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Arenas Club
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Full nameArenas Club de Getxo
Nickname(s)El Histórico
Founded1909; 115 years ago (1909) as Arenas Foot-ball Club
GroundGobela
Getxo, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity2,000[1]
PresidentFrancisco Javier Egusquiaguirre
Head coachJavier Olaizola
LeagueSegunda Federación – Group 2
2023–24Segunda Federación – Group 2, 12th of 18
Websitehttps://arenasclub.com/

Arenas Club de Getxo is a Spanish football club based in the town of Getxo, near Bilbao, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1909, it currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 2, holding home games at Campo Municipal de Gobela, with a 2,000-seat capacity.[2] They were winners of the 1919 Copa del Rey, beating FC Barcelona 5–2.

It was among the pioneering clubs of Spanish football, and in 1928 was a founding member of La Liga, alongside neighbouring Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Real Unión. Only Real Unión has remained a consistent rival since then due to both of their downfalls from the top flight.

History

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Origins of local football

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The area of Greater Bilbao was deeply connected to Britain due to its iron ore mines and industry.[3] Don Manuel, a priest in the local parish of the Las Arenas neighborhood, would gift balls to local children during Catechism lessons. Some of these boys would go on to study in England and learn about the local game of football. After their return to Getxo, they spread football to nearby neighborhoods.[4]

By 1901, weekly matches were played in the fields of Lamiako by youth from Las Arenas.[5] In 1903 the same group would win the "Copa Athletic", the biggest local tournament at the juvenile level, as well as play a match against Club Ciclista de San Sebastián, the precursor to Real Sociedad.[5] They eventually founded a local team in 1909 (encouraged by the recent creation of the Spanish Federation of Football Clubs)[6][better source needed] with the name of Arenas Football Club.[4] It was renamed to Club Arenas three years later.[5]

In 1914 they moved their home ground to the local sports club Real Club Jolaseta in the Neguri neighborhood.[5]

Early successes

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In 1912 they started competing in the Campeonato Norte along with Real Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao, Racing de Santander, Sporting de Gijón and Celta de Vigo, being crowned champion in 1917.

During the 1916–17 season of the Campeonato, all the teams except for Arenas, Athletic, and Real Unión were suspended.[7] The sporting committee of the tournament decided to play only the remaining matches between these three teams.[8] Jolastokieta, one of the suspended teams, was dissolved that year. Arenas lost one match and won another against Unión as well as beating Athletic twice to claim the title.[a] They then beat Sporting de Gijón in the semifinals.[11] This qualified them to that year's Copa del Rey, where it reached the final in Barcelona, losing 1–2 against Madrid FC after extra time.[5]

In 1917 a knock-out match in the Spanish Cup[12] between Arenas and Athletic Bilbao had to be suspended after the pitch was stormed by Athletic supporters who were looking to assault the referee for seeming biased against their team.[13]

Arenas playing FC Barcelona in the 1919 Copa del Rey Final

In 1919 Arenas won another regional competition, the Campeonato de Vizcaya, thus qualifying for the Copa del Rey again, and won the national tournament after defeating FC Barcelona 5–2 in the final, scoring three in extra time.[4] The following year, when the Spain national team were runners-up at their international debut in the Olympic Games, the squad included three players from the club, Francisco Pagazaurtundúa, Félix Sesúmaga, and Pedro Vallana.[4]

Team of 1927, that year the club played the Copa del Rey final

Arenas Getxo appeared in Spanish Cup finals on two further occasions, losing against Barcelona in 1925 (0–2) and two years later against Real Unión (0–1), the latter in the only all-Basque decisive match in the competition's history not to feature Athletic Bilbao.[14][15] Every member of the Spanish squad at the 1928 Olympics was with a Basque club, and Arenas provided four of the players.

