1983–84 Athletic Bilbao season
| 1983–84 season | |||
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| President | Pedro Aurtenetxe | ||
| Head coach | Javier Clemente | ||
| Stadium | San Mamés | ||
| Primera Division | Winners (In 1984-85 European Cup) | ||
| Copa del Rey | Winners | ||
| European Cup | First round | ||
| Top goalscorer | Manu Sarabia (9) | ||
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The 1983–84 season was the 83rd season in Athletic Bilbao's history and their 53rd consecutive season in Primera Division, the top level of Spanish football. Also, the club competed in the European Cup and the Copa del Rey.
Summary
The season is best remembered by the club winning both La Liga and Copa del Rey.[1] The league trophy was clinched after a closed race against Real Madrid and FC Barcelona,[2] the manager Javier Clemente[3] and the squad defeated arch rivals Real Sociedad and thanks to the Goal difference reached the topspot of the table for the second consecutive year.[4] Forward Manu Sarabia was the topscorer of the squad scoring 9 league goals.[5][6]
Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Transfers
| In | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Endika Guarrotxena | AD Ceuta | loan ended |
| DF | Genar Andrinua | Bilbao Athletic | |
| DF | Rubén Bilbao | Bilbao Athletic | |
| Out | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| MF | Agustín Gisasola | retired | |
| DF | Patxi Bolaños | ||
| MF | Fernando Tirapu | Osasuna | |
Winter
| In | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| Out | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| GK | Andoni Cedrun | Cadiz CF | loan |
Competitions
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Athletic Bilbao (C) | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 53 | 30 | +23 | 49 | Qualification for the European Cup first round |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 34 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 59 | 37 | +22 | 49 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[a] |
| 3 | Barcelona | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 62 | 28 | +34 | 48 | Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round[b] |
| 4 | Atlético Madrid | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 53 | 47 | +6 | 42 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[a] |
| 5 | Real Betis | 34 | 17 | 4 | 13 | 45 | 40 | +5 | 38 |
Source: BDFútbol
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Goal difference; 4) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions
Notes:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Goal difference; 4) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions
Notes:
- ^ a b Valladolid qualified for the UEFA Cup as winners of the Copa de la Liga.
- ^ Barcelona qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup as runners-up of the Copa del Rey.
Position by round
Source: www.lfp.es
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; = Leader, 1984–85 European Cup; = 1984–85 UEFA Cup
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; = Leader, 1984–85 European Cup; = 1984–85 UEFA Cup
Matches
| 11 September 1983 2 | Real Zaragoza | 1–2 | Athletic | Zaragoza |
| García Cortés 39' | 8' Argote 70' Endika |
Stadium: La Romareda Referee: Sánchez Arminio |
| 18 September 1983 3 | Athletic | 6–3 | UD Salamanca | Bilbao |
| Urtubi 5' Lizeranzu 20' Goikoetxea 22' Argote 24' Argote 43' Noriega 44' Lizeranzu 48' |
1-1 | 9' Ángel González 28' Bezares 78' Luis García |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Borrás del Barrio |
| 24 September 1983 4 | FC Barcelona | 4–0 | Athletic | Barcelona |
| Periko Alonso 38' Julio Alberto 45' Maradona 59' Marcos Alonso 88' Carrasco 89' |
Stadium: Camp Nou Referee: Jiménez Madrid |
| 01 October 1983 5 | Athletic | 2–2 | Atlético Madrid | Bilbao |
| Noriega 17' Elgezabal 57' |
59' Rubio 67' Quique Ramos |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Pes Pérez |
| 09 October 1983 6 | Sevilla CF | 4–1 | Athletic | Sevilla |
| Juan Carlos 12' Juan Carlos 18' Álvarez 61' Ruda 76' |
81' Elgezabal | Stadium: Sanchez Pizjuan Referee: Crespo Aurre |
| 23 October 1983 8 | Mallorca | 0–0 | Athletic | Palma |
| Paco Martinez 7' | Stadium: Lluis Sitjar Referee: Martin Navarrete |
