French football cup

This article covers the French Football Cup for men's teams; for the corresponding women's competition, see Coupe de France féminine .

French football cup
Full name	Coupe de France de football
abbreviation	Coupe de France
Association	FFF
founding	January 15, 1917 (decision) October 7, 1917 (start)
First edition	1917/18
Game mode	Knockout system
Title holder	Paris Saint-Germain
Record winner	Paris Saint-Germain  (13 titles)
Current season	2019/20
Website	www.fff.fr
Qualification for	UEFA Europa League French Supercup

The French soccer cup ( French Coupe de France de football ) is next to the French championship the most important national men's soccer competition for club teams in France . It is organized by the regional association FFF . Now that there is no longer a European Cup Winners' Cup , winning the Coupe de France entitles you to take part in the UEFA Europa League for the following season, as well as the French Supercup game , the Trophée des Champions .

The French cup competition was launched in 1917 on the initiative of Henri Delaunay , who had a similar sporting event in mind for France as he had come to appreciate at the English FA Cup . The first games were played on October 7, 1917; seven months later, Olympique de Pantin was the first cup winner. Initially (and again from 1940 to 1945) the competition was called Coupe Charles Simon after a player and association official who died in the war and took its current name in 1919/20. The Coupe de France was the first nationwide, cross-association competition in France (see here for details ) . To this extent, this commonality corresponded to the prevailing social and political leitmotif of the Union sacrée during the war , i.e. the suspension of domestic political disputes in view of the defense of the nation. The early winners of the cup competition were therefore usually referred to as French champions (champion de France) . When it was held for the first time, 48 clubs took part, the previous maximum of 7,656 in the 2012/13 season.

So far, 32 clubs and a regional selection have entered the list of winners. Record winner is Paris Saint-Germain with 13 and Olympique Marseille with ten successes.

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History of the competition

There is a separate article for each individual cup season, starting with Coupe de France 1917/18 .

The creation of the coupe

On January 15, 1917, the then football governing body , Comité Français Interfédéral , decided to put the idea of ​​its Secretary General Henri Delaunay into practice and to hold a cup competition in which all French teams - regardless of their association membership - were allowed to take part. The CFI won the publisher Hachette and its Lectures pour Tous as a sponsor , who in return for paying 5,000 francs per season had the right to guarantee that there would be no other national football competition in France for an initial five years. In addition, the sponsor was responsible for the replicas of the cup trophy and the commemorative medals for the finalists. This contractual agreement had to be taken over by the FFF, which was founded in early 1919 and then replaced the CFI, and it extended the agreement with Hachette for a further five years in 1922.

The first two draws took place in the middle of the world war , so that teams from Alsace, which belongs to Germany and parts of Lorraine , did not take part, as did those from the northern and eastern regions of France particularly affected by the war. In addition, the transport options were severely impaired by these circumstances. Numerous football players were not available to their clubs as soldiers, or only to a limited extent. After all, especially in the rural areas, the sports facility infrastructure was only poorly developed during this period. As a result, only 48 clubs registered for the game that began on October 7, 1917, a year later there were 59, in the first post-war season 114 and 1920/21 already 202. A four-digit number of participants was first reached in 1950/51 .

Trial of strength between the region around Paris and the Mediterranean (1917–1932)

Game scene from the 1920s final between Le Havre AC and CA Paris

In the early years, the competition was dominated by clubs from Paris and its immediate vicinity : the first six cup winners all came from this region, as did the defeated finalist in two cases. In addition, there were with Red Star from 1921 to 1923 the first to date (2020) only three "series winners"; Olympique Pantin , CASG and CAP had previously won the coupe. In the opening season, exactly half of the 48 participating clubs came from the greater Paris area, where the finals were played from the start. Even the referees of the finals came from there without exception up to and including 1929.

This resulted in a duel between teams from the capital and those from the Mediterranean region , in particular Olympique Marseille (three titles between 1924 and 1927), FC Sète (four finals from 1923 to 1930) and SO Montpellier (two finals in 1929 and 1931) ). Sète in particular, however, repeatedly collided with the amateur regulations and was therefore the object of punitive measures by the association on several occasions, which in the 1922/23 season even led to his temporary exclusion from the current competition, which was later canceled on mercy. With the AS Valentigney (1926) and the US Quevilly (1927) two small-town clubs, each of which could rely on the financial support of a large local company, reached a final in this era.

The first years of professionalism (1932–1945)

Until the outbreak of the Second World War (1939) and the occupation of the country by German troops (1940), the clubs that had decided on professional football, which was introduced in 1932 - and among them primarily the first division  - quickly gained the upper hand. Only two lower-class teams ( Racing Roubaix 1933 and OFC Charleville 1936) managed to make it into a cup final, and in 1944 two regional selections made up of “paid state amateurs” (Équipes Fédérales) faced each other in the final (see here for details ). Otherwise, Olympique Marseille (three titles in five finals) and Racing Paris (four-time winner) dominated the competition in this period ; in addition, FC Sète and Girondins Bordeaux each reached two finals and won one of them. From 1940 to 1945 the Coupe de France had to be officially referred to again as Coupe Charles Simon on the instructions of the government of the “free” part of the country out of consideration for the German occupying power. The 1944/45 season - the year of the liberation of France and the end of the war - marked the transition to a new era in cup history with the first participation in the final of the Lille OSC, which emerged from the merger of Olympique Lille , Iris Club Lille and SC Fives .

The Lille OSC decade (1945–1955)

Until 1949, the northern French from Lille had five consecutive finals for the Coupe de France, which they won three times in a row (1946 to 1948). To date (2016), the former is a record that has not been achieved, the latter has only been achieved by one other club in the more than 90-year history of the competition. Also in two other finals (1953 and 1955) Lille OSC left the lawn of the Olympic Stadium in Colombes as the winner. With Stade Reims and Racing Strasbourg , two other teams from the northern and eastern " province " won the cup; In addition, Racing Lens , US Valenciennes and FC Nancy , which are also based there , made it to the final. This was also achieved by Red Star and Racing Paris, while the south of the country provided only one cup winner (two successes in the early 1950s for OGC Nice ) and three times the defeated finalists (two Bordeaux, one Marseille).

A time of constant change (1955–1965)

Division 1 dominated Stade Reims during this time; in the cup, however, there have been eight different winners in ten years. Only the “worker soccer players ” of the UA Sedan-Torcy (with three finals) and AS Monaco were able to enter twice on the list of winners. Only two other clubs, Olympique Nîmes and AS Saint-Étienne , took part in two finals each, of which only Saint-Étienne could win one. With the Le Havre AC in 1959 a second division was able to assert itself for the first time ; until 2009 (see below ) this was the only victory of a lower class club in the French Cup.

Saint-Étienne - and Nantes, Marseille, Lyon (1965–1982)

Parallel to the dominance of AS Saint-Étienne and FC Nantes in the division 1 championship, the two clubs dominated - albeit to a significantly different extent - the cup competition during these approximately one and a half decades. Saint-Étienne won all five finals it had reached by 1977, and was in the final two more times in 1981 and 1982; Nantes, on the other hand, could only decide the last of four finals (1979) in his favor. In addition to these two, Olympique Marseille (three finals, all of which finished victorious) and Olympique Lyon (two wins in four finals) were particularly successful ; apart from that, the AS Monaco and the SEC Bastia (each a cup success in two finals) made a name for themselves, and with the US Orléans in 1980 a lower-class eleven once again reached a final.