Decline

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After playing in La Liga's first seven editions – finishing third in 1929–30 – and the following six seasons in the second division, the club has spent the vast majority of its existence competing at the fourth level, with the occasional visit to the regional leagues. In 2015, Arenas gained promotion to the third tier for the first time in 35 years, via the playoffs.[16]

Season to season

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Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1929 1 1ª 5th Round of 16
1929–30 1 1ª 3rd Round of 16
1930–31 1 1ª 5th Semi-finals
1931–32 1 1ª 5th Round of 16
1932–33 1 1ª 7th Round of 32
1933–34 1 1ª 10th Round of 32
1934–35 1 1ª 12th Sixth round
1935–36 2 2ª 2nd Round of 16
1939–40 2 2ª 7th
1940–41 2 2ª 8th First round
1941–42 2 2ª 7th First round
1942–43 2 2ª 4th First round
1943–44 2 2ª 12th
1944–45 3 3ª 2nd
1945–46 3 3ª 1st
1946–47 3 3ª 1st
1947–48 3 3ª 8th
1948–49 3 3ª 13th
1949–50 3 3ª 3rd
1950–51 3 3ª 10th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1951–52 3 3ª 16th
1952–53 3 3ª 10th
1953–54 3 3ª 3rd
1954–55 3 3ª 9th
1955–56 3 3ª 4th
1956–57 3 3ª 4th
1957–58 3 3ª 4th
1958–59 3 3ª 7th
1959–60 3 3ª 1st
1960–61 3 3ª 3rd
1961–62 3 3ª 3rd
1962–63 3 3ª 2nd
1963–64 3 3ª 3rd
1964–65 3 3ª 5th
1965–66 3 3ª 9th
1966–67 3 3ª 6th
1967–68 3 3ª 7th
1968–69 3 3ª 15th
1969–70 3 3ª 15th
1970–71 4 Reg. Pref. 10th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1971–72 4 Reg. Pref. 6th
1972–73 4 Reg. Pref. 5th
1973–74 4 Reg. Pref. 2nd
1974–75 4 Reg. Pref. 10th
1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 2nd
1976–77 3 3ª 13th
1977–78 4 3ª 13th
1978–79 4 3ª 2nd
1979–80 3 2ª B 18th
1980–81 4 3ª 2nd
1981–82 4 3ª 18th
1982–83 5 Reg. Pref. 1st
1983–84 4 3ª 6th
1984–85 4 3ª 11th
1985–86 4 3ª 13th
1986–87 4 3ª 12th
1987–88 4 3ª 13th
1988–89 4 3ª 14th
1989–90 4 3ª 17th
1990–91 4 3ª 10th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1991–92 4 3ª 8th
1992–93 4 3ª 8th
1993–94 4 3ª 6th
1994–95 4 3ª 19th
1995–96 5 Terr. Pref. 13th
1996–97 5 Terr. Pref. 1st
1997–98 4 3ª 13th
1998–99 4 3ª 8th
1999–2000 4 3ª 3rd
2000–01 4 3ª 7th
2001–02 4 3ª 9th
2002–03 4 3ª 10th
2003–04 4 3ª 10th
2004–05 4 3ª 7th
2005–06 4 3ª 5th
2006–07 4 3ª 11th
2007–08 4 3ª 12th
2008–09 4 3ª 12th
2009–10 4 3ª 15th
2010–11 4 3ª 7th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
2011–12 4 3ª 14th
2012–13 4 3ª 2nd
2013–14 4 3ª 3rd
2014–15 4 3ª 3rd
2015–16 3 2ª B 8th
2016–17 3 2ª B 9th Second round
2017–18 3 2ª B 12th
2018–19 3 2ª B 15th
2019–20 3 2ª B 18th
2020–21 3 2ª B 6th / 3rd
2021–22 4 2ª RFEF 5th
2022–23 4 2ª Fed. 9th
2023–24 4 2ª Fed. 12th
2024–25 4 2ª Fed.