| 29 October 1983 9 | Espanol | 0–0 | Athletic | Barcelona |
| 78' Elgezabal | Stadium: Sarria Referee: Soriano Aladren |
| 06 November 1983 10 | Athletic | 4–1 | Real Murcia | Bilbao |
| Noriega 13' Sola 42' Sola 59' Sarabia 80' |
51' Del Barrio | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Casajuana Rifà |
| 09 November 1983 11 | Sporting Gijón | 2–2 | Athletic | Gijon |
| Cunningham 5' Joaquín 60' |
35' Sarabia 66' (o.g.) Maceda |
Stadium: El Molinon Referee: Damín Rendón |
| 20 November 1983 12 | Athletic | 1–0 | Real Valladolid | Bilbao |
| Sola 43' | Enríquez Negreira | Stadium: San Mames |
| 27 November 1983 13 | Real Madrid | 0–0 | Athletic | Madrid |
| Stadium: Santiago Bernabeu |
| 04 December 1983 14 | Athletic | 2–0 | Real Betis | Bilbao |
| Sarabia 1' Lizeranzu 7' |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Socorro González |
| 11 December 1983 15 | CD Malaga | 0–0 | Athletic | Malaga |
| Stadium: La Rosaleda |
| 14 December 1983 16 | Athletic | 2–0 | Valencia CF | Bilbao |
| Urtubi 33' (pen.) Sarabia 58' |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Merino González |
| 17 December 1983 1 | Athletic | 3–1 | Cadiz CF | Bilbao |
| Vilches 3' (o.g.) Amarillo 38' (o.g.) Noriega 64' |
81' (pen.) Mágico González | Stadium: San Mames Referee: García de Loza |
| 31 December 1983 17 | Real Sociedad | 0–1 | Athletic | San Sebastian |
| 14' Argote | Stadium: Atotxa Referee: Álvarez Margüenda |
| 08 January 1984 18 | Cadiz CF | 0–1 | Athletic | Cadiz |
| 26' Sarabia 45' Urtubi |
Stadium: Ramon Carranza Referee: Ceballos Borrego |
| 15 January 1984 19 | Athletic | 1–0 | Real Zaragoza | Bilbao |
| Endika 1' | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Mayoral Cedenilla |
| 22 January 1984 20 | UD Salamanca | 1–2 | Athletic | Salamanca |
| Enrique 71' Orejuela 51' (pen.) |
42' Urtubi 65' Noriega |
Stadium: El Helmantico Referee: Franco Martínez |
| 29 January 1984 21 | Athletic | 1–2 | FC Barcelona | Bilbao |
| Argote 34' | 1–1 | 12' Maradona 77' Maradona |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Pes Pérez |
| 04 February 1984 22 | Atletico Madrid | 1–0 | Athletic | Madrid |
| Hugo Sánchez 71' | 63' Noriega | Stadium: Vicente Calderon Referee: García de Loza |
| 12 February 1984 23 | Athletic | 5–0 | Sevilla FC | Bilbao |
| De Andrés 31' Urtubi 39' Urtubi 42' (pen.) Sarabia 82' Endika 88' |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Jiménez Madrid |
| 19 February 1984 24 | Osasuna | 1–1 | Athletic | Pamplona |
| Iriguibel 33' | 88' Sarabia | Stadium: El Sadar Referee: Jiménez Moreno |
| 26 February 1984 25 | Athletic | 4–0 | Mallorca | Bilbao |
| Sola 22' Sarabia 27' Urtubi 41' Liceranzu 61' |
Stadium: San Mames Referee: Soriano Aladrén |
| 04 March 1984 26 | Athletic | 1–1 | Espanol | Bilbao |
| Dani 21' | 42' Giménez | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Franco Martínez |
| 11 March 1984 27 | Real Murcia | 0–1 | Athletic | Murcia |
| 59' Sarabia | Referee: Valdés Sánchez |
| 18 March 1984 28 | Athletic | 1–0 | Sporting Gijón | Bilbao |
| Lizeranzu 29' | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Álvarez Margüenda |
| 25 March 1984 29 | Real Valladolid | 0–0 | Athletic | Valladolid |
| Stadium: Municipal Jose Zorrilla |
| 01 April 1984 30 | Athletic | 2–1 | Real Madrid | Bilbao |
| Goikoetxea 32' Dani 87' |
23' Stielike | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Ramos Marcos |
| 08 April 1984 31 | Real Betis | 2–0 | Athletic | Sevilla |
| Paco 22'Calderón 74' | Stadium: Benito Villamarin Referee: Merino González |
| 14 April 1984 32 | Athletic | 2–1 | CD Málaga | Bilbao |
| Gallego 4' De la Fuente 75' Urtubi 31' (pen.) |
Jose Hurtado 15' | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Ceballos Borrego |
| 22 April 1984 33 | Valencia CF | 1–2 | Athletic | Valencia |
| García Pitarch 80' | Dani 77' Noriega 85' |
Stadium: Luis Casanova Referee: Sánchez Arminio |
| 29 April 1984 34 | Athletic | 2–1 | Real Sociedad | Bilbao |
| Lizeranzu 18' Lizeranzu 79' |
68' Uralde | Stadium: San Mames Referee: Merino González |
European Cup
First round
| 14 September 1983 | Lech Poznań | 2–0 | Athletic | Stadion Miejski, Poznań |
| Niewiadomski 35' Okoński 44' |
Report | Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Einar Halle (Norway) |