Paris becomes "Cup capital" again (1982-2000)

In 1982 and 1983, Paris Saint-Germain FC , which had only been founded a decade earlier, managed to bring the coupe back to the state capital after more than 30 years; by 1998 three more successes should be added. In 1985, PSG was once again in a final, which was also achieved in 1990 by the traditional Parisian club of the 1930s to 1950s , which was renamed Matra Racing 1 after a checkered history . Five other clubs from the rest of the country won the trophy twice each until 2000: FC Nantes, AS Monaco (both in four finals), FC Metz , Girondins Bordeaux and AJ Auxerre (all in their only two finals during this period). Olympique Marseille had also made four finals, of which the eleven only won the one in 1989. A first in cup history was reaching the final in 2000 by the fourth-rate Calais RUFC , after a third division team had advanced so far with Olympique Nîmes in 1996 - also for the first time ; the great success was denied to both.

The only year in which no final was held and there was no competition winner falls into this section of the history of the Cup: In May 1992, the " Drama of Furiani " occurred a few minutes before the semi-final match between SC Bastia and Olympique Marseille ; the collapse of an additional grandstand in the Stade Armand-Cesari in Bastia claimed 18 lives and more than 2,350 injured. The FFF then broke off the competition.

At the beginning of the 21st century

Spectator ranks at the 2009 final

As much as the French championship was dominated by a single club, Olympique Lyon, at this time - in the Coupe de France Lyon only made two finals, which he was able to conclude with the cup in 2008 and 2012. Instead, Paris Saint-Germain and AJ Auxerre alternated between 2003 and 2006 on the list of winners. Particularly noteworthy were the successes of FC Sochaux , who had to wait exactly 70 years for their second cup win (2007), and of En Avant Guingamp , whose name was only second division after a purely Breton final (against Stade Rennes ) in 2009 - exactly 50 years after Le Havre AC was the first to succeed - was engraved in the competition trophy. In 2014 Guingamp and Rennes met again, and again En Avant - now back in the top division - had the better end for themselves. Before Guingamp, another club from Brittany, FC Lorient , had won the coupe for the first time in 2002.

In the 2009/10 competition, the capital's club PSG won another final and was in the final the following year, but lost it to Lille OSC. In 2015 PSG secured the title again, as part of the first national quadruplé in French football, against the now only second-rate AJ Auxerre. In the following year, Paris managed to repeat the win, as did in 2017 and 2018, before Stade Rennes defeated the Parisians in the 2019 final and celebrated a cup victory again after 48 years. With US Quevilly , a third division team reached the final for the second time in 85 years.

On the occasion of the final of the hundredth competition held in May 2017, the French Post issued a special stamp .

Cup surprises

The surprise most cited to this day in the long history of the cup happened on February 4, 1957 in Toulouse ; In the round of the last 32 teams, SCU El Biar , a modest amateur club from the Algerian Division d'Honneur , met the then top team from Stade de Reims . Although El Biar had already cleared a second division side out of the way with AS Aix in the previous round , Reims was a completely different caliber. Half a year earlier, in the very first final of the European Champions Cup, the " Royal Madrilenians " had to be beaten by a narrow margin and also competed against the absolute outsider with the exception of Just Fontaine, who is indispensable for military service . After four minutes, El Biar led 1-0 with a free kick by his player-coach Guy Buffard (who was himself a member of the Stade fan club "Allez Reims"), increased it to 2-0 in the first half by Roland Almodovar and survived the subsequent 50- minute assault run by the favorite with commitment, luck and a goalkeeper named Paul Benoît who outgrown himself on this day without conceding a goal. In the next round of 16 El Biar was eliminated without a sound, but this one cup game and its brave protagonists are still known decades later in France as VfB Eppingen in Germany .

Since 1980, the US Montagnarde has been in the main round nine times, and in 2002 it was the first sixth division to make it to the round of 16. As the first fifth division, CS Blénod managed to throw two first division out of the competition in 1996 . Two other amateur clubs that were particularly successful in defying the " big ones " - often referred to as petits poucets (" thumbs up ") - have also made lasting cup history:

The US Quevilly , from the immediate vicinity of Rouen , had even made it to the final against Olympique Marseille in 1927 - but officially there were no paid footballers, so the eternal motif of the cup drama (" David versus Goliath ") was missing ; In 1968, on the other hand, Quevilly initially threw Olympique Lyon out of the race and only had to bow to the Girondins de Bordeaux in the semifinals, and only after extra time . The fourth division team achieved a similar success in 2010 when, after winning over the Ligue 1 teams Stade Rennes and US Boulogne , they were only eliminated again in the semifinals. In 2012, Quevilly's Cup course led to the final for the second time; the Normans, who are now in the third division , lost to Olympique Lyon after previous victories against Marseille and Rennes.

And the fourth-rate Calais RUFC marched through to the finals in 2000 after victories over AS Cannes , Racing Strasbourg and Girondins Bordeaux, where they were only defeated by a penalty goal in the last second 1: 2 against FC Nantes . In 2006 and 2007 the CRUFC reached the quarter-finals and the sixteenth-finals, respectively - still in the fourth division.

The latest big surprises come from two fifth division teams (CFA2), both of which made it to the quarter-finals: in 2007/08, the US Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou , who first knocked out the first division clubs AS Nancy and Olympique Marseille, before going 0-1 to Paris Saint-Germain failed, and in 2010/11 SO Chambéry , who defeated AS Monaco , Stade Brest and FC Sochaux even three Ligue 1 clubs in a row.
In the hundredth year of the existence of the “Vieille Dame” (“Old Lady”), the trade magazine France Football extensively honored the trophy course of twenty clubs, which it considers to be the most outstanding surprises. In chronological order these are Racing Roubaix 1933, US Vésinet 1946 - this club from the western periphery of Paris was already there as Margarita Club Vésinet in the first cup season 1917/18 - UA Sedan-Torcy 1950, SCU El Biar 1957, AS Gardanne 1960 , CS Blénod and Olympique Nîmes 1996, Clermont Foot 1997, FC Bourg-Péronnas 1998, Calais RUFC 2000, Amiens SC 2001, FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin 2002, SC Schiltigheim 2003, Aviron Bayonne and ESA Brive 2004, FC Montceau 2007, USJA Carquefou 2008, SO Chambéry 2011, US Quevilly 2012 and AS Cannes 2014. The fact that no amateur club was included in this list for over three and a half decades from 1960 onwards is explained by the FF editorial team with the fact that there were back and forth games until 1988 the higher-class clubs as well as the fact that the home law for lower-class was introduced in 1989.

Overall, in the recent past, the amateur teams - i.e. nowadays the fourth-rate or lower clubs - have been relatively well represented among the last 32 teams, as the following list shows.

