Coupe de France 2017/18

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2017/18 season was the 101st opening of the French football cup for men's teams. Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain FC won their fourth consecutive final and their twelfth trophy overall this year; for the final opponent VF Les Herbiers , a third division club , it was the first participation in the final.

During the third and second division clubs as well as eleven participants from seven French overseas territories already in the regional of the subdivisions of the National Association French Football Federation (FFF) organized qualifying rounds must engage in competition - the third division in the fifth, the two The latter groups in the 7th round - for the first division team - and possibly a lower-class defending champion - the competition only begins two rounds later with the thirty-second finals (start of the main competition). Only in this round will the 64 qualified clubs nationwide be divided into four regional pots of 16 teams each, in each of which almost the same number of teams belonging to the same league are represented. From the sixteenth finals on, this presorting is no longer applicable and the competition will only be played according to the classic cup mode: fixtures are drawn from all clubs still in the competition without seed lists and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 are also determined by drawing lots for each match, but with the restriction that clubs that have to compete against an eleven that are at least two league levels higher are automatically given home rights.

The lower-class clubs also fight for the title as the most successful outsider, which is associated with cash prizes. This side competition, which is currently mainly sponsored by PMU , is officially called Classement des Petits Poucets (in German: "Däumlingsprüfung"). Teams from overseas territories did not make it into the main competition in 2017/18; the last to retire were Étoile Matury from French Guiana and AS Excelsior Saint-Joseph from La Réunion in the 8th round. For this, two eight division teams reached the main competition: FC Still 1930 from Alsace and AC Houilles from the neighborhood of Paris .

Thirty-second finals

Games on January 6th to 8th, 2018. L1, L2 and D3 stand for membership in the first to third league, N2 and N3 for the two national amateur leagues, R1 (" Regional 1 ") for the sixth, R2 and R3 for the seventh or eighth league level.
Results: n / a = after extension, i. E. = on penalties.

Round of 16

Play January 23-25, 2018.

Round of 16

Games on February 6-8, 2018.

Quarter finals

Games from February 27th to March 1st, 2018.

Semifinals

Games on 17./18. April 2018.

final

Game on May 8, 2018 at the Stade de France in front of 73,772 spectators

Constellations

Paris: Kevin Trapp - Dani Alves ( Thomas Meunier , 85th), Marquinhos , Thiago Silva Team captain , Yuri Berchiche - Adrien Rabiot , Giovani Lo Celso , Thiago Motta ( Julian Draxler , 68th) - Kylian Mbappé ( Javier Pastore , 85th), Edinson Cavani , Ángel Di María
Coach: Unai Emery

Les Herbiers: Matthieu Pichot - Romuald Marie , Adrien Pagerie , Diaranké Fofana , Guillaume Dequaire - Kévin Rocheteau Team captain , Sébastien Flochon , Joachim Eickmayer ( Clément Couturier , 87th), Valentin Vanbaleghem ( Adrian Dabasse , 62nd) - Pierre-Michel Germann ( Ambroise Gboho , 63.), Louis Bongongui
Trainer: Stéphane Masala

Referee: Mikael Lesage

Gates

1-0 Lo Celso (26th)
2-0 Cavani (74th, penalty kick)

See also

Supporting documents and comments

  1. ^ Resolution of the FFF Federal Assembly of April 2011