D2 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 2-1 Olympique Alès D2 - Sporting Toulon D2 3-2 a.d. Stade Rennes D2 - Stade Laval D1 2-0 Olympique Nîmes D1 - FC Toulouse D2 5-1 Calais RUFC D3 - US Dunkerque D2 1-0 OGC Nice D1 - FC Valence D4 1-0 RC Lens D1 - SC Abbeville D3 0: 0 n.v. (6: 5 in good.) Lille OSC D1 - Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 3-0 FC Martigues D2 - SEC Bastia D1 1-0 FC Metz D1 - EAC Chaumont D2 2-0 AS Monaco D1 - AS Béziers D2 3-1 RCFC Besançon D2 - AS Nancy D1 1-0

Round of 16

First legs on March 7th to 9th, second legs on March 14th to 16th 1980

EA Guingamp D2 - US Valenciennes D1 1: 2, 0: 2 Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - FC Mulhouse D2 4-0, 2-3 Stade Quimper D2 - Paris FC D2 1-2, 0-2 US Orléans D2 - US Montagnarde D3 3-0, 3-0 Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours D3 - FC Metz D1 0-0, 1-2 AS Cannes D2 - RCFC Besançon D2 1: 1, 0: 1 AJ Auxerre D2 - Calais RUFC D3 1: 0, 5: 1 Olympique Avignon D2 - AS Angoulême D2 0-0, 0-1

Paris Saint-Germain D1 - RC Lens D1 0-2, 1-1 FC Rouen D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 0-4, 2-4 Olympique Alès D2 - Stade Reims D2 0-1, 0-4 Stade Rennes D2 - Le Havre AC D2 0-0, 2-2 Olympique Nîmes D1 - FC Sochaux D1 1: 1, 0: 1 OGC Nice D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 2-0, 0-1 Lille OSC D1 - FC Nantes D1 1-0, 2-1 FC Martigues D2 - AS Monaco D1 1: 3, 2: 5

Round of 16

First leg on 11th, second leg on 15th and 21st April 1980

US Valenciennes D1 - FC Sochaux D1 2-0, 0-3 US Orléans D2 - RCFC Besançon D2 1-0, 2-1 FC Metz D1 - AJ Auxerre D2 2-2, 0-1 AS Angoulême D2 - Stade Reims D2 2-0, 0-1

RC Lens D1 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 5-4 , 0-2 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - OGC Nice D1 4-1, 2-2 Stade Rennes D2 - Paris FC D2 2-0, 0-4 AS Monaco D1 - OSC Lille D1 4-0, 0-2

Quarter finals

First leg on 9th, second leg on 13th May 1980

FC Sochaux D1 - AS Monaco D1 1: 0, 0: 1 (4: 5 on pens) AS Angoulême D2 - US Orléans D2 2-0, 1: 5

Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 0-0, 1-1 Paris FC D2 - AJ Auxerre D2 1-1, 2-0

Semifinals

First leg on May 30, second leg on June 3, 1980

AS Monaco D1 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 2: 1, 4: 2 aet

US Orléans D2 - Paris FC D2 3-1, 1-2

final

Game on June 7, 1980 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 46,136 spectators

• AS Monaco - US Orléans 3: 1 (1: 1)

Team lineups

AS Monaco: Jean-Luc Ettori - Daniel Zorzetto , Bernard Gardon , Alain Moizan , Alfred Vitalis - Jean Petit , Didier Christophe , Roger Ricort ( Roger Milla , 55.) - Christian Dalger , Delio Onnis , Albert Emon ( Thierry Ninot , 78. )
Coach: Gérard Banide

US Orléans: Patrick Viot - Pascal Drouet , Yannick Plissonneau , André Bodji , Jacky Lemée - Bruno Germain , Roger Marette ( Jacques Froissart , 81st), Michel Albaladéjo - Ante Hamerschmit ( Philippe Helbert , 81st), Joseph Loukaka , Loïc Berthouloux
player- coach : Jacques "Jacky" Lemée

Referee: Georges Konrath (Schwindratzheim)

Gates

1: 0 Marette (6th, own goal)
1: 1 Marette (24th)
2: 1 Emon (47th)
3: 1 Onnis (66th)

Special occurrences

Referee Konrath directed his second final after 1977 , and a third assignment was to be added the following season .

Orléans' two-time final scorer Roger Marette had already ensured that the final decision was reached in the semi-finals with a late goal during the second leg at Paris FC; without this goal the USO would have been eliminated due to the away goals rule.

See also

• Division 1 1979/80
• Division 2 1979/80

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. 428
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 396
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 396