Denain Voltaire Basket is a French professional

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club that was founded in 1947, and is based in

Denain Denain (; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Denain had a population of 19,877, on a land area of 11.52 km2 (4.448 sq mi). It is the largest of 47 communes which comprise the Communauté d'agglomération de la Por ...

, France. The club plays in the

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, which is the second-tier level pro competition in France.

History

The small club of the Voltaire school, moved up the French basketball hierarchy, until it reached the French basketball elite level in 1960, when it won the

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title. Five years later, the club won the top-level

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championship, with several players that had previously been Voltaire schoolchildren. In the late 1970s, the club gradually disappeared from the major French basketball landscape, before it began to once again climb up the French basketball ladder, and made it up to the French 2nd Division, for the 2011–12 season.

Honours

* Winners (1): 1964–65

* Winners (2): 1959–60, 1983–84 (amateur) French Second League * Winners (1): 1959–60, 1963–64 Pro B Leaders Cup *Winners (1): 2017–18

Season by season

Current roster

Notable players

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External links

Official Homepage of ASC Denain-Voltaire HP

History of ASC Denain-Voltaire HP
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