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FC Copenhague. Villalibre, Asier Asier Villalibre. La Hoya Lorca. By then the Franco regime also ended and the club reverted to using the name Athletic.

In , Javier Clemente became manager. He put together one of the most successful teams in the club's history. In and , Athletic finished third and fourth respectively.

Clemente's Athletic acquired notoriety for its aggressive style of play. The club has failed to win a major trophy since the success of the era.

In , Athletic had signed Joseba Etxeberria from regional rivals Real Sociedad, causing considerable bad feeling between the two clubs.

The club narrowly avoided relegation during the —06 and —07 seasons, [8] the latter being the worst in the club's history.

Athletic would soon move to a new stadium, albeit in a partially completed state. Bielsa promoted young French defender Aymeric Laporte into the side, while striker Fernando Llorente completed a free transfer to Juventus.

After Bielsa, Ernesto Valverde returned for a second spell as manager, and he signed or brought through several new players as Athletic came fourth in the league , meaning a UEFA Champions League campaign.

In the return leg at Camp Nou , Athletic hung on with a 1—1 draw to win their first trophy since Athletic advanced to the quarter-finals in the Europa League where they were only defeated on penalties by the holders and eventual repeat winners Sevilla FC.

Valverde left his position at the end of the —17 season after four years. However, his spell was even less fruitful [27] and in December , having won just two of his fifteen matches at the helm and with the team in the relegation zone , Berizzo was dismissed.

B-team coach Gaizka Garitano took over [28] and oversaw an improvement in results, with the club moving well out of danger and narrowly missing out on a Europa League spot on the last day.

The beginning of the —20 season saw more consistent results. After the first five games of the season, the Lions sat at the top of the table, their best start in 26 years.

However, in the Copa del Rey , they survived two penalty shootouts against second-tier opponents and then defeated Barcelona to reach the semi-finals.

Athletic began playing in an improvised white kit, but in the —03 season, the club's first official strip became half-blue, half-white shirts similar to those worn by Blackburn Rovers , [32] which were donated by Juan Moser.

Later, a young student from Bilbao named Juan Elorduy, who was spending Christmas in London , was charged by the club to buy 25 new shirts, but was unable to find enough.

Waiting for the ship back to Bilbao and empty handed, Elorduy realised that the colours of the local team Southampton [33] matched the colours of the City of Bilbao, and bought 50 shirts to take with him.

Upon arriving in Bilbao, the club's directors decided almost immediately to change the team's strip to the new colours, and since , Athletic Club have played in red and white stripes.

Athletic were one of the last major clubs who did not have the logo of an official sponsor emblazoned on their kit. In the UEFA Cup and the Copa del Rey of —05, the shirt sported the word " Euskadi " in green in exchange for hundreds of thousands of euros from the Basque Government [39] Red, white and green are the Basque colours.

In , Athletic revealed a new away kit that was inspired by the Basque flag. The Kutxabank logo now adorns the front of Athletic's kits.

Athletic's shield has incorporated the escutcheons of Bilbao and Biscay. From the shield of Bilbao, it takes the bridge and the church of San Anton , and the wolves from the powerful Haro family , who were lords of Biscay and founders of Bilbao in Its first documented use dates from The first official club crest was a blue circle surrounded by a belt with the letters A and C in the centre in white as the club colours were at that point.

The second was from , consisting of a red-and-white flag newly adopted as the shirt colours with a red square in the top left corner, containing the initials of the club in white.

The third, from , involved the same flag, but in this case shown on a pole wrapped around a football this is very similar to the Real Sociedad crest still in use today, ignoring the crown of royal patronage.

The first version of the current crest, roughly an inverted triangular shield shape with a section of red-and-white stripes and a section of local motifs, is from ; this was a really simple version which was adapted several times.

In , the club added full colour to the design and recovered the original English "Athletic Club" name.

In , the shape of the shield was slightly altered and a new "Athletic Club" typeface was introduced. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

The current board is presided by Aitor Elizegi , businessman by profession, whose candidacy was successful during the elections in December, succeeding the previous president, Josu Urrutia.

Elizegi was the winner with 9, votes