PARIS
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Tremblay-en-France Handball
After starting out as Vert Galant Sportif Tremblay in 1972, the club adopted the name Tremblay-en-France Handball from 2002 onwards, coinciding with a successful promotion push to the second division. Just two seasons later, in 2005, the club earned a place in the top flight of French handball for the first time ever. Relegated in 2016, Tremblay went straight back up to the Liqui Moly Starligue the following season as second division champions.
Coached by Benjamin Braux, who has been coaching between 2017 and 2019, the Yellow and Black finished the 2017/18 at a creditable 11th spot, maintaining their elite status through crucial victories over other candidates for the drop such as Saran, Massy and Ivry.
One of Tremblay’s most memorable seasons was 2009/10, when they clinched third place in the table, reached the final of the French Cup, where they lost to Montpellier, and enjoyed a run to the quarter-finals of the EHF Cup Winners’ Cup (a competition in which they would finish runners-up the following year), where Spanish outfit BM Granollers proved one hurdle too far.
On June 2020, the club appointed Joël Da Silva as new head coach, after having coach Toulouse and Saint-Raphaël.
PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS
On March 11, 2018, the two teams went head-to-head in a French Cup quarter-final, of which the Parisians came out on top (33-21), thanks in part to seven goals from Sander Sagosen.
On the 2019/20 season, the Parisians were travelling to Tremblay on matchday 12 of the Liqui Moly Starligue. After 11 games without defeat, the Red and Blue were determined to continue on this path and that's what they did by winning 32-41 with Mikkel Hansen in a very good form and best scorer of the match.
On November 11, 2020, the Parisians have been travelling to Tremblay, as part of Liqui Moly Starligue. The Red and Blue went victorious 33 - 30, with 8 goals from Ferran Sole.
Players to follow Duel
By signing up with Paris Saint-Germain Handball in the summer of 2023, Kent Robin Tonnesen is discovering a fifth championship, after playing 10 seasons in Germany and Hungary. Under the colours of Veszprem, then Pick Szeged, Kent Robin won 6 national titles, achieving the Cup and Championship double in 2021 and 2022. In 2019, he was a finalist in the Champions League with Veszprem alongside Kentin Mahé. That year, Vardar won for the second time in their history.
Born in Lille on September 10th, 1987, Erwan Siakam-Kadji is a French handball player playing as a left-back. Trained at the Lille Métropole Handball Club Villeneuve d'Ascq, he signed his first professional contract in 2007 under the colours of US Dunkerque, with whom he won 1 French Championship title in 2014, 1 French Cup in 2011 and 1 League Cup in 2013. After two seasons with US Créteil between 2014 and 2016, he joinded Tremblay-en-France Handball, with whom he is a key backline player alongside Luka Sebetic. During the 2016/17 season, he contributed in Tremblay return to the Liqui Moly Starligue, the club finishing best attack and best defense in the Proligue championship.
The Palais des Sports
Inaugurated in September 2005, the Palais des Sport is the official theatre of Tremblay-en-France Handball. Dedicated to the practice of handball, the venue hosts meetings of professionals, but also of the city's youth and school sections. With a capacity of 1,100 seats in match configuration, the site also hosts the headquarters and offices of Tremblay Handball since summer 2016.
Esplanade Maurice Thorez
93 290 Tremblay-en-France
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