2026/2027 season

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Athletic Club
Head coach: Edin Terzić · 4-2-3-1 (bascule en 3-4-3 avec ballon selon El Gol Digital ; Comuniate évoquait plutôt un 4-3-3 avant la reprise — lecture non tranchée)
Rank
9th
Pts
9
P
7
Form
🟢 Good

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
4/10
Attack
10/10
Defence
6/10
Form
7/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Medium

9th with 9 pts from 7 matches: 2 wins, 3 draws, 2 defeats.

7 goals scored, 6 conceded.

The lions, this time yes, began and ended their duel in front of Valencia. Nor did the temporary threat he planned on the City of Turia prevent the crash from taking place because, among other things, everything was limited to a yellow warning in the later hours.

Mundo Deportivo · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The Perico technician lamented the last action of the meeting that led to the defeat of the Red Whites

Marca · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Valencia and Athletic face on Saturday October 17 at 21: 00 in Mestalla in the match corresponding to the 9 day of LaLiga EA Sports. Read

Marca · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Dvs Valencia CF (A) · 0-0
Dvs Deportivo Alavés (H) · 0-0
Dvs Elche CF (H) · 1-1
Wvs Club Atlético de Madrid (H) · 3-0
Wvs RC Celta de Vigo (A) · 2-0
WWDDDLL
7 scored / 6 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 1 day since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
1W - 2D - 1L
Away form
1W - 1D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.2
Goals conceded per match
0.2
At home
4 scored · 1 conceded in 3 matches
Away
2 scored · 0 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
1 of 5
Both teams score
1 of 5
Clean sheets
4 of 5
Failed to score
2 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Athletic Club play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1 (bascule en 3-4-3 avec ballon selon El Gol Digital ; Comuniate évoquait plutôt un 4-3-3 avant la reprise — lecture non tranchée)
Philosophy
A deliberate break with the Valverde era: Terzić imports the principles of his Borussia Dortmund — intense pressing, fast transitions and vertical play — built on a 4-2-3-1 base that reshapes into a 3-4-3 in possession, with Yuri Berchiche dropping in as a third centre-back to free the full-backs to push very high (El Gol Digital, 15/05/2026 and 13/08/2026).
Attacking strengths
Attack still lacking after three matchdays: 3 goals scored in 3 games (official LaLiga standings as of 31/08/2026), 2 of them in the sole win at Balaídos (Berenguer 20', Robert Navarro 22', 30/08/2026); the only goal from the first two outings came from defender Aitor Paredes against Sevilla.
Defensive solidity
5 goals conceded in 3 matchdays (LaLiga, 31/08/2026), including a 1-3 defeat at San Mamés against Sevilla, played with ten men from the 10th minute, but a first clean sheet in Vigo (0-2); the centre-back pairing is built around Laporte alongside Paredes or Yeray, with Dani Vivian still out.
Pressing
High, aggressive pressing claimed as a Terzić trademark (El Gol Digital, 15/05/2026); the intensity and the ability to hold the high block for 90 minutes remain the main point to watch, with no statistical data (PPDA, recovery height) verified at this stage.
Transitions
Immediate vertical play after winning the ball back, with two players between the lines behind the centre-forward and full-backs turned into wing-backs — a setup that creates overloads but exposes the flanks, which Sevilla exploited after the break (goals from Ejuke 50' and Isaac Romero 57').
StrengthA core of key players retained (Unai Simón, Laporte, the Williams brothers, Sancet, Galarreta), a San Mamés still full, and a landmark win in Vigo that confirmed the most accomplished first half of the Terzić era, according to the head coach himself.
