CD Basconia

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Association football club in Spain

title: "CD Basconia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["athletic-bilbao", "reserve-team-football-in-spain", "football-clubs-in-the-basque-country-(autonomous-community)", "association-football-clubs-established-in-1913", "1913-establishments-in-spain", "sport-in-biscay", "segunda-división-clubs", "cd-basconia", "greater-bilbao"] description: "Association football club in Spain" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Basconia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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groundPolideportivo de Artunduaga, Basauri, Basque Country, Spain
capacity8,500
chairmanJuan Ignacio Azurmendi
chrtitlePresident
managerBittor Llopis
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| clubname = Basconia | image = CD Baskonia.png | fullname = Club Deportivo Basconia | nickname = | founded = | ground = Polideportivo de Artunduaga, Basauri, Basque Country, Spain | capacity = 8,500 | chairman = Juan Ignacio Azurmendi | chrtitle = President | manager = Bittor Llopis | mgrtitle = Head coach | league = | season = | position = | website = | pattern_la1 = | pattern_b1 = _yellow_stripes | pattern_ra1 = | leftarm1 = 000000 | body1 = 000000 | rightarm1 = 000000 | shorts1 = 000000 | socks1 = 000000 | pattern_la2 = | pattern_b2 = _navyhalf | pattern_ra2 = | leftarm2 = FFFFFF | body2 = FFFFFF | rightarm2 = 000090 | shorts2 = FFFFFF | socks2 = FFFFFF 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 , 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.

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.

History

Founded in 1913 and named after a (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 (1957–1963), 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 at the level above, do not attain the same goal. The primary function of the agreement is to aid the development of young players in a challenging environment while keeping them in the same group setting and tactical system under the close guidance of the parent club; a number of teenagers who spent one or two seasons at Basconia have become 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.

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 Federación level. They are replaced by graduates, usually 17 or 18 years old, from the previous year's Juvenil A team. Typically the squad is expanded further with new signings from the region's youth clubs, the most notable of which are Danok Bat and Antiguoko.

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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; 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 to help them maintain their 23-year divisional status, which was eventually accomplished – they finished 15th, 5 points above the relegation zone.

Season to season

  • As a separate club ::data[format=table] | Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1928–29 | 5 | 2ª Reg. P. | 1st | | | 1929–30 | 5 | 2ª Reg. P. | 2nd | | | 1930–31 | 5 | 2ª Reg. P. | 2nd | | | 1931–32 | 5 | 2ª Reg. P. | 3rd | | | 1932–33 | 5 | 2ª Reg. P. | 2nd | | | 1933–34 | 5 | 2ª Reg. P. | 3rd | | | 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 | 3ª | 13th | | ::

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SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del ReyRound of 32PreliminaryFirst roundRound of 16PreliminarySecond round
1951–5233ª9th
1952–5333ª7th
1953–5433ª13th
1954–5533ª3rd
1955–5633ª6th
1956–5733ª1st
1957–5822ª8th
1958–5922ª5th
1959–6022ª11th
1960–6122ª8th
1961–6222ª15th
1962–6322ª15th
1963–6433ª7th
1964–6533ª10th
1965–6633ª5th
1966–6733ª7th
1967–6833ª6th
1968–6933ª12th
1969–7033ª8th
1970–7133ª6th
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SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del ReyFirst roundFirst roundFirst roundThird roundSecond roundFirst roundFirst roundSecond roundFirst roundFirst round
1971–7233ª4th
1972–7333ª15th
1973–7433ª12th
1974–7533ª14th
1975–7633ª16th
1976–7733ª10th
1977–7832ª B20th
1978–7943ª20th
1979–805Reg. Pref.4th
1980–815Reg. Pref.1st
1981–8243ª3rd
1982–8343ª4th
1983–8443ª8th
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SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del ReySecond roundSecond roundThird roundFirst roundThird roundThird roundThird roundFirst round
1984–8543ª1st
1985–8643ª4th
1986–8743ª2nd
1987–8832ª B6th
1988–8932ª B14th
1989–9032ª B15th
1990–9132ª B9th
1991–9232ª B13th
1992–9332ª B7th
1993–9432ª B17th
1994–9543ª7th
1995–9643ª14th
1996–9743ª10th
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SeasonTierDivisionPlace
2017–1843ª15th
2018–1943ª6th
2019–2043ª4th
2020–2143ª4th
2021–2253ª RFEF5th
2022–2353ª Fed.4th
2023–2453ª Fed.2nd
2024–2553ª Fed.1st
2025–2642ª Fed.
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Current squad

Honours

Selected coaches

Notable players

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

References

References

  1. "Dimensiones, asistencia de Estadio Pedro López Cortázar en Basauri – Fichajes.com".
  2. [https://www.athletic-club.eus/en/coaches/bittor-llopis]{{Dead link. (July 2025)
  3. (17 January 2020). "Athletic Club and CD Basconia Extend PArtnership Agreement Through 2023". Inside Athletic.
  4. [https://www.athletic-club.eus/en/news/2020/01/17/el-basconia-sera-filial-del-athletic-club-hasta-2023 Basconia, subsidiary team of Athletic Club until 2023], Athletic Bilbao, 17 January 2020
  5. [http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/match-statistics/4_319/2000-01_basconia_upv.html Basconia 3–0 UPV] {{Webarchive. link. (7 November 2017 ; Athletic Bilbao, 11 April 2001)
  6. "Thaylor profile". Athletic Bilbao.
  7. "Adrián Celador profile". Athletic Bilbao.
  8. "Iker Amorrortu profile". Athletic Bilbao.
  9. (3 January 2018). "El Athletic ficha a un futbolista de 23 años para el Basconia". [[El Correo]].
  10. "Tercera División Grupo 4 – IV – Euskadi, Temporada 2017/2018".
  11. [https://www.athletic-club.eus/en/teams/basconia/2025-26/squad Basconia squad at Athletic Club official website]

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