2022–23 Coupe de France

2022–23 Coupe de France

Tournament details
Country	France
Dates	22 May 2022 – 29 April 2023
Teams	7,292
Defending champions	Nantes
Final positions
Champions	Toulouse (1st title)
Runner-up	Nantes
Tournament statistics
Matches played	184
Goals scored	514 (2.79 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Thijs Dallinga (6 goals)
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The 2022–23 Coupe de France was the 106th season of the main football cup competition of France. The competition was organised by the French Football Federation (FFF) and was open to all clubs in French football, as well as clubs from the overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Réunion, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon).

Nantes were the defending champions, having beaten Nice 1–0 in the previous year's final to claim their fourth Coupe de France title.^[1][2] Toulouse defeated Nantes 5–1 in the 2023 final for a first Coupe de France title.

Dates for the first two qualifying rounds, and any preliminaries required, were set by the individual Regional leagues. From round three, the FFF defined the calendar, with rounds up to and including the round of 32 being scheduled for weekends and later rounds up to, but not including, the final, taking place on midweek evenings. Due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup taking place in November and December, it was necessary to bring forward the eighth round by a week, compared to previous seasons, impacting the scheduling of earlier rounds. Similarly the timeline of rounds from the round of 64 onwards was compressed.^[3]

Round	Dates
Third round	11 September 2022
Fourth round	25 September 2022
Fifth round	9 October 2022
Sixth round	16 October 2022
Seventh round	30 October 2022
Eighth round	20 November 2022
Round of 64	8 January 2023
Round of 32	22 January 2023
Round of 16	8 February 2023
Quarter-finals	1 March 2023
Semi-finals	5 April 2023
Final	29 April 2023

The first six rounds, and any preliminaries required, were organised by the Regional Leagues and the Overseas Departments/Territories, who allowed teams from within their league structure to enter at any point up to the third round. Teams from Championnat National 3 entered at the third round, those from Championnat National 2 entered at the fourth round and those from Championnat National entered at the fifth round.^[4]

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

Region	Prelim	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
Nouvelle-Aquitaine		568	94	11	4	0
Pays de la Loire		442	41	31	3	2
Centre-Val de Loire		104	77	10	6	2
Corsica			6	23	1	1
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté		324	50	12	4	0
Grand Est		874	45	49	3	2
Méditerranée		174	26	6	6	1
Occitanie		372	106	11	3	0
Hauts-de-France		828	168	15	5	1
Normandy		320	54	11	3	1
Brittany		554	123	12	2	2
Paris IDF		368	93	12	8	3
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes		768	102	35	7	3
Réunion				20	6	0
Mayotte	28	0	50	0	0	0
Guadeloupe			46	8	0	0
Martinique			52	6	0	0
French Guiana			14	25	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon		2	1[a]
Total	28	5698	1148	297	61	18

The 145 qualifiers from the Regional Leagues were joined by the 10 qualifiers from the Overseas Territories and 20 2022–23 Ligue 2 teams.^[5] The qualifiers from Réunion, Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana played off in internal matches.^[4]

The team from Tahiti played their seventh round tie at home. On 18 October 2022 the list of National, National 2 and National 3 clubs who had put themselves forward as candidates for overseas travel was published. Teams not selected were included in the draw for overseas travel in the eighth round, should they have qualified.^[8]

The eighth round ties for mainland matches was made at the same time as the seventh round draw. Matches including the teams from Martinique and Guadeloupe were slotted into the draw where gaps appear due to teams being selected to travel overseas.

The winners of the seventh round matches in Réunion and French Guiana played their eighth round match at home against teams from mainland France. A draw on 18 October 2022 prioritised the list of clubs for these fixtures, should they win their seventh round games.^[9] FCM Aubervilliers and Évreux FC 27 were the highest in the list to qualify for the eighth round.

The 44 qualifying teams from Round 8 were joined by the 20 2022–23 Ligue 1 teams. 32 ties were drawn in regional groups.^[4]

Later rounds were open draws with no regional grouping.

The draw for the seventh round took place in multiple stages:

• The seventh round in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion will take place between the two qualifying teams from each territory, and were drawn and scheduled by the local league.
• The Overseas tie involving the team from Tahiti was drawn separately on 18 October 2022, against a team from the list of those willing to travel.^[8]
• Mainland teams were divided into ten groups, by geography and to ensure the groups are balanced in terms of the levels of the teams.^[10] The draw took place on 19 October 2022.^[11]

This tie was drawn on 18 October 2022, and was played on the weekend of 30 October 2022.^[9]

These ties were drawn on 19 October 2022, and were originally scheduled to be played on the weekend of 30 October 2022.^[12]

The draw for the eighth round took place at the same time as the seventh round, with seventh round ties being paired together.^[11] Ties were originally scheduled to take place on the weekend of 18, 19 and 20 November 2022.^[19]