The French NM1 champion will play in Pro B in 2024-2025. The DNCCG (1) of the National Basketball League thus validated the commitment of Hyères-Toulon yesterday morning. The financial policeman took the opportunity to reveal the composition of the Elite and its antechamber for the coming season (read opposite).
The Var club can therefore breathe a sigh of relief. “But it’s deserved, immediately resumes the president, Mathieu Perrymond. On the evening of the climb, we immediately put ourselves in position to succeed in putting together a budget which increased by almost 50%. There was a lot of work.”
The smallest payroll
For its return to Pro B, HTV will present a budget of 2.1 million euros (including all youth teams), with a sports payroll amounting to 600,000 euros. (2). It is, more or lessas much as during the club’s last stay in this division (it was champion in 2015-2016).
It is also the lowest payroll in the division. “It’s good not to blow it up to keep our DNA, by looking for talents that other clubs don’t bet on. Stacking up stars, big salaries, I don’t believe in it. On the other hand, I believe in the collective! In addition, the budget/result correlation does not exist in NM1 or in Pro B”continue Perrymond.
1. National Directorate of Management Consulting and Control.
2. With “framework of the budgeted amount”, which the club requested. This means that if he wishes to increase it during the season, he will have to make a request to the Superior Management Council.
A Pro B with 18 or 20 clubs?
The Pro B version 2024-2025, with a redesigned formula, must increase to twenty clubs (compared to 18 this season). However, the DNCCG, as expected, refused the commitment of Lille and Boulogne-Levallois for financial reasons. It therefore published yesterday a list of eighteen committed clubs (1).
Will the League stay there? Or will she venture into the draft field? Relegated sportingly, Évreux communicated in this sense. The other candidate could well be Chartres, 2nd in the upper group of NM1 behind HTV.
1. Aix-Maurienne, Antibes, Blois (relegated), Boulazac, Châlons-Reims, Denain, Fos, Gries-Souffel, HTV (promoted), Nantes, Orléans, Pau-Lacq-Orthez, Poitiers, Roanne (relegated), Rouen, Saint-Chamond, Vichy. And Caen (the other promoted, not yet auditioned).
