Le Havre AC

Le Havre Athletic Club
Full name	Le Havre Athletic Club FA
Nickname(s)	Le H.A.C.
Founded	1872
Ground	Stade Jules Deschaseaux (Capacity 16 454)
Chairman	Jean-Pierre Louvel
Manager	Jean Marc Nobilo
League	Ligue 2
2006-07	Ligue 2, 6th
Home colours

Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association or Havre Athletic Club, is a French football club based in Le Havre, founded in 1872 making it the oldest soccer and rugby club registered in France. Football began being played on a regular basis in 1894, so technically FC Mulhouse could be considered the first French football team being established in 1893 (however, they were a German team at the time). Le Havre currently play in Ligue 2 of the French league and their home stadium is Stade Jules Deschaseaux. The club is famous for its notable youth investment program which develops and nurtures young (often local) talent, with the vision of using them in the first team if they show enough promise. A vast amount of good young talent has gone on to make an impact at international level including Ibrahim Ba, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Lassana Diarra and Vikash Dhorasoo. Le Havre is known as 'les ciel et marine' in France, which translates as 'the sky and navy blues'. These colours were chosen by the club's English founders as they were those of their alma maters, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Contents 1 Current squad 2007/2008 1.1 Players out on loan 2 Honours 2.1 Other honours 3 Trivia 4 Notable former players 5 Managerial history 6 References 7 External links

Current squad 2007/2008

No. Position Player 1 GK Christophe Revault 2 DF Maxime Baca 3 DF Nicolas Gillet 4 MF Valery Mezague (on loan from Sochaux) 5 DF Jérémy Henin 6 MF Djamel Ait-Ben-Idir 7 FW Amadou Alassane 8 MF David Martot 9 FW Guillaume Hoarau 11 MF Benjamin Laurant 12 FW Ande Dona Ndoh 13 MF Mutamba Milambo 14 MF Abdellah Kharbouchi 16 GK Johny Placide 17 FW Nikola Nikezić

No. Position Player 18 MF Kévin Anin 19 MF Olivier Davidas 20 MF Antoine Devaux 21 DF Damien Tixier 24 MF Hassan Alla 25 DF Abasse Ba 28 DF Adame Soumaré 29 FW Cheick Oumar Dabo 30 GK Olivier Blondel 33 MF Selim Bouadla 34 DF Benjamin Police 35 MF Mohamed Youssouf 36 DF Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik -- GK Mike Vanhamel DF Kevin Franqueville

Players out on loan

No. Position Player 16 GK Steve Mandanda (to Olympique de Marseille) MF Jean-Michel Lesage (to Auxerre)

Honours

• French Champion USFSA - Champion de France de football USFSA
  • Winners (3): 1899, 1900, 1919
• French Division 2
  • Winners (4): 1938, 1959, 1985, 1991
• Coupe de France (French Cup)
  • Winners (1): 1959

Other honours

• Challenge international du Nord : 1900
• Coupe Nationale : 1918, 1919
• Vice-Champion de France D2 : 1950.
• Champion USFSA Normandie : 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1919.
• Champion DH Normandie : 1920, 1921, 1923, 1926.
• Finalist Coupe de France : 1920.
• Challenge des Champions : 1959.

Trivia

In 1899, Le Havre won the USFSA (Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques) football championship, after winning both of its fixtures (a semifinal against Iris Club Lillois from the north, and the final against Club Français from Paris) by walkover [1]. They would defend the title the next year in more conventional fashion, beating Union Sportive Tourquennoise from Tourcoing 4-0 in their semifinal, and then Club Français 1-0 in the final.

