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The 2009–10 Coupe de France is the 93^rd season of the French most prestigious cup competition, organized by the French Football Federation, and is open to all clubs in French football, as well as clubs from the overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Réunion). The final will be contested on 1 May 2010 at the Stade de France. The defending champions are Guingamp, who defeated Rennes 2–1 in the 2008–09 edition of the final.

The winner of the Coupe de France will qualify for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League and will be inserted into the Playoff round.

[edit] Calendar

On 23 June 2009, the French Football Federation announced the calendar for the Coupe de France.^[1]

Round	First match date	Fixtures	Clubs	Notes
Preliminary Round	23 August 2009
First Round	20 August 2009^[2]
Second Round	29 August 2009
Third Round	20 September 2009			Clubs participating in CFA 2 gain entry.
Fourth Round	4 October 2009			Clubs participating in the CFA gain entry.
Fifth Round	18 October 2009			Clubs participating in the Championnat National gain entry.
Sixth Round	1 November 2009	153	346 → 193
Seventh Round	21 November 2009	86	193 → 107	Clubs participating in Ligue 2 gain entry.^[3]
Eight Round	12 December 2009	43	107 → 64
Round of 64	9 January 2010	32	64 → 32	Clubs participating in Ligue 1 and Guingamp gain entry.
Round of 32	23 January 2010	16	32 → 16
Round of 16	9 February 2010	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	23 March 2010	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	13 April 2010	2	4 → 2
Final	1 May 2010	1	2 → 1	Coupe de France Final at the Stade de France.

[edit] Regional qualifying rounds

Main article: Coupe de France 2009–10 Qualifying Rounds

All of the teams that enter the competition, but were not members of Ligue 1 or Ligue 2, have to compete in the regional qualifying rounds. The regional qualifying rounds determine the number of regional clubs that will earn spots in the 7^th round and normally lasts six rounds.

[edit] Seventh Round

The draw for the seventh round of Coupe de France was conducted on 5 November 2009 at the Maison du Sport Français, the headquarters of the French Football Federation, in Paris by French journalist and television host Michel Drucker and Jean Djorkaeff, the president of the Coupe de France Commission.^[4] The overseas region draw was conducted in Paris the same day, by World fencing champions Adriana Lamalle and Jean-Michel Lucenay.^[5] The matches were played the 21st and 22nd of November 2009.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Saint-Gaudens-Violette	1 – 3	Pau
2	Blanquefort	0 – 1	Trélissac
3	Perpignan Canet	1 – 2	Agen
4	Marignane	1 – 0	Bastia
5	Lattes	1 – 0	Bayonne
6	Arles-Avignon	0 – 1	Luzenac
7	Balma	2 – 0	Pamiers
8	Calvi	3 – 2 (aet)	Borgo
9	Vénissieux	1 – 4	Rodez
10	Feurs	1 – 0	Saint-Priest
11	Bagnols Pont	4 – 2	Bourgoin-Jallieu
12	Toulon	1 – 2	Villefranche
13	Ain Sud	0 – 4	Cannes
14	Grande Motte	2 – 1	La Murette
15	Istres	1 – 2	Nîmes
16	Saint-Germain-des-Fossés	1 – 6	Thiers
17	Cassis Carnoux	1 – 1 (aet) 2–4 p.	Ajaccio
18	Annonay	1 – 0 (aet)	Valence
19	Yzeure	1 – 1 (aet) 4–3 p.	Clermont Foot
20	Seyssinet Pariset	0 – 2	Montceau Bourgogne
21	Vallières	0 – 3	Évian
22	Mont Pilat	0 – 1	Bressane Marboz
23	Montluçon	0 – 0 (aet) 2–4 p.	Nevers
24	Trémery	0 – 3	Thionville
25	Créteil	0 – 2	Tours
26	Amnéville	0 – 3	Dijon
27	Reims	1 – 1 (aet) 5–6 p.	Saint-Dizier
28	Montereau	0 – 2	Moissy-Cramayel
29	Selongey	1 – 0	Toul
30	Jarville	2 – 2 (aet) 2–4 p.	La Chapelle Saint-Luc
31	Sens	1 – 2 (aet)	Vesoul
32	Forbach Marienau	3 - 1	Robertsau
33	Jura Dolois	1 – 3 (aet)	Metz
34	Colmar	5 – 2	Baume-les-Dames
35	Besançon	4 – 1	Sarrebourg
36	Bischheim Soleil	0 - 6	Troyes
37	Biesheim	1 – 3	Strasbourg

