Handball Cercle Nimes is a French women's handball club from Nimes playing in the

French Championship The French rugby league championship (french: Le Championnat de France de Rugby à XIII) has been the major rugby league tournament for semi-professional and professional clubs in France since the sport was introduced to the country in the 1930s. ...

. It was established in 1971. Nimes' is one of the leading teams in the

Challenge Cup The Challenge Cup is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940, due to World War I and World War II respectively. It involves a ...

, having won the competition in 2001 and 2009. Its major success in other EHF competitions to date was reaching the 2012

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previ ...

quarterfinals.Profile
in EHF's website It has reached the

national cup The English National Cup is an annual basketball knock-out competition held between professional, semi-professional and amateur teams from the various divisions of the National Basketball League. For most of the competition's history, the draw ha ...

's final in 1999, 2003 and 2011 and the

League Cup In several sports, most prominently association football, a league cup or secondary cup generally signifies a cup competition for which entry is restricted only to teams in a particular league. The first national association football tournament t ...

's final in 2010, losing to ASPTT Metz, ES Besançon and Toulon Handball.

Titles

** 2001, 2009

References

External links

* Handball clubs in France Sport in Nîmes 1971 establishments in France Women's handball clubs Handball clubs established in 1971 {{handball-team-stub