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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2027-28 Season Review: Ligue 1 Ou Rien?After last year’s highest ever Ligue 1 finish for Le Havre and a Champions League Final against Chelsea, it was time to see how far this side that I have put together could go. It feels like most of the pieces of the puzzle are there now, we just need…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2026-27 Season ReviewAfter a tremendous season in Europe last year with lifting the Europa League, albeit with one to forget in Ligue 1, I was keen to continue the 4-2-3-1 formation. As a team, we are full of more skilled, technical players with pace and stamina to play a pressing style of…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2025-26 Season ReviewTransfer Update & Amortisation Knowing full well that Manchester United were not going to continually agree to the renewal of Hannibal’s loan, I’d already sought out his replacement in Cüneyt Gür last year. However, when Borussia Dortmund came in for the midfield orchestrator, he was understandably keen to leave to…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2024-25 Season ReviewThe 2024-25 season was a very successful one, relatively speaking. After achieving European football through league finish last season, we managed the same feat again with the latest campaign, improving our finish from 6th to 4th – as a result going through to the Europa League in 2025-26. With only…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2023-24 Season ReviewThe previous post, released some time ago now thanks to the impact of workload in real life, hinted at the prospect of European football for Le Havre. In the very next season, so it came to pass – we qualified for the UEFA Europa Conference League. The clubs first foray…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2022-23: Sailing out to a European waters?The 2022-33 season saw us fall into an initial slump, with poor results against our opponents in the opening fixtures, seeing four defeats in the first seven games and only two wins. This form saw us sat in 15th. Only after around nine games did we find our rhythm. Reducing…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2021-22 Season ReviewHAC Foot – Safe Haven in Ligue 1 The winter break saw HAC Foot in 8th place and it is there that we finished in our first campaign in Ligue 1. Quite some effort for a team expecting to be relegated back from whence we came. The second half of…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre 2021-22 Mid-Season Update
HAC Foot Steps Having been promoted to Ligue 1 ahead of schedule, and having spent only around £4m in improving the squad, the bookmakers had us in the bottom five of the league after we made our additions to the squad. The Board and the players weren’t holding out too…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre 2020-21 – La joie de vivre
Ligue 2 – Fais toujours de ton mieux même si personne ne regarde After the change in formation to the 433DM Wide, rolling goals against, i.e. average goals conceded over a rolling period of 10 games, plummeted to well below 0.5 goals per game. In part, it was this up-tick…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – Youth Intake 2020-21Youth Intake 2021 – A golden generation…? As you see from the image below, there appears to be at least one incredible stand out player from this year’s youth intake. Sébastien Briand is a versatile, tough 15-year-old who looks set for the big time, if not with HAC Foot, then…
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