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
38	Mulhouse	2 – 2 (aet) 7–6 p.	Sarre-Union
39	Saint-Louis Neuweg	2 - 1	Oberlauterbach
40	Seclin	5 – 4	Luneray
41	Issy-les-Moulineaux	1 – 1 (aet) 2–3 p.	Loon-Plage
42	Sin Le Noble	0 – 2	Les Lilas
43	Compiègne	1 – 0 (aet)	Arras
44	Chambly	2 – 5	Saint-Ouen l'Aumône
45	Tourcoing	1 – 2	Marquette
46	Rouen	2 – 4 (aet)	Beauvais
47	Caen	1 – 0	Dunkerque
48	Aire-sur-la-Lys	5 – 0	Feignies
49	Calais	1 – 3	Sedan
50	Hermes	1 – 2	Cambrai
51	Saint-Quentin	3 – 1	Maubeuge
52	Roissy-en-Brie	1 – 7	Amiens
53	Le Havre	0 – 1	Avion
54	Lumbres	1 – 2	Marck
55	Fresnoy-le-Grand	3 – 0	Neuilly-sur-Marne
56	La Ferté-Bernard	4 - 0	Courbevoie
57	Flers	0 – 1	Aubervilliers
58	Pacy Vallée-d'Eure	1 – 0	Villemomble
59	Bonchamp-Lès-Laval	2 – 1	Fougères
60	Angers	1 – 0 (aet)	Poissy
61	Versailles	2 – 1	Granville
62	Laval	2 – 0	Vitré
63	La Flèche	2 – 3	Chartres
64	Vannes	4 – 1	La Vitréenne
65	Tregunc	2 – 3	Les Herbiers
66	Montgermont	1 – 4	Plabennec
67	Cherbourg	4 – 0	Chantepie
68	TA Rennes	3 – 1	Saint-Renan
69	Plouvorn	2 – 0	Combourg
70	Concarneau	3 – 0	Nantes
71	Paimpol	2 – 1	Chateaubriant
72	Saint-Fulgent	1 – 7	Orléans
73	Saint-Mars-la-Brière	0 – 5	Brest
74	Saumur	3 – 1	Châteauroux
75	Cognac	0 – 1	Feytiat
76	Romorantin	5 – 2	Poitiers
77	Cholet	3 – 2	Moulins
78	Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire	1 – 3	Chauray
79	Saint-Jean-le-Blanc	0 – 2	Niort

[edit] Overseas region

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Marie Galante	2 – 3	Le Poiré-sur-Vie
2	Excelsior	1 – 0	Quimper
3	Manu-Ura	0 – 3	Raon-l'Etape
4	Vendée Luçon	2 – 1	Franciscain

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
5	Quevilly	6 – 0	Kawéni
6	Pontivy	5 – 0	Cayenne
7	Avranches	5 – 3 (aet)	Mont-Dore

[edit] Eighth Round

The draw for the eighth round of the Coupe de France was conducted on 25 November 2009 at the headquarters of the French Football Federation, in Paris, by FCF Juvisy and women's national team member Sandrine Soubeyrand, taekwondo world champion Gwladys Epangue, former national team member Steve Marlet, and Jean Djorkaeff, the president of the Coupe de France Commission.^[6] The matches were played on the 12 and 13 of December 2009.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Nîmes	1 – 1 (aet) 2–4 p.	Pau
2	Cannes	3 – 0	Luzenac
3	Agen	0 – 0 (aet) 5–4 p.	Calvi
4	Villefranche	2 – 1	Annonay
5	Grande Motte	1 – 0	Marignane
6	Balma	1 – 3	Ajaccio
7	Lattes	1 – 0	Bagnols Pont
8	Feurs	0 – 4	Évian
9	Vesoul	4 – 1	Forbach Marienau
10	Strasbourg	3 – 0	Thionville
11	Saint-Louis Neuweg	4 – 0	Besançon
12	Colmar	2 – 2 (aet) 4–2 p.	Metz
13	Mulhouse	4 – 1	La Chapelle Saint-Luc
14	Raon-l'Étape	6 – 1	Bressane Marboz
15	Laval	4 – 0	Le Poiré-sur-Vie
16	Thiers	3 – 1	Niort
17	Rodez	3 – 1	Vendée Luçon
18	La Ferté-Bernard	2 – 3	Trélissac
19	Romorantin	0 – 2	Vannes
20	Feytiat	0 – 1	Chauray
21	TA Rennes	1 – 2 (aet)	Brest
22	Plabennec	2 – 0	Concarneau
23	Pontivy	5 – 1	Plouvorn

