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CD Basconia

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Basconia
Full nameClub Deportivo Basconia
Founded14 March 1913; 111 years ago (1913-03-14)
GroundPolideportivo de Artunduaga, Basauri, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity8,500[1]
PresidentJuan Ignacio Azurmendi
Head coachBittor Llopis[2]
LeagueTercera Federación – Group 4
2023–24Tercera Federación – Group 4, 2nd of 18
Websitehttp://www.cdbasconia.com

Club Deportivo Basconia is a Spanish football club based in Basauri, Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded on 14 March 1913, it currently plays in Tercera Federación – Group 4, holding home games at the Artunduaga Sports Centre, in the town of Basauri. Years ago, Basconia used to play in the Estadio López Cortázar, which was demolished in order to build new buildings.[3]

In 1997, they entered into a partnership with Athletic Bilbao to serve as a feeder club for Bilbao and essentially operate as the club's C team.[4]

History

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Founded in 1913 and named after a local iron and steel-working works [eu] (later owned by the Altos Hornos de Vizcaya company), Basconia reached the national third level (Tercera División) thirty years later. The club played in the second tier for six seasons (1957–63), but this was before the creation of the regionalised new third division in the 1970s.

In 1997, Basconia became Basque neighbours Athletic Bilbao's feeder club, not being eligible for promotion if the reserves, Bilbao Athletic, playing in the level above, did not attain the same goal. The primary function of the agreement is to aid the development of young players in a challenging environment while remaining in the same group under the close guidance of the parent club; a number of teenagers who spent a season at Basconia became professionals at Athletic Bilbao, eventually playing in La Liga and UEFA competitions. In January 2020 it was confirmed that the partnership, due to expire that summer, had been renewed for another three years to 2023.[5]

Basconia's place in Athletic's club structure means that the squad changes greatly each season. About half of the players move up to play for Bilbao Athletic, or go out on loan to other local clubs playing at Segunda División B level. They are replaced by graduates, usually 17 or 18 years old, from the previous year's Juvenil A team. The squad is normally expanded further with new signings from the regions's youth clubs, most notably Danok Bat and Antiguoko.

Basconia B playing at Soloarte

Although Athletic Bilbao control the main squad's players and coaching personnel, Basconia retains its own club committee and staff and operates several youth teams as well as amateur side Basconia B who compete in the Preferente de Vizcaya league, two levels below the first team. These other teams play in a separate small stadium in the town, Soloarte. Occasionally the main squad has been supplemented by some of Basconia's 'own' players in emergencies – Mikel Rico was with Basconia B when he appeared in one Tercera División fixture in 2001;[6] he left Biscay for a long career across Spain which eventually brought him back to sign for Athletic in 2013.

In January 2018, with the team struggling to remain in the league, Basconia took the unusual step of recruiting some older, more experienced players including Thaylor Lubanzadio[7][8][9] to help them maintain their 23-year divisional status,[10] which was eventually accomplished – they finished 15th, 5 points above the relegation zone.[11]

Season to season

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  • As a separate club
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1929–30 5 2ª Reg. 1st
1930–31 5 2ª Reg.
1931–32 5 2ª Reg.
1932–33 5 2ª Reg.
1934–35 4 1ª Reg. 6th
1935–36 4 1ª Reg. 7th
1939–40 5 2ª Reg. 2nd
1940–41 4 1ª Reg. 6th
1941–42 3 1ª Reg. 7th
1942–43 3 1ª Reg. 6th
1943–44 4 1ª Reg. 4th
1944–45 4 1ª Reg. 3rd
1945–46 4 1ª Reg. 5th
1946–47 4 1ª Reg. 14th
1947–48 5 2ª Reg. 7th
1948–49 5 2ª Reg. 1st
1949–50 4 1ª Reg. 1st
1950–51 3 13th
1951–52 3 9th
1952–53 3 7th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1953–54 3 13th
1954–55 3 3rd
1955–56 3 6th
1956–57 3 1st
1957–58 2 8th
1958–59 2 5th
1959–60 2 11th
1960–61 2 8th
1961–62 2 15th
1962–63 2 15th
1963–64 3 7th
1964–65 3 10th
1965–66 3 5th
1966–67 3 7th
1967–68 3 6th
1968–69 3 12th
1969–70 3 8th
1970–71 3 6th
1971–72 3 4th
1972–73 3 15th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1973–74 3 12th
1974–75 3 14th
1975–76 3 16th
1976–77 3 10th
1977–78 3 2ª B 20th
1978–79 4 20th
1979–80 5 Reg. Pref. 4th
1980–81 5 Reg. Pref. 1st
1981–82 4 3rd
1982–83 4 4th
1983–84 4 8th
1984–85 4 1st
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1985–86 4 4th
1986–87 4 2nd Second round
1987–88 3 2ª B 6th Third round
1988–89 3 2ª B 14th First round
1989–90 3 2ª B 15th
1990–91 3 2ª B 9th Third round
1991–92 3 2ª B 13th Third round
1992–93 3 2ª B 7th Third round
1993–94 3 2ª B 17th First round
1994–95 4 7th
1995–96 4 14th
1996–97 4 10th
Season Tier Division Place
1997–98 4 1st
1998–99 4 7th
1999–2000 4 5th
2000–01 4 6th
2001–02 4 7th
2002–03 4 1st
2003–04 4 3rd
2004–05 4 8th
2005–06 4 4th
2006–07 4 5th
2007–08 4 5th
2008–09 4 7th
2009–10 4 10th
2010–11 4 8th
2011–12 4 10th
2012–13 4 12th
2013–14 4 4th
2014–15 4 16th
2015–16 4 14th
2016–17 4 10th
Season Tier Division Place
2017–18 4 15th
2018–19 4 6th
2019–20 4 4th
2020–21 4 4th
2021–22 5 3ª RFEF 5th
2022–23 5 3ª Fed. 4th
2023–24 5 3ª Fed. 2nd
2024–25 5 3ª Fed.

