Spacer's Toulouse Volley is a French professional

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club based in

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. It was formed from the merger of the volleyball sections of the Toulouse Université Club (TUC) and the Toulouse Olympique Aérospatiale Club (TOAC). The club currently competes in the top flight of French volleyball, the LNV Ligue A.

History

In 1992, the ''TOAC'' (Toulouse Olympique Aérospatiale Club) reached the French second division (''Pro B''). Two years later, in 1994, the ''TOAC'' team, still playing in Pro B, and the ''TUC'' team, in fourth division (Nationale 2), merged to create ''TOAC-TUC VB'', a single entity aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of volleyball in Toulouse. In 1996, the president of the basketball club ''Spacer’s Toulouse'' proposed to group together the

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, and

clubs under a single banner to form an omnisports club, in order to better promote these so-called ''minor'' sports compared to

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and

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. The first team of ''TOAC-TUC VB'' then adopted the name Spacer's Toulouse Volley-ball. In 1999, the

club from

, the driving force behind this project, was relegated to a lower division, and its president decided to step down. As a result, the Spacer’s Toulouse entity was abandoned by all the clubs—except for the

team, which continued to use the name for its

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team’s communications. In 2005, the Toulousains were crowned champions of PRO B France. They were then promoted to the PRO A championship. During the 2006/2007 season, the club lost in the semi-finals of both the French Championship and the French Cup. Spacer's Toulouse Volley-Ball finished fourth in the championship, the club’s best ranking to date. They thus qualified for the European Cup. In January 2008, the Toulouse club reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup (CEV Cup) for the first time, losing to

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(the future winner of the tournament). On January 28, 2011, the club broke the attendance record for a French Ligue A Men’s Championship match: 4,223 spectators at the Palais des Sports André Brouat in Toulouse. This record was set during the Toulouse-

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match of the sixteenth matchday of the championship. During the 2012/2013 season, the club qualified for its first final of the French Cup, losing to

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. After another fourth place in the championship during the 2013/2014 season, the club qualified for the

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for the 2014/2015 season. They were then eliminated by

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in the quarter-finals, the eventual winner of the tournament. This fourth place finish in the Ligue A regular season was achieved again during the 2015/2016 season. In 2017-2018, for the first time the club is qualified for the

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. They won against

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during the

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, and were set in the

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with

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and

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. They only scored one point in 6 matchs (thanks to a 2-3 home defeat against Jastrzębski). The Spacer's have many difficulties during this 2017-2018 season, ending at the twelfth and last place of the league, and only saved from relegation to the second division due to the league expanding to fourteen clubs..

Honours

Domestic

* French Championship :Runners up (1): 2016-2017 * Pro B :Winners (1): 2004-2005 * French Cup :Runners up (1): 2012-2013

International

:Quarter-finals (2): 2007-2008, 2014-2015 *

:League round (1): 2017-2018

References

External links

*
Team profile
at ''Volleybox.net'' {{Pro A volleyball Volleyball clubs in France Volleyball clubs established in 1994 1994 establishments in France Sport in Toulouse