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Real Hope FA

Haitian football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ28225413
Source-derived summary

Real Hope Football Academy (French: Académie de football Real Hope) is a professional football club based in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.

History

Real Hope Football Academy was formed by former Vice President from AS Capoise (located in Cap-Haïtien), who decided to create a football club and founded Real Hope Football Academy on 14 May 2014.

Real started in Division 3 and was quickly promoted to Division 2 the following year in 2015. After being crowned champions of the 2015 season, the club was promoted to the top-tier Division 1, in just its second year of existence. Real Hope FA mostly recently qualified for the 2024 Caribbean Cup, via their winning of Group A of the 2023-24 Ligue Haitienne. Real Hope secured qualification to the 2025 CONCACAF Champions by finishing 3rd in the 2024 Caribbean Cup, where they lost 7-0 on aggregate to Cruz Azul in the Round of 32.

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“Real Hope FA” enters the record as haitian football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Real, Hope and Haitian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015, 2024, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2014-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Real, Hope and Haitian.
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“Real Hope FA” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Real, Hope and Haitian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28225413. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2015, 2024 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from Real Hope FA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.