Joel Bats
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Joël Bats (born 4 January 1957) is a retired goalkeeper and former French international footballer. He played his entire senior club career in his native France. From 1976 to 1992, he appeared in a total of 553 competitive club matches and 504 domestic league (all of them Division 1) matches for three French clubs (Sochaux, Auxerre and Paris Saint-Germain). He played 50 matches (35 competitive matches and 15 friendly matches) for the senior France team.

Bats joined the youth academy of FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He played for Sochaux's U19 youth team until the summer of 1974. He began his Sochaux professional career at the start of the 1974–75 season. Bats spent the 1974–75 and 1975–76 seasons playing only for the club's reserve team. After Bats was promoted to the club's first team in the summer of 1976, he had to compete with Albert Rust for playing time over the next four seasons, with the two of them being alternated in matches. Bats stayed at Sochaux until the end of the 1979–80 season.