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Basconia
Full name	Club Deportivo Basconia
Founded	14 March 1913; 111 years ago
Ground	Polideportivo de Artunduaga, Basauri, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity	8,500
President	Juan Ignacio Azurmendi
Head coach	Bittor Llopis
League	Tercera Federación – Group 4
2023–24	Tercera Federación – Group 4, 2nd of 18
Website	www.cdbasconia.com
Home colours	Away colours

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

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.

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

As a separate club

Season	Tier	Division	Place
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	3ª	13th
1951–52	3	3ª	9th
1952–53	3	3ª	7th

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1953–54	3	3ª	13th
1954–55	3	3ª	3rd
1955–56	3	3ª	6th
1956–57	3	3ª	1st
1957–58	2	2ª	8th
1958–59	2	2ª	5th
1959–60	2	2ª	11th
1960–61	2	2ª	8th
1961–62	2	2ª	15th
1962–63	2	2ª	15th
1963–64	3	3ª	7th
1964–65	3	3ª	10th
1965–66	3	3ª	5th
1966–67	3	3ª	7th
1967–68	3	3ª	6th
1968–69	3	3ª	12th
1969–70	3	3ª	8th
1970–71	3	3ª	6th
1971–72	3	3ª	4th
1972–73	3	3ª	15th

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1973–74	3	3ª	12th
1974–75	3	3ª	14th
1975–76	3	3ª	16th
1976–77	3	3ª	10th
1977–78	3	2ª B	20th
1978–79	4	3ª	20th
1979–80	5	Reg. Pref.	4th
1980–81	5	Reg. Pref.	1st
1981–82	4	3ª	3rd
1982–83	4	3ª	4th
1983–84	4	3ª	8th
1984–85	4	3ª	1st

Season	Tier	Division	Place	Copa del Rey
1985–86	4	3ª	4th
1986–87	4	3ª	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	3ª	7th
1995–96	4	3ª	14th
1996–97	4	3ª	10th

As a farm team

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1997–98	4	3ª	1st
1998–99	4	3ª	7th
1999–2000	4	3ª	5th
2000–01	4	3ª	6th
2001–02	4	3ª	7th
2002–03	4	3ª	1st
2003–04	4	3ª	3rd
2004–05	4	3ª	8th
2005–06	4	3ª	4th
2006–07	4	3ª	5th
2007–08	4	3ª	5th
2008–09	4	3ª	7th
2009–10	4	3ª	10th
2010–11	4	3ª	8th
2011–12	4	3ª	10th
2012–13	4	3ª	12th
2013–14	4	3ª	4th
2014–15	4	3ª	16th
2015–16	4	3ª	14th
2016–17	4	3ª	10th

Season	Tier	Division	Place
2017–18	4	3ª	15th
2018–19	4	3ª	6th
2019–20	4	3ª	4th
2020–21	4	3ª	4th
2021–22	5	3ª RFEF	5th
2022–23	5	3ª Fed.	4th
2023–24	5	3ª Fed.	2nd
2024–25	5	3ª Fed.

6 seasons in Segunda División
8 seasons in Segunda División B
55 seasons in Tercera División
4 seasons in Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

As of 26 May 2023^[12]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ESP	Oier Gastesi
2	DF	ESP	Lander Arenal
3	DF	ESP	Asier Santamaría
4	DF	ESP	Aitor Sollano
5	DF	ESP	Aimar Duñabeitia
6	MF	ESP	Asier Santolaya
7	FW	ESP	Ibai Asenjo
8	FW	ESP	Iker Varela
9	FW	ESP	Álvaro Marín
10	MF	ESP	Carlos Mattheus
11	FW	ESP	Aimar Peña
12	DF	ESP	Miguel Barandalla


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
13	GK	COL	Kevin Ríos
14	MF	ESP	Ibon Badiola
15	MF	ESP	Junior Bita
16	DF	ESP	Eneko Ebro
19	FW	ESP	Ieltxu García
20	MF	ESP	Mikel Jauregizar
21	MF	ESP	Ibon Sánchez
22	DF	ESP	Erlantz Palacín
24	DF	ESP	Álex Alba
25	FW	ESP	Manex Irizar
30	GK	ESP	Aimar Peñalver