After going through financial strife and successive reorganisations, Tours Métropole Basket is now the heir of the bankrupt club.
As such the club later received subsidies from SNCF, the nationalised railway company, also enjoying in kind benefits such as reduced ticket fares.
[4] During the 1950s, after the parent company had been amalgamated into the SNCF, the club was renamed Association Sportive de Préparation Olympique, keeping the same initials.
[6] After beating Berck (crowned champions in 1973 and 1974) by two points in March 1976, Tours won the French league that same year.
NPO Tours was declared bankrupt on 5 June 1998 with debts of 4.5 million francs, its participation in the league had been earlier denied.
[16] When the club became Tours Joué Basket it played in the Palais des Sports Marcel Cerdan in Joué-lès-Tours.