Athletic Club Men’s Team: It has been a very positive first half of the 2023-24 season for the Athletic Club men’s team. They have performed above expectations, playing some exciting attacking football, and are in contention for Champions League qualification. They overcame an opening day defeat at home to Real Madrid to climb up to […]
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Bilbao and Lyon top big five leagues for home-grown players
The Football Observatory at the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) has published a world ranking of football clubs showing which have fielded the most home-grown players in domestic league matches so far this season. The results make for very interesting reading from the perspective of this website because Athletic Club and Olympique Lyonnais are […]
Wins for Bilbao Athletic and Basconia
Bilbao Athletic earned a hard-fought 1-0 away win against CD Calahorra in their Segunda Federación Group 2 clash on Sunday. It was the tenth consecutive victory for Carlos Gurpegui’s team and it leaves them six points clear of second placed Tudelano at the top of the table after twelve games of the 2023-34 season. Calahorra, […]
Valencia Women 1-2 Athletic Club Women
Athletic Club de Bilbao’s women’s team earned an impressive away win against Valencia in the Liga F on Saturday evening. They bounced back from the previous weekend’s disappointing 2-1 home defeat to Madrid CF to beat Valencia by the same scoreline. Clara Pinedo opened the scoring for Athletic Club in the 43rd minute with a […]
Athletic Club 3-0 Cádiz
Ernesto Valverde’s Athletic picked up their third win of the season to move up to a provisional third place in the table with a crushing 3-0 victory over Cádiz in front of 42,881 fans at the San Mamés. The home side had much the better of the first half and rattled the crossbar twice before […]
Bilbao Athletic rout Barbastro to kickstart season
Bilbao Athletic, the ‘B’ team of Athletic Club, thrashed Barbastro 4-0 at Lezama to pick up their first win of the season in Group II of the Segunda Federación, the fourth tier of the Spanish football pyramid. A pair of first half strikes from Iker Varela, either side of a fine direct free-kick from Urko […]
Losing start for Athletic Club Femenino
Athletic Club Femenino succumbed to a defeat in their opening Liga F match of the 2023-24 season. They were well beaten by Atlético de Madrid in the Spanish capital. The Basques managed to contain their opponents until half time, but their defence was finally breached by Sheila Guijarro with a header from a corner in […]
Liga F campaign set to commence
Athletic Club Femenino begin their Liga F season with a trip to Atlético de Madrid this weekend. Kick off is scheduled for 11:00 on Saturday 16th September 2023. They had been scheduled to start their campaign at home to Granada the previous weekend, but the start of the Liga F season was delayed by one […]
Matchday 5: Athletic face Cadiz
Athletic Club face Cádiz CF at San Mamés in a 13:00 kick off on Saturday the 17th of September for matchday five of the 2023-24 La Liga season. The two clubs are currently locked together on seven points in the La Liga table, in fifth and sixth places respectively, having experienced similar starts to the […]
Solid start for Athletic
Athletic Club have made a solid start to their 2023-24 La Liga campaign, winning two, drawing one and losing one match prior to the first international break of the season. The seven points that they have garnered thus far leave them in joint fourth place in the nascent league table. Their solitary defeat came in […]