1998 Coupe de France final

Football match

Event

1997–98 Coupe de France

Paris Saint-Germain0	0Lens

2	1

Date

2 May 1998

Venue

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Referee

Gilles Veissière

Attendance

78,265

← 1997

1999 →

The 1998 Coupe de France final was a football match held at Stade de France, Saint-Denis on 2 May 1998, that saw Paris SG defeat RC Lens 2-1 thanks to goals by Raí and Marco Simone. Vladimír Šmicer scored for the Division 1 champion which could not enjoy two successes in a single season. This final was also the first ever played in the newly-built Stade de France.

Road to the final

Paris Saint-Germain			Round	Lens
Opponent	H/A	Result	1997–98 Coupe de France	Opponent	H/A	Result
Thouars	A	3–1	Round of 64	Le Havre	H	2–1
Lorient	A	1–1	Round of 32	Épinal	A	2–0 (a.e.t.)
Pau	A	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Round of 16	Argentan	A	3–1
Monaco	H	1–0	Quarter-finals	Caen	A	2–1
Guingamp	H	1–0	Semi-finals	Lyon	H	2–0

Match details

2 May 1998

20:00

Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Lens
Raí 25' Simone 53'	Report	Šmicer 83'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 78,265

Referee: Gilles Veissière


PARIS SG:
GK	1	Vincent Fernandez
DF	5	Alain Roche
DF	4	Paul Le Guen
DF	6	Eric Rabesandratana
DF	3	Didier Domi
MF	2	Jimmy Algerino
MF	10	Raí (c)
MF	7	Pierre Ducrocq
MF	8	Franck Gava
FW	9	Marco Simone
FW	11	Florian Maurice	88'
Substitutes:
MF	15	Laurent Fournier	88'
Manager:
Ricardo Gomes Assistant Referees: Fourth Official:


RC LENS:
GK	1	Guillaume Warmuz
DF	2	Eric Sikora
DF	6	Jean-Guy Wallemme (c)
DF	4	Frédéric Déhu
DF	3	Cyrille Magnier
MF	8	Stéphane Ziani
MF	7	Marc-Vivien Foé
MF	5	Mickaël Debève	68'
FW	10	Vladimír Šmicer
FW	9	Anto Drobnjak	60'
FW	11	Tony Vairelles
Substitutes:
FW	13	Wagneau Eloi	60'
MF	14	Philippe Brunel	68'
Manager:
Daniel Leclercq

External links

Coupe de France results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Report on French federation site

1997–98 in French football

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Domestic leagues	Division 1 Division 2 National
Domestic cups	Coupe de France (Final) Coupe de la Ligue (Final) Trophée des Champions
European	Champions League Men Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup

Club seasons
Division 1	Auxerre Bastia Bordeaux Cannes Châteauroux Guingamp Le Havre Lens Lyon Marseille Metz Monaco Montpellier Nantes Paris Saint-Germain Rennes Strasbourg Toulouse
Division 2	Amiens Beauvais Caen Gueugnon Laval Le Mans Lille Lorient Louhans-Cuiseaux Martigues Mulhouse Nancy Nice Nîmes Niort Red Star Saint-Étienne Sochaux Toulon Troyes Valence Wasquehal

International competition
Men	1997 Jeux de la Francophonie 1998 Toulon Tournament 1998 King Hassan II International Cup Tournament 1998 FIFA World Cup Group C 1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage 1998 FIFA World Cup final

v t e Coupe de France
Seasons	1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Preliminary rounds	2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Finals	1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
List of finals Participants from Overseas territories

v t e RC Lens matches
Coupe de France Finals	1948 1975 1998
Coupe de la Ligue Finals	1999 2008
Trophée des Champions	1998

Paris Saint-Germain F.C. matches

National

Coupe de France finals	1982 1983 1985 1993 1995 1998 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 2011 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2024
Coupe de la Ligue finals	1995 1998 2000 2008 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2020
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