Coupe de France 2006/07

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2006/07 season was the 90th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This year, 6,581 clubs registered - a new record participation -, including those from overseas French possessions , of which, however, once again no eleven could qualify for the national main round.

Defending champion Paris Saint-Germain this time only made it to the quarter-finals, where he failed because of the eventual winner of the trophy, FC Sochaux-Montbéliard . For Sochaux this meant the second Coupe de France in the fifth final - exactly 70 years after the first title win and 19 years after the club from Franche-Comté last participated in the final . Final opponent Olympique de Marseille was even in his 18th final; With ten victories up to then - the last one was 18 years ago  - the team from Provence is the record cup winner in France until today ( 2009 ).

The lower-class participants were not as strongly represented in the round of 16 as in previous years, but only five: two second ( FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin , HSC Montpellier ) and third division teams ( Clermont Foot , OC Vannes ) , plus as the only team from the highest amateur league of FC Montceau . Of these, only Vannes and Montceau reached the quarter-finals, the fourth division from Montceau-les-Mines even reached the semi-finals. Since the introduction of professionalism (1932), only a single team from the fourth-highest division had succeeded in this ( Calais RUFC in 2000 , which even made it to the final).

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, there was a restriction on the privilege of lower-class clubs: 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 (for example AS Lyon-Duchère against Sochaux) or gave way - as in this play, for example, FC Montceau against the first division clubs Girondins Bordeaux , RC Lens and FC Sochaux in the Stade Jean-Laville von Gueugnon  - against an attractive opponent in a nearby larger stadium. If the score was tied after extra time, there was a penalty shoot-out.

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 5th to 7th, 2007. The clubs of the two professional leagues are marked 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 and DSR ("Division d'Honneur" and "Division Supérieure Régionale", the sixth and seventh highest division).

(a) Châteaubriant's victory was subsequently withdrawn by the FFF because an ineligible footballer had played with them.

Round of 16

Games January 19-21, 2007

Round of 16

Games on 30./31. January 2007

Quarter finals

Games on 27./28. February 2007

Semifinals

Games on April 17th and 18th, 2006

final

Game on May 12, 2007 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 79,797 spectators

Team lineups

FC Sochaux: Teddy Richert - Stéphane Pichot , Rabiu Afolabi , Jérémie Bréchet Team captain , Duško Tošić - Karim Ziani , Romain Pitau ( Philippe Brunel , 106th), Guirane N'Daw , Jérôme Leroy - Sébastien Grax ( Valter Birsa , 74th), Moumouni Dagano ( Anthony Le Tallec , 104th)
Coach: Alain Perrin

Olympique Marseille: Cédric Carrasso - Habib Beye Team captain , Ronald Zubar , Julien Rodriguez , Taye Taiwo - Franck Ribéry , Lorik Cana , Modeste M'Bami ( Toifilou Maoulida , 94th), Mamadou Niang ( Wilson Oruma , 73rd) - Samir Nasri , Djibril Cissé
Trainer: Albert Emon

Referee: Éric Poulat (Lyon)

Gates

0: 1 Cissé (5th)
1: 1 Dagano (67th)
1: 2 Cissé (98th)
2: 2 Le Tallec (116th)

Penalty Shootout

1: 0 Ziani, 1: 1 Taiwo
2: 1 Birsa, Maoulida missed
3: 1 Le Tallec, 3: 2 Cana
4: 2 Leroy, 4: 3 Cissé
Bréchet missed, 4: 4 Nasri
5: 4 Brunel, Zubar missed

Special occurrences

The fifth final in cup history, which had to be decided by a penalty shoot-out, set a new record for the number of spectators. For referee Poulat it was the second leadership of a final after 2002 . There was also a premiere: for the first time since the final of the French Junior Championship was played as a prelude to the final of the Coupe de France, the same club won both titles, and just like the professional team, the U-19s of FC Sochaux also had to follow a 2-2 win against the AJ Auxerre juniors in the penalty shootout.

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. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 241–245
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 313
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 424