FC Sochaux

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FC Sochaux
FC Sochaux Logo.svg
Basic data
Surname Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard
Seat Sochaux , France
founding 1928
president FranceFrance Frédéric Bo Dong
Website fcsochaux.fr
First soccer team
Head coach SenegalSenegal Omar Daf
Venue Stade Auguste-Bonal
Places 20.005
league Ligue 2
2019/20 14th place
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The Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard ( French soʃo-mɔ̃beljar ; also known as FCSM or simply Sochaux ) is a French football club from the industrial town of Sochaux , which is directly adjacent to Montbéliard , south of Belfort in the Doubs department .

history

The "factory club" of the car manufacturer Peugeot was founded as FC Sochaux in 1928; the club colors are yellow and blue, and the Peugeot logo, a standing lion, adorns the club crest until 2015. Thereafter, the club's players are also called les lionceaux . The Stade Auguste-Bonal (formerly: Stade de la Forge ) was also built in 1931 in the immediate vicinity of the factory; it holds 20,000 spectators today.

For 86 years, FC Sochaux could count on support from the company and the Peugeot family. After the PSA group of companies struggled with significant sales problems - in 2012 it closed with a loss of over € 5 billion, 2013 again with a billion - the founding family's influence on corporate policy was reduced. The new majority shareholders have decided to part with the association's corporation (Société Anonyme Sportive Professionnelle / SASP) in addition to other low-income parts of the company . This process, in particular the search for a new investor for the SASP - for which PSA once again provided a financial injection of 17 million euros to repay debt - should be completed by the end of 2014. It coincided with Sochaux's relegation to the second division at the end of the 2013-14 season . After it was initially considered possible that the Peugeot family would act as the buyer of the association through its stakes in Groupe LISI , the Chinese Ledus Group took over the entire capital at the beginning of July 2015 . On this occasion, the club presented its new logo, which still contains a lion, but graphically no longer corresponds to the Peugeot coat of arms.

League affiliation

Thanks to the support of Peugeot, the club had established itself at the top of French football in a very short time: in 1930, after a merger with AS Montbéliard, FC Sochaux received its current name and won the national championship of the French football association FFF in 1931, but it is now only counts as a "forerunner", not as an official title. One such followed for the first time in 1935.
The Sochaliens, as the players (and the inhabitants) of Sochaux in France are called, played 1932–1939, 1942/43, 1945/46, 1947–1960, 1961/62, 1964–1987, 1988 –1995, 1998/99 and 2001-2014 in the top division, Division 1 (renamed Ligue 1 in 2002 ). The club has thus completed the most seasons of all clubs in the French first division. In addition to its eventful past, FC Sochaux-Montbéliard can also point to successes in the present (winning the League Cup in 2004 and Coupe de France in 2007). Last but not least, the club is now considered to be one of the best training centers for young talent in France, crowned by winning the French Cup for youth club teams, the Coupe Gambardella (1983 and 2007).

The second representation of Sochaux was next to that of Racing Strasbourg one of two reserve teams that were allowed to try out for a year in the second division for the 1970/71 season ; the experiment was ended after a year, however, and so Sochaux is one of three clubs with this peculiarity, alongside Strasbourg and Olympique Marseille , whose second team was represented from 1949 to 1951.

successes

National

International

European Cup balance sheet

season competition round opponent total To Back
1972/73 Uefa cup 1 round DenmarkDenmark BK Frem København 2: 5 1: 2 (H) 1: 3 (A)
1976/77 Uefa cup 1 round ScotlandScotland Hibernian Edinburgh 0: 1 0: 1 (A) 0: 0 (H)
1980/81 Uefa cup 1 round SwitzerlandSwitzerland Servette Geneva 3: 2 2: 0 (H) 1: 2 (A)
2nd round PortugalPortugal Boavista Porto 3: 2 2: 2 (H) 1: 0 (A)
3rd round Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Eintracht Frankfurt ( a ) 4: 4(a) 2: 4 (A) 2: 0 (H)
Quarter finals SwitzerlandSwitzerland Grasshopper Zurich 2: 1 0: 0 (A) 2: 1 (H)
Semifinals NetherlandsNetherlands AZ'67 Alkmaar 3: 4 1: 1 (H) 2: 3 (A)
1982/83 Uefa cup 1 round GreeceGreece PAOK Thessaloniki (a)2: 2 ( a ) 0: 1 (A) 2: 1 a.d. (H)
1989/90 Uefa cup 1 round LuxembourgLuxembourg Jeunesse Esch 12: 00 7: 0 (H) 5: 0 (A)
2nd round ItalyItaly AC Florence (a)1: 1 ( a ) 0: 0 (A) 1: 1 (H)
2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2nd round LithuaniaLithuania FK Žalgiris Vilnius 4: 1 2: 0 (H) 2: 1 (A)
3rd round Czech RepublicCzech Republic 1. FC SYNOT 3-0 3: 0 (A) 0: 0 (H)
Semifinals EnglandEngland Fulham FC 0: 3 0: 1 (A) 0: 2 (H)
2003/04 Uefa cup 1 round FinlandFinland Myllycosken Pallo -47 1: 1 1: 0 (A) 2: 0 (H)
2nd round GermanyGermany Borussia Dortmund 6: 2 2: 2 (A) 4: 0 (H)
3rd round ItalyItaly Inter Milan (a)2: 2 ( a ) 2: 2 (H) 0: 0 (A)
2004/05 Uefa cup 1 round NorwayNorway Stabæk IF 9-0 4: 0 (H) 5: 0 (A)
Group stage GeorgiaGeorgia Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 2: 0 (A)
EnglandEngland Newcastle United 0: 4 0: 4 (H)
PortugalPortugal Sporting Lisbon 1-0 1: 0 (A)
GreeceGreece Panionios Athens 1-0 1: 0 (H)
Round of 16 GreeceGreece Olympiacos Piraeus 0: 2 0: 1 (A) 0: 1 (H)
2007/08 Uefa cup 1 round GreeceGreece Panionios Athens 1: 2 0: 2 (H) 1: 0 (A)
2011/12 UEFA Europa League Play-offs UkraineUkraine Metalist Kharkiv 0: 4 0: 0 (A) 0: 4 (H)
Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record : 44 games, 19 wins, 11 draws, 14 defeats, 64:42 goals (goal difference +22)

Former players

Trainer

The most successful coach in the club's history to date has been the Uruguayan Conrad Ross , who joined the club in 1934 as a player- coach via Brazil and Switzerland. Under him Sochaux won the championships of 1935 and 1938 and the runner-up in 1937. In 1937 he also won the cup. He stayed in Sochaux until 1939 and then returned to Brazil. After the end of the 1935/35 season he briefly coached the second division CA Paris , but returned to Sochaux in mid-December 1935, this time only as a coach.

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3
  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978

Web links

Commons : FC Sochaux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ France Football of March 19, 2013, pp. 28–31 (“Sochaux-Peugeot, une conduite de moins en moins accompagnée”), and of November 18, 2014, pp. 30–32 (“Sochaux - comment rouler sans Peugeot ? ")
  2. ↑ According to the report “The lion is not dead” of the 8th (p. 12) and the article “Will the Chinese resurrect or liquidate Sochaux?” Of July 25, 2015 (p. 37), both in France Football; the new logo can be found on the club's website .