ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a French professional women's

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

club from

Villeneuve-d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métro ...

playing in the

Ligue Féminine de Basketball The Ligue Féminine de Basketball (LFB; ''Women's Basketball League'') is the top women's France, French professional basketball league. The LFB authorities announced that the championship is renamed La Boulangère Wonderligue (LBWL) as for the se ...

since 2000.

Team history

Honours

* Ligue Féminine ** Winners (2): 2017, 2024 ** Runner-up (1): 2023 * French Cup ** Runner-up (3): 2003, 2008, 2014 *

EuroCup Women The EuroCup Women (officially ''FIBA EuroCup Women'') is the second-level basketball competition with teams from associate members of FIBA Europe. It succeeds the Ronchetti Cup. Unlike the EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup Men, the competition is entir ...

** Winners (2): 2015, 2025 * Euroleague Women ** Runner-up (1):

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Players

Current roster

Famous former players

Émilie Gomis Émilie Gomis (born 18 October 1983) is a French-Senegalese professional basketball player playing point guard The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the Basketball positions, five positions in a regulation baske ...

* Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca * Florence Lepron * Lætitia Kamba * Megan Mahoney *

Michaela Moua Michaela Moua (born 18 August 1976 in Helsinki) is a Finland, Finnish former basketball player. Born of Finnish mother and Ivory Coast, Ivorian father Moua started her career in the Finnish women's basketball league at the age of 16. In 1996 she j ...

Emma Meesseman Emma Meesseman (born 13 May 1993) is a Belgian professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's basketball), Fenerbahçe of the Women's Basketball Super League and EuroLeague Women. After playing basketball in Belgium, Meesseman was ...

References

Villeneuve-d'Ascq Basketball teams established in 1987 EuroCup Women–winning clubs {{France-basketball-team-stub