Five MUACOL players were called up to their respective national team squads for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, which somewhat confusingly took place in January 2024, in the Ivory Coast. There wasn’t a huge amount to celebrate for any of them as they all experienced somewhat disappointing campaigns. You can read a summary of […]
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Mid-Season Report: Athletic Club
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Athletic win the Super Cup
Athletic Club sensationally beat Barcelona 3-2 after extra time to win the Supercopa de España final and capture their first trophy in over five years and only their second since their glorious double-winning season of 1983-84. Having despatched Real Madrid 2-1 in the semi-final in Malaga on Thursday night thanks to a brace of goals […]
Bilbao Weekend Preview: 28th – 29th Sept 2019
Athletic Club Weekend Fixtures Sat 28/09/2019 12:00 – Athletic Club v Valencia (San Mamés) Sat 28/09/2019 17:30 – Bilbao Athletic v Osasuna B (Estadio de Lezama 2) Sun 29/09/2019 15:00 – Athletic Club Femenino v Deportivo Abanca(Estadio de Lezama 2) Athletic Club face Valencia in the early kick off on Saturday with the chance to […]
Bilbao still unbeaten after draw at Leganes
Athletic Club failed to pick up their first away win of the season, but did manage to preserve their unbeaten record courtesy of a 1-1 draw away at bottom-of-the-table Leganes, who picked up only their second point of the campaign. Raul Garcia put Athletic ahead in the 59th minute with his fourth goal in his […]