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Athletic Club
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Spanish association football team from Bilbao, Spain
Athletic Club is a professional soccer team based in Bilbao, Spain, that has been a prominent fixture in Spanish football for over a century. The club is notable for its tradition of only signing players with Basque Country roots, a unique policy that distinguishes it from other major European football clubs.
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- Instance of
- association football club
- Official name
- Athletic Club
- Participant in
- Supercopa de España de fútbol 2025
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Bilbao
- Headquarters
- Ibaigane Palace
- Subsidiary
- CD Baskonia
- Sport
- association football
- League
- La Liga
- Official website
- www.athletic-club.eus
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- home venue
- Lezama Facilities
- head coach
- Ernesto Valverde
- Commons category
- Athletic Club de Bilbao
- topic's main category
- Category:Athletic Bilbao
- inception
- 1898-07-18
- nickname
- Zurigorriak
- topic has template
- Template:Fb team Athletic Bilbao
- social media followers
- 665000
- category for members of a team
- Category:Athletic Bilbao footballers
- official color
- white
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FFFFFF
- native label
- Athletic Club
- different from
- Athletic Club
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Athletic Club (Basque: Athletic Kluba; Spanish: Athletic Club), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao (Spanish: Athletic de Bilbao), or simply Athletic, is a professional football club based in the city of Bilbao, Spain. They are known as Lehoiak (The Lions) 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. The team plays its home matches at the San Mamés Stadium. Its home colours are red and white striped shirts with black shorts.
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