Chambray Touraine Handball

Chambray Touraine Handball is the name of a French handball club from Chambray-lès-Tours. This team currently competes in the French Women's Handball First League from 2016.

Chambray Touraine Handball
Full nameChambray Touraine Handball
Founded2006
ArenaGymnase de la Fontaine Blanche, Chambray-lès-Tours
Capacity500
PresidentYves Guérin
Head coachMathieu Lanfranchi
LeagueFrench Women's First League
2021–226th
Club colours   
Website
Official site


Location of Chambray Touraine
Chambray Touraine
Chambray Touraine
Location of Chambray Touraine Handball

History of the club

In 1994, Chambray sports club, set up a new section, Handball enriches the sports club with 1 team senior men. 2006–2007, the Chambray club set up an agreement with the women's section of the St Cyr sur Loire club. Thus, a large number of women come to join the club, with in particular the pennant team: the senior women, then evolving in National 3 under the direction of Marques Guillaume (coach). Phillipe Hualt chaired the club from 2006 to 2010. This was then taken over by Gérald Minard from 2010 to 2015. In March 2015, Yves Guérin took over as club chair and appointed Christophe Bouhour professional team manager.

Since 2014, the club has given itself the means to access the French elite by recruiting many recognized players, such as Sophie Herbrecht, Ionela Stanca-Gâlcă first, then Linda Pradel, Koumba Cissé or Ana de Sousa in the summer of 2015.

Second in the 2015–2016 season in Division 2, Chambray accedes for the first time in its history to the elite of French women's handball.

The 2016–2017 season is the club's first in the first division. After a difficult start, Chambray won the first match in its history in LFH on the eighth day at home against Brest Bretagne Handball. From then on, the promoted followed a series of nine victories in fourteen meetings allowing them to finish in sixth place in the ranking with a record of nine wins, two draws and nine losses. In the playoffs, Chambray was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Brest.[1]

The club competed in the group stage of the 2021–22 Women's EHF European League for the first time.[2][3]

Season by season review
Season Div Clas Vic Nul Déf Playoffs France Cup Coach
2009–2010 3 National 1 ? ? ? – ? Guillaume Marquès
2010–2011 2 Division 2 ? ? ? – ? Guillaume Marquès
2011–2012 2 Division 2 ? ? ? – ? Guillaume Marquès
2012–2013 2 Division 2 6th 14 2 10 – Round 4 Guillaume Marquès
2013–2014 2 Division 2 4th 14 2 6 – 16th final Guillaume Marquès
2014–2015 2 Division 2 5th 12 2 8 – 8th final Guillaume Marquès
2015–2016 2 Division 2 2nd 16 4 2 – 8th final Guillaume Marquès
2016–2017 1 Division 1 6th 9 2 9 Quarter-final 8th final Guillaume Marquès
2017–2018 1 Division 1 8th 7 1 14 Quarter-final Quarter-finals Guillaume Marquès
2018–2019 1 Division 1 7th 7 4 11 Quarter-final: 8th fina Guillaume Marquès

Team

Current squad
Squad for the 2022–23 season

Transfers
Transfers for the 2023–24 season

Notable players

References
  1. "Chambray Touraine Handball". Chambray Touraine Handball (in French). Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  2. "Chambray Touraine Handball – Players, Team & Season Info | EHF". www.eurohandball.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  3. "Handball – Chambray Touraine HB Women (France) : palmares, results and name". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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