Haiti has association football as its most popular sport.

Haiti has literally hundreds

of smaller football clubs that all compete at the local level. Basketball is slowly but
steadily gaining popularity, especially among the youth.

Most of the football matches happen in Stade Sylvio Cator, located in Port-au-
Prince. The Haiti national football team was the second Caribbean team to ever
make it to the World Cup, in 1974. They also won the Carribean Nation Cup in
2007. One of the most well-known football player from Haiti is Joseph Eduard
Gaetjens who played for the national football team of the United States and scored
the winning goal of the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

In 1974, The Haiti national footbal team qualified for the World Cup. The biggest
name of team at that time was Emmanual Sanon who had played in more
qualifying matches than any other Hatian in the team. It is however impossible to
talk about Hatian football without mentioning Sylvio Cator. He started to gain
popularity when he won the silver in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games for
long jump. He also had a hand in popularizing football in Haiti which is why the
most popular and largest stadium in Haiti is named after him.

Below are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to Haiti.

Popular sports of Haiti

Football (Soccer)

basketball
Haiti Sporting Success

made it to the FIFA World Cup, in 1974

won the Carribean Nation Cup in 2007 (football)

Athletes from Haiti

Joseph Eduard Gaetjens (football)

Sylvio Cator (track and field, football) - when he won the silver in the 1928
Amsterdam Olympic Games for long jump

Haiti Sports trivia

Haiti made its first official appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.
However, some sources list 1900 as their first appearance as Lon Thircelin, a
competitor in fencing, may be of Haitian nationality

Haiti at major events

Haiti at the Summer Olympics

Haiti at the FIFA World Cup

Past sporting events hosted in Haiti

Upcoming sporting events in Haiti

Annual sporting events held in Haiti

Sporting Facilities in Haiti

Stade Sylvio Cator, located in Port-au-Prince