2023–24 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, overseas departments and territories
Football tournament round
The 2023–24 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, overseas departments and territories make up the qualifying competition to decide which teams from the French Overseas Departments and Territories take part in the main competition from the seventh round.
A total of eleven clubs will qualify from the overseas leagues section of the 2023–24 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, two each from Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, and one each from Mayotte, New Caledonia and Tahiti.
In 2022–23, La Tamponnaise from Réunion made it to the round of 64, losing to RC Grasse 1–0 on the mainland.
Mayotte
On 9 May 2023, the Mayotte league announced that 85 teams had entered the competition, of which 39 teams from the lowest division, Régionale 4, had been included in the draw for the tour de cadrage (framing round), with one team given a bye. The second and third round draws were published on 30 May 2023, with the teams from the second and third tier divisions joining at the second round stage and the teams from the first tier joining at the third round stage. In the second round, 25 ties were drawn, and four teams were given byes. In the third round, 9 ties were drawn with the remaining 23 teams given byes. In early July the third round was redrawn. The round of 32 was published on 25 July 2023, with all teams remaining now participating in a straight knock-out competition. The draw for the remaining rounds was published on 23 August 2023.
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