Le Havre AC

Le Havre Athletic Club, commonly known simply as Le Havre, is a French women's football club based in Le Havre, Normandy. Founded in 2015, the club plays its home matches at the Stade Océane in the city. It competes in the Division 1 Féminine as of the 2023–24 season. History At the instigation of the president of the association of Le Havre AC, Jean-Michel Kociszewski, and his management committee, HAC created its own female section in 2010. First, it trained young beginners for a few years, before in 2014 opening its doors to licensed players and registering U11 and U13 teams in formal competition. By 2015, the female section of HAC had 90 players, forming teams in all age categories from U8 to seniors. On 27 September 2015, the senior women's team from Le Havre AC played its first match in official competition on the ground of Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont. On 5 May 2016, Le Havre won the Coupe de Normandie at the expense of ESM Gonfreville l'Orcher. Against the same opponent, the Le Havre team also won the DMF Cup (Maritime Football District). At the beginning of the 2017–18 season, under the leadership of American club president Vincent Volpe, the women's team was reinforced by eight American college players. With these reinforcements, Le Havre achieved an almost perfect Regional 1 championship with 22 wins with one a draw (against AG Caen), with 146 goals scored and only seven conceded. In February 2018, Le Havre AC managed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the French Women's Cup. At the end of the season, the HAC played two rounds of play-offs, during which they defeated Amien SC (women) (1–0, 4–0) then Nice (2–2, 1–0) to secure promotion into Division 2 for the first time.