# 2023–24 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard season

2023–24 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard season is the club's 96th season in history and its first season in the third tier of French football, the Championnat National, having been subjected to administrative relegation from the Ligue 2. They will also take part in the Coupe de France, entering from the seventh round. The club played its first game on 25 August. This is manager's Oswald Tanchot first season with the club after having been appointed on 1 July 2023.

## Players

    As of 26 January 2024
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 | FRA | Mathieu Patouillet |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Nolan Galves |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Amilcar Silva |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Arthur Vitelli |
| 5 | DF | MTQ | Boris Moltenis |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Mouhamadou Drammeh |
| 7 | MF | FRA | Tony Mauricio |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Kévin Hoggas |
| 9 | FW | CIV | N'Dri Philippe Koffi |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Roli Pereira de Sa |
| 11 | FW | CIV | Issouf Macalou |
| 14 | DF | SUI | Sidy Diagne |
| 15 | DF | MAD | Thomas Fontaine |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Baptiste Valette |
| 17 | FW | FRA | Noah Fatar |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | DF | FRA | Julien Dacosta |
| 20 | FW | BEN | Jodel Dossou |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Dimitri Liénard |
| 22 | FW | MLI | Kévin Zohi |
| 24 | MF | FRA | Malcolm Viltard |
| 25 | MF | FRA | Alex Daho |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Diego Michel |
| 28 | DF | FRA | Maxime Bastian |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Charly Dosso |
| 33 | MF | CMR | Joseph Atangana |
| 33 | FW | FRA | Martin Lecolier |
| 34 | MF | FRA | Allan Ackra |
| 35 | DF | FRA | Dalangunypole Gomis |
| 36 | DF | FRA | Malcolm Rangon |
| 37 | MF | FRA | Elie Kayembe Tete |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | CMR | Alex Guett Guett (on loan to Progrès Niederkorn) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Gaëtan Weissbeck (on loan to Bordeaux) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| FW | N'dri Philippe Koffi | Reims | Free | 21 August 2023 | |
| DF | Maxime Bastian | Strasbourg | Free | 25 January 2024 | |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| MF | Rassoul Ndiaye | Le Havre | €1,500,000 | 17 July 2023 | |
| DF | Daylam Meddah | Released | Released | 28 July 2023 | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Championnat National | 25 August 2023 | 17 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | | 24 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 037.50 |
| Coupe de France | 17 November 2023 | 6 February 2024 | Seventh round | Round of 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 060.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 47 | 39 | +8 | 041.38 |
Last updated: 15 March 2024 Source: Soccerway

### Championnat National
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 6 | Nancy | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 51 | 46 | +5 | 50 |
| 7 | Rouen | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 49 |
| 8 | Sochaux | 34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 51 | 44 | +7 | 48 |
| 9 | Versailles | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 41 | 33 | +8 | 47 |
| 10 | Orléans | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 36 | 37 | −1 | 44 |
* ↑ On 23 June 2023, the FFF announced a deduction of one point for Nancy, applicable to the 2023–24 season, due to incidents in the game against Bourg-Péronnas on the final day of the 2022–23 Championnat National season.
* ↑ On 28 November 2023, the DNCG announced a deduction of five points for Rouen, due to financial issues. The punishment was upheld on appeal.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 15 March 2024. Source: Soccerway

#### 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 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H |
| Result | D | W | L | L | W | W | L | L | W | D | D | D | W | L | W | W | W | D | D | P | L | D |
| Position | 6 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | | | | | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 13 July 2023.

### Coupe de France

Sochaux entered in the fifth round along with other Championnat National clubs.