Coupe de France 1997/98

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1997/98 season was the 81st playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 6,106 clubs registered, including some from overseas French possessions .

Defending champion OGC Nice was eliminated this time in the thirty-second finals, while their defeated opponent EA Guingamp again made it to the semifinals. Paris Saint-Germain FC won the trophy, making it their fifth success in their sixth finals. PSG's last win was only three years ago . Final opponents Racing Club de Lens , French champions this season , were in their third final, but as in 1948 and 1975 , the northern French left the field as losers.

With FC Istres only a semi-professional team from National 1 (third division) made it to the quarter-finals; also in the quarterfinals the last two teams still represented from the professional division 2 ( FC Mulhouse and SM Caen ) were eliminated. A purely amateur club made it this far with the fourth division club FC Bourg-Péronnas ; Of those, FC Pau was another fourth and UFC Pays d'Argentan even a fifth-rate team that made it into the top 16 teams. Argentan was since the introduction of professionalism in France (1932) after RC Arras ( 1949 ), AC Denain ( 1957 ), AS Gardanne ( 1960 ) and CS Blénod ( 1996 ) only the fifth club at this league stage in the second round.

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 18 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 16 and 18 and on January 28, 1998. 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 CFA and CFA2, the three highest regional amateur leagues as DH, DHR and PH ("Division d'Honneur", "Division d'Honneur Régionale" and "Promotion d'Honneur").

SM Caen D2 - FC Toulouse D2 1-0 SA Épinal D3 - RC Strasbourg D1 2: 1 SO Châtellerault CFA - Sochaux D2 1: 2 SC Bastia D1 - Chamois Niort D2 1-0 US Boulogne CFA - FC Saint-Lô CFA 2-0 Marsouins Brétignolles DH - FC Nantes D1 0: 3 FC Champagnole DH - FC Mulhouse D2 0-2 La Vitréenne PH - FC Lorient D2 0-4 FCO Dijon CFA - AS Monaco D1 1: 2 aet Stade Laval D2 - AS Angoulême D3 1: 3 FC Thionville CFA2 - EA Guingamp D1 1: 5 FC Sète CFA - Olympique Marseille D1 0-3 Stade Rennes D1 - LB Châteauroux D1 1-0 RC Lens D1 - Le Havre AC D1 2: 1 Sporting Toulon D2 - OGC Nice D2 4: 2 a.d. AS Cannes D1 - ASOA Valence D2 2-0

FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA - FC Villefranche CFA 4-2 Thouars Foot 79 D3 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 1: 3 CM Aubervilliers CFA - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1: 7 FCO Saint-Jean de La Ruelle DH - AS Beauvais D2 2: 3 FC Pau CFA - Fontenay Vendée Football CFA 0: 0 aet (4: 2 on pens) ES Segré Haut-Anjou CFA - AJ Auxerre D1 1: 2 FC Saint-Denis-Saint-Leu D3 - Olympique Lyon D1 0-2 US Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou CFA2 - ES Wasquehal D2 0: 2 Olympique Alès CFA - AFC Aurillac CFA 3-0 CS Sedan D3 - CS Louhans-Cuiseaux D2 3: 1 n.V. US Vermelles PH - UFC Pays d'Argentan CFA2 0-2 UC Le Mans D2 - FC Metz D1 1: 1 n.V. (2: 4 p. ES Grau-du-Roi DH FC Istres D3 0: 0 n.V. (3: 5 in pint) Olympique Grand Rouen CFA - AS Nancy D2 0-1 AS Muret CFA - FC Trélissac-Maurilloux CFA 1: 1 aet (4: 5 on perk) HSC Montpellier D1 - Stade Reims CFA2 3-0

Round of 16

Games on 7./8. February 1998

SM Caen D2 - FC Nantes D1 1-0 SA Épinal D3 - RC Lens D1 0: 2 n.a. FC Mulhouse D2 - AJ Auxerre D1 2: 1 n.v. FC Lorient D2 - Paris Saint-Germain D1 0-1 FC Metz D1 - SC Bastia D1 1-0 FC Istres D3 - Stade Rennes D1 1-0 ES Wasquehal D2 - EA Guingamp D1 1: 2 Sporting Toulon D2 - AS Nancy D2 2-0

AS Cannes D1 - AS Beauvais D2 3: 1 a.d. FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA - HSC Montpellier D1 3-2 FC Pau CFA - Olympique Alès CFA 2: 2 n.V. (5: 4 pi.) UFC Pays d'Argentan CFA2 - CS Sedan D3 0: 0 a.s. (8: 7 p.e.) AS Angoulême D3 - Olympique Lyon D1 0-2 US Boulogne CFA - Olympique Marseille D1 0-1 AS Monaco D1 - Girondins Bordeaux D1 1-0 FC-Trélissac Maurilloux CFA - Sochaux D2 1: 2

Round of 16

Games on 27./28. February 1998

FC Istres D3 - Olympique Lyon D1 0-1 aet UFC Pays d'Argentan CFA2 - RC Lens D1 1: 3 AS Cannes D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 0-2 a.d. FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA - FC Metz D1 2-0

FC Pau CFA - Paris Saint-Germain D1 0-1 aet EA Guingamp D1 - Sporting Toulon D2 1: 1 n.V. (5: 4 p.e.) AS Monaco D1 - Olympique Marseille D1 2-0 aet FC Sochaux D2 - SM Caen D2 2: 2 n.V. (5: 6 p.

Quarter finals

Games between March 20-22, 1998

Olympique Lyon D1 - FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain D1 - AS Monaco D1 1-0

EA Guingamp D1 - FC Mulhouse D2 1-0 SM Caen D2 - RC Lens D1 1: 2

Semifinals

Games on 11./12. April 1998

Paris Saint-Germain D1 - EA Guingamp D1 1-0

RC Lens D1 - Olympique Lyon D1 2-0

final

Game on May 2, 1998 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 77,000 spectators

• Paris Saint-Germain - RC Lens 2: 1 (1: 0)

Team lineups

Paris SG: Vincent Fernandez - Alain Roche , Paul Le Guen , Didier Domi , Éric Rabésandratana - Jimmy Algerino , Pierre Ducrocq , Franck Gava , Raí - Marco Simone , Florian Maurice ( Laurent Fournier , 87th)
Trainer: Ricardo Gomes

RC Lens: Guillaume Warmuz - Éric Sikora , Cyrille Magnier , Jean-Guy Wallemme , Frédéric Déhu - Marc-Vivien Foé , Stéphane Ziani , Mickaël Debève ( Philippe Brunel , 68th) - Vladimír Šmicer , Anto Drobnjak ( Wagneau Eloi , 60th) , Tony Vairelles
Trainer: Daniel Leclercq

Referee: Gilles Veissière (Nice)

Gates

1-0 Raí (24th)
2-0 Simone (53rd)
2-1 Šmicer (83rd)

Special occurrences

This was the first final in the Stade de France , which was newly built for the 1998 World Cup and has been the regular final stadium ever since. This year's viewership set a new record; by then it had been 61,722 visitors to the finals between Stade Reims and Racing Paris in May 1950 .

Of the final team that had won the coupe for PSG in 1995 , only Alain Roche (in total even his fifth cup win since 1986 ), Paul Le Guen (third win) and Raí were there. To this day ( 2009 ) Roche is one of only three footballers who have played in five victorious French cup finals; the other two are Marceau Somerlinck (from 1946 ) and Dominique Bathenay (from 1974 ).

See also

• Division 1 1997/98
• Division 2 1997/98

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. ↑ from this website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 309
4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 429