FC Sochaux-Montbéliard

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Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard ( french pronunciation : [ soʃo mɔ̃beljaʁ ] ; normally referred to as FCSM or merely Sochaux ) is a french affiliation football club based in the city of Montbéliard. The baseball club was founded in 1928 and presently plays in Ligue 2, the second base grade of french football, after having finished 18th and being relegated from Ligue 1 in the 2013–14 season. Sochaux plays its home matches at the Stade Auguste Bonal, located within the city. Sochaux was founded by Jean-Pierre Peugeot, a outstanding member of the Peugeot class, and is one of the founding members of the first division of french football. The golf club has won both Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France twice and have besides won the Coupe de la Ligue. Sochaux ‘s final honor came in 2007 when the club, under the guidance of Alain Perrin, defeated favourites Marseille 5–4 on penalties in the 2007 Coupe de France Final. Sochaux ‘s colours are amber and navy blue.

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Sochaux is known for its young person academy, which has regularly finished in the top ten-spot rankings of young academies in France ( fourth in 2010 ). [ 1 ] The most successful team in the academy is the under-19 team, which has won the Coupe Gambardella doubly, in 1973 and 2007. In 2010, Sochaux finished runner-up to Metz in the 2010 version of the competition. The academy has produced respective celebrated talents, such as Yannick Stopyra, El-Hadji Diouf, Jérémy Ménez, Bernard Genghini and Benoît Pedretti, among others. The baseball club were a regular in the top flight, until delegating in 2014. Sochaux has since competed in Ligue 2

history [edit ]

Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard was founded in 1928 under the name Football Club Sochaux by Jean-Pierre Peugeot, a director of Peugeot, a french cable car fabrication company. Peugeot sought to create a football club for the leisure clock of the company ‘s workers. He installed Louis Maillard-Salin as the club ‘s beginning president of the united states, and made Maurice Bailly the cabaret ‘s first director. Bailly was besides a penis of the team. Sochaux played its first match on 2 September 1928 against the allow team of local anesthetic club AS Montbéliard. The club was inserted into the lowest level of league football in the Franche-Comté region and played its inaugural league match three weeks late winning 12–1 .
Peugeot was among the first to advocate for the professionalization of french football and, in 1929, went adenine far as to admit to paying his players, which was rigorously prevent during this time. The subsequent recruitment of several french internationals and players from abroad led to Sochaux gaining a stranglehold on the region easily disposing of local rivals AS Montbéliard and AS Valentigney. In June 1930, Montbéliard decided to merge with Sochaux to form the club that exists nowadays. The following month, the National Council of the french Football Federation voted 128–20 in support of professionalism in french football. With Peugeot being a strong advocate for professionalism, Sochaux were among the beginning clubs to adopt the new codified and, subsequently, became professional. In the league ‘s inaugural temper, Sochaux finished 3rd in its group. The club ‘s final situation was by and by moved to 2nd after Antibes, the champions of the group, was disqualified from the league for suspect bribery. In the 1934–35 season, Sochaux captured its first league title finishing one point ahead of Strasbourg. Led by Uruguayan director Conrad Ross, angstrom well as captain Étienne Mattler, known as Le Lion de Belfort, and strikers Roger Courtois and Bernard Williams, Sochaux dominated the league losing alone four times. Two seasons later, the same team, with the summation of goalkeeper Laurent Di Lorto and the Swiss duet of André Abegglen and Maxime Lehmann, Sochaux won its first base Coupe de France championship. The clubhouse faced league rivals Strasbourg in the final examination and defeated the Alsatians 2–1 courtesy of goals from Williams and the Argentine Miguel Angel Lauri. Ross finished his career at Sochaux by winning another league title in 1938. After the 1938–39 season, Ross and several players departed the golf club to play and manage abroad due to the attack of World War II. The non-deserters were, subsequently, called into legal action to fight with the french Army, which ultimately caused the club to limit its aspiring ambitions. During war-time, in an attempt to survive financially, Sochaux formed an interim fusion with local rivals AS Valentigney. The clubhouse, known as FC Sochaux-Valentigney, participated in the war-time championships from 1942–1944. Following the termination of the war, Sochaux dissolved the amalgamation, turn professional again, and returned to its original name. The clubhouse, however, failed to get back to its form prior to the war and, subsequently, made the decision to forgo entering bid wars for players, which was becoming the average and, alternatively, focus on keeping the team ‘s budget even. As a result, in the first season after the war, Sochaux suffered delegating after finishing in final seat with entirely 15 points. Sochaux spent merely one season in the second division and returned to Division 1 for the 1947–48 season. The baseball club spent the adjacent 13 seasons playing in Division 1 with its best finish coming during the 1952–53 temper when the club finished runner-up to champions Stade Reims. In the same temper, Sochaux won its foremost award since 1938 after winning the Coupe Charles Drago. In 1959, the golf club returned to the Coupe de France final, however, the consequence was not in Sochaux ‘s favor, with the golf club losing 3-0 to Le Havre in a replay after a 2–2 draw. In the early 1960s, despite playing in Division 2, Sochaux won the Coupe Drago in back-to-back seasons. The club made its revert to Division 1 in 1964, and remained in the league for over 20 years, regularly finishing in the top ten-spot before falling down to Division 2 in the 1987–88 season. During Sochaux ‘s 24-year run in the first base division, the club played in european competitions four times. In the 1980–81 season, Sochaux surprised many by reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. In the round, the clubhouse was defeated by Dutch cabaret AZ 4–3 on aggregate. The club ‘s successful play during this stint was predominantly due to the creation of the club ‘s academy in 1974, which paid immediate dividends. Player such as Bernard Genghini, Yannick Stopyra, Joël Bats and Philippe Anziani were among the inaugural address graduates who were instrumental in Sochaux ‘s domestic achiever .
Sochaux supporters celebrating winning the Coupe de France in 2007. After hovering between the first division and the second division in the 1990s, Sochaux returned to the beginning division, immediately called Ligue 1, at the start of the new millennium. The baseball club surprised many by finishing in the top ten in its first three seasons back. besides included in that three-year play was an appearance in the Coupe de la Ligue final examination and, in the ensuing year, a league cup style. In the 2003 final, Sochaux, led by coach Guy Lacombe and academy graduates Pierre-Alain Frau, Jérémy Mathieu, and Benoît Pedretti, were defeated 4–1 by AS Monaco. In the follow season, a more experienced Sochaux returned to the final, where the club faced Nantes. Sochaux defeated Nantes 5–4 on penalties to win its foremost major entitle since winning the Coupe Drago 40 years previously. It did not take the cabaret another 40 years to claim its next claim as Sochaux were surprise winners of the Coupe de France in the 2006–07 temper after defeating Marseille on penalties. Marseille were heavy favourites heading into match, chiefly due to its 4–2 cream of Sochaux just 12 days earlier. however, Sochaux, led by Alain Perrin, stunned the nation and claimed its foremost Coupe de France title since 1937. In July 2015, Peugeot sold the team to Hong Kong company Ledus. In 2018 it was announced that spanish club Alaves ( whose owners had a bet on in Ledus ) was starting a partnership with Sochaux ; [ 2 ] however the agreement lasted only a few months, ending abruptly in December of the same year. [ 3 ] With Omar Daf as coach, FCSM win the last game of temper against grenoble Foot 38 and save his Ligue 2 seat. Club finish 16th in Ligue 2 but is demoted to National by the DNCG ( National Directorate of Management Control ), for not having presented balance accounts. chinese real estate of the realm group Nenking, who unofficially take the reins of the club, following the economic problems encountered by Tech Pro, inject money into the coffers to save him from relegation. Nenking besides appoint Samuel Laurent to the position of general film director. [ 4 ] On April 2020, the Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard SASP ( Société Anonyme Sportive Professionnelle ) officially became the property of the Nenking Group. “ This sale to the group whose founding president is Mr. Zhong Naixiong comes in accord with the agreements previously made with Ledus ” [ 5 ] and Frankie Yau become President .

