Coupe de France 2003/04

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2003/04 season was the 87th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 6057 clubs reported, including those from overseas possessions of France , of which, however, no eleven could qualify for the national main round.

Defending champion AJ Auxerre only made it to the last sixteen this time. Last year's finalist Paris Saint-Germain FC won the trophy  - for the sixth time in their eighth final. Even if PSG's last success in the coupe was six years ago, the capital's club drew level with AS Saint-Étienne as the second most successful cup participant behind Olympique Marseille . Final opponent La Berrichonne de Châteauroux , a second division team , was in the first final of the club's history.

The lower-class participants even formed the majority over the Ligue 1 representatives in the round of 16 : four second-class teams (in addition to Châteauroux, SC Amiens , SM Caen and US Créteil ), three teams from the semi-professional third division ( FCO Dijon , Stade Brest , Stade Reims ) and two fourth division teams from the CFA ( Aviron Bayonne and ESA Brive ) had made it so far. Of them, Châteauroux, Dijon, Amiens and Brive made it through the eighth finals, the first two also made it through the quarter-finals. Bayonne in particular, who had cleared two teams from the highest division out of the way, caused a sensation.

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, in 2003/04 a restriction on the privilege of lower-class clubs was introduced: Only teams that played at least two game levels - not to be confused with league levels - lower than their opponent were automatically given home rights. Occasionally, however, amateur teams in particular waived this right in return for payment - as in this draw of FC Bourg-Péronnas against Olympique Lyon or Bayonne against Paris SG - or avoided an attractive opponent in a larger stadium nearby. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shoot-out.

Thirty-second finals

Games on 3rd / 4th and January 13, 2004. 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, PH or DHR ("Division d'Honneur", "Promotion d'Honneur" or "Division d'Honneur Régionale", the sixth to eighth highest division) .

Round of 16

Games between January 23rd and 25th, 2004

Round of 16

Games on 10/11 February 2004

Quarter finals

Games on 16./17. March 2004

Semifinals

Games on April 28, 2004

final

Game on May 29, 2004 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 77,857 spectators

Team lineups

Paris SG: Lionel Letizi - Bernard Mendy , Frédéric Déhu Team captain , José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan , Talal El Karkouri - Fabrice Fiorèse , Modeste M'Bami , Lorik Cana , Branko Bošković ( Selim Benachour , 73rd) - Danijel Ljuboja ( Romain Rocchi , 84th), Pauleta ( Alioune Touré , 89th)
Coach: Vahid Halilhodžić

LB Châteauroux: Rodolphe Roche - Jimmy Algerino , Eddy Viator , Teddy Bertin Team captain , Wissam El Bekri ( Johann Paul , 77.) - Karim Fradin , Armindo Ferreira , Djibril Sidibé , Sébastien Roudet - Marc-Éric Gueï , David Vandenbossche
Trainer: Victor Zvunka

Referee: Stéphane Bré (Saint-Brieuc)

Gates

1-0 Pauleta (65th)

Special occurrences

In the final, Paris Saint-Germain had to do without their Argentines Gabriel Heinze and Juan Pablo Sorín , but Châteauroux still did not achieve another sensation as in the quarter-finals, when the team from Berry was successful at the Champions League finalists from Monaco, who did not have the best cast .

Aviron Bayonne wanted to play his round of 16 home game against PSG in neighboring Donostia-San Sebastián for reasons of the expected audience interest; but the French federation forbade the eleven from the French Basque Country to "cross the border". The two clubs then agreed to play the game in Paris' Prinzenparkstadion , for which Bayonne collected a substantial sum.

See also

literature

  • 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. ↑ According to Article 6.2 of the Implementing Regulations (Règlement de la Coupe de France) , the following five levels exist:
    (1) Ligue 1
    (2) Ligue 2 and National
    (3) CFA and CFA 2
    (4) Division d'Honneur and the ( Division Supérieure d'Élite or otherwise designated)
    (5) all lower leagues, i.e. from the eighth highest division.
    (Download of the regulations as PDF under archive link ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333.
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 421