Lionel Haven
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lionel E. Haven | ||
| Date of birth | December 30, 1965 | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| United FC | |||
| Cavalier | |||
| National team | |||
| 1987–2000 | Bahamas | 6 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Lionel Haven (born 30 December 1965) is a former football executive and retired association football player from the Bahamas.
Haven played for the Bahamas in Pan-American Games Qualifiers in 1987 against Mexico and in all 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches in 2000.
After retiring as a player, Haven was long-time head coach of Cavalier FC and served as Executive Director and General Secretary of the Bahamas Football Association and also became a member of the Executive Committee of the Caribbean Football Union in 2001.
In April 2016, Haven was banned for five years by FIFA Ethics Committee from all football-related activities due to non-disclosure of information around payments at a CFU event. He later denied any wrongdoing.
Haven graduated from the University of Charleston, West Virginia in 1989. He then worked as an accountant and is currently CEO at a land title research company.
His older brother Sam also played for the national team and was a president of the BFA. He died in August 2014. Two of his daughters played for the Bahamas Women U-17 team in 2012.
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