Coupe de France 1996/97

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1996/97 season was the 80th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 5,986 clubs registered, including some from overseas French possessions .

The defending champion was AJ Auxerre , this time eliminated in the round of 16. Olympique Nîmes , Auxerres' third-rate opponent at the time, had not even been able to qualify for the main round. The trophy was won by the Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice , which was thus successful for the third time in its fourth final. However, Nice's last final was 19 years ago and his last victory 43 years ago . Final opponent En Avant de Guingamp was in his first final; the Bretons were promoted to the top division for the first time in the club's history in 1995 .

With the US Créteil only a semi-professional team from National 1 (third division) made it to the quarter-finals; Of the pure amateur clubs, the fourth-class Clermont Foot also made it . From the professional Division 2 , the last two teams still represented ( Stade Laval and Troyes Aube Football ) met in the quarterfinals ; the winner Laval failed in the subsequent semi-finals at the eventual winner OGC Nice.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 20 first division teams also intervened in the competition from the round of the last 64 teams. The pairings and home rights were drawn freely for each round; However, those clubs were allowed to automatically play their game in front of their own audience that competed against an opponent playing at least two classes higher. The team that was ahead in the fairness rating (“blue card”) was also given the right to play in front of its own audience in the following round. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shoot-out.

Thirty-second finals

Games between January 17th and 19th and on February 4th (a) 1997. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those of the semi-professional third division Ligue National are labeled D3; the national amateur leagues trade as D4 and D5, the three highest regional amateur leagues as DH, DHR and PH ("Division d'Honneur", "Division d'Honneur Régionale" and "Promotion d'Honneur").

(a)Due to a legal dispute over the draw for the game between Marseille and Lille, it was finally played two weeks late in a neutral place in Valence .

Round of 16

Games on 8./9. February 1997

Round of 16

Games between February 28 and March 2, 1997

Quarter finals

Games on 29./30. March 1997

Semifinals

Games on 19./20. April 1997

final

Game on May 10, 1997 in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris in front of 44,131 spectators

Team lineups

OGC Nice: Bruno Valencony - Henri Savini ( Thierry Crétier , 77th), Youssef Salimi , Frédéric Tatarian , Olivier Fugen ( Arjan Vermeulen , 91st) - Louis Gomis , Roberto Onorati , Frédéric Gioria Team captain , Thierry De Neef - Andrzej Kubica , Mohammed Chaouch ( James Debbah , 83)
Trainer: Sylvester Takac

EA Guingamp: Angelo Hugues - Jérôme Foulon ( Jean-Luc Vannucchi , 101st), Marek Jóźwiak , Gheorghe Mihali , Nicolas Laspalles - Richard Lecomte Team captain ( Stéphane Carnot , 51st), Claude Michel , Yannick Baret - Charles-Edouard Coridon , Daniel Moreira ( Christophe Horlaville , 64.), Christopher Wreh
Trainer: Francis Smerecki

Referee: Alain Sars (Nancy)

Gates

1: 0 Salimi (21st)
1: 1 Laspalles (77th)

Penalty Shootout

Carnot missed, Onorati
1: 1 Beret, 2: 1 De Neef
2: 2 Horlaville, 3: 2 Tatarian
3: 3 Vannucchi, Gomis missed
Michel, 4: 3 Vermeulen

Special occurrences

Up to the present ( 2010 ), this was the last final in the Parc des Princes, which in 1998 was replaced by the newly built Stade de France as a regular final stadium after 35 stagings including two repeat matches.

OGC Nice was not the first competition winner to be relegated from the top division in the same season ; this had happened to AS Saint-Étienne before ( 1962 ) and was to be repeated in the 21st century ( Racing Strasbourg 2001 and FC Lorient 2002 ).

In its nine cup encounters, including the regional qualifying rounds, Clermont Foot had to complete five overtime and three penalty shoot-outs. The longest penalty shoot-out decision in Clermont's victory over an eight-class opponent from L'Étrat near Saint-Étienne - after 120 minutes of play it had been 1-1 - lasted another 45 minutes, required a total of 35 shots and ended with 13:12 goals.

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. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 306f.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 414