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After going through financial strife and successive reorganisations, Tours Métropole Basket is now the heir of the bankrupt club. As recently as the 2017–18 season, it had played in the fourth-tier
Nationale 2, but earned promotion to Nationale 1 for 2018–19, and returned to the professional ranks by
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Touraine champion every year from 1932 to 1940. During the 1950s, after the parent company had been amalgamated into the SNCF, the club was renamed Association Sportive de Préparation Olympique, keeping the same initials. It reached the Nationale, the highest division in the country, in
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117:Capacity
1401:Quimper
1396:Orléans
1351:Antibes
1325:2021–22
1320:2020–21
1315:2019–20
1310:2018–19
1305:2017–18
1300:2016–17
1295:2015–16
1290:2014–15
1285:2013–14
1280:2012–13
1273:Seasons
1166:13 July
1122:13 July
1093:13 July
1061:13 July
1017:13 July
848:11 July
428:1975–76
362:Honours
235:History
208:in the
182:Website
56:History
48:Founded
38:Leagues
1447:Awards
1391:Nantes
1376:Évreux
1361:Chalon
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341:2009.
269:Chinon
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142:
1473:Other
1386:Lille
1334:Teams
1222:Pro B
839:(PDF)
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696:1950s
657:1960s
588:1970s
534:1980s
510:1990s
486:2020s
393:Pro B
349:Arena
276:Berck
250:Tours
206:Tours
129:Tours
120:1,200
109:Arena
1242:FFBB
1168:2015
1124:2015
1095:2015
1063:2015
1019:2015
850:2015
441:FIBA
255:SNCF
51:1925
1454:MVP
1235:LNB
1141:763
1137:Roy
1036:165
1032:Roy
992:136
988:Roy
974:116
970:Roy
955:Roy
940:Roy
925:Roy
910:Roy
895:Roy
877:Roy
862:Roy
470:NBA
315:NPO
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