Coupe de France 1987/88

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1987/88 season was the 71st playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 5,293 clubs registered - the 5,000 mark was exceeded for the first time - including some from overseas French possessions .

The defending champions were the Girondins Bordeaux , who were eliminated in the first national round this season. This time, the trophy was won by FC Metz , which was the second time since 1984 when they made their third appearance in the finals . Final opponent FC Sochaux was in their fourth final; Until then, however, he had only been able to win the first one ( 1937 ). But since the introduction of professionalism in France (1932), Sochaux was only the seventh team from the second division to reach the final of the Coupe de France; before her, the US Orléans had last achieved this in 1980 .

The lower-class teams presented themselves at this event with varying degrees of success. Of the amateur teams, only three third and fourth and fifth division teams survived the thirty-second finals. Of them, only the third-class US Créteil made it into the round of the last 16 participants. The teams from Division 2, on the other hand, made broad progress: in the round of 16 there were seven of them, in the quarter-finals there were four. They also made up 50% of the teams involved in the semi-finals, because Stade Reims as well as Sochaux had qualified for it - as in the previous season.

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 finals on a neutral spot; 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 from March 11th to 13th, 1988. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those of the national amateur leagues with D3 and D4, the highest regional amateur league as DH ("Division d'Honneur").

FC Nantes D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1: 1 n.V. (4: 3 pi.) SEC Bastia D2 - Olympique Marseille D1 1-0 AC Évreux D3 - Entente Melun-Fontainebleau D2 2-1 Sporting Toulon D1 - Olympique Nîmes D2 1-0 RC Strasbourg D2 - SR Saint-Dié D3 6-0 Quimper Cornouaille FC D2 - Stade Rennes D2 4-1 SO Cholet D3 - CA Lisieux D3 0: 0 a.d. (4: 2 in good condition) Paris Saint-Germain D1 - AS Libourne D3 1-0 Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - AFC Aurillac D4 3-0 Matra Racing Paris D1 - RC Ancenis D4 1-0 OGC Nice D1 - Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D2 1-0 FC Mulhouse D2 - AS Saint-Étienne D1 0: 0 aet (4: 1 on pens) SM Caen D2 - Saint-Colomban Locminé DH 2-0 AEPB La Roche-sur-Yon D2 - Stade Saint-Brieuc D4 2: 1 a.d. US Endoume Catalans Marseille DH - AS Cannes D1 2: 1 a.d. SO Châtellerault D2 - FC Limoges D4 1-0

OSC Lille D1 - Brest Armorique FC D1 3-1 Stade Reims D2 - FC Bourges D3 3: 2 RC Lens D1 - AS Beauvais-Marissel D2 1-0 Le Havre AC D1 - Cercle Dijon Football D2 1-0 AJ Auxerre D1 - US Valenciennes D2 2-0 FC Metz D1 - FC Montceau D2 1-0 Toulouse FC D1 - Stade Laval D1 2-0 USL Dunkerque D2 - Chamois Niort D1 2: 1 US Créteil D3 - EAC Chaumont D3 2: 1 AS Nancy D2 - FC Paris 83 DH 5-2 n.v. Olympique Lyon D2 - FC Grenoble D2 5-0 Stade Vallauris D4 - FC Hyères D3 3-1 aet SC Abbeville D2 - US Fécamp D3 2: 1 FC Sète D2 - FC Istres D2 1-0 a.d. FC Sochaux D2 - FC Tours D2 2-1 AS Monaco D1 - CO Saint-Dizier D2 2-1

Round of 16

First leg on 29./30. March, second leg on 4./5. April 1988

AC Évreux D3 - Le Havre AC D1 1: 1, 1: 5 RC Strasbourg D2 - Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 1: 1, 2: 3 Quimper Cornouaille FC D2 - SO Cholet D3 2-1, 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain D1 - FC Sochaux D2 1: 3, 0: 3 AEPB La Roche-sur-Yon D2 - US Endoume Catalans DH 4: 1, 2: 2 SO Châtellerault D2 - SM Caen D2 1-0, 2: 3 Stade Reims D2 - SEC Bastia D2 2-2, 1-0 FC Sète D2 - Sporting Toulon D1 2-0, 0-2 aet (11:10 p.m.)

