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Athletic Bilbao in European football. Athletic Bilbao, a professional football club based in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, has competed in international tournaments as representatives of La Liga since 1956. The club's first entry into an official competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) was the European Cup ...
Athletic Club (Basque: Bilboko Athletic Kluba; Spanish: Athletic Club de Bilbao), commonly known as just Athletic domestically and often as Athletic Bilbao abroad, is a professional football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain.
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Apr 15, 2021 · In Europe, this is a unique policy for a professional team in the modern age. Only one other major club internationally, Chivas de Guadalajara in Mexico, still has a similar approach. Athletic even have an old saying to sum it up: “Con cantera y afición, no hace falta importación” (“With home-grown talent and fans, there is no need for imports”).
Athletic Club is born. The British 'foot-ball' arrives in Bilbao via the River Nervión. The love of a new sport. Football emerges in Biscay in the late 19th century as Bilbao and its surrounding areas experience a period of rapid industrial development.
Nov 15, 2019 · For more than a century, only those born or raised in the Basque Country, made up of four provinces in north-east Spain and three in south-west France, are eligible to play for Athletic. It is...
Mar 13, 2023 · The largest city in the Basque Country, Bilbao, is home to Athletic Club, better known as Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish football team established in 1898. With eight titles to their name, it is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Spanish football.