Current squad

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As of 26 May 2023[12]

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 Spain ESP Oier Gastesi
2 DF Spain ESP Lander Arenal
3 DF Spain ESP Asier Santamaría
4 DF Spain ESP Aitor Sollano
5 DF Spain ESP Aimar Duñabeitia
6 MF Spain ESP Asier Santolaya
7 FW Spain ESP Ibai Asenjo
8 FW Spain ESP Iker Varela
9 FW Spain ESP Álvaro Marín
10 MF Spain ESP Carlos Mattheus
11 FW Spain ESP Aimar Peña
12 DF Spain ESP Miguel Barandalla
No. Pos. Nation Player
13 GK Colombia COL Kevin Ríos
14 MF Spain ESP Ibon Badiola
15 MF Spain ESP Junior Bita
16 DF Spain ESP Eneko Ebro
19 FW Spain ESP Ieltxu García
20 MF Spain ESP Mikel Jauregizar
21 MF Spain ESP Ibon Sánchez
22 DF Spain ESP Erlantz Palacín
24 DF Spain ESP Álex Alba
25 FW Spain ESP Manex Irizar
30 GK Spain ESP Aimar Peñalver

Honours

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Winners:[a] 1956–57[b]
Winners (3):[c] 1984–85,[d] 1997–98,[e] 2002–03[f]

Selected coaches

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Notable players

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Note: this list contains players who have appeared in at least 50 league games for the first team or have reached international status.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Third tier
  2. ^ Promoted in play-offs
  3. ^ Fourth tier
  4. ^ Not promoted in play-offs
  5. ^ Won group in play-offs, but ineligible for promotion as Bilbao Athletic did not gain promotion from the level above (they too made the playoffs but finished third)
  6. ^ Not promoted in play-offs, and would have been ineligible as Bilbao Athletic did not gain promotion from the level above
  7. ^ a b c d While the club operated independently (pre-1997).
  8. ^ Youth teams only.

References

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  1. ^ "Dimensiones, asistencia de Estadio Pedro López Cortázar en Basauri – Fichajes.com". Fichajes.com : Información sobre los fichajes y actualidad del mundo del fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. ^ [1], Athletic Bilbao
  3. ^ "Estadio López Cortázar (Basozelai) :: ceroacero.es". ceroacero.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Athletic Club and CD Basconia Extend PArtnership Agreement Through 2023". Inside Athletic. 17 January 2020.
  5. ^ Basconia, subsidiary team of Athletic Club until 2023, Athletic Bilbao, 17 January 2020
  6. ^ Basconia 3–0 UPV; Athletic Bilbao, 11 April 2001
  7. ^ "Thaylor profile". Athletic Bilbao. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Adrián Celador profile". Athletic Bilbao. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Iker Amorrortu profile". Athletic Bilbao. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  10. ^ "El Athletic ficha a un futbolista de 23 años para el Basconia" [Athletic signs a 23-year-old player for Basconia]. El Correo (in Spanish). 3 January 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Tercera División Grupo 4 – IV – Euskadi, Temporada 2017/2018". resultados-futbol.com. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  12. ^ Basconia squad at Athletic Club official website
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