Coupe de France 1998/99

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 1998/99 season was the 82nd playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 5,957 clubs registered, including those from overseas French possessions .

Defending champion Paris Saint-Germain lost this time in the round of 32 to the eventual winner of the trophy, FC Nantes . Nantes was successful for the second time in its seventh final; the first victory in this competition was exactly 20 years ago . Final opponent CS Sedan , a second division team , was in their fourth final and lost for the second time since 1965 .

The fact that a first division leader was able to win the coupe this season "is undoubtedly one of the biggest surprises in cup history". Because never before since the introduction of professionalism in France (1932) had it happened that in the round of 16 there were only three teams from the elite league, but eight second division teams, one team each from the semi-professional national (third division) and the highest amateur class as well as with the US Montagnarde from Inzinzac-Lochrist , the US Saint-Georges-les-Ancizes and Olympique Grand Rouen three fifth division teams (Championnat de France Amateurs 2) were represented. One lap later there was even only one first division player - the eventual winner of the competition -, five second, one third division and one amateur eleven from the CFA2 in the race.

After the qualification rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 18 top 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. Occasionally, however, amateur teams in particular waived this right in return for payment, for example JS Coulaines and JA Armentières at this event. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shoot-out.

Thirty-second finals

Games between January 21 and 23 and on February 9, 1999. The clubs in the two professional leagues are labeled D1 and D2, those in the semi-professional third division are labeled D3; the national amateur leagues operate as CFA and CFA2, the highest regional amateur league as DH ("Division d'Honneur").

(a)Aborted in the 67th minute of the game due to fog in Angers , rescheduled in Poitiers

Round of 16

Games on February 19-21 and 27, 1999

Round of 16

Games on 13./14. March 1999

Quarter finals

Games between April 8th and 11th, 1999

Semifinals

Games on April 27 and April 28, 1999

final

Game on May 15, 1999 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 78,586 spectators

Team lineups

FC Nantes: Mickaël Landreau Team captain - Jean-Marc Chanelet , Éric Decroix , Néstor Fabbri ( Nicolas Gillet , 68th), Salomon Olembé - Yves Deroff , Éric Carrière , Sébastien Piocelle - Charles Devineau ( Nicolas Savinaud , 87th), Frédéric Da Rocha ( Patrick Suffo , 93.), Olivier Monterrubio
Trainer: Raynald Denoueix

CS Sedan: Nicolas Sachy - Christophe Borbiconi ( Éric Crosnier , 77.), Eduardo Oliveira ( Hippolyte Dangbeto , 70.), Luis Satorra Team captain , Cédric Elzéard - Pierre Deblock , Bruno Pabois ( Pius N'Diefi , 61.), Jean-Philippe Faure , Olivier Quint - Cédric Mionnet , Alex Di Rocco
Trainer: Patrick Rémy

Referee: Pascal Garibian (Saint-Maur)

Gates

1-0 Monterrubio (57th, by penalty)

Special occurrences

The record number of spectators for the French Cup finals, which had just been set last year, has been exceeded this season, primarily because the sport of football experienced a surge in popularity due to the fact that the national team won the world championship .

The penalty shoot-out in the thirty-second final match between Jura-Sud Foot and FC Toulouse required a total of 22 penalties from all players who were still on the lawn of the stadium in Lons-le-Saunier at the final whistle , before the winner with the “Bergdörfergemeinschaftsklub” from the French Jura was certain.

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, p. 416
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  3. ↑ Beaudet, p. 176