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handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
club from
Chambray-lès-Tours
Chambray-lès-Tours (, literally ''Chambray near Tours'') is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, central France. It is the birthplace of professional footballers Mikaël Silvestre and Adam Ounas.
Population
Notable people
* Nicolas ...
. 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
Sophie Herbrecht (born 13 February 1982) is a French retired handball player. She retired in 2020, playing for US Altkirch.
She became World Champion in 2003, when France won the 2003 World Championship in Croatia.
She represented France at th ...
Koumba Cissé
Koumba Cissé (born 4 June 1991) is a French handball player. She plays for the club Bron Handball, and on the French national team. She represented France at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia. She has previously played for ...
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.
The club competed in the group stage of the
2021–22 Women's EHF European League
The 2021–22 Women's EHF European League was the 41st edition of European Handball Federation, EHF's second-tier women's handball competition, running from 16 October 2021 to 15 May 2022.
Neptunes de Nantes were the defending champions.
Overvi ...
for the first time.
Team
Current squad
:''Squad for the 2024–25 season''
;Goalkeepers
* 12
Melinda Szikora
Melinda Szikora (born 19 November 1988) is a Hungarian handball goalkeeper playing for SG BBM Bietigheim.
Achievements
* Hungarian Championship:
**''Gold Medallist'': 2015
*Hungarian Cup:
**''Gold Medallist'': 2017
**''Silver Medallist'': 2014, ...
Melvine Deba
Melvine Deba (born 8 January 1998) is a French handballer who plays for Chambray Touraine Handball.
Achievements
*French Cup:
**''Finalist'': 2017
* EHF Junior European Championship:
**''Gold Medalist'': 2017
References
External links
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Jovana Stoiljković
Jovana Stoiljković ( sr-cyr, Јована Стоиљковић; born 30 September 1988) is a Serbian handball player for Chambray Touraine Handball
Chambray Touraine Handball is the name of a French handball club from Chambray-lès-Tours. T ...
;CB
* 6
Carin Strömberg
Carin Strömberg (born 10 July 1993) is a Swedish handball player for Chambray Touraine Handball and the Swedish national team.
She competed at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship in Denmark.
In 2021 she was part of the Viborg HK team ...
* 10 Lucie Modenel
* 78 Manon Grimaud
;RB
* 11 Laura van der Heijden
* 15 Yaëlle Morvan
Transfers
:''Transfers for the 2025–26 season''
;Joining
* Eva Jarrige (RB) (from
Brest Bretagne Handball
Brest Bretagne Handball, also knows as BBH, is a French professional handball club from Brest, Brittany. This team currently competes in the French Women's Handball First League from 2016 and the 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League.
Histo ...
)
* Maëlle Faynel (LP) (from
Saint-Amand Handball
Saint-Amand Handball is the name of a French handball club from Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, France. This team currently competes in the French Women's Handball First League from 2020 and they play their home matches in Complexe Jean Verdavaine et S ...
CS Rapid București
Clubul Sportiv Rapid București is a Romanian multi-sport club based in Bucharest, Romania.
History
The club was founded as ''Asociația Culturală și Sportivă CFR'' in 1923.
Men's Football section
Domestic
*Liga I
**Winners (3): 196 ...
Melinda Szikora
Melinda Szikora (born 19 November 1988) is a Hungarian handball goalkeeper playing for SG BBM Bietigheim.
Achievements
* Hungarian Championship:
**''Gold Medallist'': 2015
*Hungarian Cup:
**''Gold Medallist'': 2017
**''Silver Medallist'': 2014, ...
(GK) (to
Borussia Dortmund Handball
Borussia Dortmund (''Ballspielverein Borussia 1909 e.V. Dortmund'', ''BVB'', ''BVB 09'') is a German professional women's handball team from Dortmund. They have competed in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen since 2015–2016 season, the top divis ...
)
Notable players
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Sophie Herbrecht
Sophie Herbrecht (born 13 February 1982) is a French retired handball player. She retired in 2020, playing for US Altkirch.
She became World Champion in 2003, when France won the 2003 World Championship in Croatia.
She represented France at th ...
Ionela Stanca
Ionela Stanca (née Gâlcă; born 9 January 1981) is a Romanian professional handballer who plays for Chambray Touraine Handball. She was voted into the ''All-Star Team'' in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship.Nely Carla Alberto
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Ana Paula Belo
Ana Paula Rodrigues Belo (née Rodrigues; born 18 October 1987) is a Brazilian former handball player. She played for the Brazilian national team. In 2013 she won the World Championship; the first time ever for Brazil and South America.
Career ...
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Szimonetta Planéta
Szimonetta Planéta (born 12 December 1993) is a Hungarian handballer for Polish club MKS Lublin and the Hungarian national team.
Achievements
*Nemzeti Bajnokság I:
**''Winner'': 2010, 2011, 2012
*Magyar Kupa:
**''Winner'': 2010, 2011, 2012, ...
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Anouk Nieuwenweg
Anouk Nieuwenweg (born 20 August 1996) is a Dutch handballer who plays for Neckarsulmer SU and the Netherlands national team.
She arrived this summer (2019), from Germany, in the club of Chambray Touraine Handball
Chambray Touraine Handball ...
Chambray
Chambray () is a commune in the Eure department of northern France, 13 km northeast of Évreux on the north bank of the river Eure.
The Château de Chambray, in the north of the commune, is the ancestral home of the Marquis de Venevelles ...