League level	Sixteenth- finalists from league (a)	Average 1998/99 to 2007/08	season 2008/09	season 2009/10	season 2010/11	2011/12 season	season 2012/13	season 2013/14	season 2014/15	season 2015/16	Season 2016/17	Season 2017/18	Season 2018/19	Season 2019/20	Average value from 2008/09 to 2019/20
1	Ligue 1	13	14th	15th	10 (b)	13	14th	14th	12	17th	15th	14th	14th	15th	<14
2	Ligue 2	0 8	0 9	0 6	10	0 7	0 5	0 7	0 6	0 5	0 4	0 7	0 4	0 4	> 0 6
3	National	0 4	0 2	0 3	0 2	0 5	0 4	0 1	0 5	0 2	0 7	0 4	0 4	0 2	> 0 3
4th	CFA	0 4	0 5	0 6	0 6	0 5	0 5	0 7	0 6	0 6	0 3	0 4	0 7	0 6	< 0 6
5	CFA 2	0 2	0 0	0 2	0 3	0 2	0 2	0 3	0 3	0 2	0 2	0 3	0 1	0 4	> 0 2
6+	DH and below	0 1	0 2	0 0	0 1	0 0	0 2	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 1	0 0	0 2	0 1	< 0 1

^(a) The names of the third and lower leagues were changed for the 2017/18 season as follows: National → National 1, CFA → National 2, CFA 2 → National 3, DH → Régional 1 etc.

^(b)The fact that ten first division clubs were eliminated in the thirty-second finals of the Coupe had never happened since the introduction of professional football (1932); the previous negative record was with nine Division 1 teams (1998/99 season).

For the successful amateur clubs, the French Football Association even has its own valuation, which is anchored in the regulations and associated with cash prizes, the "Sparkasse Honor Board" ( Tableau d'honneur - Caisse d'Épargne ) - from 2012 with PMU as the main sponsor of the name - or "Thumbs up" ( Classement des Petits Poucets ).

Competition mode

Regulations

The French Football Cup is played in a knockout system . One game is played per round, at the end of which nowadays a winner has to be determined who then qualifies for the next round, while the loser is eliminated. If a match is tied after the end of the regular playing time, there will be no extra time from the 2020/21 season , instead there will be an immediate penalty shoot-out to determine the winner; Only the endgame is excluded from this new regulation. Only one team per club is eligible to participate; thus the second teams of the professional clubs are excluded. The competition is divided into a preliminary phase ( “Épreuve éliminatoire” ) and the main competition ( “Compétition propre” ). The preliminary phase consists of a maximum of eight rounds, which are numbered from one to eight. The main competition has six rounds from the thirty-second finals to the final.

The first six rounds of the preliminary phase are organized by the regional associations, each of which is assigned a certain number of qualifiers; this is based in particular on the respective proportion of members. At the regional level, in the first two rounds there is the freedom to loose or set the pairings. In rounds three to five of the qualifying phase, the participating clubs within a region are again grouped according to geographical criteria, within which the pairings are drawn. In the seventh and eighth rounds as well as in the thirty-second finals, the clubs are divided nationwide into groups of approximately the same level of play, within which a lot is drawn. From the sixteenth finals onwards, betting is no longer performed

The clubs of the higher leagues and the participants from the overseas departments and territories only intervene later in the competition. The clubs of Ligue 2 , for example, rise in the seventh round, those of Ligue 1 and a lower-class defending champion - which has only happened twice since 1917/18 - in the thirty-second finals.

In the 2014/15 cup season, this was shown as follows:

round	Attendees	round	Attendees
5th round	544 4th round winners a	8th round	88 7th round winners
6th round	272 winners of the 5th round of 18 clubs in the third division	1/32 finals	44 winners of the 8th round 20 clubs of the first division
7th round	145 winners of the 6th round 11 clubs from overseas b 20 clubs from the second division	1/16 finals	32 winners of the 1/32 finals

^aall participating amateur teams from mainland France including Corsica

^bthe regional cup winners from Guadeloupe , Réunion , Guyana , Martinique , Mayotte , New Caledonia and Polynesia , plus a second participant from each of the first four areas mentioned since 2014/15

Home rights are determined by lot for each match, but from 2003/04 up to and including 2010/11 with the restriction that clubs that had to compete against at least two “game levels” - not to be confused with league levels - higher eleven, automatically Got home rights. Critics saw in this regulation, however, more of a protection of the higher-class teams, because it could lead to a second against a fifth division team playing in front of their own audience, because the two teams were separated by three divisions, but only one level. As a result, the FFF decided that from the 2011/12 season those teams who compete two leagues lower than their opponent will have automatic home rights. On the other hand, amateur clubs occasionally voluntarily sell their home rights to a professional club, partly for financial reasons, partly because they are unable to organize such a task.

Teams from overseas territories have been eligible to participate for different lengths of time. In the 1960s, these were initially Guadeloupe (since it was held in 1961/62 ), Martinique (from 1962/63), Réunion (from 1964/65) and French Guiana (since 1966/67). In 1974/75 a representative from French Polynesia was added, in 1986/87 the circle expanded to include New Caledonia and 2001/02 to Mayotte. In the 21st century, amateur clubs from metropolitan France can apply to face one of these overseas teams in the 7th round of the cup; these pairings are then determined by lot, with six games being played in Europe and five overseas. The French association FFF pays the travel expenses. Up to and including the 2018/19 season, the most successful overseas team was the Guayan ASC Geldar Kourou , who made it to the sixteenth finals in the 1988/89 season . Club Franciscain from Martinique has qualified most often (twelve times), followed by AS Magenta (New Caledonia, eleven times) as well as Étoile Morne-à-l'Eau (Guadeloupe) and AS Pirae (Polynesia, ten times each). As the first team from Reunion Island and the second team from overseas, the JS Saint-Pierre 2019/20 made it into the round of the top 32 after an away win at the second division Chamois Niort .

The fact that so far never more than a third of the 20,000 or so clubs in France has registered for the competition is also due to the fact that many small clubs do not have a sports field that meets the minimum requirements of the FFF for hosting cup games. Sometimes they also shy away from the costs of printing jerseys and trousers with the sponsor's logos, which is mandatory from the first regional cup round (see below ) .

Major changes

In the past, France has also repeatedly experimented with the delivery mode.

The rules regarding the composition of the individual fixtures were not always dependent on chance and luck: in 1917/18 a cup commission set all matches, whereby - not illogical under the war conditions - questions of travel distances in large-scale France played just as much a role as the quality of the ones the respective venues and the infrastructure. It was not until the 1921/22 staging that the round of 16 and subsequent rounds were actually drawn, from 1945/46 also the sixteenth and from 1947/48 the thirty-second final pairings. In the last-mentioned round, the lottery procedure from 1954/55 to 1958/59 as well as from 1976/77 to 1979/80 was even replaced again by placing under pressure from the professional clubs in order to prevent the alleged favorites from clashing too early and being eliminated. The competition was also subject to constant changes with regard to the definition of home law.

In the first decades all games that were still tied after extra time were repeated; the last final under this rule took place in 1965. After that, the rules provided for a decision to be brought about by tossing a coin or a little later by taking a penalty shoot-out immediately after the end of the single game. The first penalty shootout in a final did not take place until 1982.

After the Second World War until the 1960s, the main round matches, with the exception of the finals, took place on a neutral pitch, which, given the expansion of French territory at the time, occasionally meant that a north and a south of France team had their second round match in Algeria or even in the The Caribbean . This also had a political background, because it was supposed to document the cohesion of the colonial areas with the mother country.

