Athletic Club, 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. They are known as Los Leones because their stadium was built near a church called San Mamés, which was named after Saint Mammes, an early Christian thrown to the lions by the Romans. Mammes pacified the lions and was later made a saint. The team plays its home matches at the San Mamés Stadium. Its home colours are red and white-striped shirts with black shorts.
Athletic Club with the first Copa del Rey, in 1903, with Juan de Astorquia in the center
In the 1930s, Athletic Bilbao won four leagues and four cups in just six years. In the image, the 1930–31 La Liga winning team.
Dani, coach Koldo Aguirre and Iribar in 1978.
Coach Javier Clemente.
Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the tenth largest city in Spain, with a population of more than 347,000 as of 2023. The Bilbao metropolitan area has 1,037,847 inhabitants, making it the most populous metropolitan area in northern Spain; with a population of 875,552, the comarca of Greater Bilbao is the fifth-largest urban area in Spain. Bilbao is also the main urban area in what is defined as the Greater Basque region.
Statue of Diego López V de Haro, founder of the city
First engraving of the city, made by Franz Hohenberg in 1544
The Battle of Luchana
Engraving depicting the city in the 18th century
