Violette AC

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Association football club in Haiti

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Violette Athletic Club is a professional football club based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

History

Violette is one of the most successful clubs in the country. In 1939, Violette A.C. captured the double after winning the league and the Coupe d'Haïti. They were awarded the 1984 CONCACAF Champions' Cup following the disqualification of two teams who had been planned to play a two-legged series to determine the North American participant in the final. The club was relegated to second division after the 2016 Ligue Haïtienne season.

The club has produced many Haitian international footballers, including Alexandre Boucicaut and Sebastien Vorbe. Their home stadium, Stade Sylvio Cator, was damaged during the 2010 earthquake and later reopened for use.

Violette won the 2021 Série d'Ouverture and qualified for the 2022 Caribbean Club Championship, which they won while playing all of their home matches at Estadio Cibao FC in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, due to the ongoing political crisis. They qualified for the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League and scheduled several friendlies to prepare for the competition, as the Ligue Haïtienne had suspended operations for the 2022 season. Violette earned an upset 3–0 victory over Austin FC, a Major League Soccer club from the United States, in the Round of 16's first leg in the Dominican Republic. Due to issues obtaining enough travel visas for the second leg in the United States, Violette temporarily signed several players from the lower leagues of U.S. soccer to serve as bench players. The team arrived in the United States with 14 total players—avoiding a forfeit—and lost 2–0 to retain their 3–2 aggregate lead and advance to the quarterfinals.

Honours

International competitions

Crests

File:Violette AC (original).svg|The original Violette AC crest (1918–??) File:Violette AC (old).png|The former Violette AC crest (???–2014). A slight modification of the original crest from light blue to blue and the words Honneur and Fair-Play added. File:Violette AC 2.png|The current Violette AC crest (2014–present)

Current squad

List of coaches

References

References

  1. "Welt Fussball Archiv: Violette AC".
  2. "Haiti Reference: Le Football Haitien: Équipes et Clubs".
  3. "Haiti: Championnat National D1 2014".
  4. (26 October 2014). "CWC Final: All-Time Results & Scorers". CONCACAF.
  5. (3 February 2016). "Démission imminente du président du Violette". Le National.
  6. Lubin, Marshall. (10 March 1985). "U.S. Soccer Alive and Well, a Visitor Assures". [[Newsday]].
  7. "RSSSF – Haiti 2016".
  8. Maas, Jimmy. (7 March 2023). "For Haitian team playing Austin FC in the Champions League, the bigger challenge is off the pitch". [[KUT]].
  9. Kloke, Joshua. (13 March 2023). "From violence to visas, Violette AC has overcome a lot to represent Haiti in CONCACAF Champions League". [[The Athletic]].
  10. Gordon, Colby. (7 March 2023). "Buoyed by win, Austin FC hopes to catch on with CONCACAF Champions League, too". [[Austin American-Statesman]].
  11. Sigal, Jonathan. (7 March 2023). "CCL shocker: Austin FC upset by Haiti's Violette AC in Round of 16". MLSsoccer.com.
  12. Gates, Billy. (13 March 2023). "Austin FC opponent signs 4 players for 2nd leg of CONCACAF Champions League 1st round after visa denials: report". [[KXAN-TV.
  13. Avila, Edoardo. (14 March 2023). "Violette AC hace "fichajes" de última hora, por falta de visas, y para jugar Concachampions". [[Marca (newspaper).
  14. Sigal, Jonathan. (14 March 2023). "Austin FC can't "right the wrong" in historic CCL upset to Haiti's Violette AC". MLSsoccer.com.

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