Football Club Sochaux Montbéliard

Football Club Sochaux Montbéliard

Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (commonly referred to as FCSM or simply Sochaux) is a French association football club based in the commune of Montbéliard. The club was founded in 1928 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. Sochaux plays its home matches at the Stade Auguste Bonal located within the city. The team is managed by former football player Francis Gillot and captained by former French international defender Jérémie Bréchet.

Sochaux was founded by Jean-Pierre Peugeot, a prominent member of the Peugeot family, and is one of the founding members of the first division of French football. Along with Marseille, Montpelllier, Rennes, and Nice, Sochaux is the only club to have played in the inaugural 1932–33 season and still be playing in the first division as of today. The club has won both Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France twice and have also won the Coupe de la Ligue. Sochaux last honour came in 2007 when the club, under the guidance of Alain Perrin, defeated favorites Marseille 5–4 on penalties in the 2007 Coupe de France final. Sochaux's colors are black, gold, and navy blue.

Sochaux is known for its youth academy, which has regularly finished in the top 10 rankings of youth academies in France having finished 4th in 2010. The patriarch of the academy is the under-19 team, which has won the Coupe Gambardella twice; in 1973 and 2007. In 2010, Sochaux finished runner-up to Metz in the 2010 edition of the competition. The academy has produced several notable talents such as Yannick Stopyra, El-Hadji Diouf, Jérémy Menez, Bernard Genghini, and Benoît Pedretti, among others.

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