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
24	Bonchamp-lès-Laval	1 – 1 (aet) 5–4 p.	Paimpol
25	Cherbourg	0 – 3	Avranches
26	Pacy Vallée-d'Eure	0 – 2	Quevilly
27	Cholet	2 – 2 (aet) 4–5 p.	Saumur
28	Aire-sur-la-Lys	0 – 1	Seclin
29	Sedan	3 – 1	Moissy-Cramayel
30	Cambrai	0 – 1	Aubervilliers
31	Loon-Plage	1 – 2	Marquette
32	Les Lilas	0 - 1	Caen
33	Amiens	2 – 1	Avion
34	Marck	2 – 2 (aet) 2–4 p.	Compiègne
35	Tours	2 – 1	Montereau
36	Saint-Ouen l'Aumône	1 – 1 (aet) 3–2 p.	Yzeure
37	Nevers	1 – 4	Beauvais
38	Fresnoy-le-Grand	0 – 1	Saint-Quentin
39	Versailles	1 – 0	Dijon
40	Troyes	2 – 1	Selongey
41	Saint-Dizier	4 – 3 (aet)	Orléans
42	Angers	5 – 0	Excelsior
43	Chartres	1 – 2	Les Herbiers

[edit] Round of 64

The draw for the Round of 64 of the Coupe de France was conducted on 14 December 2009 at the Champ Libres in Rennes, by former French internationals Stéphane Guivarc'h and Daniel Rodighiero, Stade Briochin and women's national team member Eugénie Le Sommer, and the current captain of the France women's national rugby union team Sandrine Agricole.^[7] The matches will be played on the 9 and 10 of January 2010.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Grenoble	–	Montpellier
2	Grande Motte	–	Villefranche
3	Pau	–	Évian
4	Trélissac	–	Marseille
5	Monaco	–	Tours
6	Ajaccio	–	Cannes
7	Lattes	–	Angers
8	Thiers	–	Nancy
9	Saint-Louis Neuweg	–	Sochaux
10	Marquette	–	Mulhouse
11	Saint-Ouen l'Aumône	–	Sedan
12	Laval	–	Vesoul
13	Strasbourg	–	Lyon
14	Amiens	–	Auxerre
15	Colmar	–	Lille
16	Seclin	–	Boulogne

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
17	Pontivy	–	Brest
18	Chauray	–	Agen
19	Bordeaux	–	Rodez
20	Avranches	–	Saumur
21	Plabennec	–	Nice
22	Les Herbiers	–	Toulouse
23	Saint-Étienne	–	Lorient
24	Bonchamp-lès-Laval	–	Guimgamp
25	Vannes	–	Troyes
26	Versailles	–	Beauvais
27	Compiègne	–	Lens
28	Rennes	–	Caen
29	Quevilly	–	Saint-Quentin
30	Aubervilliers	–	Paris SG
31	Le Mans	–	Valenciennes
32	Saint-Dizier	-	Raon-l'Étape

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ "Les dates de la nouvelle édition". French Football Federation (FFF). 23 June 2009. http://www.fff.fr/cfra/calendrier/700.shtml. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
^ The qualifying rounds are organize by the regions' respective regional and departmental leagues. Each regions' qualifying rounds lasts six rounds in order to determine the regional and departmental clubs that will earn a berth in the seventh round.
^ Since Guingamp are the defending champions, they are excluded from this round and will enter the competition in the Round of 64.
^ Le tirage complet (French)
^ Tirage de l'Outre-Mer effectué (French)
^ Le tirage complet (French)
^ Le tirage au sort intégral! (French)

[edit] External links

Official site (French)

[0] "Les dates de la nouvelle édition". French Football Federation (FFF). 23 June 2009. http://www.fff.fr/cfra/calendrier/700.shtml. Retrieved 23 June 2009.

[qualifying-1] The qualifying rounds are organize by the regions' respective regional and departmental leagues. Each regions' qualifying rounds lasts six rounds in order to determine the regional and departmental clubs that will earn a berth in the seventh round.

[Guingamp-2] Since Guingamp are the defending champions, they are excluded from this round and will enter the competition in the Round of 64.

[3] Le tirage complet (French)

[4] Tirage de l'Outre-Mer effectué (French)

[5] Le tirage complet (French)

[6] Le tirage au sort intégral! (French)

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