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The Joy of Six: fairytale domestic cup runs from around Europe

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FC Gueugnon beat Paris St-Germain 2-0 in the Coupe de la Ligue final in 2000 .

The blacksmiths from a small industrial town in Burgundy defeated PSG in the final of France 's secondary cup competition.

PSG were the winners of the first and last editions of the League Cup and another seven in between.

Hertha Berlin II ( DFB Pokal , 1993 ) became the first team from Germany ’s third tier to reach the final since Union Berlin in 2001 .

Hertha II were left to carry the flag for Berlin , with a quarter -final against Nuremberg .

Lechia Gdansk were a threadbare mess at the mercy of political change in 1982 .

Widzew Lodz went on to eliminate Liverpool from the European Cup that season.

Lechia beat Juventus 7 -0 in the first round of the Cup Winners’ Cup in Turin in 1990 .

The Polish side then went on to win the cup on penalties in 2006 .

Randers FC won the Danish Cup in 2006 after defending it as a second -tier side in the 1960s .

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