Caen Basket Calvados
| Caen Basket Calvados | |||
| Founded | 1959 | ||
| Hall | Palais des Sports de Caen (3,000 seats) |
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| Homepage | http://www.caenbasketcalvados.fr/ | ||
| president | Eric Fleury | ||
| Trainer | Fabrice Calmon | ||
| league | National Masculine 2 (4th division) |
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| Colours | white and blue | ||
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Caen Basket Calvados ( Caen BC for short ) is a French basketball club from Caen .
history
The association was founded in 1959. The number of members grew rapidly, as the Stade Malherbe Caen club, which was based in the same city, dissolved shortly before and their players, coaches and officials switched to the city's newly founded club. The first season that the club played in the top division of France was very successful. Caen finished them in third place. As a result, things went much worse, in 1964 the club was relegated.
The most successful era of the Calvados took place in the 1970s. After the team made it back to the first division in 1970, thanks to good results in the league, he first took part in the European Cup in 1972 , the Korać Cup . Caen Basket Calvados has now established itself in the top French league and was runner-up in 1977 and 1979.
After these successes, things went downhill for the club, which was relegated to the second division in the 1988/89 season, but was forcibly transferred to division 5 due to financial problems.
The national players Frédéric Forte and Nicolas Batum , who comes from neighboring Lisieux and made the leap into the NBA , are among the most important "home grown" of the club. The club currently plays in the fourth highest French league.
Hall
The club plays its home games in the 3,000-seat Palais des Sports de Caen .
successes
- 2 × French runner-up (1977, 1979)