Coupe de France 1980/81

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1980/81 season was the 64th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 2,924 clubs registered, a good 50% more than in the mid-1970s.

The defending champion was AS Monaco , which this year failed in the round of 16 at the eventual winner of the trophy, the Sporting Étoile Club Bastia . This was Bastia's first cup win in the second final after 1972 and the first national title ever for a Corsican football club. Final opponents AS Saint-Étienne, on the other hand, had already played seven finals and won six of them - the last time in 1977  - and were at this point the second most successful club in the history of the competition after Olympique Marseille .

Marseille, only playing second -rate, had not even made it into the thirty-second finals this season. In contrast, three clubs from France's overseas possessions had also qualified (CS Moule, Club Péléen Morne Rouge and AJ Saint-Georges). Overall, however, the successes of lower-class teams were limited. Two second division partners ( Montpellier La Paillade SC , FC Martigues ) reached the quarter-finals; Of the amateurs, five third division (AEP Bourg, CS Cuiseaux-Louhans , USM Malakoff, AS Poissy, SO Pont-de-Chéruy), two fourth (US Maubeuge, FC Valence ) and one fifth division (US Fécamp) survived at least the first nationwide round, but then all failed.

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 . As of this season, there was no longer any first-round privilege for them. All pairings were drawn freely for each round. In the thirty-second finals, the respective winner was determined in a single game on a neutral pitch, if necessary after extra time and penalty shoot-out. From the sixteenth to the semifinals, there were two legs and two between the opponents. 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 between February 12th and 15th, 1981. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those of the national amateur league with D3, the highest regional amateur leagues as D4 or DH ("Division d'Honneur").

SEC Bastia D1 - SM Caen D2 3-0 AS Nancy D1 - Club Péléen Morne Rouge DH 5-0 FC Tours D1 - AS Brest D3 1-0 FC Sochaux D1 - FC Limoges D2 3-1 AS Saint-Étienne D1 - SR Saint-Dié D2 2-0 AS Poissy D3 - FC Toulouse D2 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain D1 - Stade Rennes UC D2 2-0 FC Nantes D1 - SC Amiens D3 1-0 Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - OGC Nice D1 1-0 AS Monaco D1 - AS Béziers D2 4-1 FC Metz D1 - CO Saint-Chamond DH 2-1 FC Martigues D2 - Olympique Lyon D1 1: 1 aet (5: 4 pi) AJ Auxerre D1 - RCFC Besançon D2 2-0 RC Lens D1 - FC La Roche-sur-Yon D3 1-0 SCO Angers D1 - Stade Quimper D2 0: 0 n.V. (3: 1 p. Le Havre AC D2 - Stade Laval D1 1-0

Olympique Nîmes D1 - AS Grenoble D2 2-0 OSC Lille D1 - Calais RUFC D3 2-0 LB Châteauroux D2 - US Valenciennes D1 1-0 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - Stade Poitiers D3 1-0 aet FC Valence D4 - Olympique Alès D3 2-0 CS Moule DH - CS Thonon D2 0: 2 FC Thionville D2 - CS Sedan D3 0: 0 n.V. (4: 1 p. Paris FC D2 - RC Strasbourg D1 0-1 SO Pont-de-Chéruy D3 - US Saint-Tropez DH 1-0 US Orléans D2 - US Melun D3 3: 1 CS Cuiseaux-Louhans D3 - Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 2-1 US Fécamp D2 - US Friville-Escarbotin DH 3: 1 n.V. AEPB La Roche-sur-Yon D3 - AJ Saint-Georges DH 2-1 US Maubeuge D4 - AS Corbeil-Essonnes D2 2-0 USM Malakoff D3 - SR Haguenau D3 2: 1 AS Angoulême D2 - AS Libourne D2 2-0

