Cholet Basket

Leagues

LNB Pro A

Founded

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

Philippe Hervé

Championships

1 French Championship
2 French Cups
1 La Semaine des As Cup

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)

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Cholet Basket roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Nat.	Name	Ht.	Wt.
2.0 !SG	7000500000000000000♠5	USA !	Wood, DaShaun	7000185000000000000♠1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	7001760000000000000♠76 kg (168 lb)	7001310000000000000♠31 – (1985-09-29)29 September 1985
1.5 !G	7000800000000000000♠8	FRA !	Rousselle, Jonathan	7000187000000000000♠1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	7001780000000000000♠78 kg (172 lb)	7001260000000000000♠26 – (1990-02-07)7 February 1990
1.0 !PG	7001130000000000000♠13	PUR !	Rodríguez, Ángel	7000180000000000000♠1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb)	7001240000000000000♠24 – (1992-12-05)5 December 1992
3.5 !F		FRA ! BUL !	Evtimov, Ilian	7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb)	7001330000000000000♠33 – (1983-04-28)28 April 1983
3.0 !SF		USA ! FRA !	Dewar, Ben	7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	7002100000000000000♠100 kg (220 lb)	7001350000000000000♠35 – (1981-08-30)30 August 1981
3.0 !SF		USA !	Noel, David	7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	7002104000000000000♠104 kg (229 lb)	7001320000000000000♠32 – (1984-02-27)27 February 1984
5.0 !C		FRA !	Boutsiele, Jerry	7000206999999999999♠2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	7002111000000000000♠111 kg (245 lb)	7001250000000000000♠25 – (1991-04-20)20 April 1991
5.0 !C		USA !	Brown, Graham	7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	7002111000000000000♠111 kg (245 lb)	7001320000000000000♠32 – (1984-08-19)19 August 1984
1.0 !PG		USA !	Swann, Isaiah	7000188000000000000♠1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)		7001310000000000000♠31 – (1985-02-10)10 February 1985
4.0 !PF		BIH !	Bajramović, Kenan	7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	7002104000000000000♠104 kg (229 lb)	7001350000000000000♠35 – (1981-05-24)24 May 1981

Head coach

Philippe Hervé

Assistant coach(es)

Jim Bilba

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster
Updated: 2016-07-12

Note: Jerseys #4 and #10, respectively worn by Antoine Rigaudeau and Jim Bilba when in Cholet, are both withdrawn.

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Postseason	French Cup	Leaders Cup	European competitions
2006–07	1	Pro A	7	Quarterfinalist		Champion	–
2007–08	1	Pro A	8	Quarterfinalist	Runner-up	Champion	3 FIBA EuroCup Group Stage
2008–09	1	Pro A	9	–	Round of 16	–	3 EuroChallenge runner-up
2009–10	1	Pro A	1	Champion	Round of 32	Quarterfinalist	2 Eurocup Regular Season
2010–11	1	Pro A	2	Runner-up	Round of 16	Quarterfinalist	1 Euroleague Regular Season
2011–12	1	Pro A	4	Semifinalist	Semifinalist	Quarterfinalist	2 Eurocup Regular Season
2012–13	1	Pro A	10	–	Round of 16	–	2 Eurocup Regular Season
2013–14	1	Pro A	13	–	Round of 16	–	3 EuroChallenge Last 16

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 – current roster

0 Swann 3 Evtimov 5 Rousselle 8 Boutsiele 11 Ndoye 12 Dewar 13 Rodríguez 15 Brown 34 Noel 51 Bajramović

Head coach: Buffard Assistant coaches: Jerome Navier

Pro A

FFBB Awards French League System

2016–17 teams	AS Monaco Antibes Sharks Chalon-sur-Saône Châlons-Reims Cholet Dijon Gravelines-Dunkerque Hyères-Toulon Le Mans Limoges Lyon-Villeurbanne Nancy Nanterre Orléans Paris-Levallois Pau-Lacq-Orthez Le Portel Strasbourg

Seasons	1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Other competitions	French Leaders Cup French Cup Match des Champions

Awards	Most Valuable Player Finals MVP

2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague

Champions	Olympiacos

Runners-up	CSKA Moscow

Third place	FC Barcelona Regal

Fourth place	Panathinaikos

Eliminated in Quarterfinals	Gescrap Bizkaia Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv Montepaschi Siena UNICS Kazan

Eliminated in Top 16	Group E Group F Group G Group H Anadolu Efes Bennet Cantù EA7 Emporio Armani Fenerbahçe Ülker Galatasaray Medical Park Real Madrid Unicaja Žalgiris Kaunas

Eliminated in Regular Season	Group A Group B Group C Group D Asseco Prokom Gdynia Brose Baskets Caja Laboral KK Zagreb Partizan Mt:s Belgrade SLUC Nancy Spirou Basket Union Olimpija Ljubljana

Eliminated in Third Qualifying Round	ČEZ Nymburk Lietuvos Rytas

Eliminated in Second Qualifying Round	Alba Berlin ASVEL Basket BC Khimki Cibona Zagreb

Eliminated in First Qualifying Round	Banvit BC Donetsk BCM Gravelines Cholet Basket KK Budućnost P.A.O.K. PGE Turów VEF Rīga

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