The defending champions are Paris Saint-Germain, who defeated Lyon 2–1 in the previous year's final for a record-extending fifteenth Coupe de France title.
[1] Dates for the first two qualifying rounds, and any preliminaries required, were set by the individual Regional leagues.
The 173 teams are divided into nine distinct groups of equal level and geography to avoid long travel.
2 Teams each from French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion will face each other internally to decide their respective representative for Round 8.
These ties were drawn on 30 October 2024 and include Diables Noirs travelling to France from Mayotte.
[7] The round of 64 draw was split into three groups, roughly by geography, with Ligue 1 teams distributed evenly.