} Football Inter Club Association; (commonly referred to as FICA) is a professional

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club based in

Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien (; ; "Haitian Cape") is a List of communes of Haiti, commune of about 400,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Departments of Haiti, department of Nord (Haitian department), Nord. Previously named ''Cap‑Fran� ...

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. The club has been a very successful club in Haitian football history, winning 7 titles in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2015 C.

History

The Football Inter Club Association (FICA) was founded on 17 October 1972 in a room at the Collège Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours on the initiative of a group of young students, all originally from Cap-Haïtien, following a national football school championship and the return of a victorious tour in the Dominican Republic. As president was chosen Dudré Génard, as general secretary Paul Calixte and as treasurer Rev. Yvon Joseph C.S.C. and Eddie Figaro ; the technical guide was entrusted to Hervé Calixte and Charles Vertilis. The first players of FICA were Daniel Albert , Ricot St-Juste, Frantzy Mathieu, Joseph Duverglas, Serge Célestin, Jean Robert Télusma, René Monestime, Daniel Cadet, Antony Byas, Robert Noel, Frantz Telusmond, Gary César, Jocelyn Zépherin, Killick Jean-Louis, Claude Louis Charles, Michel Desravines, Guy Prosper and Wilfrid Zépherin. On November 26 of that year, FICA played their inaugural match against

Etoile Haïtienne Etoile Haïtienne (, English: ''Haitian Star'') is a professional football club based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After the 2003 season, the club was relegated to Division 3. The last ''known'' time the club played in Division 1 was in 1970. Hist ...

at the Parc Saint-Victor of Cap-Haïtien and was defeated 0–1. The next day, a rematch was held with FICA defeating Etoile Haïtienne 1–0 scored by Wilfrid Zépherin. In 1973, FICA became affiliated with the "Ligue du Nord" (''League of the North''), and the club took part in its first championship, where they came in second. In 1975, FICA becomes champions of the Ligue du Nord. From 1976 to 1983, FICA becomes champions of Cap-Haïtien three times, winning the "Coupe Pharmacie du Centre" in 1976, and the "Coupe Henry Christophe" in 1979 and 1983.

National integration era

During the season 1988–1989, the national of championship integrated clubs outside of the

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...

area with the twenty best clubs of the country in a league-wide format for the first time. Clubs were divided into two groups of ten, as the preliminary phase saw four teams play the final phase: Violette, Aigle Rouge,

AS Capoise Association Sportive Capoise (; commonly referred to as AS Capoise or simply ASC) is a professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Honours * Ligue Haïtienne: 3 :: 1997, 2017 C, 2018 O * Coupe d'Haïti: 3 :: 1938, 2009, 2011 Inte ...

and FICA. FICA defeated ASC, as Violette defeated Aigle Rouge in the semifinals. FICA won the first leg against Violette 1–0 in Cap-Haïtien and returned to Port-au-Prince and defeated Violette 1–2 to win its first national championship.

Squad

''As of 24 April 2021:''

Records

Top goalscorers

Honours

Ligue Haïtienne Ligue Haïtienne (; ''Haitian League''), is a Haitian professional league, governed by the Haitian Football Federation, for association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between ...

: 7 :: 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2015 C, 2016 C.

International competitions

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: 2 appearances ::

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

– Second Round (Caribbean Zone) - Lost against

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, 1–4 on aggregate (1–1 & 0–3) ::

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

– Second Round (Caribbean Zone) - ''Withdrew''

References

{{Ligue Haïtienne Football clubs in Haiti Association football clubs established in 1972 Nord (Haitian department)