WeaknessNo paid signings over the summer (two concurring sources: FutbolFantasy and Fichajes list only returns from loan spells), an injury list that deprives the club of Vivian, Prados and Egiluz, and very weak offensive output over the first two matchdays.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Markedly lifted after the 0-2 win at Balaídos, the first of the Terzić era, but still fragile: three points from three matchdays and twelfth place do not match the expectations created by the change of head coach. The club itself led on “a win that gives confidence” and “plenty of reasons to be proud of the team” the day after Vigo. Hosting Atlético, in third, is the first real test at San Mamés this season. The injury list weighs on the mood, though: Peio Canales's tear has been added to the absences of Dani Vivian and Unai Egiluz.
Coach / players / board relationship
Still lukewarm between the bench and the sporting directors. Athletic closed the window without spending a single euro on transfers, the only LaLiga club in that position according to the tables published after the deadline, when Edin Terzić had hinted that one final adjustment remained possible. The end of the window mainly served to lighten the squad: loans for Adama Boiro to West Ham and Andoni Gorosabel to Espanyol, the expiry of Unai Vencedor's contract, and loans out for several Lezama youngsters. No public statement of a rift is reported, but the gap between the needs expressed and the resources committed remains the latent friction point of the autumn.
Mood with the supporters
Expectation remains high at San Mamés around the Terzić project, and hosting Atlético on Saturday at 16:15 will be the season's first big occasion. As early as 2 September the club opened socio registration for the trip to Levante on 16 September, with a ballot in the event of excess demand, a sign of undiminished mobilisation for away games. Athletic are also maintaining their link with their base by launching Athletic Talks, a video podcast whose first guest is Luis de la Fuente, and by holding an Eskola open day on 18 September in Amorebieta. No organised protest is reported after the win in Vigo.
Pressure on the head coach
Moderate. The win at Balaídos eased the pressure created by the opening 1-3 against Sevilla, but Athletic remain twelfth and have yet to win at home under Terzić. The context does not help: the head coach must manage without Vivian, Canales and Egiluz against opponents who invested more than €120m this summer. No source consulted suggests his position is in question, and the club's statements after Vigo instead stressed the squad's unity.
Club objectives
Returning to Europe after a twelfth place and 45 points in 2025-26 remains the horizon the specialist press describes, without the club publishing any official numerical objective. September's schedule, with Atlético at San Mamés and then a trip to Levante on the 16th, will quickly say whether the team can aim for that zone. With no continental commitment this season, Athletic have a lighter schedule, which limits the impact of a heavy injury list. The underlying work also runs through Lezama, where the club has reactivated its academy pathways with Lucas Sarasketa's arrival at Bilbao Athletic and several developmental loans.
Recent internal tensions
No open internal tension is reported by the sources consulted. The main source of discomfort remains the complete absence of summer investment, which contrasts with the needs of a squad weakened by injuries. The Nico Serrano situation, under contract and at one point pushed towards the exit, closed without a departure. Some uncertainty remains over Beñat Prados's condition, listed as unavailable by the EFE dispatch of 1 September when he had been described as recovered a few days earlier.
Absences
InjuredPeio Canales — Moderate muscle tear in the left soleus, official medical bulletin of 1 Sep 2026. The club gives no timeline and leaves him “pendiente de evolución”; very doubtful for matchday 4.
InjuredUnai Egiluz — Knee operated on and then a relapse: FútbolFantasy does not have him available before January 2027. A very long-term absence.
DoubtfulDani Vivian — Still troubled by adductor problems since pre-season; listed as doubtful by FútbolFantasy for the visit of Atlético.
DoubtfulBeñat Prados — Status unresolved: the EFE dispatch of 1 Sep 2026 lists him among the unavailable alongside Vivian, when the previous update had him recovered and back in full training. Discrepancy flagged, no timeline retained.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Levante UD — Athletic Club

