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Athletic Club "B", commonly known as Bilbao Athletic, is the reserve team of Athletic Club, a football club based in Bilbao, in the autonomous community of Basque Country in Spain. The team are playing in the Primera Federación – Group 2. Founded in 1964, the team holds home matches at the small stadium attached to the club's training facility at Lezama, holding 3,250 spectators[1] or occasionally at San Mamés Stadium, with its 53,500-seat capacity, for important fixtures.

Bilbao Athletic

Full name	Athletic Club "B"
Nickname(s)	Los Leones / Lehoiak (The Lions) Los Cachorros / Katxorroak (The Puppies)
Founded	1964; 58 years ago (1964)
Ground	Lezama (Field 2)
Capacity	3,250
President	Aitor Elizegi
Head coach	Bingen Arostegi
League	1ª Federación – Group 2
2021–22	1ª RFEF – Group 1, 15th of 20
Home colours Away colours

Reserve teams in Spain play in the same football pyramid as their senior team rather than a separate league. However, reserves cannot play in the same division as their senior team. Therefore, Bilbao Athletic are ineligible for promotion to La Liga. Reserve teams are also no longer permitted to enter the Copa del Rey. In addition, only under-23 players, or under-25 with a professional contract, can switch between senior and reserve teams. In recent years, most of Bilbao Athletic's players have been graduates from the club's youth setup ('cantera') via the feeder team, Basconia. As a result of Athletic's signing policy, only Basque players feature also for the reserve team.

History

The Bilbao Athletic name was first used in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, when both La Liga and the Copa del Rey were suspended; most of the top Athletic players had joined the Euzkadi XI, a team put together at the suggestion of José Antonio Aguirre, the president of the Basque Country (and himself a former Athletic Bilbao footballer). Euzkadi went on tour to raise funds for the Basque cause, and also played in the Mexican domestic league. However, at home the Campeonato de Vizcaya had resumed in 1938. With their best players abroad with Euzkadi, Athletic could only field weakened sides and, to avoid possible shameful results damaging the club's reputation, chose to enter under the name Bilbao Athletic (the name was derived from the two clubs that merged in 1903 to become Athletic Bilbao – Bilbao Football Club and Athletic Club).[2] Despite the low expectations, they still won the championship and entered the 1939 Copa del Generalísimo.

The name was revived in 1964, when Athletic Bilbao decided to establish a reserve team with Agustín Gaínza as coach. The new Bilbao Athletic initially played in local regional leagues before winning promotion to Tercera División in 1966, under Rafa Iriondo; in 1969 they first reached Segunda División.

In 1983–84, with José Ángel Iribar as coach, and an emerging Julio Salinas as striker, the reserves finished in second place, only trailing Castilla CF; both teams were ineligible for promotion, and Salinas won the Pichichi.

Bilbao Athletic dropped back down to the third level in 1996, but the main squad continued to be nurtured with several players who had spells with the reserves.

After 19 seasons in the Segunda División B, Bilbao Athletic returned to the second tier after defeating Cádiz CF, 3–1 on aggregate, in the promotion playoffs.[3] However, in their campaign in the Segunda they were reliant on the same group, a core squad of 20-year-olds who had never played at such a high level before, and despite battling performances in most of their games, a pattern of narrow defeats led to the team finishing bottom and being relegated back down at the first attempt.[4] Somewhat ironically, the promoted teams that season were CD Leganés whose squad included three players on loan from Athletic who would have been eligible to play for Bilbao Athletic that season, as well as the parent club's local rivals Alavés and Osasuna.

The team came close to another promotion in 2020–21, losing to Burgos after extra time in the final round of the promotion play-offs[5] (they had lost in the opening round in 2018 and 2020).

Premier League International Cup

Athletic have competed in the Premier League International Cup (an Under-23 tournament, all matches played in England), with most of the players selected for their squad drawn from Bilbao Athletic plus some younger additions from Basconia and the Juvenil squads (the rules permit the use of a limited number of overage players, but Athletic do not use them). In 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17 the club qualified from their group but were eliminated in the quarter-finals, while in the 2017–18,[6] 2018–19 and 2019–20 editions, they bowed out at the group stage.

Background

• As farm team:
  • Club Atlético de Bilbao Amateur (1964–66)
  • Bilbao Atlético Club (1966–72)
  • Bilbao Athletic Club (1972–91)
• As reserve team:
  • Athletic Club B (1991–2006)
  • Bilbao Athletic (2006–)

Season to season

• As a farm team

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1964–65 4 1ª Reg. 17th DNP 1965–66 4 1ª Reg. 1st DNP 1966–67 3 3ª 1st DNP 1967–68 3 3ª 3rd DNP 1968–69 3 3ª 1st DNP 1969–70 2 2ª 13th Round of 32 1970–71 3 3ª 5th 3rd round 1971–72 3 3ª 9th 1st round 1972–73 3 3ª 5th 3rd round 1973–74 3 3ª 13th 1st round 1974–75 3 3ª 8th 1st round 1975–76 3 3ª 4th 2nd round 1976–77 3 3ª 4th 1st round 1977–78 3 2ª B 5th 2nd round

