Coupe de France féminine

The cup winners of 2011

The Coupe de France féminine is the cup competition in French women's football . The competition has been played since 2001/02 and organized by the French football association FFF ; up to and including the 2010/11 season it was called the Challenge de France féminin . The record winner is Olympique Lyon with nine titles and HSC Montpellier with three titles. Along with the new name, the coupe has also received a new logo in purple and pink.

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In principle, all clubs affiliated to the French Football Association can take part in this competition. Only the clubs in the top three leagues are required to participate. In the first event (2001/02 season) a total of 372 clubs took part, in the second only 344. In the following years the number of participants continued to fluctuate in the upper 300 range: 2005/06 371, 2009/10 376 and 2011/12 397. From the middle of the second decade onwards, this value has increased significantly, almost annually. In 2013/14 469 clubs registered, one season later 488, in 2016/17 the record rose to 626 registrations, 2018/19 to 687 and 2019/20 to 759.

First of all, there are qualifying games in the 21 regions of the association, in which all clubs except the twelve first division clubs take part. In the early years and again in 2018/19, they only intervened in the round of the last 32 women’s franchises (sixteenth finals); since the 2010/11 season they have to do so one round earlier (thirty-second finals). For the 36 (from 2016: 24) second division teams, the trophy even begins one round before, namely with the first national round (1 ^er tour fédéral) .
The game is played in a knockout system . If a game is tied after 90 minutes, the game is not extended, but a penalty shoot-out follows immediately to determine the winner. The final takes place in a neutral place. In contrast to previous practice in the German Cup , the final will not be held in the same stadium as the men's final.

In 2016, the cup winner received a bonus of 60,000, the defeated finalist 40,000 and the two semi-finalists 20,000 euros each.

Cup surprises

In the relatively short history of the competition, no woman from a lower league has managed to be permanently labeled as a surprise eleven. This is not only due to the relatively low level of media interest, but above all the strong performance gap between the top teams in the first division and the rest of the participants. Up to and including the 2018/19 event, only eight teams that played below the second division made it into the round of the last eight participants (quarter-finals), and only twice did lower-class female soccer players even advance one round. This was achieved in 2003/04 by the third-rate Racing Besançon , who had previously eliminated a second division ( FC Vendenheim ) and a first division ( Juvisy FCF ) before losing to D1F participants USCCO Compiègne , even after penalties . In 2016/17 third division FCF Hénin-Beaumont also reached the semi-finals, but only had to eliminate one representative from the two top leagues with ASJ Soyaux .

So far there has only been one second division eleven to have reached the women's cup final: the 2008/09 UC Le Mans .

The previous finals

The referee drawn carriages in the previously 19 finals (up to and including discharge 2019/20) was Elodie Coppola considered most often, once as a referee and four times - most recently in 2020 - as an assistant. Florence Guillemin (three times), Sabine Bonnin (née Louiset) and Noëlle Robin (twice each) were the only ones to lead more than one final game.

With 12,480 spectators, the best-attended final was that of the 2017/18 season at the Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg .

year	winner	finalist	Result	Final venue
2002	Toulouse FC	FC Lyon	2: 1	Tournon-sur-Rhône
2003	FC Lyon	HSC Montpellier	4: 3	Montceau-les-Mines
2004	FC Lyon	USCCO Compiègne	2-0	Grommet
2005	Juvisy FCF	Olympique Lyon	1: 1, 5: 4 i. E.	Buzançais
2006	HSC Montpellier	Olympique Lyon	1: 1, 4: 3 i. E.	Aulnat
2007	HSC Montpellier	Olympique Lyon	3: 3, 3: 0 i. E.	Saint-Denis ^(a)
2008	Olympique Lyon	Paris Saint-Germain	3-0	Saint-Denis ^(a)
2009	HSC Montpellier	UC Le Mans (D2)	3: 1	Lyon
2010	Paris Saint-Germain	HSC Montpellier	5-0	Bondoufle
2011	AS Saint-Etienne	HSC Montpellier	0: 0, 3: 2 i. E.	Buxerolles
2012	Olympique Lyon	HSC Montpellier	2: 1	Bourges
2013	Olympique Lyon	AS Saint-Etienne	3: 1	Clermont-Ferrand
2014	Olympique Lyon	Paris Saint-Germain	2-0	Le Mans
2015	Olympique Lyon	HSC Montpellier	2: 1	Calais
2016	Olympique Lyon	HSC Montpellier	2: 1	Grenoble
2017	Olympique Lyon	Paris Saint-Germain	1: 1, 7: 6 i. E.	Vannes
2018	Paris Saint-Germain	Olympique Lyon	1-0	Strasbourg
2019	Olympique Lyon	Lille OSC	3: 1	Chateauroux
2020	Olympique Lyon	Paris Saint-Germain	0: 0, 4: 3 i. E.	Auxerre
2021

^(a)2007 in the Stade Auguste-Delaune , 2008 in the Stade de France

Title holder

title	society	Seasons
9	Olympique Lyon	2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
3	HSC Montpellier	2006, 2007, 2009
2	FC Lyon	2003, 2004
2	Paris Saint-Germain	2010, 2018
1	Toulouse FC	2002
1	Juvisy FCF	2005
1	AS Saint-Etienne	2011

Web links

Current regulations of the Coupe de France féminine on the official website of the French federation (as PDF)

Supporting documents and comments

↑ Announcement ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2011 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. on the side of the French association @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr

↑ see the article "La Coupe de France est aussi féminine" ( Memento of the original of July 29, 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. of December 1, 2011 in the FFF magazine Foot Hebdo @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr
↑ “ Coupe de France, the numbers before the final ” from May 6, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
↑ ^a ^b after the article “ The Cup and the Finals in Numbers ” from May 19, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
↑ From 2002 to 2010 the third French women's league (D3F) was, like D1 and D2, a national league (only 40 teams in four seasons), while since then it has only been organized regionally and, for example, comprises 197 teams in 2016/17, who play for points in 19 Divisions d'Honneur .

[1] Announcement ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2011 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. on the side of the French association @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr

[2] see the article "La Coupe de France est aussi féminine" ( Memento of the original of July 29, 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. of December 1, 2011 in the FFF magazine Foot Hebdo @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff.fr

[3] “ Coupe de France, the numbers before the final ” from May 6, 2019 at footofeminin.fr

[en_chiffres-4] ter the article “ The Cup and the Finals in Numbers ” from May 19, 2017 at footofeminin.fr

[5] From 2002 to 2010 the third French women's league (D3F) was, like D1 and D2, a national league (only 40 teams in four seasons), while since then it has only been organized regionally and, for example, comprises 197 teams in 2016/17, who play for points in 19 Divisions d'Honneur .