Round of 16

First legs on 6/7, second legs on 10/11 March 1981

SEC Bastia D1 - AJ Auxerre D1 2: 1, 1: 1 FC Tours D1 - RC Lens D1 1: 2, 1: 2 FC Sochaux D1 - AS Monaco D1 2-1, 0-1 AS Poissy D3 - Le Havre AC D2 0-0, 0-1 FC Nantes D1 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 2-0, 3-5 SCO Angers D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1: 4, 0: 6 Olympique Nîmes D1 - AS Nancy D1 2-4 , 1-1 OSC Lille D1 - CS Thonon D2 3-1, 0-1

FC Valence D4 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 0-1, 0-5 FC Thionville D2 - SO Pont-de-Chéruy D3 2-0, 3-1 US Orléans D2 - FC Metz D1 0-0, 0-2 CS Cuiseaux-Louhans D3 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 1: 2, 0: 3 US Fécamp D2 - RC Strasbourg D1 0-3, 0-4 AEPB La Roche-sur-Yon D3 - AS Angoulême D2 0-1, 0-1 US Maubeuge D4 - LB Châteauroux D2 1: 3, 2: 5 USM Malakoff D3 - FC Martigues D2 1: 1, 0: 0

Round of 16

First legs on 2/3, second legs on April 11, 1981

SEC Bastia D1 - AS Monaco D1 2-0, 1-2 Le Havre AC D2 - RC Lens D1 1-0, 0-2 FC Nantes D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1: 4, 4: 6 AS Nancy D1 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 2-1, 1-3

FC Thionville D2 - FC Martigues D2 2-2, 0-3 FC Metz D1 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 2-1, 0-1 RC Strasbourg D1 - AS Angoulême D2 2-0, 1-2 LB Châteauroux D2 - OSC Lille D1 1-0, 0-2

Quarter finals

First leg on 8th, second leg on May 19, 1981

RC Lens D1 - Lille OSC D1 3-1, 0-1 Girondins Bordeaux D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 1: 5, 0: 4

AS Saint-Étienne D1 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 2-1, 1-1 FC Martigues D2 - SEC Bastia D1 3-0, 0-5

Semifinals

First leg on 5th, second leg on 9th June 1981

AS Saint-Étienne D1 - RC Strasbourg D1 2-1, 1-1

SEC Bastia D1 - RC Lens D1 2-0, 1-0

final

Game on June 13, 1981 in the Prinzenpark Stadium in Paris in front of 46,155 spectators

• SEC Bastia - AS Saint-Étienne 2-1 (0-0)

Team lineups

SEC Bastia: Pierrick Hiard - Jean-Louis Cazes , Paul Marchioni , Charles Orlanducci , Félix Lacuesta - Jean-Louis Desvignes , Louis Marcialis , Alain Fiard - Roger Milla , Joël Henry , Simei Ihily
Trainer: Antoine Redin

AS Saint-Étienne: Jean Castaneda - Patrick Battiston , Christian Lopez , Bernard Gardon ( Jean-Philippe Primard , 18th), Gérard Janvion - Jacques Santini , Jean-Marie Elie , Michel Platini - Jacques Zimako , Laurent Roussey ( Laurent Paganelli , 86 .), Johnny Rep
Trainer: Robert Herbin

Referee: Georges Konrath (Schwindratzheim)

Gates

1-0 Marcialis (50th)
2-0 Milla (58th)
2-1 Santini (72nd, by penalty)

Special occurrences

Referee Konraths presided over his third final after 1977 and 1980 ; this made him only the third referee to be appointed so frequently, after Edmond Gérardin (in the 1920s) and Georges Capdeville (in the 1930s and 1940s).

Outstanding from the games that otherwise rarely caused too much tension due to the tactical possibilities of the return game mode, the path of the Girondins Bordeaux was: after they had scored 20 goals in four games against two top division clubs, they conceded nine in the following round Racing Strasbourg goals. And cup winner Bastia seemed to be eliminated in the semifinals after the first leg; but the Corsicans managed to turn the overall result impressively in front of their own audience against Martigues.

See also

• Division 1 1980/81
• Division 2 1980/81

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. 313
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 397