Notable former players

See also: Category:Le Havre AC players

Ibrahim Ba Jean-Alain Boumsong Pascal Chimbonda Alou Diarra Vikash Dhorasoo Lassana Diarra Didier Digard Xavier Gravelaine Guillaume Beuzelin

Michel Hidalgo Anthony Le Tallec Charles N'Zogbia Marinos Ouzounidis Milinko Pantić Christophe Revault Florent Sinama-Pongolle Jean-Christophe Thouvenel Ricky Hill Chris Kiwomya Martin Lambert (??-89) Graham Rix John Byrne (1988-90) Frank Stapleton (1998-99)

Managerial history

George Kimpton 1921-1926 Mac Burgess 1934-1935 Laghlan 1935-1936 Josef "Pépi" Schneider 1936-1939 George Kimpton 1945-1946 Jean Cornelli 1946-1947 Roger Magnin 1948-1949 Jules Bigot 1950-1952 Elek Schwartz 1952-1953 René Bihel 1953-1954 Edmond Delfour 1954-1955 Roger Magnin 1955-1956 Théo Bisson 1956-1957 Lucien Jasseron 1957-1962 Eduardo Di Loreto 1962-1963 Arie Devroedt 1963-1964 Christian Villenave 1964-1966 Max Schirschin 1970-1971 Corlani 1971-1972

Fredo Garel 1972-1973 Léonce Lavagne 1973-1974 Edmond Baraffe 1974-1976 Léonce Lavagne 1976-1982 Yves Herbet 1982-1983 Didier Notheaux 1983-1988 Pierre Mankowski 1988-1993 Guy David 1993-1996 René Exbrayat 1996-1997 Denis Troch 1997-October 1998 Joël Beaujouan October 1998-1999 Francis Smerecki 1999-2000 Joël Beaujouan 2000 Thierry Uvenard, Philippe Sence and Bruno Baronchelli December 2000 Jean-François Domergue December 2000-2004 Philippe Hinschberger 2004-April 2005 Thierry Uvenard April 2005-2007 Jean-Marc Nobilo 2007-

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References

External links

• Official site (French)
• Official supporter's site (French)
• Unofficial site (French)

Ligue 2 • 2007-08 Clubs This box:  •  • edit
Ajaccio • Amiens • Angers • Bastia • Boulogne • Brest • Châteauroux • Clermont Dijon • Grenoble • Gueugnon • Guingamp • Le Havre • Libourne-Saint-Seurin Montpellier • Nantes • Niort • Reims • Sedan • Troyes
Division 2/Ligue 2 Seasons
1933-34 • 1934-35 • 1935-36 • 1936-37 • 1937-38 • 1938-39 • 1945-46 • 1946-47 1947-48 • 1948-49 • 1949-50 • 1950-51 • 1951-52 • 1952-53 • 1953-54 • 1954-55 1955-56 • 1956-57 • 1957-58 • 1958-59 • 1959-60 • 1960-61 • 1961-62 • 1962-63 1963-64 • 1964-65 • 1965-66 • 1966-67 • 1967-68 • 1968-69 • 1969-70 • 1970-71 1971-72 • 1972-73 • 1973-74 • 1974-75 • 1975-76 • 1976-77 • 1977-78 • 1978-79 1979-80 • 1980-81 • 1981-82 • 1982-83 • 1983-84 • 1984-85 • 1985-86 • 1986-87 1987-88 • 1988-89 • 1989-90 • 1990-91 • 1991-92 • 1992-93 • 1993-94 • 1994-95 1995-96 • 1996-97 • 1997-98 • 1998-99 • 1998-99 • 1998-99 • 1999-00 • 2000-01 2001-02 • 2002-03 • 2003-04 • 2004-05 • 2005-06 • 2006-07 • 2007-08
Championnat de France Amateurs — Groupe A • 2007-08 Clubs This box:  •  • edit
Caen (res.) • Compiègne • Dunkerque • Guingamp (res.) • Le Havre (res.) Lens (res.) • Lesquin • Lille (res.) • Pacy-sur-Eure • Plabennec • RCF Paris • Quevilly • Rennes (res.) • Rouen • Valenciennes (res.) • AS Vitré • La Vitréenne FC • Wasquehal