Espoir Basket Club (in English: Hope Basketball Club), also known as Espoir BC, is a Gabonese semi-professional

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team based in

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. The team has won the Gabonese Cup in 2023. They play in the

Estuaire Province Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km. The provincial capital is Akanda, but the largest city is Libreville, Gabon's national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which li ...

's Ligue de Basket-ball de l’Estuaire (Libabe), and won the province championship in 2022 after defeating former champions Clutch Time in the final, 73–37. As runners-up of the 2022 Gabonese Cup and replacement of champions Clutch Time, Espoir earned the right to play in the

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. In September 2022, Espoir recruited Stéphane Lasme, widely considered the best Gabonese player ever, as a reinforcement. Michaël Oganda Igoue is the team's current head coach.

Honours

Ligue de Basket-ball de l’Estuaire * Champions (1): 2022 Gabonese Cup * Winners (1): 2023 * Runners-up (1): 2022

In international competitions

BAL Qualifiers *

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– ''In progress''

Players

2022 roster

The following is the Espoir roster for the

References

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