2018–19 Coupe de France

2018–19 Coupe de France
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The 2018–19 Coupe de France is the 102nd season of the main football cup competition of France. The competition is organised by the French Football Federation (FFF) and is open to all clubs in French football, as well as clubs from the overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia (winner of 2018 New Caledonia Cup), Tahiti (winner of 2018 Tahiti Cup), Réunion, Saint Martin and Saint Pierre and Miquelon).

Paris Saint-Germain are the defending champions.

Dates

Dates for the first two qualifying round are set by the individual Regional leagues. The remaining qualifying rounds, the seventh and eight round, and the round of 64 take place at weekends. The later rounds up to, but not including, the final, take place on midweek evenings. The final will take place on Saturday 27 April 2019.[1]

RoundDraw DateMatches Played
Thirdvarious15 and 16 September 2018
Fourthvarious29 and 30 September 2018
Fifthvarious13 and 14 October 2018
Sixthvarious27 and 28 October 2018
Seventh31 October 201817 and 18 November 2018
Eighthtbc8 and 9 December 2018
Round of 64tbc5 and 6 January 2019
Round of 32tbc22 and 23 January 2019
Round of 16tbc5 and 6 February 2019
Quarter Finalstbc27 and 27 February 2019
Semi Finalstbc2 and 3 April 2019
Finaln/a27 April 2019

Teams

Round 1 to 6

The first six rounds, and any preliminaries required, are organised by the Regional Leagues and the Overseas Territories, who allow teams from within their league structure to enter at any point up to the third round. Teams from Championnat National 3 enter at the third round, those from Championnat National 2 enter at the fourth round and those from Championnat National enter at the fifth round.[2]

The number of teams entering at each qualifying round was as follows:

RegionPrelimFirstSecondThirdFourthFifth
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 4681021241
Pays-de-la-Loire 438453013
Centre-Val de Loire12086111041
Corsica  1614[lower-alpha 1]50
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 2883830[lower-alpha 2]30
Grand Est: Alsace 330    
Grand Est: Champagne-Ardenne 84    
Grand Est: Lorraine 316    
Grand Est Combined  679440
Méditerranée 17021971
Occitanie: Ariège 143   
Occitanie: Aveyron 326   
Occitanie: Gers 145   
Occitanie: Lot 181   
Occitanie: Hautes-Pyrénées 164   
Occitanie: Tarn 284   
Occitanie: Tarn-et-Garonne 164   
Occitanie: Haut-Garonne 4619   
Occitanie: Aude 320[lower-alpha 3]   
Occitanie: Gard-Lozère 4215   
Occitanie: Hérault 5214   
Occitanie: Pyrénées-Orientales 147   
Occitanie Combined   4521
Hauts-de-France: Somme 1000   
Hauts-de-France: Aisne6810   
Hauts-de-France: Flandres21380   
Hauts-de-France: Côte d'Opale 1280   
Hauts-de-France: Escaut 1780[lower-alpha 4]   
Hauts-de-France: Oise 1080   
Hauts-de-France: Artois61370   
Hauts-de-France Combined   8433
Normandie 258811122
Bretagne 534973041
Paris IDF 3788312[lower-alpha 5]82
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 74615[lower-alpha 6]8363
Réunion  122600
Mayotte 3017000
Guadeloupe  261900
Martinique  441000
French Guiana   2630
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 21[lower-alpha 7]   
  1. ↑ 3 teams that should have entered in third round given byes to fourth round
  2. ↑ plus one from Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  3. ↑ 2 first round winners bye to third round
  4. ↑ 1 first round winner bye to third round
  5. ↑ 4 second round winners bye to fourth round
  6. ↑ 6 first round winners bye to third round
  7. ↑ winner entered into the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté draw

Round 7

145 qualifiers from the Regional Leagues will be joined by the 11 qualifiers from the Overseas Territories and the 20 teams from Ligue 2.

Ligue 2

Regional Leagues

Figures in parenthesis indicate the tier of the French football league system the team play at.

    Overseas Territories teams

      References

      1. ↑ "Le Calendrier de la Saison 2018/2019" (in French). FFF.fr. 27 July 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
      2. ↑ "Reglement de la Coupe de France" (PDF) (in French). FFF.fr. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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