Chambray Touraine Handball Explained

Clubname:Chambray Touraine Handball
Fullname:Chambray Touraine Handball
Founded:2006
Ground:Gymnase de la Fontaine Blanche, Chambray-lès-Tours
Capacity:500
Chairman:Yves Guérin
Manager:Mathieu Lanfranchi
League:French Women's First League
Season:2022–23
Position:4th
Website:https://www.cthb.fr/
Colour1:Blue
Colour2:Black

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.

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
2009–20103 National 1????Guillaume Marquès
2010–20112 Division 2????Guillaume Marquès
2011–20122 Division 2????Guillaume Marquès
2012–20132 Division 26th142 10Round 4Guillaume Marquès
2013–20142 Division 24th142616th finalGuillaume Marquès
2014–20152 Division 25th12 288th finalGuillaume Marquès
2015–20162 Division 22nd16428th finalGuillaume Marquès
2016–20171 Division 16th929Quarter-final8th finalGuillaume Marquès
2017–20181 Division 18th7114Quarter-finalQuarter-finalsGuillaume Marquès
2018–20191 Division 17th7411Quarter-final: 8th finaGuillaume Marquès

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023–24 season

Goalkeepers
Wingers
  • LW:
  • RW:
    Line players
    Back players
  • LB
  • CB
    RB

    Transfers

    Transfers for the 2024–25 season

    Joining
    Leaving

    Notable players

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Chambray Touraine Handball . 2022-06-25 . Chambray Touraine Handball . fr.
    2. Web site: Chambray Touraine Handball – Players, Team & Season Info EHF . 2022-06-25 . www.eurohandball.com . en.
    3. Web site: Handball – Chambray Touraine HB Women (France) : palmares, results and name . 2022-06-25 . www.the-sports.org.