Sélestat AHB
| Full name | Sélestat Alsace handball | ||
| Founded | 1967 | ||
| Club colors | purple-white | ||
| Hall | Cosec Eugène Griesmar | ||
| Places | 1,100 | ||
| president | Germain Sparrow | ||
| Trainer | Christian Gaudin | ||
| league | Ligue Nationale de Handball | ||
| 2015/16 | |||
| rank | 2nd place (Division 2) | ||
| Website | sa-hb.com | ||
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Sélestat Alsace handball is a French handball club from Sélestat .
history
The club was founded in 1967 as SC Sélestat Handball. After a few years in the lower leagues, the club became champions of the third division in the 1978/79 season and then rose to the second division and thus to the professional sector. In the 1989/90 season the club rose to the first division, the "Ligue 1", in which - with the interruptions in 1992/93 and 1996/97 - played up to and including the 2014/15 season. After the club took up division 2 in the 2015/16 season, Sélestat managed to return to the top French division.
The best placement the club ever achieved was fifth in the 1999/2000 season, with only two points missing from a European Cup place.
Due to its relatively small budget for "Ligue 1", the club began to focus on youth work early on. The best-known graduate of the Sélestat management team is the French national goalkeeper Thierry Omeyer (now Paris St. Germain, now THW Kiel , among others ). In most cases, the club had to give up its youth players early.
successes
In 1995 the team reached the final of the French Cup.