Ligue Nationale de Basketball

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|champion=ASVEL |website=»»http://www.lnb.fr }} The LNB (Ligue Nationale de Basketball) is the top men's French professional basketball league. There are two divisions: French Pro A League (first division) and French Pro B League (second division).

Pro A

All 18 Pro A division teams play each other twice during the regular season. At the end of the regular season, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs. The three teams with the worst regular season records are relegated to Pro B. Starting in 2006-07, all rounds except for the finals are best-of-three series (previously, they had been two-legged); the final is a single game played at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris.

2009–10 Teams

ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
Basket Club Maritime Gravelines Dunkerque Grand Littoral
Cholet Basket
Chorale Roanne Basket
Élan Sportif Chalonnais
Entente Orléanaise Loiret
Hyères-Toulon Var Basket
Jeanne d’Arc de Vichy Val d’Allier Auvergne Basket
Jeanne d'Arc Dijon Bourgogne
Le Mans Sarthe Basket
Paris-Levallois Basket
Spes Philippin omnisports Rouen Basket
Saint Thomas Basket Le Havre
Stade Lorrain Université Club Nancy
Strasbourg Illkirch Graffenstaden Basket
Union Poitiers Basket 86

Pro B

All 18 Pro B teams play each other twice during the regular season. The top eight regular season teams qualify for the Pro B playoffs. The regular season and playoff champions are promoted to Pro A while the bottom two regular season teams are relegated to the amateur Nationale 1 league. The quarterfinals and the semifinals are two-legged and the final is a single game.

2009-10 teams

Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket
Olympique d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins Côte d'Azur Basket
Besançon Basket Comté Doubs
JSA Bordeaux Basket (Jeunes de Saint-Augustin Bordeaux Basket)
Boulazac Basket Dordogne
Jeunesse laïque de Bourg-en-Bresse
Stade Clermontois Basket Auvergne
Étendard de Brest
Étoile de Charleville-Mézières
ALM Évreux Basket
Étoile Sportive Saint-Michel Le Portel Côte d'Opale (aka ESSM Le Portel)
Lille Métropole BC
Cercle Saint-Pierre de Limoges
Jeunesse Sportive des Fontenelles de Nanterre (aka JSF Nanterre)
L'Hermine de Nantes Atlantique
Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez
Saint-Étienne Basket
Saint-Vallier Basket Drôme

LNB champions

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align;" !width="75"|Season !width="200"|Team |- | 1987–88 || Limoges |- | 1988–89 || Limoges |- | 1989–90 || Limoges |- | 1990–91 || Olympique Antibes |- | 1991–92 || Pau-Orthez |- | 1992–93 || Limoges |- | 1993–94 || Limoges |- | 1994–95 || Olympique Antibes |- | 1995–96 || Pau-Orthez |- | 1996–97 || Racing Paris |- | 1997–98 || Pau-Orthez |- | 1998–99 || Pau-Orthez |- | 1999–00 || Limoges |- | 2000–01 || Pau-Orthez |- | 2001–02 || ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne |- | 2002–03 || Pau-Orthez |- | 2003–04 || Pau-Orthez |- | 2004–05 || Strasbourg |- | 2005–06 || Le Mans |- | 2006–07 || Roanne |- | 2007–08 || Nancy |- | 2008–09 || ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne |}

Performance by club

{| class="wikitable" |- ! width=25%|Club ! width=10%|Champions ! width=65%|Winning years |- | Pau-Orthez | 7 | 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004 |- | Limoges | 6 | 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2000 |- | Olympique Antibes | 2 | 1991, 1995 |- | ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne | 2 | 2002, 2009 |- | Racing Paris | 1 | 1997 |- | Strasbourg | 1 | 2005 |- | Le Mans | 1 | 2006 |- | Roanne | 1 | 2007 |- | Nancy | 1 | 2008 |}

Notes and references

External links

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