2026/2027 season

Ligue 1

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Havre AC
Head coach: Didier Digard · 3-4-3
Rank
18th
Pts
2
P
6
Form
🟠 Poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
1/10
Attack
6/10
Defence
1/10
Form
3/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Low

18th with 2 pts from 6 matches: 0 wins, 2 draws, 4 defeats.

4 goals scored, 8 conceded.

However, the HAC denounced Lille's behaviour, which hopes to obtain a sanction from the FFF or the LFP against the havres environment.

RMC Sport — Ligue 1 · 12 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Red lantern with 2 points, Le Havre has still not been successful in Ligue 1 in six matches. While the Norman club was not rewarded during the meetings, it also pays certain offensive limits. Statistical lighting.

L'Équipe · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

After the OLSC's anger, the Arbitration Directorate gave its analysis of the contact that occurred on Saturday during the Lille victory over Le Havre (1-0). She dismissed Amir Richardson's gross fault, but admitted that a sanction had been justified.

L'Équipe · 13 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Following the referral of the FFF and the LFP by the LOSC, which challenges the lack of sanction against Amir Richardson, Le Havre reaffirmed its support for Tiago Santos and defended the arbitral award.

L'Équipe · 12 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Lille OSC (A) · 0-1
Lvs Toulouse FC (A) · 2-3
Dvs Angers SCO (H) · 0-0
Lvs Stade Brestois 29 (H) · 1-2
Dvs Olympique Lyonnais (A) · 1-1
DDLLLL
4 scored / 8 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
0W - 1D - 2L
Away form
0W - 1D - 2L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
0.8
Goals conceded per match
1.4
At home
1 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches
Away
3 scored · 5 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
2 of 5
Both teams score
3 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
2 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Havre AC play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
3-4-3
Philosophy
Compact low block, quick transitions through the wing-backs (Zouaoui, Ebonog/Richardson).
Attacking strengths
Ineffective in the 1st match, no goals scored.
Defensive solidity
Only 1 goal conceded against Monaco, the defence not completely overrun despite the defeat.
Pressing
Low, a deliberately defensive orientation.
Transitions
Quick down the flanks through the wing-backs of the 3-4-3.
StrengthContinuity of the staff (Digard extended for a 3rd consecutive season), rare stability in a season marked by heavy turnover elsewhere.
WeaknessLimited squad depth in attack, several absences up front.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
The point taken at Lyon vindicated the choice of continuity, the only club in the bottom half to have kept its head coach this summer. Didier Digard built his week around hosting Brest, the first home match since the defeat to Monaco. The context is that of a deeply renewed dressing room, where the armband has changed hands and where a 17-year-old academy graduate has just made his Ligue 1 debut. HAC are moving forward without fanfare, but with a clear structure, now run on the sporting side by Demba Ba.
Coach / players / board relationship
The relationship between Digard and his board is one of the most stable in Ligue 1: a third consecutive season in charge, with no questioning after an average start. Demba Ba, director of football, publicly owns the window's outcome, including its failures, such as the collapsed deal for defender Moussa Diarra. The choice of Rassoul Ndiaye as captain, explained in detail by the head coach, shows considered, reasoned management of the dressing room. The club also settled the goalkeeping hierarchy at the start of the season without conflict.
Mood with the supporters
The club has put resources into turning Brest's visit into a family event: an activity village from 19:00, scarf cannons, a mascot, a U13 challenge at half-time, an enlarged and refurbished store open from 11:00. Access arrangements have been strengthened with free shuttles from eight points in the city, several bus routes and 150 bicycle parking spaces. Local emotion is also sustained by the story of Djibril Ouziad, a Le Havre native from the Pépinières district who has turned professional. The stadium, renamed the Stade CMA CGM Océane in the club's communications, will host PSG on 30 October.
Pressure on the head coach
It remains very low. Digard has been given a new contract, his methods are not disputed and HAC took a point at Lyon with a reshaped squad. The club has also locked down its sporting structure around Demba Ba, which protects the head coach from turbulence. It would take a long poor run for the subject to arise.
Club objectives
Survival remains the target, with an openly stated method: a compact low block, transitions through the wing-backs and getting value from the academy's youngsters. Djibril Ouziad's contract until 2030 and the season's fourth women's professional contract, Luna Laboucarié's, illustrate that direction. The club has also secured its off-pitch revenue, with a naming partnership visible in the Stade CMA CGM Océane title. In the short term, it is about finally winning at home, against Brest.
Recent internal tensions
No tension reported. The summer's only delicate matter, Mory Diaw's demotion in the goalkeeping hierarchy, was handled publicly and without conflict by Didier Digard.
Absences
InjuredYanis Zouaoui — With a hamstring problem, he is announced as out for around a month, which forced Didier Digard to change his eleven.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Havre AC — AJ Auxerre

