Athletic Bilbao Fear Chelsea & Liverpool Offers For Starlet Inigo Ruiz de Galarreta - Report



 Markel Susaeta: Athletic Bilbao Are A Stronger Side This Season

Stopper believes Athletic Bilbao are better one season on.

 Athletic Bilbao Defender Mikel San Jose Challenges Teammates To Defeat Atletico Madrid

Athletic Bilbao defender Mikel San Jose urges teammates to replicate Hercules performance versus Atletico Madrid.

 Athletic Bilbao Striker Fernando Llorente Feels Spain Need To Forget The World Cup To Progress

Athletic Bilbao forward Fernando Llorente states the importance for Spain to forget the World Cup now as they defend their Euro crown.

 Athletic Bilbao Suffer Injury Blows To Gaizka Toquero & Igor Gabilondo

Athletic Bilbao pairing Gaizka Toquero and Igor Gabilondo give coach Joaquin Caparros injury headache.

 La Liga Team Of The Week: Round 1

Goal.com showcases the best XI from the opening round of la Primera...

 Athletic Bilbao Defender Fernando Amorebieta Still Undecided On Long-Term Venezuela Future

Fernando Amorebieta hasn't closed the door on playing international football for Venezuela.

 La Liga Round-Up: Real Sociedad Make A Memorable Comeback To The Spanish Top Flight With Win Against Villarreal

Goal.com provides the lowdown on this afternoon's Primera Division encounters...

 Hercules Boss Esteban Vigo Rues Defensive Error In Athletic Bilbao Loss

The coach has vowed his team will not make a similar mistake again...

 Athletic Bilbao Coach Joaquin Caparros Thrilled With Opening Day Win Over Hercules

The Basque boss was happy to leave Alicante with three points secured...

 Hercules 0-1 Athletic Bilbao: Fernando Llorente Kicks Off La Liga 2010-11 With Winning Goal For Los Leones

The World Cup winner gets Athletic off to a winning start...

 Athletic Bilbao Defender Fernando Amorebieta Declines Opportunity To Represent Venezuela

Last minute u-turn after being selected in 23-man squad...

 La Liga Preview: Hercules - Athletic Bilbao

The curtain is raised on the new campaign with los Leones meeting los Herculanos in Alicante...

 Fernando Llorente Reassures Athletic Bilbao He Intends To Stay

Long-term servant aims for Europe next season with los Leones....

 La Liga Betting Special: Who Will Win The Title And Who Will Be Relegated According To The Bookies

Few surprises have been thrown up from the bookmakers when naming the likely contenders in Spain...

 Goal.com Special: La Liga Predictions 2010/11

As another exciting La Liga season prepares to kick off, Goal.com attempt to predict the big winners and losers...

 Athletic Bilbao away at Hercules - Follow LIVE text commentary
Athletic Bilbao away at Hercules Follow all the action as Athletic Bilbao travel away to Hercules in the Spanish Liga BBVA on 29-Aug-2010...

 Athletic Bilbao away at Hercules - Follow LIVE text commentary
Athletic Bilbao away at Hercules Follow all the action as Athletic Bilbao travel away to Hercules in the Spanish Liga BBVA on 28-Aug-2010...

 Yeste leaves Bilbao on a sad note
Midfielder Fran Yeste will leave Athletic Bibao this summer after more than a decade of service with the Basque club...

 Llorente relishes Spain role
Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente is delighted to have secured a place in Spain's 23-man squad for the World Cup finals in South Africa this summer...

 Caparros calls for more
Athletic Bilbao manager Joaquin Caparros is seeking an improvement from his players despite claiming a 4-3 success against Racing Santander on Monday evening...

 Ramalho breaks Bilbao records
Athletic Bilbao saw two club records threatened on Wednesday night when 16-year-old defender Jonas Ramalho was selected for the squad which faced Werder Bremen in the Europa League...

 Athletic Bilbao v Werder Bremen - Follow LIVE text commentary
Athletic Bilbao v Werder Bremen Follow every kick as Athletic Bilbao take on Werder Bremen at in the UEFA Europa League Group L
on 16-Dec-2009, kick off time 20:05 Bilbao: Amorebieta not for sale
Athletic Bilbao have issued a hands-off warning to any interested parties in Fernando Mardaras Amorebieta, after press reports linked the defender with a move to Liverpool...

 Llorente nears Bilbao deal
Athletic Bilbao are reportedly close to tying down a deal to keep Fernando Llorente at the club until 2013...

 Short lay-off for Llorente
Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente is set for a short injury lay-off...

 Stoichkov plans fixing action
Former Celta Vigo coach Hristo Stoichkov is planning to take the match-fixing allegation that has rocked Spanish football this week to UEFA and FIFA's highest office...

 Rubjales rejects fixing claim
Former Levante defender Luis Rubjales has rejected claims from ex-team-mate Inaki Descarga that the club deliberately lost a La Liga match...

 

Athletic Bilbao (also known as Athletic Club and Los Leones {The lions}) is a popular football club from Bilbao, Spain. Athletic Bilbao was founded in 1928 and played in the Spanish La Liga (Primera Division) since then. Athletic Bilbao has won the La Liga more than 7 times.

Athletic Bilbao club members are also called the Lions (Los Leones) because the Athletic Bilbao stadium was built near an old church named Saint Mammes after an early Christian which the Romans throw to the lions who refused to eat him and therefore he became to be known as a saint.

Athletic Bilbao players wear red uniforms with white stripes. Athletic Bilbao was one of the last major clubs which didn’t have any official sponsorship on their kit, it was only in the 2004/05 season when the club kit had an official sponsorship logo on it in exchange to hundreds of thousands of euros. Since 2008 Athletic Bilbao received more than 2,000,000 euros in exchange to being sponsored by a big oil company.

Athletic Bilbao had many ups and downs since it was established in 1928. in the 80's (in 1981) Athletic Bilbao had Javier Clemente as its new manager. Clemente has managed to assemble together good players and create one of the most successful Athletic Bilbao teams in the club's history. In the first season in charge Clemente led the team to the 4th place in the La Liga. In 1983, Athletic Bilbao won the La Liga and in 1984 Athletic Bilbao won the La Liga/ Copa Del Rev double.

In 1985, Athletic Bilbao won the 3rd place of La Liga; In 1986 Athletic Bilbao won the 4th place of La Liga. After Clemente has left the team, Athletic Bilbao has failed to win a major trophy. Athletic Bilbao has replced quite a few managers and eventually even managed to return Clemente as its manager but even Clemente did not succeed in restoring the team success.

It was only in 1996 when Luis Fernandez and managed to lead Athletic Bilbao to their second La Liga and qualified to the UEFA Champions League and have been quite successful since.