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Cholet Basket
Leagues	Pro A
Founded	1975; 43 years ago (1975)
History	Cholet Basket (1975–present)
Arena	La Meilleraie
Capacity	5,191
Location	Cholet, France
Team colors	Red and white
President	Patrick Chiron
Vice-president(s)	Alain Lafat
Head coach	Régis Boissié
Championships	1 French Championship 2 French Cups 1 La Semaine des As Cup
Retired numbers	2 (4, 10)
Website	cholet-basket.com
Uniforms
Home Away

Cholet Basket is a professional basketball club that is based in Cholet, France. The club plays in the French League. Their home arena is La Meilleraie.

History

Establishment

The team debuted in the 1st division in the 1987–88 season and after managing to get to the premier league in only 12 years. The team were able to sustain themselves in the league, and were consistently in the top 10 teams having a highly successful youth system. This youth system has allowed the club to produce professional players season after season. After winning the National Cup in 1999, Cholet got automatically qualified for its first participation to the Euroleague (3 victories – 13 defeats). During the 2004–05 season 10 of the 12 players in the first team derived from the youth system. Some of the most illustrious players who had their debut in the team are Antoine Rigaudeau, Jim Bilba and Mickaël Gelabale.

During the 2008–2009 season, Cholet was defeated by Virtus Bologna in the EuroChallenge's Final (75–77).

In 2010, Cholet finished 1st of the 2009–2010 Pro A League regular season and won the championship after defeating Le Mans in the Play-Offs Final (81–65). Thanks to its national champion title, Cholet is automatically qualified for the 2010–2011 Euroleague season. Cholet was eliminated during the first round (4 victories – 6 defeats) of the 2010–2011 Euroleague after defeating prestigious (and at the time unbeaten) Fenerbahçe Ülker (82–78).

In 2011, Cholet, defending its title finished 1st again of the 2011-12 Pro A League regular season and was only defeated during the finals by SLUC Nancy (74-76).

Logo of the club until 2012

Youth Academy

Cholet Basket is intensively focusing on its Youth Academy to provide players to its professional squad. During the 2004–05 season, 10 of the 12 players of the Pro squad have progressed through the club Youth Academy. It is also one of the only six European clubs to have provided two players to the same NBA draft in 2009, with Rodrigues Beaubois and Nando De Colo beside Real Madrid (2005), Joventut Badalona (2009), Fenerbahçe Ülker (2008), KK Partizan (2002) and Pau-Ortez (2003).

Notable Players that have progressed through the Cholet Youth Academy (Espoirs)

Players

Retired numbers

Cholet Basket retired numbers
No.	Player	Position	Tenure
4	Antoine Rigaudeau	PG	1987–1995
10	Jim Bilba	PF	1988–1992, 2002–2007

Current roster

Cholet Basket roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. G 7000300000000000000♠3 Hayes, Killian 7000194000000000000♠1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 17 – (2001-07-27)27 July 2001 C 7001110000000000000♠11 N'Doye, Abloulaye 7000206999999999999♠2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 20 – (1998-08-23)23 August 1998 F 7001130000000000000♠13 Edzata, Rigo 7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 21 – (1997-02-23)23 February 1997 F 7001140000000000000♠14 Morose, Youri 7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 20 – (1997-11-27)27 November 1997 C 7001230000000000000♠23 Woghiren, Warren 7000206999999999999♠2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 19 – (1998-10-23)23 October 1998 PG McKee, Tywain 7000188000000000000♠1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb) 32 – (1986-03-07)7 March 1986 SF Sy, Pape 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 7002102000000000000♠102 kg (225 lb) 30 – (1988-04-05)5 April 1988 SF Troisfontaines, Olivier 7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 28 – (1989-10-26)26 October 1989 PF Robinson, Antywane 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 34 – (1984-07-12)12 July 1984 PF Young, Michael 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7002107000000000000♠107 kg (236 lb) 24 – (1994-09-05)5 September 1994 C Fairell-Augustin, Jonathan 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 25 – (1993-06-22)22 June 1993	Head coach Régis Boissié Assistant coach(es) Jim Bilba Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2016-07-12

Season by season

Achievements

• French Championship Pro A: 2010
  


• 
  La Semaine des As Cup: 2008


• 
  French Cup: 1998, 1999


• Match des Champions (French Pro A Champion vs French Cup winner): 2010


• Finalist of Pro A: 1988, 2011


• 
  French Cup Finalist: 2005, 2008


• Finalist of the Tournoi des As Cup: 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1993.


• Champion of Division 2 (now Pro B): 1986

Notable players

Head coaches

• 1970s: Dragoş Nosievici


• 1987–89: Jean Galle


• 1989–91: Jean-Paul Rebatet


• 1991–95: Laurent Buffard


• 1995–96: Alain Thinet (7 games) then Eric Girard (1 game) then Jean Galle


• 1996–2001: Eric Girard


• 2001–02: Savo Vucević


• 2002–03: Jean-François Martin


• 2003–04: Erman Kunter
  


• 2004–06: Ruddy Nelhomme
  


• 2006–10: Erman Kunter
  


• 2010–12: Erman Kunter
  


• 2012–14: Jean-Manuel Sousa
  


• 2014–Present: Laurent Buffard
  

External links

• 
  Cholet Basket Official Website (in French)
  


• 
  LNB Club Profile (in French)
  


• 
  Euroleague Club Profile (in English)