Haiti at the FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the World Cup Finals). The qualification phase, which currently take place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup Finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.[1]

Haiti have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on one occasion in 1974.[2]

Before Haiti ever qualified for a major soccer tournament, a Haitian player earned some notable World Cup glory. Joe Gaetjens, who has been playing for a New York-based club for several years at the time, represented the United States at the 1950 World Cup and scored the winning goal in a legendary 1–0 victory over England.

Record at the FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1930	Did not enter
1934	Did not qualify
1938	Did not enter
1950	Did not enter
1954	Did not qualify
1958	Did not enter
1962
1966
1970	Did not qualify
1974	Group stage	15th	3	0	0	3	2	14
1978	Did not qualify
1982
1986
1990	Did not enter
1994	Did not qualify
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022	To be determined
2026	To be determined
Total	Group stage	1/21	3	0	0	3	2	14

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks

By match

World Cup	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Venue	Scorers
1974	Group stage	Italy	1–3	L	Munich	E. Sanon
		Poland	0–7	L	Munich	—
		Argentina	1–4	L	Munich	E. Sanon

Record by opponent

FIFA World Cup matches (by team)
Opponent	Wins	Draws	Losses	Total	Goals Scored	Goals Conceded
Argentina	0	0	1	1	1	4
Italy	0	0	1	1	1	3
Poland	0	0	1	1	0	7

Haiti at the 1974 World Cup

Squad

Head coach: Antoine Tassy

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Henri Françillon	(1946-05-26)26 May 1946 (aged 28)	Victory SC
2	1GK	Wilner Piquant	(1949-10-12)12 October 1949 (aged 24)	Violette
3	2DF	Arsène Auguste	(1951-02-03)3 February 1951 (aged 23)	Racing Club Haïtien
4	2DF	Fritz André	(1946-09-18)18 September 1946 (aged 27)	Violette
5	2DF	Serge Ducosté	(1944-02-04)4 February 1944 (aged 30)	Aigle Noir AC
6	2DF	Pierre Bayonne	(1949-06-11)11 June 1949 (aged 25)	Violette
7	3MF	Philippe Vorbe	(1947-09-14)14 September 1947 (aged 26)	Violette
8	3MF	Jean-Claude Désir	(1946-08-08)8 August 1946 (aged 27)	Aigle Noir AC
9	3MF	Eddy Antoine	(1949-08-27)27 August 1949 (aged 24)	Racing Club Haïtien
10	3MF	Guy François	(1947-09-18)18 September 1947 (aged 26)	Violette
11	4FW	Guy Saint-Vil	(1942-10-21)21 October 1942 (aged 31)	Racing Club Haïtien
12	3MF	Ernst Jean-Joseph	(1948-06-11)11 June 1948 (aged 26)	Violette
13	2DF	Serge Racine	(1951-10-09)9 October 1951 (aged 22)	Aigle Noir AC
14	2DF	Wilner Nazaire	(1950-03-30)30 March 1950 (aged 24)	Valenciennes
15	4FW	Roger Saint-Vil	(1949-12-08)8 December 1949 (aged 24)	Archibald FC
16	4FW	Fritz Leandré	(1948-03-13)13 March 1948 (aged 26)	Racing Club Haïtien
17	3MF	Joseph-Marion Leandré	(1945-05-09)9 May 1945 (aged 29)	Racing Club Haïtien
18	4FW	Claude Barthélemy	(1945-05-09)9 May 1945 (aged 29)	Racing Club Haïtien
19	2DF	Jean-Herbert Austin	(1950-02-23)23 February 1950 (aged 24)	Violette
20	4FW	Emmanuel Sanon	(1951-06-25)25 June 1951 (aged 22)	Don Bosco
21	2DF	Wilfried Louis	(1949-10-25)25 October 1949 (aged 24)	Don Bosco
22	1GK	Gérard Joseph	(1949-10-22)22 October 1949 (aged 24)	Racing Club Haïtien

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	3	0	0	12	3	+9	6
Argentina	3	1	1	1	7	5	+2	3
Italy	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
Haiti	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

15 June 1974

18:00 CET

Italy	3 – 1	Haiti
Rivera 52' Benetti 64' Anastasi 78'	Report	Sanon 46'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 51,100

Referee: Vicente Llobregat (Venezuela)

19 June 1974

19:30 CET

Haiti	0 – 7	Poland
	Report	Lato 17', 87' Deyna 18' Szarmach 30', 34', 50' Gorgoń 31'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 23,400

Referee: Govindasamay Suppiah (Singapore)

23 June 1974

16:00 CET

Argentina	4 – 1	Haiti
Yazalde 15', 68' Houseman 18' Ayala 55'	Report	Sanon 63'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 24,000

Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)

Record players

Seven players have been fielded in all three of Haiti's matches at the 1974 World Cup, making them record World Cup players for their country:

No.	Name	Matches
1	Eddy Antoine	3
	Pierre Bayonne	3
	Jean-Claude Désir	3
	Henri Françillon	3
	Wilner Nazaire	3
	Emmanuel Sanon	3
	Philippe Vorbe	3

Top goalscorers

Both Haitian goals in FIFA World Cup history were scored by Emmanuel Sanon in 1974.

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References

2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.
"World Cup: 25 stunning moments ... No12: Haiti stun Dino Zoff's Italy". Guardian. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

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[2006coverage-1] 2006 FIFA World Cup TV Coverage (PDF), FIFA.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2007.

[2] "World Cup: 25 stunning moments ... No12: Haiti stun Dino Zoff's Italy". Guardian. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

Haiti national football team
General	Haitian Football Federation History Staff Managers
Stadium	Stade Sylvio Cator
Statistics	Competitive record FIFA World Cup CONCACAF Gold Cup Copa América Honors Results and fixtures
Matches	Kosovo 0–0 Haiti (2014) 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying play-off (2017)
Other tournaments	Pan American Games Caribbean Cup Central American and Caribbean Games
Other teams	Men's U-23 U-20 U-17 U-15 Women's U-20 U-17 Futsal Beach soccer

Countries at the FIFA World Cup
Team appearances All-time table
AFC	Australia² China Indonesia¹ Iran Iraq Japan Kuwait North Korea Qatar Saudi Arabia South Korea United Arab Emirates
CAF	Algeria Angola Cameroon DR Congo¹ Egypt Ghana Ivory Coast Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Tunisia
CONCACAF	Canada Costa Rica Cuba El Salvador Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Trinidad and Tobago United States
CONMEBOL	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay
OFC	New Zealand
UEFA	Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic¹ Denmark East Germany³ England France Germany¹ Greece Hungary Iceland Israel² Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia¹ Scotland Serbia¹ Slovakia¹ Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
¹ Considered a successor team by FIFA, or have competed under another name(s). ² Have been member of multiple confederations. ³ Team and national federation no longer exist.