CD Basconia

For the basketball team, see Saski Baskonia.
Basconia
Full name Club Deportivo Basconia
Founded 1913
Ground López Cortázar, Basauri,
Basque Country, Spain
Ground Capacity 8,500
Chairman Juan Ignacio Azurmendi
Manager Joseba Etxeberria
League 3ª – Group 4
201415 3ª – Group 4, 16th

Club Deportivo Basconia is a Spanish football club based in Basauri, Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1913 it currently plays in Tercera División – Group 4, holding home games at Estadio de López Cortázar, with an 8,500-seat capacity.

History

Founded in 1913 as CD Basconia, it reached the national level (Tercera División) thirty years later. It played six seasons in Segunda División (1957–63), but this was before the creation of Segunda División B.

In 1997 Basconia became Basque neighbours Athletic Bilbao's feeder club, not being eligible for promotion if the reserves, Bilbao Athletic, playing in the above level, did not attain the same goal. Several first-team players made the gradual transition before eventually playing in La Liga and European competition.

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.

Although the players and coaching staff of the main squad are controlled by Athletic Bilbao, Basconia retains its own club committee and staff and operates several youth teams as well an 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 called Soloarte. Occasionally the main squad has been supplemented by some Basconia B players in times of injuries.

Season to season

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1945–50 4 Regional
1950/51 3 13th
1951/52 3 9th
1952/53 3 7th
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
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
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
1973/74 3 12th
1974/75 3 14th
1975/76 3 16th
1976/77 3 10th
1977/78 3 2ªB 20th
1978/79 4 20th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1979/80 5 Regional
1980/81 5 Regional
1981/82 4 3rd
1982/83 4 4th
1983/84 4 8th
1984/85 4 1st
1985/86 4 4th
1986/87 4 2nd
1987/88 3 2ªB 6th
1988/89 3 2ªB 14th
1989/90 3 2ªB 15th
1990/91 3 2ªB 9th
1991/92 3 2ªB 13th
1992/93 3 2ªB 7th
1993/94 3 2ªB 17th
1994/95 4 7th
1995/96 4 14th
1996/97 4 10th
1997/98 4 1st
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1998/99 4 7th
1999/00 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

Current Squad

As of 2 September 2016[1]

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

No. Position Player
Cameroon GK Chris Atangana
* Spain GK Hodei Oleaga
* Spain DF Aitor Arego
Spain DF Julen Bernaola
Spain DF Álvaro Mateo
* Spain DF Mikel Murgoitio
Spain DF Javier Murua
Spain DF Daniel Vivian
* Spain DF Iñigo Sukia
Colombia DF Deiby Ochoa
* Spain MF Iker Bilbao
No. Position Player
Spain MF Aitor Gandiaga
Spain MF Asier Parra
Spain MF Antonio Salado
Spain MF Víctor San Bartolomé
* Spain FW Iñigo Arzuaga
Spain FW Jon Morcillo
* Spain FW Andoni ‘Oli’ Fernández
Spain FW Alejandro Larrayoz
Spain FW Iñigo Vicente
* Spain FW Jon ‘Dopi’ González
* Spain FW Alexander Valiño

Honours

Selected coaches

Famous players

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

References

External links

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