Records
Olympique de Marseille have the honor of having won the most Coupe de France titles, winning ten, with their most recent coming during the 1988–89 season following their 4–3 victory over Monaco. Marseille also have appeared in the most finals having played in 18. Marseille are notable in terms of losing in the competition as they are one of four clubs who have suffered two consecutive finals defeats, as the southern coast club lost to Paris Saint-Germain in 2006 and then to Sochaux the following season. Marseille are the only club of the four to lose consecutive Coupe de France finals twice. Paris Saint-Germain are second behind Marseille having won seven Coupe de France titles. The Parisian club are also the only club to have won both the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue in the same season having accomplished this in 1995 and 1998. Many clubs have won the league and cup double, the most recent being Lille who completed their double after defeating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the 2011 final.
Due to the early dominance of Parisian clubs during the early run of the competition and along with PSG's consistency, the Île-de-France region has the most Coupe de France champions having produced 23. The region is followed by Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur with Marseille being the region's most successful club.
Managers Guy Roux and André Cheuva share the honor of having managed four Coupe de France winning clubs. The most successful players are Dominique Bathenay, Alain Roche, and Marceau Sommerlynck who all won five titles. Éric Pécout of Nantes and Jean-Pierre Papin are joint top-scorers of the competition final having each converted a hat trick in their only appearances in the ultimate match. In 1947, Roger Vandooren scored the fastest goal in final's history converting after 29 seconds for his club Lille in their 2–0 win over Strasbourg.
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