Mohamed Haouas

Mohamed Haouas (born 9 March 1994) is an international French rugby union player. His position is prop. He measures 1.85 m and weighs 127 kg. He has played for the French national side as well as Clermont Auvergne, Biarritz and Montpellier. In February 2023 he became the first ever player to be sent off twice playing for the French international team after headbutting Scotland’s Ben White.

Honours International France Six Nations Championship: 2022 Grand Slam: 2022

Montpellier Top 14: 2021-22 European Rugby Challenge Cup: 2020–2021

Personal life Haouas was born in France and is of Algerian descent.

Haouas faced several legal troubles. On 4 February 2022, Haouas was sentenced for his role in a series of burglaries of tobacco merchants in France in 2014. He was handed an 18-month suspended prison sentence and fined the equivalent of £13,000.

On 12 May 2023, he received a 2-year suspended prison sentence for a violent brawl in a bakery after leaving a nightclub in 2014.

On 30 May 2023, he was brought up for immediate trial and received a one-year prison sentence after hitting his wife in public. Haouas reportedly chased, tripped and slapped his wife outside a shopping centre in Montpellier the week before the trial. Following the verdict, his intended club Clermont – for whom he signed a contract ahead of the 2023–24 Top 14 season – released a statement saying Haouas "will not be able to wear the colours" of the club. The French Rugby Federation also stated that Haouas's behaviour was "unacceptable and incompatible with the representation of [the] nation at the international level."

In 2024 the Montpellier rugby club announced they were re-signing Haouas as a prop for the prop for 2024/25 despite his domestic violence conviction. His one-year contract was conditional on "exemplary behaviour". "I am grateful for this opportunity and I will give everything, on and off the field, to prove right those who trusted me when I needed it most." said Haouas in a press statement. The arrest came just days after signing a new two-year contract.