The competition was organised by the French Football Federation (FFF) and was opened to all clubs in French football, as well as clubs from the overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia (Hienghène Sport, winner of 2015 New Caledonia Cup), Tahiti (A.S. Pirae, winner of 2015 Tahiti Cup), Réunion, and Saint Martin).
Paris Saint-Germain were the defending champions, defeated Auxerre in the previous season's final.
[1] The first six rounds, and any preliminaries, are organised by the Regional Leagues and the Overseas Territories, who allow teams from within their league structure to enter at any point up to the Third round.
The teams qualifying for Seventh round, by region and level, are: Ligue 2 Alsace Aquitaine Atlantique Auvergne Lower Normandy Bourgogne Centre-Val de Loire Centre-West Corsica Franche-Comté Languedoc-Roussillon Lorraine
Maine Méditerranée Midi-Pyrénées Nord-Pas de Calais Champagne-Ardenne Normandy Brittany Paris Île-de-France Picardie Rhône-Alpes