Coupe de France 2018/19

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The competition for the Coupe de France in the 2018/19 season was the 102nd edition of the French football cup for men's teams. Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain FC , who won their fourth consecutive final and their twelfth trophy last year, reached the final again. In this, however, Stade Rennes prevailed, which remained victorious in its seventh final for the third time after 1965 and 1971.

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 From the sixteenth finals on, this presorting is no longer applicable and the competition will only be played according to the classic cup mode: fixtures are drawn from all clubs still in the competition without seed lists and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"). A team from the overseas territories made it into the main nationwide competition, Aiglon Lamentin from the island of Martinique . Two seventh division teams also reached the thirty-second finals, namely Olympique Strasbourg from Alsace and ESC Longueau from the canton of Amiens . The three sixth division clubs ES Viry-Châtillon , US Gravelines and FC Noisy-le-Grand are also represented. Of this half-dozen, only two made it to the sixteenth-finals, Viry-Châtillon and Noisy-le-Grand, both from the Paris region.
It is extremely rare for a small town with 15,000 inhabitants to be represented in the main round with two amateur clubs at the same time; the last time this was in early 2003 with FC La Vitréenne and Amicale Sportive from Vitré . In 2018/19, the two fifth division teams Stade and Garde Saint-Ivy from Pontivy , also in Breton, succeeded in doing this, and they also got two attractive first division teams in EA Guingamp and defending champion PSG. While these two local rivals were eliminated in the thirty-second finals, said AS Vitré even reached the quarter-finals - as the only team that does not play in L1 or L2.

Thirty-second finals

Games from 4th to 7th, a catch-up game on January 16, 2019. L1 and L2 stand for membership in the first and second leagues, N1, N2 and N3 for the three national amateur leagues, R1 (“ Régional 1 ”) for the sixth and R2 for the seventh league level.
Results: n / a = after extension, i. E. = on penalties.

(a) Stade Pontivy has withdrawn its home right and started in Guingamp, around 60 km away.

Round of 16

Games from January 22nd to 24th and February 2nd (d) 2019.

(d)The Nantes game at Sannois Saint-Gratien was canceled from January 22nd to January 27th and then to February 2nd due to security concerns about the stadium due to the unexplained disappearance of Emiliano Sala (presumably a plane crash) at the request of FCN relocated.

Round of 16

Play February 5-7, 2019.

(f)in Lyon

Quarter finals

Games on 26./27. February and March 6, 2019.

Semifinals

Games on 2/3 April 2019.

final

Game on April 27, 2019 at the Stade de France

Constellations

Rennes: Tomáš Koubek - Hamari Traoré , Damien Da Silva , Edson Mexer , Ramy Bensebaini - Ismaïla Sarr , Benjamin André Team captain , Clément Grenier , Benjamin Bourigeaud ( James Léa Siliki , 106th) - Hatem Ben Arfa , M'Baye Niang
Trainer: Julien Stéphan

Paris: Alphonse Aréola - Colin Dagba ( Moussa Diaby , 106. / Christopher Nkunku , 120.), Marquinhos Team captain , Presnel Kimpembe , Juan Bernat - Ángel Di María ( Leandro Paredes , 75.), Marco Verratti , Dani Alves , Julian Draxler ( Edinson Cavani , 91.) - Kylian Mbappé , Neymar
Trainer: Thomas Tuchel

Referee: Ruddy Buquet

Gates

0: 1 Alves (13th)
0: 2 Neymar (22nd)
1: 2 Kimpembe (40th, own goal)
2: 2 Mexicans (66th)

penalties shoot

1: 0 Niang, 1: 1 Cavani
2: 1 Ben Arfa, 2: 2 Alves
3: 2 Grenier, 3: 3 Paredes
4: 3 Léa Siliki, 4: 4 Bernat
5: 4 Bensebaini, 5: 5 Neymar
6: 5 Sarr, Nkunku shoots

Special occurrences

Referee Buquet distributed a total of ten yellow cards, six of them to players from Rennes. In addition, shortly before the end of extra time, he sent the not yet warned Kylian Mbappé off the pitch after a violent foul.

See also

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  1. ↑ Article “ One city, two clubs, two milieus ” from January 5, 2019 in Le Monde , “ Pontivy dreams in a double pack ” from January 4, 2019 in Le Figaro , “ Pontivy, one city but two clubs in the cup ” from January 2 , 2019 January 2019 in Le Parisien and “ Pontivy: two clubs, two hearts ” on January 5, 2019 at sofoot.com