Finally, the Coupe de France was held in the national main rounds from 1968/69 up to and including 1988/89, with the exception of the finals, in home and away matches, which has led to an increase in income, but also to a loss of attractiveness when teams only play away wanted to secure a good starting position for the second leg and played accordingly defensively "on result". This regulation also did not make advancement for lower-class clubs easier. During these 21 years, from the eighth to the semi-finals, there were a total of 127 fixtures between teams from different leagues; Only in 28 of them, i.e. in a good every fifth pairing, was the lower-class team able to prevail. And if you look at the semi-finals in this period, the first division clubs were exclusively among themselves in 14 of 21 seasons; this was only the case in nine seasons in the 21 years prior to the introduction of home and away matches.

From 1952/53 to 1964/65 an additional cup competition, the Coupe Charles Drago , was played, in which all professional teams eliminated before the quarter-finals took part. This competition, which contradicts the usual cup rule, according to which a defeat means the end, was never particularly popular, but brought additional income to the clubs, which are often economically troubled. The FC Sochaux and the RC Lens won the Coupe Drago three times.

Sponsorship, television broadcasts, and entry fees

In 2009/10 the competition was supported by three main sponsors - referred to in French as "godparents" (parrains) - namely the sporting goods manufacturer Adidas , the credit institute Caisse d'Épargne and the mobile phone provider SFR . There were also four “official partners” (partenaires officiels) : the television stations Eurosport and TF1 , which acquired the right to broadcast the cup games for a total of € 14.15 million per season, as well as C10 (beverage wholesale chain ) and Brioche Pasquier (bakery producer , brand name PITCH ). In 2010/11 Nike , Crédit Agricole and PMU are main sponsors, Carrefour and Pages jaunes are “official partners”, SFR and Brioche Pasquier are “official suppliers”. The television rights remain with TF1 and Eurosport, which broadcast seven cup fixtures each of the thirty-second and sixteenth-finals live, one of them on Friday evening and three each on Saturday and Sunday.

In general, companies can apply as a sponsor for one or more years following the announcement by the French association. Your sponsorship consists in the payment of a sum of money, which varies depending on the contract period, to the organizing FFF; In addition, they organize individual events related to the Coupe or advertise special prizes such as the above-mentioned “Thumble's Score”. For this, they must its sponsorship for their own public relations use -Zwecke, with the appearance of their logo on gangs and pants player jerseys or advertising the greatest range achieved. The broadcast of the 2007 final, for example, saw a peak of 6.4 million television viewers; in addition, games from the previous rounds were broadcast from the thirty-second finals - partly live , partly in time-shifted summaries - most of them during prime time . From the thirty-second finals, or earlier in the case of games broadcast on TV, certain zones in the stadiums must be cleared of existing advertising at least 24 hours before kick-off (clean stadium) ; Sportfive will then post the competition sponsors' advertising there. The sponsoring clubs have also supplied by the Association with appropriate advertising, uniform admission ticket blanks use to which they then release the specific game data printed at, and make the sponsors a fixed quota of seats in the best category available.

The free TV channels refinance their stakes partly through advertising blocks, partly by winning additional sponsors for the individual broadcasts - similar to what has become customary in Germany ("The round of 16 will be presented to you by ..."). In addition, the broadcasters have the right to influence the timing of individual fixtures.

From the 7th round onwards, the participating clubs receive a share of the FFF's income, which is set anew every year, in addition to the half of the net entry fees to be shared by the spectators. In the 2008/09 season this “entry fee” was € 1,500 in the 7th round, € 35,000 in the thirty-second finals, € 130,000 in the quarter-finals, € 280,000 in the semi-finals and € 560,000 in the final per team. The final winner received an additional 140,000 euros in prize money and was thus able to post a total of 1.25 million euros from this source. The total volume of payments by the FFF to the participants thus amounted to EUR 8.7 million.

Final venues

From the beginning, the cup final was held in Paris or in the immediately adjacent urban agglomeration (French: Banlieue ).

• In the city of Paris
  • Stade de la Légion Saint-Michel : 1918
  • Stade Bergeyre : 1920
  • Stade Pershing : 1921-1924
  • Parc des Princes : 1919, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1965–1967, 1972–1997 (except 1992 - no final), also the replays in 1943 and 1963
• In the metropolitan area around Paris
  • Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes : 1925–1937, 1939, 1942–1943, 1945–1964, 1968–1971
  • Stade de Paris in Saint-Ouen : ^c 1941
  • Stade de France in Saint-Denis : since 1998

^c as Stade Municipal de Saint-Ouen or Stade Bauer referred

Since 1927 it has been customary for the French President or, if he is unable to do so, another high-ranking politician (the Prime Minister , the President of the National Assembly or Senate or a minister of departments ) to attend the final and then to hand over the trophy.

The trophy

Since 1917/18 the trophy for the annual winner of the Coupe de France

The winner of the competition has received a challenge cup donated by Paul Michaux , founder of the Fédération Sportive et Culturelle de France , since 1918 . This trophy was made in 1916 from 3.2 kilograms of silver, is 48 centimeters high and has a maximum diameter of 33 centimeters. It has a base that tapers towards the top, from which grows a chalice-shaped body with two protruding handles, decorated in its upper part with a surrounding decorative relief ; its “lid”, which is firmly attached to the body, is crowned by a sculptural, hand-stamped goddess of victory . The trophy, which cost 2,000 francs at the time, was made by the traditional Parisian specialist Établissements A. Chobillon.

The silver cup also includes a 15 kg marble base with a height of 14.5 cm, which from the start only served to carry the silver cup set up on the edge of the field during the final; then the French association stores it again in its office.

The corpus contains the French-language inscriptions “In glorious memory of Charles Simon, founding president of the CFI, fell in the field of honor in 1915” and “CFI Ligue Nationale de Football Association, Coupe de France, donated by Mr. le Docteur P. Michaux, president de la FGSPF " ; the names of the winning clubs are engraved on plaques on the marble base. Since 1967, the winning teams have no longer received the original after the game, but a copy and - to remain in their trophy collection - a scaled-down model. The players of both finalists have also been presented with a small medal since 1918, which contains a fictional game scene on one side and the year of the competition on the other. Cup copies and medals are now made by the silversmiths Arthus-Bertrand.

The finals at a glance

Note: Clubs and stadiums are only linked when they are mentioned earliest (= top) , except when they have changed their names .