In regional system

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Regional league system
Season Division Place Copa del Rey
1913/14 North 5h
1914/15 North 2nd
1915/16 North 4th
1916/17 North 1st
1917/18 North 3rd
1918/19 Biscay 1st
1919/20 Biscay 3rd
1920/21 Biscay 2nd
1921/22 Biscay 1st
1922/23 Biscay 2nd
1923/24 Biscay 2nd
1924/25 Biscay 1st
1925/26 Biscay 2nd
1926/27 Biscay 1st
1927/28 Biscay 4th
1928/29 Biscay 2nd
1929/30 Biscay 3rd
1930/31 Biscay 2nd
1931/32 Biscay 2nd
1932/33 Biscay 2nd
1933/34 Biscay 3rd
1934/35 Basque Cup 3rd
1935/36 Basque Cup 1st
1938/39 Biscay 5th
1939/40 Biscay 4th

Current squad

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As of 1 March 2024[17]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Spain ESP Hodei Oleaga
2 DF Spain ESP Lander Arenal (on loan from Basconia)
3 DF Spain ESP Asier Santamaría (on loan from Basconia)
4 DF Spain ESP Aritz Huete
5 DF Japan JPN Daiki Niwa
6 MF Spain ESP Markel Mayo
7 FW Spain ESP Álvaro Iglesias
8 MF Spain ESP Diego Lamadrid
9 FW Spain ESP Alex Valiño
10 FW Spain ESP Gabriel Lizárraga
11 DF Spain ESP Beñat Leiza
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 FW Spain ESP Rafa Villanueva
13 GK Spain ESP Diego Carrio
14 FW Spain ESP Álvaro García
15 DF Spain ESP Beñat Garro
16 MF Spain ESP Mikel Escobar
17 DF Spain ESP Gonzalo Alfaro
18 MF Spain ESP Jon Trincado
19 MF Spain ESP Iñigo Baque
20 FW Spain ESP Iván Estrecha
21 DF Spain ESP Jon Sillero
22 DF Spain ESP Iñigo Ariztimuño

Honours

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Runners-up (3): 1917, 1925, 1927
  1. ^ Union: 2-3[9] and 2-1 Athletic: 2-0 and 2-0[10]
  2. ^ Third tier

Famous players

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Famous coaches

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References

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  1. ^ "Gobela :: Estadios y Pabellones ::". lapreferente.com. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. ^ "estadio gobela :: La Futbolteca. Enciclopedia del Fútbol Español" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. ^ J, E. R. (17 October 2014). "El comercio y la cultura hermanan Reino Unido y Bilbao". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d "El Arenas entra en la leyenda". El Correo (in European Spanish). 30 March 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Arenas Club - Historia del Club". Arenas Club. Archived from the original on 4 August 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Arenas Club de Getxo :: La Futbolteca. Enciclopedia del Fútbol Español" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Gran vida (Madrid). 1/4/1917". Hemeroteca Digital. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Madrid-sport (Madrid). 22/2/1917". Hemeroteca Digital. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  9. ^ "El Día (Madrid. 1916). 6/3/1917". Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  10. ^ "Gran vida (Madrid). 1/4/1917". Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  11. ^ "Gran vida (Madrid). 1/4/1917". Hemeroteca Digital. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  12. ^ "El Imparcial (Madrid. 1867). 22/1/1917". Hemeroteca Digital. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  13. ^ "El Liberal (Madrid. 1879). 22/1/1917". Hemeroteca Digital. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  14. ^ "Historia de la radio: Real Unión – Arenas Club" [History of the radio: Real Unión - Arenas Club] (in Spanish). Diarios de Fútbol. 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  15. ^ "1927 La última copa del Real Unión y la primera retransmitida por radio" [1927, the last cup for Real Unión and the first transmitted over radio] (in Spanish). Spanish Football Federation. 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  16. ^ "El Arenas y el Gernika logran el ascenso a Segunda B" [Arenas and Gernika achieve promotion to Segunda B] (in Spanish). EITB. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  17. ^ "Ya tenemos dorsales para el inicio de la liga el próximo sábado Aúpa Histórico!!!". Twitter. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  18. ^ "Spain - List of Champions of Norte". RSSSF. 21 January 2000. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  • Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football (2003), Phil Ball.
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