Le Havre

Le Havre is a football (soccer) club from France.

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Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association or Havre Athletic Club, is a French football, originally an athletics and rugby club based in Le Havre, founded in 1872 making it the oldest football and rugby club registered in France.

The football team made an immediate return to Ligue 2 after being relegated from Ligue 1 in the 2008-09 season.

History

Football began being played on a regular basis in 1894 in football (soccer), 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.

In 1899, Le Havre became the first club from outside Paris to become French football champions. At the time the championship was organised by the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques. After defeating Iris Club Lillois in the semi-final, they were awarded the title after receiving a walkover in the final .

Le Havre is famous for its notable Youth system 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 Le Havre's English founders as they were those of their alma maters, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

As of July 12 2009

Out on loan

Junior Squad

Honours

- French football champions
- - Winners: 1899, 1900, 1919 3
- Ligue 2
- - Winners: 1938, 1959, 1985, 1991, 2008 5
- - Runners Up: 1950 1
- Coupe de France
- - Winners: 1959 1
- - Runners Up: 1920 1
- Challenge international du Nord
- - Winners: 1900 1
- Coupe Nationale
- - Winners: 1918, 1919 2
- Normandy Champions
- - Winners: 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1926 13
- Challenge des Champions
- - Winners: 1959 1