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1978–79 3 2ª B 7th 2nd round 1979–80 3 2ª B 12th 2nd round 1980–81 3 2ª B 3rd DNP 1981–82 3 2ª B 10th 2nd round 1982–83 3 2ª B 1st 2nd round 1983–84 2 2ª 2nd 2nd round 1984–85 2 2ª 15th 1st round 1985–86 2 2ª 7th 1st round 1986–87 2 2ª 6th 3rd round 1987–88 2 2ª 17th 4th round 1988–89 3 2ª B 1st DNP 1989–90 2 2ª 3rd Withdrew[nb 1] 1990–91 2 2ª 13th N/A

• As a reserve team

Season Tier Division Place 1991–92 2 2ª 13th 1992–93 2 2ª 15th 1993–94 2 2ª 14th 1994–95 2 2ª 16th 1995–96 2 2ª 18th 1996–97 3 2ª B 12th 1997–98 3 2ª B 2nd 1998–99 3 2ª B 6th 1999–2000 3 2ª B 8th 2000–01 3 2ª B 6th 2001–02 3 2ª B 6th 2002–03 3 2ª B 4th 2003–04 3 2ª B 11th 2004–05 3 2ª B 9th 2005–06 3 2ª B 6th 2006–07 3 2ª B 15th 2007–08 3 2ª B 15th 2008–09 3 2ª B 11th 2009–10 3 2ª B 15th 2010–11 3 2ª B 12th

Season Tier Division Place 2011–12 3 2ª B 8th 2012–13 3 2ª B 3rd 2013–14 3 2ª B 5th 2014–15 3 2ª B 2nd 2015–16 2 2ª 22nd 2016–17 3 2ª B 8th 2017–18 3 2ª B 4th 2018–19 3 2ª B 6th 2019–20 3 2ª B 3rd 2020–21 3 2ª B 2nd / 2nd 2021–22 3 1ª RFEF 15th 2022–23 3 1ª Fed.

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• 14 seasons in Segunda División
• 2 seasons in Primera Federación
• 31 seasons in Segunda División B
• 10 seasons in Tercera División
• 2 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Current squad

As of 21 September 2022.[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Álex Padilla 2 DF  ESP Ander Lorente 4 DF  ESP Jon Sillero (captain) 5 DF  ESP Mikel Mendibe 6 MF  ESP Unai Naveira 7 FW  ESP Adu Ares 8 FW  ESP Jon Guruzeta 9 FW  SCO Ewan Urain[8] 10 FW  ESP Jon Cabo 11 MF  ESP Mikel Goti 12 DF  ESP Aitor Paredes 13 GK  ESP Ibon Ispizua 14 MF  ESP Unai Gómez

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ESP Unai Eguíluz 16 DF  ESP Oier López 17 FW  ESP Aritz Pascual 18 FW  ESP Luis Bilbao 19 MF  ESP Alejandro Rego 20 MF  ESP Unai Vélez 21 DF  ESP Raúl Chasco 22 DF  ESP Hugo Rincón 23 MF  ESP Beñat Gerenabarrena 24 GK  ESP Ander Iru 25 DF  ESP Beñat de Jesús 26 DF  ESP Adrián Trespalacios — FW  ESP Andoni Tascón

Reserve team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 DF  ESP Eneko Ebro

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP Asier Grande (at Sestao until 30 June 2023) — MF  ESP Kepa Uriarte (at Sestao until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ESP Ibai Sanz (at Gernika until 30 June 2023)

Honours

• Segunda División B:[lower-alpha 1] 1982–83,[lower-alpha 2] 1988–89[lower-alpha 2]
• Tercera División:[lower-alpha 1] 1966–67,[lower-alpha 3] 1968–69[lower-alpha 4]
• Biscay Championship: 1938–39

Notes

Stadium

For big matches, they use San Mamés, the first team stadium.

Selected coaches

• Javier Clemente
• Agustín Gaínza
• José Ángel Iribar
• Rafa Iriondo
• Ignacio Izagirre (284 matches)
• Iñaki Sáez (290 matches, record)[9]
• José Ángel Ziganda (242 matches)

Notable players

Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have reached international status.

See also

• CD Basconia (Athletic Bilbao's feeder club)

References

External links

• Team history at Athletic Bilbao's official website
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• La Cantera De Lezama – Unofficial website focusing on Athletic’s youth teams (in Spanish)

На других языках

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[de] Athletic Bilbao B

Bilbao Athletic ist die zweite Mannschaft vom Athletic Club de Bilbao. Athletic B spielt seit der Saison 2021/22 in der Primera División RFEF.

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- [en] Athletic Bilbao B

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[es] Bilbao Athletic

El Bilbao Athletic es el equipo filial del Athletic Club. Fue adscrito como club filial oficial en 1964 bajo el nombre de Club Atlético de Bilbao Amateur,[1] aunque existió brevemente en los años 1940 bajo denominación de Club Deportivo Bilbao y que realizaba las funciones de equipo filial.[1]

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[ru] Бильбао Атлетик

«Бильбао Атлетик» (баск. и исп. Bilbao Athletic) — баскский футбольный клуб из города Бильбао, в провинции Бискайя, резервная команда клуба «Атлетик Бильбао», и ранее назывался «Атлетик Бильбао Б». Резервные команды в Испании выступают в тех же лигах, что и главные команды, но резервные команды не могут выступать в одном дивизионе с главной командой, в связи с этим «Бильбао Атлетик» не может выступать в Примере, пока там играет «Атлетик Бильбао».

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