2004–05 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard season

Sochaux
2004–05 season
President	Jean-Claude Plessis
Manager	Guy Lacombe
Stadium	Stade Auguste Bonal
Ligue 1	10th
Coupe de France	Quarter-finals
Coupe de la Ligue	Third round
UEFA Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: ; Ilan (12); All: ; Ilan (17)
Average home league attendance	15,689
	← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard season was the club's 77th season in existence and the club's fourth consecutive season in the first division of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Sochaux participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue and the UEFA Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005.^[2]

Season summary

Sochaux dropped five places in the table to finish 10th, their lowest finish since promotion in 2001.^[2] Manager Guy Lacombe left at the end of the season to manage Paris Saint-Germain. He was replaced by former Ajaccio manager Dominique Bijotat.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[3]^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	CIV	Gérard Gnanhouan^{[notes 1]}
2	DF	SEN	Ibrahim Tall^{[notes 2]}
3	DF	FRA	Grégory Paisley
5	DF	FRA	Sylvain Monsoreau
6	DF	FRA	Lionel Potillon
7	FW	TOG	Mohamed Kader
8	MF	FRA	Fabien Boudarène
9	FW	BRA	Ilan
10	MF	NGA	Wilson Oruma
11	FW	TUN	Francileudo Santos^{[notes 3]}
12	MF	FRA	Michaël Isabey
14	MF	SUI	Johann Lonfat
16	GK	FRA	Teddy Richert
17	MF	FRA	Romain Pitau
18	MF	SEN	Guirane N'Daw
20	MF	MLI	Sigamary Diarra^{[notes 4]}
21	DF	SEN	Souleymane Diawara
22	FW	FRA	Thomas Régnier
23	DF	FRA	Cédric Rey
24	DF	FRA	Aimé Lavie
25	DF	FRA	Jérémy Mathieu


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	MF	FRA	Jérémy Ménez
27	DF	SEN	Omar Daf
28	MF	ARG	Marcello Trapasso
29	MF	MAR	Jaouad Zairi
30	GK	FRA	Alexandre Martinović
31	DF	EGY	Ahmed Samir Farag
32	DF	KOR	Cho Won-kwang
34	FW	FRA	Francis Laurent
40	MF	FRA	Steve Bernardet
41	DF	FRA	Jean Calvé
42	GK	FRA	Jérémy Deichelbohrer
43	MF	FRA	Hakim El Bounadi
44	FW	FRA	Mevlüt Erdinç^{[notes 5]}
45	MF	FRA	Benjamin Genghini
46	DF	FRA	Maxime Josse
47	MF	FRA	Fabien Lavoyer
48	MF	FRA	Kevin Le Bigot
49	DF	FRA	Mathieu Pelletey
50	FW	FRA	Gabriel Rodriguez
51	MF	SEN	Badara Sène
52	MF	ALG	Toufik Zerara

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	FRA	Maxence Flachez (to Guingamp)
7	MF	TUN	Adel Chedli^{[notes 6]} (to Istres)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	FW	SEN	Basile de Carvalho^{[notes 7]} (to Stade Brest)

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ligue 1	7 August 2004	28 May 2005	Matchday 1	10th	38	13	11	14	42	41	+1	034.21
Coupe de France	8 January 2005	1 March 2005	Round of 64	Quarter-finals	4	3	0	1	8	4	+4	075.00
Coupe de la Ligue	9 November 2004	22 December 2004	Second round	Third round	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	050.00
UEFA Cup	16 September 2004	24 February 2005	First round	Round of 32	8	5	0	3	13	6	+7	062.50
Total					52	22	12	18	65	52	+13	042.31

Source: Competitions

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
8	Auxerre	38	14	10	14	48	47	+1	52	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[a]
9	Paris Saint-Germain	38	12	15	11	40	41	−1	51
10	Sochaux	38	13	11	14	42	41	+1	50
11	Strasbourg	38	12	12	14	42	43	−1	48	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[b]
12	Nice	38	10	16	12	38	45	−7	46

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

^ Auxerre was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de France.
^ Strasbourg was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de la Ligue.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	13	11	14	42	41	+1	50	10	3	6	25	16	+9	3	8	8	17	25	−8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	L	L	W	L	L	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	D	L	D	L	L	W	W	D	D	L	W	L	W	D	W	L	D	L	L	D	W	L
Position	4	7	12	12	11	13	14	13	14	9	8	6	4	4	3	3	4	7	8	9	10	7	7	7	6	8	6	9	7	7	7	8	7	9	10	10	8	10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Coupe de France

