Coupe de France 2011/12

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since the 2007/08 season

The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2011/12 season was the 95th playout of the French football cup for men's teams. This season, 7,422 clubs from France and its overseas departments and territories took part, narrowly missing the previous record (7,449) from the previous year. A record attendance was set for this season: 50,892 paying visitors saw the game of the thirty-second final between Red Star 93 and Olympique Marseille , to which the host third division had avoided the Stade de France . Never before has a game in the first main round had such a high number of visitors.

Defending champion OSC Lille was eliminated this time in the round of 16. His successor as cup winner was Olympique Lyon , which won this competition for the fifth time in its eighth finals since 1963 . Lyon's opponent, US Quevilly from the third division, was in a final for the second time since 1927 and was also defeated in 2012.

While the third and second division clubs as well as the cup winners from seven of the French overseas territories already had to intervene in the qualifying rounds organized by the regional subdivisions of the FFF national association - the last two groups in the 7th round - the first division began the competition only with the thirty-second finals (start of the main competition). Only in this round were the 64 qualified clubs nationwide divided into four regional pots of 16 teams each, in which almost the same number of teams belonging to the same league were represented. From the sixteenth finals on, this sorting was also dropped and the competition was held exclusively according to the classic cup mode: Match pairings are drawn from all clubs still in the competition without seed lists and only one game is played at the end of which a winner has to be determined (even if it is through Extra time and penalty shoot-outs), which then qualifies for the next round while the loser is eliminated. Home rights have also been determined by lot for each match, with the restriction that clubs that have to play against an eleven that are at least two league levels higher automatically receive home rights since this season.

Six second and twelve third division teams were eliminated before the main competition began, as were the seven overseas cup winners. On the other hand, ten fifth and four sixth class teams made it to the thirty-second finals, fighting for the title of the most successful “thumble” (petit poucet) of the season. With La Tour d'Auvergne Rennes there was an amateur club, which was already there at the first edition of the Coupe de France in autumn 1917. In the sixteenth-finals, however, only two of these 14 teams, namely FC Limoges and FC Sablé-sur-Sarthe , reached the last sixteen as the lowest in class, two fourths, the quarter-finals two third division teams - and they both even advanced to the semi-finals, the US Quevilly finally to the final.

Thirty-second finals

Games January 6-9, 2012; L1, L2 and D3 stand for membership in the first to third leagues, CFA and CFA2 for the two national amateur leagues, DH ("Division d'Honneur") for the sixth league level.
Results: n / a = after extension, i. E. = on penalties

Stade Rennes L1 - AS Nancy L1 3-0 Le Havre AC L2 - FC Lorient L1 4: 3 SC Bastia L2 - FC Sochaux L1 4-1 SM Caen L1 - ES Troyes AC L2 2: 4 n.v. Le Mans FC L2 - Valenciennes FC L1 0-2 Chamois Niort D3 - Stade Brest L1 2-0 AS Marck CFA2 - OGC Nice L1 (a) 0: 2 US Chantilly DH - Lille OSC L1 (b) 0: 6 FC Versailles 78 DH - FCO Dijon L1 1: 5 SCO Angers L2 - AS Monaco L2 4: 3 AS Cherbourg D3 - LB Châteauroux L2 1: 2 Limoges FC CFA2 - US Boulogne L2 1-0 SA Thiers CFA2 - FC Istres L2 1: 4 AS Vitré CFA2 - FC Tours L2 1: 2 FC Mulhouse CFA - US Créteil D3 1: 3 Luçon VF CFA - US Avranches CFA 2-1

AS Saint-Étienne L1 - Girondins Bordeaux L1 1: 1 n.V. (2: 4 p. FC Metz L2 - FC Évian Thonon Gaillard L1 2: 2 n.V. (3: 5 p. Étoile Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël D3 - AC Ajaccio L1 0-3 Red Star 93 D3 - Olympique Marseille L1 (c) 0: 5 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D3 - FC Toulouse L1 1-0 Olympique Lyon L1 - AS Lyon-Duchère CFA (d) 3: 1 Saint-Colomban Locminé CFA2 - Paris Saint-Germain L1 (e) 1: 2 FC Chambly CFA2 - AJ Auxerre L1 (f) 0: 1 a.d. AS Prix-lès-Mézières DH - HSC Montpellier L1 (g) 0: 4 US Orléans D3 - Clermont Foot L2 0: 0 n.V. (5: 3 p.e.) AS Valence CFA - Stade Laval L2 1: 1 n.V. (7: 6 p.e.) FC Sablé-sur-Sarthe CFA2 - CS Sedan L2 3: 3 n.V. (4: 2 p.e.) La Tour d'Auvergne Rennes DH - US Quevilly D3 0: 0 aet (4: 5 on pens) AFC Compiègne CFA - US Montagnarde CFA2 2: 1 a.d. FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA - FC Montceau CFA2 2-1 aet Jeanne d'Arc Drancy CFA - RC Strasbourg CFA2 3: 3 n.V. (4: 2 p.e.)

