2004–05 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard season

Sochaux
2004–05 season
PresidentJean-Claude Plessis
ManagerGuy Lacombe
StadiumStade Auguste Bonal
Ligue 110th
Coupe de FranceQuarter-finals
Coupe de la LigueThird round
UEFA CupRound of 32
Top goalscorerLeague:
Ilan (12)

All:
Ilan (17)
Average home league attendance15,689[1]

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

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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

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Squad at end of season[3][2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Ivory Coast CIV Gérard Gnanhouan[notes 1]
2 DF Senegal SEN Ibrahim Tall[notes 2]
3 DF France FRA Grégory Paisley
5 DF France FRA Sylvain Monsoreau
6 DF France FRA Lionel Potillon
7 FW Togo TOG Mohamed Kader
8 MF France FRA Fabien Boudarène
9 FW Brazil BRA Ilan
10 MF Nigeria NGA Wilson Oruma
11 FW Tunisia TUN Francileudo Santos[notes 3]
12 MF France FRA Michaël Isabey
14 MF Switzerland SUI Johann Lonfat
16 GK France FRA Teddy Richert
17 MF France FRA Romain Pitau
18 MF Senegal SEN Guirane N'Daw
20 MF Mali MLI Sigamary Diarra[notes 4]
21 DF Senegal SEN Souleymane Diawara
22 FW France FRA Thomas Régnier
23 DF France FRA Cédric Rey
24 DF France FRA Aimé Lavie
25 DF France FRA Jérémy Mathieu
No. Pos. Nation Player
26 MF France FRA Jérémy Ménez
27 DF Senegal SEN Omar Daf
28 MF Argentina ARG Marcello Trapasso
29 MF Morocco MAR Jaouad Zairi
30 GK France FRA Alexandre Martinović
31 DF Egypt EGY Ahmed Samir Farag
32 DF South Korea KOR Cho Won-kwang
34 FW France FRA Francis Laurent
40 MF France FRA Steve Bernardet
41 DF France FRA Jean Calvé
42 GK France FRA Jérémy Deichelbohrer
43 MF France FRA Hakim El Bounadi
44 FW France FRA Mevlüt Erdinç[notes 5]
45 MF France FRA Benjamin Genghini
46 DF France FRA Maxime Josse
47 MF France FRA Fabien Lavoyer
48 MF France FRA Kevin Le Bigot
49 DF France FRA Mathieu Pelletey
50 FW France FRA Gabriel Rodriguez
51 MF Senegal SEN Badara Sène
52 MF Algeria ALG Toufik Zerara

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
4 DF France FRA Maxence Flachez (to Guingamp)
7 MF Tunisia TUN Adel Chedli[notes 6] (to Istres)
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW Senegal SEN Basile de Carvalho[notes 7] (to Stade Brest)

Competitions

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Overview

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Competition First match Last match Starting round Final position Record
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

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League table

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

Results summary

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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

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Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ResultWDLLWLLWDWDWWDWLDLDLLWWDDLWLWDWLDLLDWL
Position4712121113141314986443347891077768697778791010810
Source: [citation needed]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Coupe de France

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Coupe de la Ligue

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UEFA Cup

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First round

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16 September 2004 First leg Sochaux France 4–0 Norway 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 Norway 0–5
(0–9 agg.)
France Sochaux Oslo, Norway
19:00 Report Santos 26'
Zairi 35'
Ilan 76', 90'
Mathieu 81'
Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion
Referee: Ruud Bossen (Netherlands)

Group stage

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 England Newcastle United 4 3 1 0 8 1 +7 10 Advance to knockout stage
2 France Sochaux 4 3 0 1 4 4 0 9
3 Portugal Sporting CP 4 2 1 1 9 3 +6 7
4 Greece Panionios 4 1 0 3 6 8 −2 3
5 Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi 4 0 0 4 2 13 −11 0
Source: RSSSF
21 October 2004 1 Dinamo Tbilisi Georgia (country) 0–2 France 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 France 0–4 England 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 Portugal 0–1 France Sochaux Lisbon, Portugal
20:45 Report Lonfat 2' Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade
Attendance: 21,349
Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Germany)
16 December 2004 4 Sochaux France 1–0 Greece Panionios Montbéliard, France
20:45 Isabey 86' Report Stadium: Stade Auguste Bonal
Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Dick van Egmond (Netherlands)

Round of 32

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17 February 2005 First leg Olympiacos Greece 1–0 France Sochaux Piraeus, Greece
20:45 Okkas 29' Report Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Nikolai Ivanov (Russia)
24 February 2005 Second leg Sochaux France 0–1
(0–2 agg.)
Greece Olympiacos Montbéliard, France
19:00 Report Stoltidis 67' Stadium: Stade Auguste Bonal
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Markus Nobs (Switzerland)

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Santos was born in Zé Doca, Brazil, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in 2004.
  4. ^ Diarra was born in Villepinte, France, but also qualified to represent Mali internationally and made his international debut for Mali in 2004.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Chedli was born in La Ricamarie, France, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and made his international debut for Tunisia in May 1996.
  7. ^ 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

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