AwayWednesday 21 October at 20:00Matchday 6
In 3 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateLevante UD — Athletic Club
36 %
1 · Levante UD
25 %
X · draw
39 %
2 · Athletic Club
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 8 matches played by Levante UD, 7 matches by Athletic Club. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 238 goals scored over 159 team-matches played (19 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.50 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Levante UD — attack12 in 8 matches1.001.00
    Levante UD — defence16 in 8 matches1.341.19
    Athletic Club — attack7 in 7 matches0.670.82
    Athletic Club — defence6 in 7 matches0.570.77
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.57 for Levante UD and 0.54 for Athletic Club. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.76 goal scored on average by the host against 1.38 by the visitor, over the 45 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.27; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.43, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.11. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Levante UD at home: 1.33 pts/match versus 0.88 overall over 3 matches → ×1.120
    Athletic Club away: 1.33 pts/match versus 1.29 overall over 3 matches → ×1.010
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λLevante UD = 1.50 × 1.00 × 0.77 × 1.11 × 1.120 = 1.43
    λAthletic Club = 1.50 × 0.82 × 1.19 × 1.010 = 1.48
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 36.6%, draw 24.7%, away win 38.7% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 11.5%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Unai Simón
  • Álex Padilla
Defenders
  • Aymeric Laporte
  • Dani Vivian
  • Aitor Paredes
  • Yeray Álvarez
  • Yuri Berchiche
  • Jesús Areso
  • Andoni Gorosabel
  • Hugo Rincón
  • Unai Egiluz
  • Adama Boiro
  • Iker Monreal
  • Johaneko Louis-Jean
Midfielders
  • Oihan Sancet
  • Mikel Jauregizar
  • Íñigo Ruiz de Galarreta
  • Beñat Prados
  • Unai Vencedor
  • Peio Canales
  • Beñat Gerenabarrena
  • Alejandro Rego
  • Selton Sánchez
Forwards
  • Iñaki WilliamsC
  • Nico Williams
  • Álex Berenguer
  • Gorka Guruzeta
  • Robert Navarro
  • Álvaro Djaló
  • Maroan Sannadi
  • Nico Serrano
This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: Cross-check of BeSoccer (plantilla 2026/27) and Fichajes.com (plantilla 2026/27), verified against the FutbolFantasy/Fichajes transfer lists; captaincy confirmed by Flashscore/Soccerway for 2025-26, not publicly reconfirmed for 2026-27..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss17 Oct 2026
Valencia - Athletic Club, live
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss17 Oct 2026
Valencia CF - Athletic Club: schedule, where to watch on TV and LaLiga EA Sports party channel
Source: Marca
rss14 Oct 2026
The data on the VAR and the Atlético that has turned on the rojiwhite fans
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss11 Oct 2026
5-0: Prat is back on the beat and will play against Athletic Club
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss10 Oct 2026
Suspended Rayo Vallecano-Athletic Bilbao: protest of home fans against President Presa
Source: Tuttosport
rss10 Oct 2026
Liga's match between Rayo Vallecano and Athletic Bilbao definitely stopped by the referee after jets of paper aircraft on the field
Source: L'Équipe
Result3 Sep 2026
Matchday 4: Athletic host Atlético Madrid on Saturday 5 September 2026 at 16:15 at San Mamés, twelfth on three points against the third-placed side on seven.
Source: FútbolFantasy
Club3 Sep 2026
Athletic Play has launched Athletic Talks, a new video podcast hosted by Galder Reguera and Cris García and devoted to figures from the club; the first guest is Luis de la Fuente, who looks back on his eighteen years at Athletic as a player, coach and delegate.
Source: Athletic Club (site officiel)
Club3 Sep 2026
The Basque club finished the summer window without spending a single euro on transfers, with Adama Boiro leaving for West Ham on top of that; only the case of Nico Serrano, under contract until 2028, remains open and Edin Terzić does not rule out one final adjustment.
Source: El Desmarque
Supporters2 Sep 2026
From 2 to 4 September the club opened socio registration for the trip to Levante, scheduled for Wednesday 16 September 2026 at 21:30 at the Ciutat de València on matchday 6; the number of places and prices are still to be determined and a ballot is planned for 4 September if demand exceeds supply.
Source: Athletic Club (site officiel)
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Athletic completed a long run of departures before the deadline: Iñigo Lekue, Unai Gómez, Mikel Vesga, Julen Agirrezabala, Andoni Gorosabel on loan to Espanyol and Unai Vencedor, who joined Burgos after terminating his contract.
Source: El Desmarque
Injury1 Sep 2026
On 1 September the club published a medical bulletin for Peio Canales: a moderate muscle tear in the left soleus, sustained at Lezama, with the player left “pendiente de evolución”. No return date is given by Athletic and the midfielder is considered very doubtful for the visit of Atlético.
Source: Infobae (dépêche EFE)
Club1 Sep 2026
Eskola, the club's football school, will hold a free open day on Friday 18 September 2026 from 17:15 to 18:45 at the Lauaxeta Ikastola in Amorebieta: a hundred places are open to players born between 2011 and 2020, with registration until 13 September.
Source: Athletic Club (site officiel)
Club31 Aug 2026
Winger Aingeru Olabarrieta has been loaned to CD Eldense until the end of the 2026-27 season: a second spell in LaLiga Hypermotion for the Luiaondo-born player, after twenty-nine matches and a goal in FC Andorra colours.
Source: Athletic Club (site officiel)
Club31 Aug 2026
Left-back Lucas Sarasketa, 19, joins Bilbao Athletic after an agreement with SD Eibar; developed at Durango and then at Lezama at alevín level, he had played twenty matches last season for the Armeros.
Source: Athletic Club (site officiel)
Result31 Aug 2026
A 2-0 win at Balaídos against Celta de Vigo on matchday 3, which revives the team after the defeat at the Camp Nou.
Source: Unánimo Deportes
News last verified on 17 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.