{"source":"https://ayiti2026.com","generatedAt":"2026-07-22T04:34:45.505Z","locale":"en","urls":{"ht":"https://ayiti2026.com/ht/stories","en":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories","fr":"https://ayiti2026.com/fr/stories"},"copy":{"title":"Haitian football stories","intro":"Major chapters told through the matches, players, clubs, venues and sources already on the site.","eyebrow":"Stories","updatedLabel":"Updated from the data currently on the site","allStories":"All stories","atGlance":"At a glance","facts":"Key points","keepGoing":"Keep going","sources":"Sources","stories":"Stories","storyList":"Story list","storyCount":"Stories","pages":"Linked pages"},"count":6,"stories":[{"slug":"haiti-2026-world-cup-return","title":"The 2026 return","eyebrow":"Stories","period":"2026","summary":"After 52 years, Haiti returned to the World Cup. This page brings together the 3 matches, the 26-player squad and the next links to follow.","body":["The return was not just a schedule. It was a chapter for a country that had waited since 1974 to see Les Grenadiers back on the men's world stage.","Haiti did not get out of the group, but the matches, goals, players and sources remain together so the campaign can be read clearly.","This page points to the matches, squad, team page and player records so the 2026 return stays connected to the rest of Haitian football history."],"facts":[{"label":"Matches","value":"3"},{"label":"Squad","value":"26"},{"label":"Since","value":"1974"}],"links":[{"label":"2026 hub","href":"/world-cup-2026","kind":"Hub"},{"label":"2026 matches","href":"/world-cup-2026/matches","kind":"Matches"},{"label":"2026 squad","href":"/world-cup-2026/squad","kind":"Squad"},{"label":"Haiti","href":"/team/haiti-men-senior","kind":"Team"}],"sources":[{"title":"Haiti shine bright with World Cup qualification","publisher":"FIFA","href":"/source/fifa-haiti-qualify-2026"}],"href":"/en/stories/haiti-2026-world-cup-return","url":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories/haiti-2026-world-cup-return"},{"slug":"haiti-1974-world-cup","title":"1974: the first World Cup","eyebrow":"Stories","period":"1974","summary":"Haiti played 3 matches in West Germany, with Emmanuel Sanon's 2 goals still central to the memory of Haitian football.","body":["1974 was the first global door opened by Haiti's men's football team. Sanon scored against Italy, a moment remembered because it ended Dino Zoff's long shutout run.","But the chapter is bigger than one goal. It includes the team, coach, opponents, venues and sources that let people check what happened.","We connect 1974 to the players, matches and golden era so a generation is not reduced to one sentence."],"facts":[{"label":"Matches","value":"3"},{"label":"Haiti goals","value":"2"},{"label":"Key player","value":"Emmanuel Sanon"}],"links":[{"label":"1974 FIFA World Cup","href":"/competition/world-cup-1974","kind":"Competition"},{"label":"Emmanuel Sanon","href":"/player/emmanuel-sanon","kind":"Player"},{"label":"The golden era","href":"/era/golden-era","kind":"Era"}],"sources":[{"title":"FIFA World Cup 1974 — Haiti record","publisher":"FIFA","href":"/source/fifa-wc-1974-haiti"}],"href":"/en/stories/haiti-1974-world-cup","url":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories/haiti-1974-world-cup"},{"slug":"grenadieres-2023-world-cup","title":"Les Grenadières reach the world stage","eyebrow":"Stories","period":"2023","summary":"Haiti's women reached their first World Cup in 2023. The site already connects 3 matches and 14 listed players.","body":["The 2023 chapter widens the Haitian football record. Les Grenadières are not a footnote; they are part of the memory on equal terms.","The matches show how the team entered the tournament, with players such as Melchie Dumornay, Nérilia Mondésir and Kerly Théus already connected to their pages.","This story is a doorway into the women's team, the competition and the player records."],"facts":[{"label":"Matches","value":"3"},{"label":"Listed players","value":"14"},{"label":"First time","value":"2023"}],"links":[{"label":"2023 FIFA Women's World Cup","href":"/competition/womens-world-cup-2023","kind":"Competition"},{"label":"Les Grenadières","href":"/women","kind":"Team"},{"label":"Melchie