Le Havre AC
| Le Havre AC, Le HAC | |||
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| Surname | Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association |
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| Seat | Le Havre | ||
| founding | 1872 | ||
| president | Jean-Pierre Louvel | ||
| Website | www.hac-foot.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Oswald Tanchot | ||
| Venue | Stade Océane | ||
| Places | 25.178 | ||
| league | Ligue 2 | ||
| 2019/20 | 6th place | ||
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Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association ( Le Havre AC or Le HAC for short ) is one of the oldest French football clubs from the port city of Le Havre in the Seine-Maritime department .
The club colors have been light and dark blue since 1891, which were intended as an homage to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the football and rugby motherland of England, from which most of the active players of the HAC came until 1897. The league team played at the Stade Jules Deschaseaux until the summer of 2012 , which has a capacity of 16,340 seats and in 1970 replaced the Stade de la Cavée Verte , which was built in 1914 . Since the 2012/13 season, Le HAC has been based in the newly built Stade Océane with 25,178 seats.
France's oldest football club?
Whether the HAC - as often read - is actually the oldest club in the country is disputed. Although the club was founded in 1872, there are no unequivocal sources about this event and the association football division (FA) was not established until 1892 (according to other sources, 1894 , when the first HAC game was played with a round ball); thus Standard AC Paris could also be entitled to the title of the oldest French football club. Nevertheless, Le Havre is definitely an absolute veteran in football on the other side of the Rhine, even if he should have played the rugby version of the game before 1892 .
Much more information on this subject can be found in the corresponding article in the French Wikipédia.
Logo history
1970s
1980s
1990s
current
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League affiliation
First class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) played the club 1938–1943, 1944–1947, 1950–1954, 1959–1962, 1985–1988, 1991–2000, 2002/03 and 2008/09.
successes
- French champions : the best ranking so far was table rank 3 (1950/51); In addition, Le Havre AC was three times (1899, 1900, 1919) national champion ( Championnat de France ) of the oldest association USFSA in the early years
- French cup winner : 1959 (and finalist 1920 )
- French Supercup ( Challenge des Champions ): 1959
For the club important players in the past
French national team
The number of internationals for Le Havre AC and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets
- Robert Accard (4, 1922–1926, scored one goal)
- René Bihel (1, 1947, scored one goal) previously five more internationals for another club
- Julien Bure (1, 1925)
- Yvon Douis (4, 1959–1961) before and after eight more internationals each, u. a. at the 1958 World Cup , for two other clubs
- Raymond Frémont (1, 1919)
- Georges Houyvet (1, 1932)
- Bernard Lenoble (2, 1924)
- Pierre Ranzoni (1, 1950) previously played another international match for another club
- Albert Rénier (4, 1920-1924)
- Marceau Stricanne (1, 1951)
- Charles Wilkes (4, 1905-1908)
Other
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3
