Coupe de France 2002/03

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2002/03 season was the 86th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year 5,850 clubs registered, including some from overseas French possessions .

Defending champions FC Lorient this time made it to the quarter-finals. The winner of the trophy was the Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise  - for the third time after 1994 and 1996 when they entered the finals for the fourth time. Final opponent Paris Saint-Germain FC, however, was in its seventh final and lost one for the second time after 1985 ; PSG's last success in the coupe was five years ago .

Of the lower-class participants, four of the last eight teams came this time, namely the defending second division FC Lorient and from the semi-professional third division FC Martigues and FC Angoulême , plus the amateur team of SC Schiltigheim from CFA 2 , the fifth-highest division. The Alsatians were able to eliminate a first and two second division side one after the other on their way before they - like the other three outsiders - lost in the quarter-finals.

After the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the regional association FFF , the 20 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 or avoided an attractive opponent in a larger city, such as the RC Agathois from Agde against OSC Lille (held in Sète ), FC Bourg-Péronnas against Auxerre (in Lyon ) or Schiltigheim (in Strasbourg's Stade de la Meinau , but only in the quarterfinals) did. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shoot-out.

Thirty-second finals

Games between January 4th and 11th 2003. The clubs of the two professional leagues renamed for this season are designated with L1 and L2, those of the semi-professional third division with D3; the national amateur leagues operate as CFA and CFA2, the regional amateur leagues as DH, DHR or LD ("Division d'Honneur", "Division d'Honneur Régionale" or "Ligue de District", the sixth, seventh and ninth highest) Division).

Round of 16

Games on January 25, 2003

Round of 16

Games on 15./16. February 2003

Quarter finals

Games on 15./16. March 2003

Semifinals

Games on April 26th and 27th, 2003

final

Game on May 31, 2003 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 78,000 spectators

Team lineups

AJ Auxerre: Fabien Cool - Johan Radet , Philippe Mexès , Jean-Alain Boumsong , Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé - Yann Lachuer Team captain , Lionel Mathis , Amdy Faye ( Benjamin Mwaruwari , 71.), Khalilou Fadiga ( Kanga Akalé , 46.) - Djibril Cissé , Olivier Kapo
Trainer: Guy Roux

Paris SG: Jérôme Alonzo - Cristóbal Parralo Aguilera , Mauricio Pochettino Team captain , Gabriel Heinze , Lionel Potillon ( Aloísio José da Silva , 90th) - Frédéric Déhu , Fabrice Fiorèse ( Paulo César , 75th), Jérôme Leroy , Miguel Hugo Leal , Stéphane Pédron ( Francis Llacer , 84th) - Ronaldinho
Coach: Luis Fernández

Referee: Bertrand Layec (Vannes)

Gates

0: 1 Leal (21st)
1: 1 Cissé (76th)
2: 1 Boumsong (89th)

Special occurrences

In front of a sold out house, Paris dominated the final until the scorer Leal was sent off in the 66th minute; shortly thereafter, Auxerre's coach Roux replaced a third striker, and in the last quarter of an hour the Burgundians managed to turn the game around. At Auxerre, not a single player from the 1996 winning team was on the lawn of the Stade de France, only Guy Roux celebrated his third cup win.

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