Dumornay","href":"/player/melchie-dumornay","kind":"Player"}],"sources":[{"title":"FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 — Haiti record","publisher":"FIFA","href":"/source/fifa-wwc-2023-haiti"}],"href":"/en/stories/grenadieres-2023-world-cup","url":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories/grenadieres-2023-world-cup"},{"slug":"football-in-haiti-club-game","title":"Club football in Haiti","eyebrow":"Stories","period":"D1 / D2 / D3","summary":"The domestic football record already connects 35 clubs, 40 D1 seasons and 18 title-winning clubs.","body":["Haitian football cannot be only the national team. Clubs, cities, divisions and champion seasons are where many stories begin.","We keep D1, D2, D3, licensed clubs, special championships and seasons that were not held in the same record so crisis does not erase memory.","This page points to the clubs, D1 seasons, champions list and football cities."],"facts":[{"label":"Clubs","value":"35"},{"label":"D1 seasons","value":"40"},{"label":"Title clubs","value":"18"}],"links":[{"label":"Football in Haiti","href":"/haiti-football","kind":"Hub"},{"label":"Clubs","href":"/clubs","kind":"Clubs"},{"label":"D1 champions","href":"/haiti-football/champions","kind":"Seasons"},{"label":"D1 Ligue Haitienne","href":"/division/d1-ligue-haitienne","kind":"Division"}],"sources":[{"title":"Haiti — List of Champions","publisher":"RSSSF","href":"/source/rsssf-haiti-champions"},{"title":"34 football clubs licensed for the 2024-2025 season","publisher":"iciHaiti","href":"/source/icihaiti-club-licenses-2024"}],"href":"/en/stories/football-in-haiti-club-game","url":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories/football-in-haiti-club-game"},{"slug":"haiti-diaspora-footballers","title":"The diaspora on the pitch","eyebrow":"Stories","period":"2020s","summary":"11 foreign-born players are already listed as Haiti players, across 4 birth countries.","body":["Haitian football lives at home and in the diaspora. Some players were born elsewhere but wear Haiti's shirt in important moments.","The diaspora pages are not there to separate people. They show pathways: birth countries, teams, caps, goals and links back to Haiti.","This chapter connects players such as Wilson Isidor and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde to the wider movement of Haitian football."],"facts":[{"label":"Players","value":"11"},{"label":"Countries","value":"4"},{"label":"Pages","value":"By birth country"}],"links":[{"label":"Diaspora","href":"/diaspora","kind":"Hub"},{"label":"France","href":"/diaspora/country/france","kind":"Country"},{"label":"Wilson Isidor","href":"/player/wilson-isidor","kind":"Player"},{"label":"Jean-Ricner Bellegarde","href":"/player/jean-ricner-bellegarde","kind":"Player"}],"sources":[{"title":"FIFA association profile — Haiti","publisher":"FIFA","href":"/source/fifa-haiti-association"}],"href":"/en/stories/haiti-diaspora-footballers","url":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories/haiti-diaspora-footballers"},{"slug":"stade-sylvio-cator","title":"Stade Sylvio Cator","eyebrow":"Stories","period":"1953-","summary":"The stadium is Haitian football's symbolic home. On the site it connects to 0 matches, including 0 Haiti matches.","body":["Stade Sylvio Cator carries a lot of memory: national matches, major nights in Port-au-Prince, and the wounds of the crisis that forced the team away from home.","To understand Haitian football, the grounds matter too. The stadium is not scenery; it is part of the story.","This chapter links the stadium to Haiti's team, the FHF, the eras and the matches already listed."],"facts":[{"label":"Listed matches","value":"0"},{"label":"Haiti matches","value":"0"},{"label":"City","value":"Port-au-Prince"}],"links":[{"label":"Stade Sylvio Cator","href":"/venue/stade-sylvio-cator","kind":"Venue"},{"label":"Stadium era","href":"/era/stade-sylvio-cator","kind":"Era"},{"label":"FHF","href":"/organization/fhf","kind":"Organization"}],"sources":[{"title":"Fédération Haïtienne de Football — official site","publisher":"FHF","href":"/source/fhf-official-site"}],"href":"/en/stories/stade-sylvio-cator","url":"https://ayiti2026.com/en/stories/stade-sylvio-cator"}]}