| 28 September 1983 | Athletic | 4–0 | Lech Poznań | Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao |
| Goikoetxea 10' Sola 33' (pen.) Noriega 50' Urquiaga 84' |
Report | Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany) |
Second round
| 19 October 1983 | Liverpool | 0–0 | Athletic Bilbao | Anfield, Liverpool |
| Report | Attendance: 33,063 Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy) |
| 2 November 1983 | Athletic Bilbao | 0–1 | Liverpool | Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao |
| Report | Rush 66' | Attendance: 47,500 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany) |
Copa del Rey
Semi-finals
| 4 April 1984 | Real Madrid | 0–1 | Athletic | Madrid |
| 21:00 CET | Report (in Spanish) | Urtubi 24' (pen.) | Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Referee: Valdés Sánchez |
| 18 April 1984 | Athletic | 0–1 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) | Real Madrid | Bilbao |
| 20:15 CET | Report (in Spanish) | Pineda 44' | Stadium: San Mamés Referee: Enríquez Negreira | |
| Penalties | ||||
| Urtubi Dani Argote Sola Núñez |
Camacho Salguero Stielike Chendo Juanito |
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Final
| 5 May 1984 | Athletic | 1–0 | FC Barcelona | Madrid |
| 20:15 CET | Endika 14' | Report | Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Attendance: 100,000 Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez |
Statistics
Players statistics
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Primera Division |
Copa del Rey |
European Cup | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
| GK | ESP | Andoni Zubizarreta | 34 | -30 | 34 | -30 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Santiago Urkiaga | 34 | 0 | 34 | 0 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Andoni Goikoetxea | 28 | 2 | 28 | 2 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Inigo Lizeranzu | 32 | 7 | 32 | 7 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Luis de la Fuente | 32 | 0 | 23+9 | 0 | |||||
| MF | ESP | Miguel de Andrés | 25 | 1 | 25 | 1 | |||||
| MF | ESP | Txetxu Gallego | 29 | 1 | 22+7 | 1 | |||||
| MF | ESP | Ismael Urtubi | 28 | 6 | 26+2 | 6 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Txema Noriega | 31 | 6 | 24+7 | 6 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Manu Sarabia | 32 | 9 | 22+10 | 9 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Estanis Argote | 32 | 5 | 32 | 5 | |||||
| GK | ESP | Andoni Cedrún | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| MF | ESP | Miguel Sola | 25 | 5 | 21+4 | 5 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Txato Nunez | 20 | 0 | 18+2 | 0 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Endika Guarrotxena | 23 | 3 | 14+9 | 3 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Patxi Salinas | 14 | 0 | 8+6 | 0 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Dani | 10 | 3 | 4+6 | 3 | |||||
| MF | ESP | Juan José Elgezabal | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Julio Salinas | 6 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | |||||
| DF | ESP | Genar Andrinua | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| FW | ESP | Rubén Bilbao | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | |||||
| GK | ESP | Carlos Meléndez | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
References
- ^ "The Lions of Athletic Bilbao". FIFA. 26 November 2008. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "Leyendas del Athletic Club de Bilbao – 'Txetxu Rojo' o 'Rojo I'" [Athletic Club de Bilbao legends – 'Txetxu Rojo' or 'Rojo I']. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ De Altea, Carmelo (10 December 1969). "Clemente, el "Bobby Charlton" español" [Clemente, Spain's "Bobby Charlton"]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ Ortiz de Lazcano, Javier (9 October 2015). "Los discípulos de Pichichi" [Pichichi's disciples]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ^ "Leyendas del Athletic Club de Bilbao – Sarabia" [Athletic Club de Bilbao legends – Sarabia]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ^ Ortiz de Lazcano, Javier (9 October 2015). "Los discípulos de Pichichi" [Pichichi's disciples]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2016.