YES Vichy
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| Founded | 1933 | ||
| Hall | Palais des Sports Pierre Coulon (3,300 seats) |
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| president | Jean-Christophe Jonon | ||
| Trainer | Fabien Romeyer | ||
| league | National 1 (3rd division) |
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| Colours | yellow blue | ||
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JA Vichy (full name: Jeanne d'Arc de Vichy Val d'Allier Auvergne Basket ) is a French basketball club from Vichy .
history
Beginnings & establishment in the National 1
The sports association Jeanne d'Arc de Vichy Val d'Allier Auvergne , whose basketball team was founded in 1933, was founded as early as 1913 . The team quickly made its way through the regional amateur leagues, made four promotions in a row between 1961 and 1964 and finally made it into the top French basketball league, the then Nationale 1 , in 1967 . JA Vichy played a sensational season as a newcomer and was in the race for the championship until the end. Ultimately, they finished third, just four points behind champion ASVEL Lyon .
Two-time cup winner, runner-up and European final
In the 1968/69 season, the team was again among the best in France. In the league she was runner-up this time, again just behind ASVEL. In addition, Vichy won the French basketball cup, which was won by a sovereign 90: 56 victory in the final against Alsace Bagnolet . With this triumph, Vichy qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup of the 1969/70 season. After the Luxembourg representative BBC Etzella was outclassed with a total of 191: 102 after the first and second leg, the duel in the round of 16 with Levski Sofia was a lot more exciting (66:58 & 78:82), but in the end Vichy scored 4 basket points more and reached the quarter-finals, in whose first leg there was a gripping 95:95 draw against Standard Liège and in the home hall with a clear 78:53 the jump to the semi-finals was perfect. After the last hurdle on the way to the final of the second most important European basketball cup had been mastered with AEK Athens , the final opponent was Fides Partenope Napoli from Italy. The only US top players in the otherwise exclusively French team, Rudy Bennett and Larry Robertson, who had dictated JA Vichy's game in the previous rounds and in the league, dominated the first leg encounter in front of 2,000 spectators in Vichy and contributed 46 points for the 64:60 victory. In the second leg in Naples, the team could have afforded a defeat with 3 basket points, but the Italians gave Vichy no chance, were already 48:28 at halftime and finally secured the "Cup Winners Cup" thanks to a clear 87:65. Parallel to the more than successful European Cup season, the team also delivered strong performances in the national league (third), as well as in the cup, whose win was repeated by a 78:74 win against Le Mans Sarthe Basket .
Loss of constancy, bankruptcy, restart
In the 1970/71 season, just one season after the successes in Europe, the team was only eleventh in the National 1 and was relegated. In the European Cup Winners' Cup, they failed this time in the round of 16 against BK Balkan . Although the direct return to the elite league was achieved, Vichy did not regain its old strength. 1974 was again a strong third place, but the following year the relegation followed. In the course of the 1980s and 1990s, the club developed more and more into an "elevator club", in which JA Vichy no longer gained a foothold in the first division, which had now been renamed LNB Pro A. The low point of this development was reached in 1989 when the club voluntarily relegated to the National 3 and thus to the fifth division due to extremely high liabilities and debts .
After the financial rehabilitation, they played in the second division, LNB Pro B, for seven years between 1995 and 2002. The 2001/02 season ended as champions, which after 14 years was associated with a return to the House of Lords, in which one could initially hold. Ime Udoka , Nigerian national player and later active with the San Antonio Spurs , made nine games for Vichy in 2005 and scored an average of 24.8 points, but could not prevent a renewed relegation to the Pro B. Vichy was first class again in 2007 and after two decent seasons, each of which ended in tenth place, the establishment should be pushed further. In the 2008/09 season the team entered the EuroChallenge , but failed in the second qualifying round.
Jamal Shuler , who came from TBB Trier as the new point guard , was one of the outstanding players of the LNB Pro A in the 2010/11 season, but was still unable to save his team from relegation and moved to master SLUC Nancy . Vichy, however, fell further and was 18th in the Pro B , which was connected with the fall in the National 1 , the third division, in which one currently plays.
Hall
The club plays its home games in the 3,300-seat Palais des Sports Pierre Coulon .
successes
- 2 × French cup winners (1969, 1970)
- 1 × French runner-up (1969)
- 1 × European Cup Winners' Cup finalist (1970)
Web links
- Official website of JA Vichy (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cup Winners Cup 1969-70 on linguasport.com
- ↑ Historique JVA Vichy Basket on careret.pagesperso-orango.fr