Vendée Challans Basket

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Vendée Challans Basket
Founded 1936
Hall Salle Michel Vrignaud
(3,000 seats)
president Lionel Thouzeau
Trainer Yann Jolivet
league National 1 (3rd division)
Colours Red and white
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Vendée Challans Basket is a French basketball club from Challans .

history

Beginnings and first respectable successes

The club was founded in 1936 as the Étoile Sportive du Marais Challans . Under the abbreviated name ESM Challans, he made it into the top French basketball league at the time, the Nationale 1, in 1971 . There Challans took seventh place, which was the beginning of the establishment in the first division. The 1975/76 season finished the team in sixth, whereupon it was allowed to start in the Korać Cup the following season . There they lost despite a strong 69:58 win in the second leg against Reyer Venezia Mestre , as the first leg was lost more clearly. In 1977/78 sixth place was achieved again, followed by the second participation in the Korać Cup. This time the team failed because of the Spaniards from Cotonificio Badalona . After many years in the top division, the performance finally got worse, and the descent into the second division could not be prevented in the 1981/82 season.

FFBB Cup victory and Top 16 in the Korać Cup

In 1983, however, the direct resurgence succeeded. In addition, the club won the French basketball cup for lower-class teams against CRO Lyon that same year . After the first season after promotion to 10th place, the team built on the successes of the past in the 1984/85 season and came in sixth again. In his third participation in the Korać Cup, the club managed for the first time to move into the last 16 and thus to reach the group stage, where in six games but only one victory. Despite the double burden, sixth place in the league was achieved again. When the Korać Cup participation in 1986/87 , the team sold properly, but failed in the group to Estudiantes Madrid and Juventus Caserta .

Decline

Although Challans qualified for the first play-offs for the French championship in 1987 and made it to the quarter-finals there, the club voluntarily withdrew from professional basketball and restarted in the fourth division in 1993. The club was unable to return to one of the top leagues. In 2004 the club was renamed Vendée Challans Basket and has been playing in the third highest division, the National 1, since 2005. There, in 2008 and 2009, they narrowly missed promotion to LNB Pro B and have since played against relegation.

Hall

The club plays its home games in the 3,000-seat Salle Michel Vrignaud .

successes

  • 1 × FFBB cup winner (1983)

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