season	winner	Result	finalist	date	Stadion	spectator
1917/18	Olympique de Pantin	3-0	FC Lyon	May 5, 1918	Stade de la Legion Saint-Michel	2,000
1918/19	CASG Paris	3: 2 a.d.	Olympique Paris	April 6, 1919	Parc des Princes	10,000
1919/20	CA Paris	2: 1	Le Havre AC	May 9, 1920	Stade Bergeyre	7,000
1920/21	Red Star Paris	2: 1	Olympique Paris	April 24, 1921	Stade Pershing	18,000
1921/22	Red Star Paris	2-0	Stade Rennais UC	May 7, 1922	Stade Pershing	25,000
1922/23	Red Star Paris	4: 2	FC Sète	May 6, 1923	Stade Pershing	20,000
1923/24	Olympique Marseille	3: 2 a.d.	FC Sète	April 13, 1924	Stade Pershing	29,000
1924/25	CASG Paris	1: 1 a.d. 3: 2	FC Rouen	April 26, 1925 May 10, 1925	Stade de Colombes Stade de Colombes	20,000 18,000
1925/26	Olympique Marseille	4: 1	AS Valentigney	May 9, 1926	Stade de Colombes	30,000
1926/27	Olympique Marseille	3-0	US Quevilly	May 8, 1927	Stade de Colombes	23,800
1927/28	Red Star Paris	3: 1	CA Paris	May 6, 1928	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	30,000
1928/29	Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains	2-0	FC Sète	May 5, 1929	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	25,000
1929/30	FC Sète	3: 1 a.d.	RC Paris	April 27, 1930	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	35,000
1930/31	Club Français Paris	3-0	Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains	May 3, 1931	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	30,000
1931/32	AS Cannes	1-0	RC Roubaix	April 24, 1932	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	36,143
1932/33	Excelsior AC Roubaix	3: 1	RC Roubaix	May 7, 1933	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	38,000
1933/34	FC Sète	2: 1	Olympique Marseille	May 6, 1934	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	40,600
1934/35	Olympique Marseille	3-0	Stade Rennais UC	May 5, 1935	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	40.008
1935/36	RC Paris	1-0	OFC Charleville	May 3, 1936	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	39,725
1936/37	FC Sochaux	2: 1	Racing Strasbourg	May 9, 1937	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	39,538
1937/38	Olympique Marseille	2: 1 a.d.	FC Metz	May 8, 1938	Parc des Princes	33,044
1938/39	RC Paris	3: 1	Olympique Lille	May 14, 1939	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	52,431
1939/40	RC Paris	2: 1	Olympique Marseille	May 5, 1940	Parc des Princes	25,969
1940/41	Girondins Bordeaux	2-0	SC Fives	May 25, 1941	Stade Municipal	15,230
1941/42	Red Star Paris	2-0	FC Sète	May 17, 1942	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	44,654
1942/43	Olympique Marseille	2: 2 a.d. 4: 0	Girondins Bordeaux	May 9, 1943 May 22, 1943	Parc des Princes Parc des Princes	32,005 32,212
1943/44	Équipe Fédérale Nancy-Lorraine	4-0	Equipe Fédérale Reims-Champagne	May 7, 1944	Parc des Princes	31,995
1944/45	RC Paris	3-0	Lille OSC	May 6, 1945	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	49,983
1945/46	Lille OSC	4: 2	Red Star Paris	May 26, 1946	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	59,692
1946/47	Lille OSC	2-0	Racing Strasbourg	May 11, 1947	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	59,852
1947/48	Lille OSC	3: 2	RC Lens	May 10, 1948	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	60,739
1948/49	RC Paris	5: 2	Lille OSC	May 8, 1949	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	61,473
1949/50	Stade Reims	2-0	RC Paris	May 14, 1950	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	61,722
1950/51	Racing Strasbourg	3-0	US Valenciennes	May 6, 1951	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	61,492
1951/52	OGC Nice	5: 3	Girondins Bordeaux	May 4th 1952	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	61,485
1952/53	Lille OSC	2: 1	FC Nancy	May 31, 1953	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	58,993
1953/54	OGC Nice	2: 1	Olympique Marseille	May 23, 1954	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	56,803
1954/55	Lille OSC	5: 2	Girondins Bordeaux	May 29, 1955	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	49,411
1955/56	UA Sedan-Torcy	3: 1	AS Troyes-Savinienne	May 27, 1956	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	47,258
1956/57	Toulouse FC	6: 3	SCO Angers	May 26, 1957	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	43,125
1957/58	Stade Reims	3: 1	Olympique Nîmes	May 18, 1958	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	56,523
1958/59	Le Havre AC	2: 2 a.d. 3: 0	FC Sochaux	May 3, 1959 May 18, 1959	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	50,778 36,655
1959/60	AS Monaco	4: 2 a.d.	AS Saint-Etienne	May 15, 1960	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	38,298
1960/61	UA Sedan-Torcy	3: 1	Olympique Nîmes	May 7, 1961	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	39,070
1961/62	AS Saint-Etienne	1-0	FC Nancy	May 13, 1962	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	30,654
1962/63	AS Monaco	0: 0 a.d. 2: 0	Olympique Lyon	May 12, 1963 May 23, 1963	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Parc des Princes	32,932 24,910
1963/64	Olympique Lyon	2-0	Girondins Bordeaux	May 10, 1964	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	32,777
1964/65	Stade Rennais UC	2: 2 a.d. 3: 1	UA Sedan-Torcy	May 23, 1965 May 27, 1965	Parc des Princes Parc des Princes	36,789 26,792
1965/66	Racing Strasbourg	1-0	FC Nantes	May 22, 1966	Parc des Princes	36,285
1966/67	Olympique Lyon	3: 1	FC Sochaux	May 21, 1967	Parc des Princes	32,523
1967/68	AS Saint-Etienne	2: 1	Girondins Bordeaux	May 12, 1968	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	33,959
1968/69	Olympique Marseille	2-0	Girondins Bordeaux	May 18, 1969	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	39,460
1969/70	AS Saint-Etienne	5-0	FC Nantes	May 31, 1970	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	32,894
1970/71	Stade Rennais UC	1-0	Olympique Lyon	20th May 1971	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	46,801
1971/72	Olympique Marseille	2: 1	SEC Bastia	4th June 1972	Parc des Princes	44,069
1972/73	Olympique Lyon	2: 1	FC Nantes	17th June 1973	Parc des Princes	45,734
1973/74	AS Saint-Etienne	2: 1	AS Monaco	June 8, 1974	Parc des Princes	45,813
1974/75	AS Saint-Etienne	2-0	RC Lens	June 14, 1975	Parc des Princes	44,275
1975/76	Olympique Marseille	2-0	Olympique Lyon	June 12, 1976	Parc des Princes	45,661
1976/77	AS Saint-Etienne	2: 1	Stade Reims	June 18, 1977	Parc des Princes	45,454
1977/78	AS Nancy	1-0	OGC Nice	June 13, 1978	Parc des Princes	45.998
1978/79	FC Nantes	4: 1 a.d.	AJ Auxerre	June 16, 1979	Parc des Princes	46,070
1979/80	AS Monaco	3: 1	US Orléans	June 7, 1980	Parc des Princes	46,136
1980/81	SEC Bastia	2: 1	AS Saint-Etienne	June 13, 1981	Parc des Princes	46,155
1981/82	Paris Saint-Germain	2: 2 n.V. (6: 5 p.e. )	AS Saint-Etienne	June 15, 1982	Parc des Princes	46.160
1982/83	Paris Saint-Germain	3: 2	FC Nantes	June 11, 1983	Parc des Princes	46.203
1983/84	FC Metz	2: 0 a.d.	AS Monaco	May 11, 1984	Parc des Princes	45.384
1984/85	AS Monaco	1-0	Paris Saint-Germain	June 8, 1985	Parc des Princes	45,711
1985/86	Girondins Bordeaux	2: 1 a.d.	Olympique Marseille	April 30, 1986	Parc des Princes	45,429
1986/87	Girondins Bordeaux	2-0	Olympique Marseille	June 10, 1987	Parc des Princes	45,145
1987/88	FC Metz	2: 2 n.v. (5: 4 p.e. )	FC Sochaux	June 11, 1988	Parc des Princes	44,531
1988/89	Olympique Marseille	4: 3	AS Monaco	June 10, 1989	Parc des Princes	44,448
1989/90	HSC Montpellier	2: 1 a.d.	Racing Paris 1	June 2, 1990	Parc des Princes	44,067
1990/91	AS Monaco	1-0	Olympique Marseille	June 8, 1991	Parc des Princes	44.123
1991/92	no finale; Competition canceled in the semifinals after the " Drama of Furiani "
1992/93	Paris Saint-Germain	3-0	FC Nantes	June 12, 1993	Parc des Princes	48,789
1993/94	AJ Auxerre	3-0	HSC Montpellier	June 14, 1994	Parc des Princes	45.189
1994/95	Paris Saint-Germain	1-0	Racing Strasbourg	June 13, 1995	Parc des Princes	46,698
1995/96	AJ Auxerre	2: 1	Olympique Nîmes	May 4, 1996	Parc des Princes	44,921
1996/97	OGC Nice	1: 1 a.d. (4: 3 in good condition )	EA Guingamp	May 10, 1997	Parc des Princes	44.131
1997/98	Paris Saint-Germain	2: 1	RC Lens	May 2, 1998	Stade de France	77,000
1998/99	FC Nantes	1-0	CS Sedan	May 15, 1999	Stade de France	78,586
1999/00	FC Nantes	2: 1	Calais RUFC	May 7, 2000	Stade de France	78,717
2000/01	Racing Strasbourg	0: 0 n.v. (5: 4 in good condition )	SC Amiens	May 26, 2001	Stade de France	78,586
2001/02	FC Lorient	1-0	SC Bastia	May 11, 2002	Stade de France	60,000
2002/03	AJ Auxerre	2: 1	Paris Saint-Germain	May 31, 2003	Stade de France	78,000
2003/04	Paris Saint-Germain	1-0	LB Châteauroux	May 29, 2004	Stade de France	77,857
2004/05	AJ Auxerre	2: 1	CS Sedan	June 4, 2005	Stade de France	77,617
2005/06	Paris Saint-Germain	2: 1	Olympique Marseille	April 29, 2006	Stade de France	79,061
2006/07	FC Sochaux	2: 2 n.v. (5: 4 p.e. )	Olympique Marseille	May 12, 2007	Stade de France	79,797
2007/08	Olympique Lyon	1: 0 a.d.	Paris Saint-Germain	May 24, 2008	Stade de France	75,000
2008/09	EA Guingamp	2: 1	Rennes stadium	May 9, 2009	Stade de France	80.056
2009/10	Paris Saint-Germain	1: 0 a.d.	AS Monaco	May 1, 2010	Stade de France	75,000
2010/11	Lille OSC	1-0	Paris Saint-Germain	May 14, 2011	Stade de France	79,000
2011/12	Olympique Lyon	1-0	US Quevilly	April 28, 2012	Stade de France	76,229
2012/13	Girondins Bordeaux	3: 2	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	May 31, 2013	Stade de France	77,000
2013/14	EA Guingamp	2-0	Rennes stadium	May 3, 2014	Stade de France	80,000
2014/15	Paris Saint-Germain	1-0	AJ Auxerre	May 30, 2015	Stade de France	80,000
2015/16	Paris Saint-Germain	4: 2	Olympique Marseille	May 21, 2016	Stade de France	80,000
2016/17	Paris Saint-Germain	1-0	SCO Angers	May 27, 2017	Stade de France	78,000
2017/18	Paris Saint-Germain	2-0	VF Les Herbiers	May 8, 2018	Stade de France	73,772
2018/19	Rennes stadium	2: 2 n.V. (6: 5 p.e. )	Paris Saint-Germain	April 27, 2019	Stade de France	75,000
2019/20	Paris Saint-Germain	1-0	AS Saint-Etienne	July 24, 2020	Stade de France	5,000

