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Le Havre Athletic Club
Logo
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
Team colours Team colours Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
 
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.

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Current squad 2007/2008

No. Position Player
1 Flag of France GK Christophe Revault
2 Flag of France DF Maxime Baca
3 Flag of France DF Nicolas Gillet
4 Flag of Cameroon MF Valery Mezague (on loan from Sochaux)
5 Flag of France DF Jérémy Henin
6 Flag of France MF Djamel Ait-Ben-Idir
7 Flag of France FW Amadou Alassane
8 Flag of France MF David Martot
9 Flag of Réunion FW Guillaume Hoarau
11 Flag of France MF Benjamin Laurant
12 Flag of Cameroon FW Ande Dona Ndoh
13 Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo MF Mutamba Milambo
14 Flag of Morocco MF Abdellah Kharbouchi
16 Flag of France GK Johny Placide
17 Flag of Montenegro FW Nikola Nikezić
No. Position Player
18 Flag of France MF Kévin Anin
19 Flag of France MF Olivier Davidas
20 Flag of France MF Antoine Devaux
21 Flag of France DF Damien Tixier
24 Flag of Morocco MF Hassan Alla
25 Flag of Senegal DF Abasse Ba
28 Flag of France DF Adame Soumaré
29 Flag of Mali FW Cheick Oumar Dabo
30 Flag of France GK Olivier Blondel
33 Flag of France MF Selim Bouadla
34 Flag of France DF Benjamin Police
35 Flag of Réunion MF Mohamed Youssouf
36 Flag of Cameroon DF Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik
-- Flag of Belgium GK Mike Vanhamel
Flag of France DF Kevin Franqueville

Players out on loan

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

Honours

former logo
former logo

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

Managerial history

  • Flag of England George Kimpton 1921-1926
  • Flag of England Mac Burgess 1934-1935
  • Flag of England Laghlan 1935-1936
  • Flag of Austria Josef "Pépi" Schneider 1936-1939
  • Flag of England George Kimpton 1945-1946
  • Flag of France Jean Cornelli 1946-1947
  • Flag of France Roger Magnin 1948-1949
  • Flag of France Jules Bigot 1950-1952
  • Flag of Romania Elek Schwartz 1952-1953
  • Flag of France René Bihel 1953-1954
  • Flag of France Edmond Delfour 1954-1955
  • Flag of France Roger Magnin 1955-1956
  • Flag of France Théo Bisson 1956-1957
  • Flag of France Lucien Jasseron 1957-1962
  • Flag of Argentina Eduardo Di Loreto 1962-1963
  • Flag of Europe Arie Devroedt 1963-1964
  • Flag of France Christian Villenave 1964-1966
  • Flag of Poland Max Schirschin 1970-1971
  • Flag of France Corlani 1971-1972
  • Flag of France Fredo Garel 1972-1973
  • Flag of France Léonce Lavagne 1973-1974
  • Flag of France Edmond Baraffe 1974-1976
  • Flag of France Léonce Lavagne 1976-1982
  • Flag of France Yves Herbet 1982-1983
  • Flag of France Didier Notheaux 1983-1988
  • Flag of France Pierre Mankowski 1988-1993
  • Flag of France Guy David 1993-1996
  • Flag of France René Exbrayat 1996-1997
  • Flag of France Denis Troch 1997-October 1998
  • Flag of France Joël Beaujouan October 1998-1999
  • Flag of France Francis Smerecki 1999-2000
  • Flag of France Joël Beaujouan 2000
  • Flag of France Thierry Uvenard, Philippe Sence and Bruno Baronchelli December 2000
  • Flag of France Jean-François Domergue December 2000-2004
  • Flag of France Philippe Hinschberger 2004-April 2005
  • Flag of France Thierry Uvenard April 2005-2007
  • Flag of France Jean-Marc Nobilo 2007-

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