The 2017 Trophée des Champions () was the 22nd edition of the
Trophée des Champions
The Trophée des Champions (, ) is a French association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of Ligue 1 and the winners of the Coupe de France. It is equivalent to the super cups found in many other countries.
His ...
, the annual
super cup
A super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the 'curtain raiser' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competitions during the prev ...
in France. The match was contested by the
2016–17 Ligue 1 champions
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
, and the
2016–17 Coupe de France champions
Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As Fr ...
. The match was played at the
Stade Ibn Batouta in
Tangier
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...
, Morocco.
Paris Saint-Germain were the four-time defending champions, having defeated
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
4–1 in the
2016 edition, which was played in Austria.
Paris Saint-Germain won the match 2–1 for their seventh Trophée des Champions title.
Match
Summary
Djibril Sidibé opened the scoring for Monaco in the 30th minute when he ran through on goal before clipping the ball past the advancing goalkeeper
Alphonse Areola
Alphonse Francis Areola (; born 27 February 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club West Ham United and the France national team.
An academy graduate of PSG, he spent the early parts of his ...
from just outside the penalty area with his right foot.
Dani Alves
Daniel Alves da Silva (born 6 May 1983), known simply as Dani Alves (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Liga MX club UNAM and the Brazil national team. Widely considered one of the greatest full-backs of ...
equalised in the 51st minute, scoring with his right foot from a free-kick which went over the wall and into the top left corner from over 25 yards out.
Adrien Rabiot
Adrien Thibault Marie Rabiot (born 3 April 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for club Juventus and the France national team.
Rabiot spent most of his career with Paris Saint-Germain, making his debut ...
got the winning goal in the 63rd minute when he headed into the net from six yards out after a cross from the right from Dani Alves.
Details
See also
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2016–17 Ligue 1
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2016–17 Coupe de France
References
External links
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2017–18 in French football
2017–18 in Moroccan football
2017
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International club association football competitions hosted by Morocco
AS Monaco FC matches
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. matches
Sport in Tangier
July 2017 sports events in Africa