Paris to take on Monaco in Cup final

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Paris Saint-Germain will take on Monaco in the 2021 Coupe de France final, on Wednesday 19 May at 21:15 CET at the Stade de France.

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Defending champions and a record 13-time winners of the competition (in 1982, 1983, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020), and qualified for the final after eliminating Caen 1-0, Brest 3-0, Lille 3-0, Angers 5-0 and Montpellier 2-2 (6-5 on pens.), Paris will face the side currently sitting third in the Ligue 1 standings and who have won the Cup five times themselves (in 1960, 1963, 1980, 1985 and 1991) and reached the final by qualifying against Grenoble 1-0, Nice 2-0, Metz 0-0 (5-4 on pens.), Lyon 2-0 and Rumilly-Vallières 5-1.

Paris and Monaco have already met twice this season, on Ligue 1 Matchdays 11 and 26, with ASM winning 3-2 on 9 January at the Stade Louis II (Mbappe 25’, 37’, Volland 52’, 65’, Fabregas pen. 84’), and 2-0 on 21 February at the Parc des Princes (Diop 6’, Maripan 51’).

The two clubs have met twice in two previous Coupe de France finals, with the principality side winning 1-0 in 1985 and Les Rouge et Bleu prevailing 1-0 a.e.t in 2010. They have met five other times in the competition, with the Parisians qualifying four times (1-0 in Monaco in the R-16 in 1992-93, 1-0 in Paris in the quarter-finals in 1997-98, 2-0 at the Parc des Princes in the quarter-finals in 2014-15 and 5-0 in Paris in the semi-finals in 2016-17), compared with one qualification for Monaco (2-1 at the Stade Louis II and 4-1 in the Parc des Princes in the R-16 in 1978-79).