^(a)in Calais

^(b)in Beauvais

^(c)in Saint-Denis

^(d) Lyon-Duchère has given up his home right.

^(e)in Lorient

^(f)in Amiens

^(G)in Charleville

Round of 16

Games on January 20-23, 2012

Valenciennes FC L1 - SC Bastia L2 3-1 AJ Auxerre L1 - LB Châteauroux L2 1: 2 FCO Dijon L1 - FC Istres L2 2-1 Tours FC L2 - Montpellier HSC L1 0-1 Luçon VF CFA - Olympique Lyon L1 (h) 0: 2 AFC Compiègne CFA - Lille OSC L1 (b) 0: 1 a.d. US Quevilly D3 - SCO Angers L2 1-0 Chamois Niort D3 - US Orléans D3 1: 2

OGC Nice L1 - Stade Rennes L1 0: 0 n.V. (4: 5 i. E.) Olympique Marseille L1 - Le Havre AC L2 3-1 a.d. US Créteil D3 - Girondins Bordeaux L1 2: 2 n.V. (3: 4 p.e.) AS Valence CFA - FC Evian Thonon Gaillard L1 0-2 FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA - AC Ajaccio L1 3-2 aet FC Sablé-sur-Sarthe CFA2 - Paris Saint-Germain L1 (i) 0-4 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D3 - ES Troyes AC L2 1: 0 Limoges FC CFA2 - Jeanne d'Arc Drancy CFA 0-2

^(H)in Nantes

⁽ⁱ⁾in Le Mans

Round of 16

Games on 7/8, catch-up games on February 15 and 21, 2012

Valenciennes FC L1 - Lille OSC L1 2-1 FCO Dijon L1 - Paris Saint-Germain L1 (k) 0: 1 LB Châteauroux L2 - HSC Montpellier L1 0-2 US Quevilly D3 - US Orléans D3 (k) 2: 0 a.d.

Olympique Lyon L1 - Girondins Bordeaux L1 3: 1 a.d. Stade Rennes L1 - FC Evian Thonon Gaillard L1 3-2 Olympique Marseille L1 - FC Bourg-Péronnas CFA (k) (l) 3: 1 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D3 - Jeanne d'Arc Drancy CFA 2-0

^(k) postponed due to the onset of winter

^(l)Bourg-Péronnas had home rights and wanted to play the game in Saint-Étienne , including the catch-up game on February 15; then the FFF Cup Commission decided at short notice to move the match to Marseille "because of the risk of snowfall [there]" .

Quarter finals

Games on 20./21. March 2012

Valenciennes FC L1 - Stade Rennes L1 1-3 US Quevilly D3 - Olympique Marseille L1 (m) 3: 2 a.d.

Paris Saint-Germain L1 - Olympique Lyon L1 1: 3 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D3 - Montpellier HSC L1 1-0

Semifinals

Games on 10/11 April 2012

US Quevilly D3 - Stade Rennes L1 (m) 2: 1

Gazélec FCO Ajaccio D3 - Olympique Lyon L1 0-4

^(m)in Caen

final

Game on April 28, 2012 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in front of 76,229 spectators

• Olympique Lyon - US Quevilly 1-0 (1-0)

Team lineups

Lyon: Hugo Lloris - Anthony Réveillère , Cris , Dejan Lovren ( Bakary Koné , 18th), Aly Cissokho - Maxime Gonalons , Yoann Gourcuff ( Clément Grenier , 67th), Kim Källström - Alexandre Lacazette , Bafétimbi Gomis ( Jimmy Briand , 81st.) ), Lisandro López
Coach: Rémi Garde

Quevilly: Yassine El-Kharroubi - Alexandre Vardin , Frédéric Weis , Grégory Beaugrard , Cédric Vanoukia - Zanké Diarra ( Abdel Ouahbi , 77.), Julien Valéro ( Karim Herouat , 57.), Matthias Jouan - Anthony Laup ( Jean-Christopher Ayina , 81.), Joris Colinet , Pierrick Capelle
Trainer: Régis Brouard

Referee: Hervé Piccirillo (Ligue de Paris-Île de France)

Gates

1-0 López (28th)

Special occurrences

There were only two players left in Lyon's final team who had also been used in Olympique's last cup victory four years earlier , namely Anthony Réveillère and Kim Källström. Bakary Koné also won his second Coupe de France; in 2009 he belonged to the then winning team En Avant Guingamp .

See also

• Ligue 1 2011/12
• Ligue 2 2011/12
• Coupe de France féminine 2011/12

Web links

• FFF Cup Pages (in French)

Supporting documents and comments

1. ^ Figure from France Football from September 16, 2011
2. ↑ see this article ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the FFF 
3. ↑ All results of the regional rounds can be found on this page of the FFF ( Memento of the original of July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ^ Resolution of the FFF Federal Assembly from the beginning of April 2011
5. ↑ see the wordless message from the FFF ( memento of the original from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated February 13, 2012