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TOURS METROPOLE BASKET
        

History:

Founded: 1925
The club was formed as the sports wing of railway company Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans in the city of Tours with the name Association Sportive du Paris-Orléans
Team names: AS Paris-Orleans (1925-1938), PLLL Tours Basket (1938-1952), ASPO (1952-1984), Tours Basket Club (1984-1997), NPO (1997-1998), Touraine Basket Club (1998-2004), Tours Joue Basket (2004-2009), Touraine Basket Club (2009-2014), Union Tours Metropole Basket (2014-2023), Tours Metropole Basket (2023-)
The club saw its first foreign recruits in 1956, two American soldiers from a military base in nearby Chinon.
In 2004, the municipalities of Tours and neighbouring Joué-lès-Tours pushed for a union between TBC and AS Jocondien from the latter town, which resulted in the fusion side Tours Joué Basket, playing in Nationale 2. However, it proved an awkward collaboration and the club amassed significant debts (€130,000 out of a budget of €380 000) and was declared bankrupt in 2009. Touraine BC then played alone in the Nationale 3, the fifth division. After repeated requests from TBC, a union was formed with PLL Tours, then of Nationale 2, in June 2014 to form Union Tours Basket Métropole.
League positions:
FRA1976-1(Nat.1), 80-1(Nat.1), 89-(1A), 90-(1B), 98-(ProB), 99-(N2), 06-1(N3), 07-(N2), 08-(N3), 09-(N3), 10-11(NM2), 11-14(NM2), 12-(NM3), 13-(NM3), 14-7(NM2), 15-4(NM2), 16-2(NM2), 17-5(NM2), 18-3(NM2), 19-12(NM1), 20-2(NM1), 21-1(NM1), 22-17(ProB), 23-14(NM1), 24-7(NM1)
NPO Tours was declared bankrupt on 5 June 1998 with debts of 4.5 million francs, its participation in the league had been earlier denied
League achievements:
French Honneur Ligue Finalist -1949
French Nationale 1 Champion -1976, 80
French NM1 Group A Regular Season Champion -2021
French NM1 Group A Regular Season Runner-Up -2020
French NM2 Group B Runner-Up -2016
Since 2021
Until 2021