Coupe de France 2000/01

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2000/01 season was the 84th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 6,375 clubs registered, including some from overseas French possessions .

Defending champion FC Nantes this time again made it to the semi-finals, where he failed at the later winner of the trophy, the Racing Club de Strasbourg . The Alsatians were successful in their sixth final for the third time after 1951 and 1966 . The last time Racing was in the final in 1995 . Final opponents Amiens Sporting Club , a third division team - albeit with a long cup tradition as AC Amiens - had advanced that far for the first time in the club's history.

With SC Amiens, Grenoble Foot and Stade Reims , three teams from the semi-professional third division faced the remaining five first division teams in the quarter-finals . The last three second divisions, on the other hand, were eliminated in the round of 16 as well as the last three pure amateur teams ( OC Vannes and Vendée Fontenay Foot from the top amateur class and with FA Carcassonne Villalbe even a team from the fifth-class Championnat de France Amateurs 2 ).

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. Occasionally, however, amateur teams in particular waived this right in return for payment. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shoot-out.

Thirty-second finals

Games between January 19 and 21, 2001. 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 leagues (sixth to eighth highest division) as DH, DHR or PH ("Division d'Honneur", "Division d'Honneur Régionale" or "Promotion d'Honneur") ).

Round of 16

Games between February 9th and 11th, 2001

Round of 16

Games on 9/10 March 2001

Quarter finals

Games between March 30th and April 1st 2001

Semifinals

Games on April 20 and 21, 2001

final

Game on May 26, 2001 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 78,586 spectators

Team lineups

RC Strasbourg: José Luis Chilavert - Habib Beye , Yannick Fischer , Valérien Ismaël , Teddy Bertin , Pierre Njanka - Pascal Camadini ( Danijel Ljuboja , 104th), Corentin Martins Team captain , Gharib Amzine ( Jacques Rémy , 55th) - Pascal Johansen , Péguy Luyindula
Coach: Yvon Pouliquen

SC Amiens: Julien Lachuer - Ludovic Leroy , Jean-Paul Abalo , Laurent Strzelczak Team captain , Arnaud Lebrun - Emerick Darbelet , Oscar Ewolo , Emmanuel Duchemin , Emmanuel Coquelet ( Xavier Chalier , 76th) - Claude-Arnaud Rivenet ( Lakhdar Adjali , 102nd) , Peter Sampil
Trainer: Denis Troch

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (Rouen)

Gates

no

Penalty Shootout

0: 1 Sampil, 1: 1 Bertin
1: 2 Darbelet, 2: 2 Rémy
2: 3 Chalier, 3: 3 Luyindula
Abalo shot, 4: 3 Ismaël
4: 4 Strzelczak, 5: 4 Chilavert

Special occurrences

Even after extra time, there were only one goalless finals until then, namely in 1963 . That 2001 final was the fourth after 1982 , 1988 and 1997 to require a penalty shootout. In this season goalkeeper Chilavert initially fended off Abalo's penalty, then he converted Strasbourg's fifth decisive shot himself.

The SC Amiens was only the fourth team without professional status to reach a final for the Coupe de France since professional football was introduced in France (1932); before this succeeded Racing Roubaix ( 1933 , as a second), Olympique Nîmes ( 1996 , as a third) and Calais RUFC ( 2000 , as a fourth division).

At the end of this season Amiens rose to Division 2 - in which his opponent Strasbourg had to relegate at the same time.

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