statistics

Note: The annual update takes place completely after the respective final.

societies

All finalists

In the previous 103 events of the Coupe, 52 clubs (including the two regional selections from 1943/44) have reached at least one of the 102 cup finals. Olympique Marseille and Girondins Bordeaux have faced each other four times, and Racing Paris and Olympique Lille have met three times. There were nine other fixtures each twice: AS Monaco against Marseille, AS Saint-Étienne and Paris Saint-Germain, FC Sète against Marseille and Red Star Paris, FC Nantes against Paris Saint-Germain, EA Guingamp against Stade Rennes, Paris SG against AJ Auxerre and Paris SG against Saint-Étienne. The remaining 77 finals were all " unique (not including replays)." The unplayed final of 1992 between AS Monaco and Olympique Marseille is not taken into account.

society	winner	loser	Finals in total	First final	Last final
Paris Saint-Germain FC	13	5	18th	1982	2020
Olympique Marseille	10	9	19th	1924	2016
AS Saint-Etienne	6th	4th	10	1960	2020
Lille OSC	6th	3	9	1939	2011
AS Monaco	5	4th	9	1960	2010
Racing Paris	5	3	8th	1930	1990
Olympique Lyon	5	3	8th	1963	2012
Red Star	5	1	6th	1921	1946
Girondins Bordeaux	4th	6th	10	1941	2013
AJ Auxerre	4th	2	6th	1979	2015
FC Nantes	3	5	8th	1966	2000
Rennes stadium	3	4th	7th	1922	2019
Racing Strasbourg	3	3	6th	1937	2001
OGC Nice	3	1	4th	1952	1997
FC Sète	2	4th	6th	1923	1942
FC Sochaux	2	3	5	1937	2007
CS Sedan	2	3	5	1956	2005
HSC Montpellier	2	2	4th	1929	1994
FC Metz	2	1	3	1938	1988
Stade Reims	2	1	3	1950	1977
EA Guingamp	2	1	3	1997	2014
CASG Paris	2	0	2	1919	1925
Olympique Paris	1	2	3	1918	1921
SC Bastia	1	2	3	1972	2002
CA Paris	1	1	2	1920	1928
Le Havre AC	1	1	2	1920	1959
Club Français Paris	1	0	1	1931	1931
AS Cannes	1	0	1	1932	1932
Excelsior AC Roubaix	1	0	1	1933	1933
EF Nancy-Lorraine	1	0	1	1944	1944
Toulouse FC	1	0	1	1957	1957
AS Nancy	1	0	1	1978	1978
FC Lorient	1	0	1	2002	2002
RC Lens	0	3	3	1948	1998
Olympique Nîmes	0	3	3	1958	1996
US Quevilly	0	2	2	1927	2012
RC Roubaix	0	2	2	1932	1933
FC Nancy	0	2	2	1953	1962
SCO Angers	0	2	2	1957	2017
FC Lyon	0	1	1	1918	1918
FC Rouen	0	1	1	1925	1925
AS Valentigney	0	1	1	1926	1926
OFC Charleville	0	1	1	1936	1936
SC Fives	0	1	1	1941	1941
EF Reims-Champagne	0	1	1	1944	1944
US Valenciennes	0	1	1	1951	1951
AS Troyes-Savinienne	0	1	1	1956	1956
US Orléans	0	1	1	1980	1980
Calais RUFC	0	1	1	2000	2000
SC Amiens	0	1	1	2001	2001
LB Châteauroux	0	1	1	2004	2004
FC Évian TG	0	1	1	2013	2013
VF Les Herbiers	0	1	1	2018	2018

Title defenses and multiple defeats

Eight clubs managed to win the trophy in two consecutive events, three of them even more often: Red Star won three times (1921 to 1923) and Lille OSC (1946 to 1948), Paris Saint-Germain FC even four times in Episode (2015 to 2018). The other successful defending champions were Olympique Marseille (1926, 1927), Racing Club Paris (1939, 1940), AS Saint-Étienne (1974, 1975), Paris Saint-Germain (1982, 1983), Girondins Bordeaux (1986, 1987) and FC Nantes (1999, 2000).