Toulouse FC D1 - Olympique Lyon D2 3-1, 0-1 USL Dunkerque D2 - RC Lens D1 0: 2, 0: 3 US Créteil D3 - Matra Racing Paris D1 1-0, 1-0 AS Nancy D2 - FC Metz D1 1-0, 0-2 Stade Vallauris D4 - FC Mulhouse D2 1: 3, 1: 2 SC Abbeville D2 - OSC Lille D1 2-2, 0-2 AS Monaco D1 - OGC Nice D1 1: 1, 0: 2 AJ Auxerre D1 - FC Nantes D1 1-0, 0-0

Round of 16

1st leg on 19th, 2nd leg on 22/23 April 1988

Montpellier La Paillade SC D2 - FC Sochaux D2 2-2, 0-1 AEPB La Roche-sur-Yon D2 - Quimper Cornouaille FC D2 1: 3, 2: 2 SO Châtellerault D2 - US Créteil D3 0: 0, 0: 0 a.d. (5: 4 in p.e.) FC Toulouse D1 - OGC Nice D1 1: 1, 1: 1 a.s. (1: 4 p.

FC Sète D2 - RC Lens D1 0: 0, 0: 1 Stade Reims D2 - Le Havre AC D1 2-0, 0-1 FC Metz D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 1-0, 2-0 OSC Lille D1 - AJ Auxerre D1 1: 0, 1: 2 a.d.

Quarter finals

First leg on 10th, second leg on 17th / 18th May 1988

Quimper Cornouaille FC D2 - FC Metz D1 1-0, 0-5 OGC Nice D1 - OSC Lille D1 3-0, 1-0

RC Lens D1 - FC Sochaux D2 2: 2, 0: 1 Stade Reims D2 - SO Châtellerault D2 3-0, 3-1

Semifinals

First legs on May 31 and June 1, second legs on June 8, 1988

FC Metz D1 - Stade Reims D2 4-0, 1-3

OGC Nice D1 - FC Sochaux D2 2-1, 0-2

final

Game on June 11, 1988 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 44,531 spectators

• FC Metz - FC Sochaux 1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 5: 4 i. E.

Team lineups

FC Metz: Michel Ettore - Philippe Gaillot , Albert Cartier ( Carlos Lopez , 78th), Sylvain Kastendeuch , Frédéric Pons - Thierry Pauk ( Christian Bracconi , 106th), Jean-Louis Zanon , Philippe Hinschberger , Bernard Zénier - Carmelo Micciche , Eric Black
Trainer: Marcel Husson

FC Sochaux: Gilles Rousset - Laurent Croci , Franck Silvestre , Faruk Hadžibegić , Francis Peltier - Jean-Christophe Thomas ( Jacques Colin , 97th), Franck Sauzée , Fabrice Henry , Mehmed Baždarević - Philippe Morin ( Michaël Madar , 65th), Stéphane Paille coach: Sylvester Takac

Referee: Claude Bouillet (Nîmes)

Gates

0: 1 Paille (36th)
1: 1 Black (45th)

Penalty Shootout

1: 0 Zénier, 1: 1 Hadžibegić
2: 1 Hinschberger 2: 2 Sauzée
3: 2 Zanon, 3: 3 Paille
4: 3 Bracconi, 4: 4 Rousset
5: 4 box cloth, Madar shot

Special occurrences

This was only the second penalty shoot-out decision since 1982 . Jean-Louis Zanon was also involved back then and, like in 1988, placed his penalty kick in the opponent's goal - and in the end was left empty-handed because a team-mate at his club at the time, AS Saint-Étienne, produced the only miss.

At FC Metz there were only two players left from the cup winners of 1984 : goalkeeper Michel Ettore, who ended his career after the final, and Philippe Hinschberger.

Never before - like Girondins Bordeaux and Olympique Marseille this time - had both last year's finalists been eliminated in the thirty-second finals.

See also

• Division 1 1987/88
• Division 2 1987/88

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. 404