Basket-Ball Club Arantia Larochette is professional basketball club from

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

that competes in the

Total League The Nationale 1 Hommes, officially named the Luxembourgish Basketball League (formerly known as the Total League), is the highest men's basketball league in Luxembourg. The league's governing body is Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Basketball ( ...

History

Aranatia Larochette was founded in 1964 and the name of the club comes from the Arantia Kelteschen stands for the White Iernz by the rock communities. Arantia won its first and only one national Cup in 1970. As cup winner, the club participated for the first time in its history at the

1970–71 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup The 1970–71 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the fifth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 3 December 1970, to 7 April 1971. I ...

and eliminated by the Belgian Bell Mechelen with two defeats (85-106 in homecourt and 48-108 in Winketkaai of

Mechelen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...

). The next year, Arantia faced

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in the first round of

1971–72 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup The 1971–72 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the sixth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 4 November 1971, to 21 March 1972. ...

, and eliminated again with two easy defeats from the

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Honours & achievements

Luxembourgian Cup * Winners (1): 1969–70

References

{{Reflist Basketball teams established in 1964 Basketball teams in Luxembourg