Coupe de France 2001/02

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2001/02 season was the 85th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 5,848 clubs registered, including those from overseas French possessions .

Defending champion Racing Strasbourg made it to the quarterfinals this time. The Football Club de Lorient won the trophy when it entered the finals for the first time. Final opponent Sporting Club de Bastia, however, was in their third final after 1972 and 1981 .

Of the lower-class participants, three of the last eight teams came this time, namely the second division Olympique Nîmes - who also survived this round - and last year's winner Racing Strasbourg as well as the amateur team of FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin from the top amateur league CFA . In addition, the Breton honorary division (sixth division) US Montagnarde from Inzinzac-Lochrist caused a sensation, who made it to the second round like in 1999 and was able to eliminate a second and a third division on the way .

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 forego this right in return for payment (for example the seventh-class team of FC Saint-Leu-la-Forêt in this event) or move to a larger city against an attractive opponent, such as the US Montagnarde in the round of 16 against AS Monaco (held in Lorient ) did. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shootout; Olympique Nîmes had to go through this procedure in three of its four main round games.

Thirty-second finals

Games between 14th and 16th December 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 or DHR ("Division d'Honneur" or "Division d'Honneur (or Supérieure) Régionale").

Round of 16

Games on January 19, 26 and 30, 2002

Round of 16

Games on 9/10 February 2002

Quarter finals

Games on 9/10 March 2002

Semifinals

Games on March 30th and 31st, 2002

final

Game on May 11, 2002 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 60,215 spectators

Team lineups

FC Lorient: Sébastien Hamel - Loïc Druon ( Pascal Delhommeau , 64th), Richard Martini , Anthony Gauvin , Pape Malick Diop Team captain , Ulrich Le Pen - Pascal Bedrossian ( Nicolas Esceth-N'Zi , 84th), Seydou Keita , Pascal Feindouno - Jean-Claude Darcheville , Éli Kroupi ( Johan Cavalli , 58th)
Coach: Yvon Pouliquen

SC Bastia: Ali Boumnijel - Cédric Uras , Ousmane Soumah , Frédéric Mendy , Christophe Deguerville ( Nicolas Dieuze , 53rd) - Lilian Nalis , Fabrice Jau , Michael Essien , Cyril Jeunechamp Team captain ( Patrick Beneforti , 76th) - Prince Daye ( Demetrius Ferreira , 86.), Tony Vairelle's
Trainer: Robert Nouzaret

Referee: Éric Poulat (Lyon)

Gates

1-0 Darcheville (41st)

Special occurrences

Coach Yvon Pouliquen was the only one who defended the coupe that he was able to win last year when he was in charge of Racing Strasbourg in the same role. There was another parallel: as with the Alsatians , as a cup winner at the end of the season, he also had to relegate to the second division with the Bretons . As a player, however, he had to leave the final stadium as a loser in 1995 , but stayed in the first division in the subsequent season.

The comedian Rémi Gaillard succeeded on May 11 with a prank: at the final whistle, he managed to go to the lawn of the Stade de France, where he - dressed in the orange FC Lorient dress - completed the lap of honor together with the real players. He even came to the grandstand at the handover ceremony, where President Jacques Chirac shook his hand and he was able to cheerfully raise the trophy towards the sky.

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, p. 278 (with photos)