Athletic Bilbao - Athletic Club, commonly known as Athletic Bilbao or just Athletic, is a professional football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country in Spain. They are known as Los Leones because their stadium was built near a church called San Mamés. Mammes was an early Christian thrown to the lions by the Romans.
Arena/Stadium: San Mamés
Manager: Marcelino García Toral
League: La Liga
Capacity: 53,289
Founded: 1898; 123 years ago
Nickname(s): Los Leones (The Lions)