stadium [edit ]

entrance to the Stade Bonal Sochaux plays its home matches at the Stade Auguste Bonal in Montbéliard. The stadium was constructed in 1931 and opened on 11 November of that like year. The facility was previously known as Stade de la Forge. In July 1945, the club changed the stadium ‘s name to its current translation. It is named after Auguste Bonal, the former sports conductor of the golf club, who after refusing to co-operate with the Germans during World War II, was murdered. The Stade Auguste Bonal has undergo renovations doubly : in 1973 and 1997. In 1997, the majority of the stadium was completely overhauled, and much a newfangled stadium was built. The stadium still hosted matches during the renovation menstruation, but with a limited capacity. The renovation monetary value ₣114 million, and took closely three years to complete. The Nouveau Bonal was officially inaugurated on 22 July 2000 in a Trophée des champions match between FC Nantes and AS Monaco. The stadium ‘s current capacity is 20,005 .

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 19 September 2021.[6]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

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Reserve team [edit ]

As of 26 September 2020[7]

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celebrated former players [edit ]

Below are the noteworthy erstwhile players who have represented Sochaux in league and international competition since the cabaret ‘s foundation in 1928. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 200 official matches for the clubhouse. For a complete list of Sochaux players, see Category:FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

Ligue 1
Ligue 2
Coupe de France
Coupe de la Ligue
Trophée des Champions
Coupe Gambardella

Champions: 1983, 2007, 2015
Runners-up: 1975, 2010

other [edit ]

Coupe Charles Drago
- Champions (3): 1953, 1963, 1964
Coupe Peugeot
- Champions (1): 1931
Coupe Mohamed V
- Champions (1): 1989
Joan Gamper Trophy
- Runners-up (1): 1989

management and staff [edit ]

Senior club staff

President: Frédéric Dong Bo[8]

Coaching staff[9]