Olympique Antibes

Antibes Sharks
Antibes Sharks
Leagues	LNB Pro A
Founded	1933
History	Olympique Antibes; (1933–2012); Antibes Sharks; (2012–present)
Arena	Azur Arena Antibes
Capacity	5,249
Location	Antibes, France
Team colors	Navy, Gold, Azure, White ;
Championships	3 French Championships; 1 Pro B Leaders Cup
Website	sharks-antibes.com
Uniforms
Home	Away

Olympique Antibes Juan-les-Pins Côte d'Azur, or OAJLP, or Antibes Sharks, is a basketball club from the city of Antibes, France. The club's men's senior team currently plays in LNB Pro A, the French first division.

History

The basketball team rose to prominence in the years 1950–60. In 1970, the team won the championship of France thanks to players of exception like Jean-Claude Bonato, Dan Rodriguez and Jacques Cachemire.

At the beginning of the Eighties, Antibes suffered several disappointing seasons, but improved throughout the decade, and eventually won the LNB Pro A title in 1991. At the beginning of the Nineties, Antibes regularly contended for titles alongside Limoges CSP and Pau-Orthez.

In 1995, the club won a third national title before being plagued by financial problems. In 2002, in spite of finishing in a position that would have kept them safe from relegation, the club was dropped to LNB Pro B for lack of financial guarantees. Antibes then went through difficult years in Pro B. Then, in 2006–07, the club were relegated from Pro B to the nominally amateur Nationale 1. Although their 16th-place finish that season would normally have kept them safe from relegation, that season saw three teams relegated instead of the normal two because of a decision to reduce the number of teams in the top Pro A league. They would return to the professional ranks at the first opportunity, winning the Pro B crown in 2008.

For the 2013 season, Antibes has new ambitions in a Pro B league where the other favourites are clubs like Pau-Orthez, Hyères Toulon, two teams coming from Pro A, and Bourg-en-Bresse. They end up in fifth place at the end of the regular season and win the play-offs against Champagne Châlons Reims, synonym with a spot in the Pro A championship from next season. Yet in the following year, they finish bottom of the league with 6 wins and 24 defeats, and returned once more to the Pro B.

During the 2014-2015 season, they finish 6th of the regular season, and win also the Leaders Cup, a victory that, as a matter of fact, guaranteed them a playoff spot. They win the playoffs against Denain after having defeated Nantes and Le portel on their way to the final. Just one year after leaving the Pro A championship they earned the right to go back to the elite tier.

Honours

French League

Winners (3):1969–70, 1990–91, 1994–95

French League 2

Winners (1): 2012–13

French League 3

Winners (1): 2007-08

LNB Pro B Leaders Cup

Winners (1): 2015

Top performances in European & Worldwide competitions

Season	Achievement	Notes
EuroLeague
1970–71	Quarter-finals	4th place in a group with Ignis Varese, Slavia VŠ Praha and AŠK Olimpija
FIBA Saporta Cup
1994–95	Semi-finals (third)	eliminated 2-1 by Benetton Treviso, 95-88 (W) in Treviso, 93-99 (L) and 83-87 (L) in Antibes
FIBA Korać Cup
1972	Semi-finals	eliminated by OKK Beograd, 72-99 (L) in Belgrade and 65-61 (W) in Antibes
1983–84	Semi-finals	eliminated by Orthez, 68-75 (L) in Orthez and 71-69 (W) in Antibes
1985–86	Semi-finals	eliminated by Banco di Roma Virtus, 69-78 (L) in Antibes and 75-83 (L) in Rome
1993–94	Quarter-finals	eliminated by Recoaro Milano, 85-98 (L) in Milan and 95-88 (W) in Antibes

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Antibes Sharks roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
PG	7000100000000000000♠1	Campbell, Louis	7000191000000000000♠1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)		39 – (1979-04-01)1 April 1979
SF	7000200000000000000♠2	Gaddefors, Viktor	7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb)	26 – (1992-10-08)8 October 1992
PF	7000400000000000000♠4	Blue, Tim	7000204999999999999♠2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	7002100000000000000♠100 kg (220 lb)	34 – (1984-06-10)10 June 1984
SG	7001100000000000000♠10	Cordinier, Isaïa	7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb)	21 – (1996-11-28)28 November 1996
F/C	7001120000000000000♠12	Mayembo, Isaac	7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)		19 – (1999-01-04)4 January 1999
SF	7001130000000000000♠13	Rigot, Paul	7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	23 – (1995-02-10)10 February 1995
SF	7001220000000000000♠22	Kouguere, Max	7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb)	31 – (1987-03-12)12 March 1987
C	7001320000000000000♠32	Thompson, Trevor	7000213000000000000♠2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)	7002113000000000000♠113 kg (249 lb)	24 – (1994-06-12)12 June 1994
C	7001930000000000000♠93	Raposo, Fernando	7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)		29 – (1989-07-07)7 July 1989
PG	7001990000000000000♠99	Wiscart-Goetz, Tom	7000187000000000000♠1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)		19 – (1999-06-22)22 June 1999

Head coach

Julien Espinosa

Assistant coach(es)

Marc Berjoan

Team manager

Vincent Bérard

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: April 16, 2018

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Played at least three seasons for the club. Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club. Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time. Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	French Cup
2008–09	2	Pro B	11th	Round of 16
2009–10	2	Pro B	16th	Quarterfinalist
2010–11	2	Pro B	14th	Quarterfinalist
2011–12	2	Pro B	11th	Round of 32
2012–13	2	Pro B	5th	Round of 16
2013–14	1	Pro A	16th	Round of 64
2014–15	2	Pro B	2nd
2015–16	1	Pro A	12th
2016–17	1	Pro A	14th

External links

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Pro A
LNB FFBB List of Clubs List of Venues Awards French League System French Basketball Hall of Fame
2017–18 teams	Antibes Sharks AS Monaco Boulazac Bourg-en-Bresse Chalon-sur-Saône Châlons-Reims Cholet Dijon Gravelines-Dunkerque Hyères-Toulon Le Mans Levallois Limoges Lyon-Villeurbanne Nanterre Pau-Lacq-Orthez Le Portel Strasbourg
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Other competitions	Pro A Leaders Cup (League Cup) French Cup (Federation Cup) Match des Champions (Supercup)
Awards	Awards MVP Finals MVP Best Scorer Best Defender Best Sixth Man Most Improved Player Best Young Player Best Coach
Other	All-Star Game French clubs in international competitions