Coupe de France 1991/92

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1991/92 season was the 75th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 6,343 clubs registered. It was the only event so far without a final and without a winner (see below ) .

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 game pairings and the respective home rights were drawn freely for each round; the final was to take place in the Prinzenparkstadion (as has been the case since 1972 ) . There was only one meeting planned at a time; if it was tied after 90 minutes, it was extended and the winner could then be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Defending champion AS Monaco had played through to the semi-finals and qualified again for the final. In general, it could have been a “Cup of the South of France”: of the last eight teams remaining in the competition, five came from the Mediterranean coast , including two second division clubs from Corsica , and in the semifinals they were completely among themselves. For lower-class teams, however, it was not a successful season: with FC Pau and US Saint-Omer, the last two non-professional clubs were eliminated in the round of 16. The most successful amateurs were the players of the sixth class FC Massy, ​​who made it into the top 32 teams.

Thirty-second finals

Games between February 21 and 25, 1992; the respective league membership is indicated with D1 or D2 for the two professional leagues, D3 for the third division, D4 for the nationwide and DH or LD ("Division d'Honneur" or "Ligue départementale") for the top regional amateur leagues.

Round of 16

Games on 13./14. March 1992

Round of 16

Games on 7./8. April 1992

Quarter finals

Games on April 22, 1992

Semifinals

Game in Cannes on April 28th, in Bastia on May 5th, 1992

The "Drama of Furiani"

The reason for the termination of the competition was what was known as the Furiani drama on May 5, 1992 before the semi-final match between the second division SC Bastia and Olympique Marseille began . In view of the particularly high attractiveness of the guest in these years (OM had been in the final of the European Cup last year ), and the fact that Marseille is considered the "largest city in Corsica" because over 100,000 Corsican exiles live there, Bastias' presidium had decided to increase the capacity of the Stade Armand-Cesari - often still known by its old name Stade Furiani - by an additional tubular steel grandstand by over 9,000 seats in order to achieve “the capture of the century”. To this end, the club created facts in a night-and-fog campaign: shortly after the quarter-final game on April 22, the ancient Claude Papi Tribune , which had only 750 seats, was demolished without official approval. The construction of the additional grandstand took place under extreme time pressure; after the FFF agreed to postpone the game, there was only exactly one week to set it up. There was no foundation work in the ground, nor was the statics of the 100 m long and up to 15 m high structure improved by cast or brick support pillars.

The financial expectations of those responsible were fully met: 18,000 tickets sold generated gross income of around 3 million  francs (corresponding to around 450,000 euros). At 8:23 p.m., seven minutes before the start of the game, the lightweight stand collapsed; the collapse left 18 dead and over 2,350 injured as victims. A soccer game was not played. The day after the SC Bastia renounced its further participation; the FFF then declared Olympique Marseille the winner, who would contest the final four days later. Olympique, mindful of the victims, refused, which led the association to abandon the competition without determining a cup winner.

14 persons responsible were charged and partly convicted. Bastia's club president Jean-François Filippi , who resigned from his functions in the club and regional association soon after the disaster, came to a violent end nine days before the start of the trial: on December 26, 1994, he was shot in front of his house. Whether this murder was related to the events of May 5, 1992 or concerned the businessman and local politician Filippi, could not be clarified. The suspected perpetrators, who were assigned to the Corsican liberation movement FLNC , also died shortly afterwards from bullets.

Twenty years after the events, the FFF decided, at the request of its Corsican subdivision, that French football should have a "day of reflection" for the first time on May 5, 2012; On that day, not a single game was held in the country to commemorate the victims of this tragedy, neither in the amateur nor in the professional field.

See also

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ “la recette du siècle”  - This chapter follows the description in L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 408/409, unless otherwise stated.
  2. ↑ See, for example, this (image) source ( memento of the original from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in which the victims are named, and the article "20 ans de Furiani: le football français se recueille" ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at foot.hebdo on May 10, 2012; on the other hand, L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 408/409, state the number of 17 deaths. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.petitionfuriani.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr
  3. ↑ In addition, in very dry terms, the official website of SC Bastia .
  4. ↑ Article from L'Humanité of December 27, 1994
  5. ^ Article from L'Express from January 12, 1995
  6. ↑ see the article "Furiani - no game on May 5" ( memento of the original from July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from February 2, 2012 at foot.hebdo @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr