Coupe de France 2004/05

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2004/05 season was the 88th draw of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 6,263 clubs registered, including those from overseas possessions of France , of which no eleven could qualify for the national main round.

Defending champion Paris Saint-Germain this time only made it to the round of 16, where he failed because of the eventual winner of the trophy, the Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise . These two clubs alternated between 2003 and 2006 as cup winners. For Auxerre this was the fourth Coupe de France in twelve years ; only in 1979 had the Burgundians lost a final. Final opponent Club Sportif de Sedan , a second division team , was also in its fifth final; however, the Ardennes had only won the first two, and their last success was 44 years ago .

The lower-class participants made up almost half of the teams remaining in the competition in the round of 16, namely three second-class teams (in addition to Sedan, Clermont Foot and Grenoble Foot ), a team from the semi-professional third division ( Olympique Nîmes ) and three fourth division teams from the highest amateur league ( US Albi, US Boulogne and the traditional US Quevilly , which had already played in the cup final in 1927 ). Of them all three second division teams as well as Boulogne and Nîmes reached the quarter, Sedan and the latter even reached the semifinals. Of the amateurs, who are even deeper in the league system, FC Rhône-Vallée from La Voulte-sur-Rhône and Olympique Saumur (both sixth class) survived the thirty-second finals as well as the fifth division and "multiple cup fright" US Montagnarde from the Breton Inzinzac-Lochrist .

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, since the preseason there has been a restriction on the privilege of lower-class clubs: only teams that competed 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 or - as in this play Saumur against FC Nantes in Angers  - 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 from 7th to 9th January 2005. The clubs of the two professional leagues are labeled L1 and L2, those of the semi-professional third division are labeled D3; the national amateur leagues operate as CFA and CFA2, the regional amateur leagues as DH and DSR ("Division d'Honneur" and "Division Supérieure Régionale", the sixth and seventh highest division).

Round of 16

Games February 11-13, 2005

Round of 16

Games on 1st / 2nd and March 16, 2005

Quarter finals

Games on 19./20. April 2005

Semifinals

Games on May 10 and 11, 2005

final

Game on June 4, 2005 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 77,617 spectators

Team lineups

AJ Auxerre: Fabien Cool - Johan Radet ( Bacary Sagna , 60.), Younès Kaboul , Jean-Pascal Mignot , Jean-Sébastien Jaurès - Yann Lachuer Team captain ( Bonaventure Kalou , 71.), Benoît Cheyrou , Philippe Violeau , Kanga Akalé - Lionel Mathis , Benjamin Mwaruwari
Trainer: Guy Roux

CS Sedan: Patrick Regnault - David Ducourtioux , Jérémy Hénin , Johann Charpenet Team captain , Pierre Njanka ( Albert Budak , 89th), Nadir Belhadj - Mickaël Citony , Stéphane Noro , Didier Neumann , Marcus Mokake ( Cédric Sabin , 58th) - Laurent Gagnier
trainer : Serge Romano

Referee: Bruno Derrien (Brest)

Gates

1: 0 Mwaruwari (37th)
1: 1 Noro (64th)
2: 1 Kalou (90th + 4)

Special occurrences

Six players celebrated their second cup victory after 2003 : goalkeeper Cool, Radet, team captain Lachuer, Akalé, Mathis and Mwaruwari. But coach Guy Roux surpassed them all, because he had been responsible for Auxerre's four titles and even in the lost 1979 final . He set the coaching record of André Cheuva , who 50 years earlier and with the same club ( Lille OSC ) also won the Coupe de France four times. Immediately after this game, 66-year-old Guy Roux announced his immediate resignation.

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, pp. 153, 422 and 430