Four clubs left the final stadium twice in a row as losers: FC Sète (1923, 1924), RC Roubaix (1932, 1933), Girondins Bordeaux (1968, 1969) and - twice already - Olympique Marseille (1986, 1987 and 2006, 2007) . The latter two clubs are also the only ones to face each other in two consecutive finals, namely 1986 and 1987.

Lower class finalists

Since the introduction of a professional league (1932/33), teams that did not belong to the top division were in 18 of the 85 finals played. Only two of these were also cup winners: this was achieved in 1959 by the doyen of French football, Le Havre AC, and in 2009 by En Avant Guingamp, both of whom were second division at the time. All other lower-class clubs lost their final: 1933 the RC Roubaix, 1936 Charleville, 1948 Lens, 1951 Valenciennes, 1979 and 2015 Auxerre, 1980 Orléans, 1988 Sochaux, 1999 and 2005 Sedan and 2004 Châteauroux - all of them were second division clubs. In addition, four third division (1996 Nîmes, 2001 Amiens, 2012 Quevilly, 2018 Les Herbiers) and even a fourth division (2000 Calais) were very close to winning the coupe .

Other special features in the endgames

Only the OSC Lille (from 1945 to 1949) and, seven decades later, Paris Saint-Germain (2015 to 2019) made it to five consecutive finals.

Only eight clubs remained unbeaten in finals; however, seven of them only reached a single final. Only CASG Paris have two wins in two games. On the other hand there are 19 teams that were in at least one final but couldn't win any of them; 13 teams lost in their only participation, four of their two (RC Roubaix, FC Nancy, US Quevilly, SCO Angers) or even their three (Lens and Nîmes) finals all.

Only twelve clubs have become both champions and cup winners (French doublé ) in the same season since professional football was introduced (1932/33) , only four of them more than once. This was achieved by FC Sète (1934), Racing Club Paris (1936), OSC Lille (1946, 2011), OGC Nice (1952), Stade de Reims (1958), AS Monaco (1963), AS Saint-Étienne (1968, 1970, 1974, 1975), Olympique Marseille (1972, 1989), Girondins Bordeaux (1987), AJ Auxerre (1996), Olympique Lyon (2008) and Paris Saint-Germain (2015, 2016, 2018, 2020).

Winning the cup at the end of the same season and relegating to the second division was reserved for four clubs: Saint-Étienne 1962, Nice 1997, Strasbourg 2001 and Lorient 2002.

There were only four local derbies , and all of them in the early days of the competition, namely 1919, 1921, 1928 (between two teams from Paris ) and 1933 (between two teams from Roubaix ). The evaluation of the two finals of 1921 and 1928 is as Derby even controversial, because Red Star, although originally from the capital and a merger was entered into in 1926 with the neighboring Olympique de Paris, but his club's official seat in the immediately adjacent since 1910. Saint-Ouen has .

In addition, teams met in two other finals, which were based in cities that are only about 30 km apart: 1929 footballers from Montpellier and Sète , 1948 from Lille and Lens .

player

Record cup winners with five titles each are Marceau Somerlinck (1946, 1947, 1948, 1953, 1955 with OSC Lille), Dominique Bathenay (1974, 1975, 1977 with AS Saint-Étienne; 1982, 1983 with Paris Saint-Germain) and Alain Roche ( 1986, 1987 with Girondins Bordeaux; 1993, 1995, 1998 with Paris Saint-Germain). Somerlinck was also in another final in 1941; also reached the record number of six finals with Jean Baratte (1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1953) and Joseph Jadrejak (1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949) only two other players who did the same with Lille OSC. Before Somerlinck, Jean Boyer was the record holder for a long time ; he had four wins (1919 with CASG Paris, 1924, 1926, 1927 with Olympique Marseille) and was in another final in 1934 with Marseille.

In addition to Boyer and Baratte, only the following players have achieved four cup titles: Paul Nicolas (between 1921 and 1928 with Red Star), Maurice Dupuis and “Gusti” Jordan (both between 1936 and 1945 with Racing Paris), Georges Bereta (between 1968 and 1976 with Saint-Étienne and Marseille), Hervé Revelli (between 1968 and 1977 with Saint-Étienne) and the last so far Lionel Mathis (between 2003 and 2014 with Auxerre and Guingamp).

The most successful final goal scorers - not counting goals on penalties to determine a winner - to date have been Emmanuel Aznar (1938, 1940, 1943 with Olympique Marseille), Jules Dewaquez (1919 with Olympique Paris, 1926, 1927 with Olympique Marseille) and Roger Vandooren (1946, 1947, 1948 with Lille OSC), each of which got four hits. Most successful in a single final were Éric Pécout (1979 with FC Nantes) and Jean-Pierre Papin (1989 with Olympique Marseille), each with three goals.

The most successful shooter in a main round match is Stefan "Stanis" Dembicki , who scored exactly half of the goals in Racing Lens' 32-0 win over an amateur club in the sixteenth finals of the 1942/43 competition.

Trainer

Two coaches who never won the Coupe during their playing days won four titles each, namely André Cheuva (1947, 1948, 1953, 1955 with OSC Lille) and Guy Roux (1994, 1996, 2003, 2005 with AJ Auxerre ). Cheuva had reached at least one cup final as a player in 1939, but lost it with Olympique Lille. In this regard, the next successful coaches with three titles each have a more complete palmarès than these two because they had all three previously won the French Cup as players: Albert Batteux (1958 with Stade Reims, 1968, 1970 with AS Saint-Étienne - also as a player in 1950 with Reims) and Robert Herbin (1974, 1975, 1977 - also as a player in 1962, 1968, 1970, all with AS Saint-Étienne); also Lucien Leduc (1960, 1963 with AS Monaco, 1972 with Olympique Marseille - the latter with the restriction that Leduc was sacked shortly before the final - also as a player in 1949 with Racing Paris)

referee

It brought on more than one team in the cup final:

• 5 finals: Michel Vautrot (1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987)
• 3 finals: Edmond Gérardin (1920, 1922, 1929), Marcel Slawick (1921, 1925 ^d ), Georges Capdeville (1936, 1942, 1945), Georges Konrath (1977, 1980, 1981), JOËL QUINIOU (1986, 1989, 1991 )
• 2 finals: Georges Balvay (1926, 1928), Roger Conrie (1930, 1933), Léon Boes (1941, 1948), Victor SDEZ (1943 ^d ), Jean-Louis Groppi (1959 ^d ), Pierre Schwinte (1963 ^d ) Michel Kitabdjian (1965 ^d ), Robert Héliès (1970, 1975), Robert Wurtz (1973, 1976), Achille Verbeke (1974, 1978), Gérard Biguet (1985, 1990), Laurent Duhamel (2001, 2006), Eric Poulat ( 2002, 2007), Clément Turpin (2011, 2016)

For the 40th anniversary of the competition (1957), the FFF exceptionally engaged a foreign final referee: the Englishman Jack Clough had the pleasure of leading the final with the highest number of goals to date (2019) (after 90 minutes 6: 3 for Toulouse against Angers).

^d The replay also whistled; in French statistics, however, the two encounters only count as one final.

