Exhibition’s opening

Athletic Club organizes an exhibition about the Supporters Clubs. This exhibition will be opened from May 1 in the Museum of Encartaciones in the ‘Casa de Juntas’ from Abellaneda (Sopuerta), although its official opening won’t be till the day 3. The exhibition ‘Las Peñas del Athletic Club. Devoción rojiblanca’ is born as a sincere tribute from Athletic to the Supporters Clubs that throughout all these years have followed the successes and the failures of our team. It’s a brief journey about the number, location, antiquity, organization, memories, happiness and miseries. One passionated journey about its past, present and about a future always related to the red and white colours too. The visiting hours will be: From Monday to Saturday, morning hours from 10 to 14 hours and afternoon hours from 16 to 18 hours. Sunday and holidays from 10 to 14 hours. The differents parts of the exposure are the next ones: With Athletic Club to the final where you can see besides numerous photographs, the centenary Cup of 1902, the last official trophies won, League and Spanish Cup of the 1983-84 season, and the Cup in possession of the 40’s. From the team to the player, this part talks about the support of the Supporters Clubs to the different players with the presentation of the trophy to the regularity of the Supporters Clubs’ Federation and the trophy of the Supporters Clubs’ Group ‘Mañana será León’. Athletic Club’s Supporters Clubs in every anniversary. This is the space kept to the tributes that the Supporters Clubs offer every Athletic’s anniversary. To strengthen the friendship ties: the Congress, revision to the different Congresses and where, by first time, the nearly whole original pictures of the XXX congresses celebrated will be able to be looked at. For Athletic Club everywhere. Representating the Athletic Club’s Supporters Clubs, the most veteran Supporters Clubs have been selected. The senior among all of them, the one from Minglanilla, Cuenca, was founded in 1932 although its first statutes are from 1949. In this part you can see old Supporters’ cards, a list of their first trips to Bilbao, presents and a great many of old photos. And finally a map of great proportions that indicates the number of existing Supporters Clubs nowadays, with their location exist. They are a total of 427 Supporters Clubs.