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Haiti squad World Cup 2026: Sebastien Migne's team for opening game against Scotland
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Haiti's players pose for a team photo before facing Costa Rica. | Credit: EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images
The Haiti World Cup 2026 squad will be the country's second World Cup finals side.
Haiti's qualification for World Cup 2026 put the competition's geopolitical complications in the spotlight but its football context is significant too: Haiti have played at the World Cup finals just once, losing all three group games in West Germany in 1974.
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Only two Haitans have ever scored in World Cup football – one of those was Joe Gaetjens, who in 1950 netted one of the most famous goals ever against England for, ahem, the United States – so though this is one of the less experienced squads at the tournament , French head coach Sebastien Migne will be hoping for some more history, even on a small scale.
He has a superstar on his hands, at least: Wilson Isidor is as excellent a footballer as Haiti have ever produced and off the back of a great campaign at Sunderland , the country will be hoping for the forward to spring a surprise against some of the big boys.
Jean-Ricner Bellegarde is the other name familiar to Premier League fans, with some of Haiti's squad playing their football in Ligue 2, the USL Championship, Iran 's Persian Gulf League and in Haiti's Port-Au-Prince itself.
This is a squad in its prime, too: most of the final 26 are aged between 25 and 29, so this tournament has actually come at the right time for them.
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Yes, they're minnows, and they realistically need a result against Scotland or Morocco to progress beyond the group stage… with the big game against Brazil likely bearing little fruit, though it may become a touchpoint for Haitian football fans for a generation.
Mood
On November 18, 2025, gunshots pierced the air in Port-au-Prince – a sound all too familiar to locals. But this was different. After years of chaos and violence, Haitians were celebrating.
Haiti's 2-0 win over Nicaragua to qualify for the World Cup prompted cheers from a diaspora across the USA, Canada , the Caribbean and beyond. UN peacekeepers couldn't, didn't, achieve such unity.
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The coup de grace? It was the anniversary of the 1803 Battle of Vertieres bringing Haiti's independence from France .
No playoff required. No reliance upon format expansion. No home games, even, having to play in not-very-nearby Curaçao instead. Les Grenadiers were in a group with Honduras and serial World Cup participants Costa Rica – and they won it.
Squad
Haiti World Cup 2026 squad: the March selection
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GK: Johny Placide (Bastia)
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GK: Alexandre Pierre (Sochaux)
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GK: Josue Duverger (Cosmos Koblenz)
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DF: Ricardo Ade (LDU Quito)
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DF: Carlens Arcus ( Angers )
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DF: Martin Experience (Nancy)
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DF: Jean-Kevin Duverne (Gent)
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DF: Duke Lacroix (Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC)
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DF: Wilguens Paugain (Zulte Waregem)
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DF: Hannes Delcroix (Lugano)
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DF: Keeto Thermoncy (Young Boys)
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MF: Leverton Pierre (Vizela)
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MF: Carl Sainte (El Paso Locomotive FC)
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MF: Jean-Ricner Bellegarde ( Wolverhampton Wanderers )
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MF: Woodensky Pierre (Violette)
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MF: Dominique Simon (Tatran Presov)
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FW: Duckens Nazon (Esteghlal)
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FW: Frantzdy Pierrot (Caykur Rizespor)
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FW: Derrick Etienne Jr. ( Toronto FC )
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FW: Louicius Deedson ( FC Dallas )
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FW: Ruben Providence (Almere City)
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FW: Josue Casimir ( Auxerre )
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FW: Yassin Fortune (Vizela)
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FW: Wilson Isidor ( Sunderland )
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FW: Lenny Joseph (Ferencvaros)
Fixtures and results
Fixtures
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June 13, 2026: Haiti vs Scotland , Gillette Stadium , Foxborough, United States
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June 19, 2026: Brazil vs Haiti, Lincoln Financial Field , Philadelphia, United States
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June 24, 2026: Morocco vs Haiti, Mercedes-Benz Stadium , Atlanta, United States
Results
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June 6, 2026: Haiti 1-2 Peru, Nu Stadium, Miami, United States
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June 3, 2026: Haiti 4-0 New Zealand , Inter Miami CF Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, United States
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March 31, 2026: Haiti 1-1 Iceland, BMO Field , Toronto, Canada
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March 29, 2026: Haiti 0-1 Tunisia , BMO Field, Toronto, Canada
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November 19, 2025: Haiti 2-0 Nicaragua, Stadion Ergilio Hato, Willemstad, Curacao
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November 14, 2025: Haiti 1-0 Costa Rica, Stadion Ergilio Hato, Willemstad, Curacao
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October 14, 2025: Honduras 3-0 Haiti, Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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October 10, 2025: Nicaragua 0-3 Haiti, Estadio Nacional de Fútbol, Managua, Nicaragua
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September 10, 2025: Costa Rica 3-3 Haiti, Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
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September 06, 2025: Haiti 0-0 Honduras, Stadion Ergilio Hato, Willemstad, Curacao
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June 23, 2025: United States 2-1 Haiti, AT&T Stadium , Arlington, United States
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June 19, 2025: Trinidad and Tobago 1-1 Haiti, Shell Energy Stadium, Houston, United States
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June 16, 2025: Haiti 0-1 Saudi Arabia , Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego , United States
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June 11, 2025: Haiti 1-5 Curacao , Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Group C standings
Haiti are in Group C at World Cup 2026.
Manager
Who is Haiti's manager?
Sebastien Migne
Sebastien Migne, a former midfield player briefly on the books of Leyton Orient in the late 1990s, took over as Haiti's head coach in the summer of 2024. Because the Grenadiers played their qualifiers in Curacao due to conflict at home, the French boss has never been to Haiti.
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Migne has managed three international teams in Africa and his major tournament experience amounts to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in charge of Kenya and, four years later, working as the assistant to Cameroon head coach Rigobert Song at the continental tournament in Ivory Coast .
Kenya were knocked out in the group stage under Migne in 2019. Haiti will be tipped to suffer a similar fate but their impressive qualification campaign for World Cup 2026 will offer hope that a first World Cup finals win is a possibility.
Star player
Who is Haiti's star player?
Jean-Ricner Bellegarde in action against Costa Rica | Credit: EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images
Haiti's national team squad features two players operating in the Premier League. Burnley defender Hannes Delcroix has a handful of caps but it's Jean-Ricner Bellegardeof Wolverhampton Wanderers who can really get Haiti's fans on the edges of their seats.
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Bellegarde has become a Premier League regular since moving to the Black Country from Strasbourg . The former Lens youngster joined Wolves in 2023 and usually offers value for money in the entertainment stakes.
Born in France and formerly a French Under-21 international, Bellegarde filed his switch to Haiti as recently as August 2025 and has been rewarded with a probable starring role in their World Cup campaign.