Coupe de la Ligue

UEFA Cup

First round

16 September 2004 First leg	Sochaux	4–0	Stabæk	Montbéliard, France
20:30	Oruma 25' Zairi 60' Ilan 69' Isabey 85'	Report		Stadium: Stade Auguste Bonal Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

30 September 2004 Second leg	Stabæk	0–5 (0–9 agg.)	Sochaux	Oslo, Norway
19:00		Report	Santos 26' Zairi 35' Ilan 76', 90' Mathieu 81'	Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion Referee: Ruud Bossen (Netherlands)

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Newcastle United	4	3	1	0	8	1	+7	10	Advance to knockout stage
2	Sochaux	4	3	0	1	4	4	0	9
3	Sporting CP	4	2	1	1	9	3	+6	7
4	Panionios	4	1	0	3	6	8	−2	3
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	4	0	0	4	2	13	−11	0

Source: RSSSF

21 October 2004 1	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–2	Sochaux	Tbilisi, Georgia
20:00		Report	Ilan 17' Paisley 37'	Stadium: Mikheil Meskhi Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)

25 November 2004 2	Sochaux	0–4	Newcastle United	Montbéliard, France
20:45		Report	Bowyer 62' Ameobi 46' Bellamy 76' Robert 90'	Stadium: Stade Auguste Bonal Attendance: 15,175 Referee: Carlos Megía Dávila (Spain)

1 December 2004 3	Sporting CP	0–1	Sochaux	Lisbon, Portugal
20:45		Report	Lonfat 2'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 21,349 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Germany)

16 December 2004 4	Sochaux	1–0	Panionios	Montbéliard, France
20:45	Isabey 86'	Report		Stadium: Stade Auguste Bonal Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Dick van Egmond (Netherlands)

Round of 32

17 February 2005 First leg	Olympiacos	1–0	Sochaux	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Okkas 29'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Nikolai Ivanov (Russia)

24 February 2005 Second leg	Sochaux	0–1 (0–2 agg.)	Olympiacos	Montbéliard, France
19:00		Report	Stoltidis 67'	Stadium: Stade Auguste Bonal Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Markus Nobs (Switzerland)

Notes and references

Notes

^ Gnanhouan was born in Adzope, Ivory Coast, but also qualified to represent France internationally and represented them at U-18 level before making his international debut for Ivory Coast in 2003.
^ Tall was born in Aubervilliers, France, but also qualified to represent Senegal internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Senegal in 2003.
^ Santos was born in Zé Doca, Brazil, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in 2004.
^ Diarra was born in Villepinte, France, but also qualified to represent Mali internationally and made his international debut for Mali in 2004.
^ Erdinç was born in Saint-Claude, France, and represented them at U-17, U-19, and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally through his parents and would make his international debut for Turkey in March 2008.
^ Chedli was born in La Ricamarie, France, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in May 1996.
^ De Carvalho was born in Ziguinchor, Senegal, but also qualified to represent Guinea-Bissau internationally and would make his international debut for Guinea-Bissau in March 2011.

References

^ "Ligue 1 2004/2005 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Sochaux 2004/2005". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^ "Sochaux - 2004/05". FootballSquads.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

[table_note_res_UCCF0.51028019027332-11] Auxerre was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de France.

[table_note_res_UCCL0.51028019027332-12] Strasbourg was qualified for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2004–05 Coupe de la Ligue.

[4] Gnanhouan was born in Adzope, Ivory Coast, but also qualified to represent France internationally and represented them at U-18 level before making his international debut for Ivory Coast in 2003.

[5] Tall was born in Aubervilliers, France, but also qualified to represent Senegal internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Senegal in 2003.

[6] Santos was born in Zé Doca, Brazil, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in 2004.

[7] Diarra was born in Villepinte, France, but also qualified to represent Mali internationally and made his international debut for Mali in 2004.

[8] Erdinç was born in Saint-Claude, France, and represented them at U-17, U-19, and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally through his parents and would make his international debut for Turkey in March 2008.

[9] Chedli was born in La Ricamarie, France, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in May 1996.

[10] De Carvalho was born in Ziguinchor, Senegal, but also qualified to represent Guinea-Bissau internationally and would make his international debut for Guinea-Bissau in March 2011.

[attendance-1] "Ligue 1 2004/2005 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

[foot05-2] "Sochaux 2004/2005". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

[footballsquads-3] "Sochaux - 2004/05". FootballSquads.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

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