Third strip

Athletic Club will recover one of its historic jerseys as their third strip for the 2006-2007season. The uniform will be white, as has been decided by web users in the poll that was performed on the entity’s official Website and in which 34,599 individuals participated.

The colour white is not new to Athletic Club. Athletic’s first official match was played under the Biscay name and with a white jersey. The 1902 Copa was conquered donning this colour. The strip this team wore consisted of a white jersey, with a red B, and blue shorts.

Subsequently, in 1902, the blue and white strip was adopted as the official kit until it was replaced by the red-and-white in January 1910. For a while, the blue-white strip was used as the second official kit.

In the following decades, until the 40s, the colour blue was done away with as an official Club colour, while the colour white was chosen for the second kit. The 1914 Copa was conquered wearing the white uniform.

During these decades, in the matches where uniforms coincided, the outfit consisted of a white jersey with black shorts and black striped socks. Curiously, until the 1944-45 season the local team was the one that used the second strip, thus Athletic has been seen playing in white in San Mamés. From Belauste and Pichichi to Iriondo, Venancio, Zarra, Panizo and Gainza, as well as the champion team of the 30s (Iraragorri, Bata, Gorostiza…); they’ve all donned the ‘Athletic whites’.

During the 1947-48 season, specifically on 5 October 1947, in a match disputed at El Molinón, Athletic drops the white as their second strip colour and returns to the original blue-white version.