At homeSunday 18 October at 17:15Matchday 7
It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateHavre AC — AJ Auxerre
48 %
1 · Havre AC
25 %
X · draw
27 %
2 · AJ Auxerre
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Havre AC, 6 matches by AJ Auxerre. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 170 goals scored over 116 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.47 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Havre AC — attack4 in 6 matches0.450.73
    Havre AC — defence8 in 6 matches0.910.95
    AJ Auxerre — attack8 in 6 matches0.910.95
    AJ Auxerre — defence16 in 6 matches1.821.41
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Havre AC and 0.50 for AJ Auxerre. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.61 goal scored on average by the host against 1.30 by the visitor, over the 46 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.24; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.42, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.10. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Havre AC at home: 0.33 pts/match versus 0.33 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
    AJ Auxerre away: 0.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 3 matches → ×0.880
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λHavre AC = 1.47 × 0.73 × 1.41 × 1.10 × 1.000 = 1.65
    λAJ Auxerre = 1.47 × 0.95 × 0.95 × 0.880 = 1.18
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 48.4%, draw 24.4%, away win 27.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 11.5%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Paul Argney
  • Lionel Mpasi
  • Gauthier Gallon
Defenders
  • Ahmed Touba
  • Elias Jelert
  • Fodé Doucouré
  • Ayumu Seko
  • Vincent Sasso
  • Timothée Pembélé
  • Stephan Zagadou
Midfielders
  • Amir Richardson
  • Junior Mwanga
  • Rassoul NdiayeC
  • Kaito Mizuta
  • Mathéo Bodmer
  • Guy-Noël Zohouri
  • Simon Ebonog
  • Ismaïl Bouneb
  • Daren Mosengo
  • Abdoulaye Touré
Forwards
  • Sota Nakamura
  • Josh Maja
  • Felix Mambimbi
  • Godson Kyeremeh
  • Joan Tincrès
  • Ally Samatta
  • Enzo Koffi
Squad last verified on 30 Aug 2026 — source: hac.football (official website); captain confirmed by wiwsport.com (21/08/2026).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss16 Oct 2026
Does Le Havre deserve to be last? What stats say
Source: L'Équipe
rss13 Oct 2026
Amir Richardson should have been warned about his intervention on Tiago Santos during Lille-Le Havre according to the Arbitration Directorate
Source: L'Équipe
rss12 Oct 2026
Le Havre renews its "genuine support" to Tiago Santos but "questions" about "the Losc initiative"
Source: RMC Sport
rss12 Oct 2026
Le Havre responds to Lille after Tiago Santos injury
Source: L'Équipe
rss12 Oct 2026
LOSC : Le Havre comes out of silence after Tiago Santos injury
Source: Foot Mercato
rss10 Oct 2026
LOSC 1-0 Le Havre: "The game tonight? Everything wasn't perfect..." admits Bentaleb
Source: RMC Sport
Club2 Sep 2026
Djibril Ouziad, a 17-year-old left-back born in Le Havre and developed at the club since he was ten, has signed his first professional contract until 2030 and will wear number 20; he made his Ligue 1 debut on 29 August at Lyon.
Source: Site officiel du Havre AC
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Demba Ba, the club's director of football, reviewed Le Havre's window on the “100% HAC” podcast, discussing Djibril Ouziad's first professional contract, the regrets around the deal for defender Moussa Diarra and the versatile profile of attacking signing Rayan Fofana.
Source: Foot Normand
Institutional2 Sep 2026
HAC's stadium is now referred to as the Stade CMA CGM Océane in the club's official communications, which announced that it will host Paris Saint-Germain there on Friday 30 October 2026, live on Ligue 1+.
Source: Site officiel du Havre AC
Supporters2 Sep 2026
For Stade Brestois's visit (kick-off at 20:45), the club has set out a full package: an activity village open from 19:00 with inflatables, football-bowling and a DJ, scarf cannons, a U13 challenge at half-time, an enlarged and refurbished store open from 11:00, free shuttles from eight points in the city and 150 bicycle parking spaces.
Source: Site officiel du Havre AC
Contract2 Sep 2026
Forward Luna Laboucarié, who arrived from Le Mans four years ago at 15 and is already a France U16, U17 and U18 international, has signed her first professional contract; she is the fourth player from Le Havre's academy to do so this season.
Source: Site officiel du Havre AC
Institutional2 Sep 2026
The LFP has scheduled matchday 9: HAC will host Paris Saint-Germain on Friday 30 October at 19:00, opening the matchday.
Source: Alsa'Sports
Transfers31 Aug 2026
Rayan Fofana was confirmed at Havre AC on the eve of the window closing, in a summer in which the club registered twelve arrivals and eleven departures.
Source: Foot Mercato
Result29 Aug 2026
Le Havre took a point from the Groupama Stadium by holding Olympique Lyonnais to a 1-1 draw on matchday 2.
Source: Foot01
Transfers27 Aug 2026
Left-sided defender Ahmed Touba has arrived on loan from Panathinaikos, an arrival welcomed by Didier Digard as “good news” for the rebuilding of Le Havre's defence.
Source: Foot Normand
Injury27 Aug 2026
Three Le Havre players are currently injured: full-back Yanis Zouaoui (out for around a month), Stephan Zagadou (cruciate ligament rupture) and Félix Mambimbi (Achilles tendon rupture).
Source: Olympique-et-Lyonnais.com
News last verified on 16 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.