2025–26 Coupe de France
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Dates | 13 September 2025 – 23 May 2026 |
| Defending champions | Paris Saint-Germain |
The 2025–26 Coupe de France is the 109th season of the main football cup competition of France. The competition was 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, Tahiti, Réunion, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and New Caledonia).
The defending champions are Paris Saint-Germain, who defeated Stade de Reims 3–0 in the previous year's final for a record-extending sixteenth Coupe de France title.
Dates
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.[1]
| Round | Dates |
|---|---|
| Third round | 13 September 2025 |
| Fourth round | 27 September 2025 |
| Fifth round | 11 October 2025 |
| Sixth round | 25 October 2025 |
| Seventh round | 15 November 2025 |
| Eighth round | 29 November 2025 |
| Round of 64 | 20 December 2025 |
| Round of 32 | 10 January 2026 |
| Round of 16 | 4 February 2026 |
| Quarter-finals | 4 March 2026 |
| Semi-finals | 22 April 2026 |
| Final | 23 May 2026 |
Teams
Rounds 1 to 6
Every district level and regional level teams can join in the first round or get exempted to the second or third round. The exempted regional level teams, the teams from National 3 and a team from Saint Pierre and Miquelon will be joining the competition in the third round. The teams from National 2 will be joining the competition at the fourth round. The teams from National will be joining the competition at the fifth round.
Number of teams per division and per round
Below is the number of teams per level according to the rounds[2]
| Rounds► ▼Divisions |
Regional Phase | Federal Phase | Final Phase | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | 1/32 | 1/16 | 1/8 | 1/4 | SF | F | |
| L1 (1) | ø | 18 | ||||||||||||
| L2 (2) | ø | 18 | 16 | 12 | ||||||||||
| N1 (3) | ø | 17 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 5 | ||||||||
| N2 (4) | ø | 47 | 43 | 35 | 24 | 14 | 10 | |||||||
| N3 (5) | ø | 81 | 78 | 64 | 50 | 34 | 20 | 9 | ||||||
| R1 (6) | ø | 85 | 245 | 201 | 144 | 93 | 44 | 26 | 8 | |||||
| R2 (7) | 16 | 523 | 416 | 269 | 148 | 55 | 23 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| R3 (8) | 246 | 871 | 581 | 295 | 125 | 41 | 14 | 1 | ||||||
| R4 [a] (9) | ø | 5 | 2 | 1 | ø | |||||||||
| D1 (9) | 1081 | 887 | 496 | 168 | 48 | 18 | 4 | ø | ||||||
| D2 (10) | 1589 | 880 | 296 | 89 | 19 | 3 | ø | |||||||
| D3 (11) | 1314 | 548 | 157 | 48 | 11 | 2 | ø | |||||||
| D4 (12) | 593 | 177 | 31 | 7 | 1 | ø | ||||||||
| D5 (13) | 251 | 69 | 14 | 5 | ø | |||||||||
| D6 (14) | 60 | 17 | 3 | ø | ||||||||||
| D7 (15) | 12 | 1 | ø | |||||||||||
| Overseas territories | ø | +1[b] | ø | +3[c] | +4[d] | 1 | ø | |||||||
| Total | 5162 | 4063 | 2295 | 1206 | 620 | 310 | 176 | 92 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
- ^ Regional 4 only exists in Corsica as the last level: there is no departmental championship
- ^ Entrance of the team from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
- ^ Entrance of the teams from Tahiti, Mayotte and New Caledonia. New Caledonia to play at home.
- ^ Entrance of the teams from Réunion, Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana
Round 7
| 14 November 2024 | Olympique Villefontaine | 0–3 | Grenoble Foot 38 |
| 15 November 2024 | AS Magenta | 0–3 | FC Mulhouse |
| 15 November 2024 | US Avranches | 0–0 (5–3 p) | Paris 13 Atletico |
References
- ^ "Calendrier des Compétitions Seniors Masculines 2025-2026". fff.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ "Cartographie des clubs participants à la Coupe de France de football 2024-2025". cartosport.com (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2024..