Performance of the cup winners at European level

From 1960 to 1998, the respective competition winner - or the defeated finalist, if the winner was allowed to participate in the national championship competition, which is considered to be of higher value due to his placement in the league - qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup (EC 2) of the following season, since 1999 for the UEFA Cup ( called UEFA Europa League from the 2009/10 season ). Incidentally, AS Monaco, qualified for it, did not take part in the first playout of EC 2 ; She was not alone in this, because only ten associations had submitted a report.

The appearances of the French cup winners or their deputies at the European level were not very successful overall. Only in 15 of a total of 48 draws did an eleven from France reach at least the quarter-finals; seven of them failed in the semifinals. A European final was reached three times (AS Monaco 1992, Paris Saint-Germain 1996 and 1997) and won only once, namely in 1996.

Three phases of different success can be identified in terms of time. From 1961/62 to 1978/79, the French representative only survived the round of 16, i.e. the second round, in just two years: Olympique Lyon reached the quarter-finals in 1968 and even the semi-finals in 1964. A similarly frequent early exit has occurred again since 1997/98; PSG only reached the quarter-finals in 2008/09.
In between, however, there were 18 significantly more successful years. In addition to the three finals mentioned above, French cup winners made it into the European quarter finals three times (Paris Saint-Germain 1983, HSC Montpellier 1991, AJ Auxerre 1995) and six times even to the semi-finals (FC Nantes 1980, Girondins Bordeaux 1985 and 1987, Olympique Marseille 1988, AS Monaco 1990, Paris Saint-Germain 1994). The temporal parallel to the success curve of the French national team is evident.

literature

• Hubert Beaudet: La Coupe de France. Ses vainqueurs, ses surprises. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003 ISBN 2-84253-958-3 .
• Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8 .
• Fédération Française de Football (ed.): Cinquantenaire de la Coupe de France de Football. Amphora, Paris 1967.
• L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 .
• Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003² ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1 .

Web links

Commons : French Football Cup  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cup main page on the French Federation's website
• Rules for the French Football Cup (pdf file) (156 kB)

References and comments

1. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 11
2. ↑ On Charles Simon see also this PDF (there on p. 12) ( Memento from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Klaus Zeyringer: Football. A cultural story. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2016 (revised, extended new edition), ISBN 978-3-596-03587-8 , p. 57.
4. ↑ cf. for example L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 336 (there as the headline of L'Auto of May 10, 1920); Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 77; Rethacker / Thibert, pp. 54ff. - Alain Pécheral confirms that this was still the case around 1930: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , p. 40.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Article “La Coupe, cent ans, vingt exploits” in France Football of January 4, 2017, pp. 31–33
6. ↑ This amount was roughly equivalent to the annual salary that France's national goalkeeper Pierre Chayriguès earned "under the palm of the hand" at Red Star Paris immediately before the war . - Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi : Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , p. 20
7. ↑ The full text of the contract of January 15, 1917 is reproduced in Fédération Française de Football, pp. 27/28.
8. ↑ Beaudet, pp. 7-10; L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 11f. and 334-337; Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, pp. 74-77
9. ↑ Announcement in France Football of May 16, 2017, p. 81; The special postage stamp is also shown on laposte.fr.
10. ↑ for example L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 209–213, which presents the “cup sensations” on 115 pages; Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, pp. 216f .; Beaudet, pp. 76f .; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 274f .; Current Fédération Française de Football (Ed.): 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o.O. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2 , pp. 100/101, Paul Dietschy: Histoire du football. Perrin, Paris 2014 (2nd extended edition), ISBN 978-2-262-04712-2 , p. 522, and the article "La Coupe, cent ans, vingt exploits" in France Football of January 4, 2017, Pp. 31-33. Even with today's cup surprises, journalists regularly draw parallels to El Biar.
11. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 173
12. ↑ 10-year list based on France Football from January 6, 2009, p. 14
13. ↑ see this article ( Memento of January 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the FFF website
14. ↑ "Thumble's Evaluation" on the FFF website (PDF; 387 kB)
15. ↑ Article " The extension will not apply from the coming season " from June 30, 2020 at francefootball.fr
16. ↑ There was an exception to this rule in 1949/50 , when the reserve eleven of Olympique Marseille, which also played in the second division under the name Groupe Sporting Club de Marseille II , reached the main competition.
17. ↑ In the 2010/11 season the total of 157 places were distributed as follows: Bretagne 15, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Rhône-Alpes 14 each, Paris-Île-de-France 12, Lorraine 9, Alsace, Atlantique 8 each , Picardie 7, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Center-Ouest 6 each, Languedoc-Roussillon, Méditerranée, Midi-Pyrénées 5 each, Normandie, Basse-Normandie, Burgundy, Center, Champagne-Ardennes, Franche-Comté, Maine 4 each, Corsica 2 and the seven overseas leagues a place each.
18. ↑ According to Article 6.2 of the Implementation Regulations (Règlement de la Coupe de France), there are five levels:
    ( Level 1) Ligue 1
    (Level 2) Ligue 2 and National
    (Level 3) CFA and CFA 2
    (Level 4) Division d'Honneur and the one below ( Division Supérieure d'Élite or others)
    (level 5) all lower leagues, i.e. from the eighth highest division.
    Download of the regulations as PDF under archive link ( Memento from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ For example, France Football published on December 21st (p. 61) and 28th December 2010 (p. 46) an appeal against this division of levels under the motto "Let's protect the spirit of the cup!"
20. ^ Resolution of the FFF Federal Assembly from the beginning of April 2011.
21. ↑ France Football of November 12, 2013, p. 27; Figures updated since 2014
22. ↑ Article “ The 'goats' go under against JA Saint-Pierroise ” from January 4, 2020 at francefootball.fr
23. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 332/333; this subchapter is based on the local chronology of all mode changes.
24. ↑ The list of winners of the Coupe Drago can be found here ( Memento from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
25. ↑ France Football of January 12, 2010, p. 42
26. ↑ after this page of the FFF ( Memento from October 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ Broadcast dates for the round of 16 2010/11 on the France Football website
28. ↑ http://www.fff.fr/common/bib_res/ressources/37000/2500/372815.pdf (link not available)
29. ↑ Figures according to this PDF from France TV Publicité ( Memento of December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
30. ↑ In the 21st century it has become common practice that professional clubs forego half of their income when they compete against an amateur team. However, this is a voluntary gesture, as the Saint-Maur Lusitanos found out in the thirty-second final of 2014/15 when the first division team Stade Reims claimed 5,500 of the 6,071 euros due to them for their travel expenses (see the article “Saint-Maur would have liked to keep all of the income " At France Football from January 5, 2015).
31. ↑ For the basic principle of payments, see Article 12.2.4 of the regulations ( Memento of May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 156 kB), the specific amounts for 2008/09 according to this PDF (there p. 35)
32. ↑ This chapter follows iW L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 12/13
33. ↑ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu, p. 76 and photo on p. 78
34. ↑ After Boyer, three other players achieved this temporary record of four cup wins: Paul Nicolas (1928), Maurice Dupuis and "Gusti" Jordan (both 1945).
35. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 373
36. ↑ The chapter is based essentially on L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-9519605-9-X , in particular pp. 337-377.
37. Jump up to and including the 2008/09 season in twelve of the 48 draws. This related to the inferior Coupe-finalists in 1963, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2004 and 2008. On the 1996-97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup even took two French teams (Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Nîmes) because PSG was automatically qualified as EC-2 defending champion and winner of the Coupe de France.

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