Match Pack: Athletic Club vs FC Barcelona (LaLiga MD38)
Match Pack: Athletic Club vs FC Barcelona (LaLiga MD38)
The Lions see out the campaign with a top-tier home match against FC Barcelona, complete with a grand send-off for club legend Oscar de Marcos
Athletic Club will see out a historic 2024/25 campaign by hosting newly-crowned LaLiga champions FC Barcelona at San Mames.
The occasion will also see The Cathedral bid farewell to a legendary Lion in Oscar de Marcos, who will don the red and white stripes for the last time in his illustrious career.
Match Info
Athletic Club vs FC Barcelona
San Mames, Bilbao
LaLiga EA Sports 24/25 (Matchday 38)
Sunday May 25, 21:00 CEST
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Team News
Ernesto Valverde has named a 24-man squad for Sunday's clash in Bilbao.
Valverde's Comments
Catch up with everything he had to say at his pre-match press conference.
🥹 Valverde speaking about De Marcos' legacy.
— Athletic Club (@Athletic_en) May 24, 2025
"It's not just his personal qualities. Oscar is and always has been an extraordinary footballer with immense physical and technical ability."#AthleticBarça #AthleticClub 🦁 pic.twitter.com/RJ6EFDRTHy
The Opponents
Head coach: Hansi Flick
The German coach, who took over at the Camp Nou in last summer, has won the LaLiga and Copa double at the first time of asking, defeating Real Madrid to lift the Copa and securing the league title with three games left to play thanks to a 0-2 win against RCD Espanyol
A midfielder in his playing days, Hansi turned out for SV Sanhausen, Bayern Munich and 1.FC Köln, before injuries cut short his career.
As a manager he started out at local team Victoria Bammental before taking the reigns at 1899 Hoffenheim. After leaving Hoffenheim, Flick became an assistant manager and sporting director at RB Leipzig, working under Giovanni Trappatoni.
In 2006, he became the German national team's assistant mananger, helping Joachim Löw lead the side to World Cup glory in 2014.
After a brief spell as Hoffenheim's sporting director, Flick became Niko Kovac's right-hand man at Bayern Munich in July 2019, but was given the top job on a interim basis in November that year. Decent results saw him handed the full-time position.
He led Bayern through one of the most successful periods in their history, losing just seven of his 86 matches in charge, while also helping the Bavarian outfit win two Bundesligas, a DFB-Pokal and the Champions League.
Flick left Bayern to take over the national job from Löw, but poor performances, particularly at the 2022 World Cup saw him removed of his duties in September 2023.
Top scorer: Robert Lewandowski
The 36-year-old Polish striker shows no signs of slowing down, finding the back of the net 25 times in 36 LaLiga appearances this season.
One of the modern greats, Lewandowski score a combined 447 goals during his spells at Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.
Since joining the Blaugrana ahead of the 2022/23 campaign, he has scored a total of 99 goals in 146 matches, 67 of those strikes coming in 102 LaLiga appearances.
Recent form: WWWWL
Prior to last week's 2-3 home loss to Villarreal CF, the Catalan side had been on a six-match unbeaten run stretching back to a 1-1 draw with Real Betis in April, while their most recent defeat before Villarreal was against Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou in December.
Previous Meetings
An all-time LaLiga classic, which has occurred in every single season since the league was founded, this will be the 188th clash between Los Leones and Barça.
From 187 previous fixtures, Athletic's record stands at 60 victories, 32 draws and 95 defeats.
Barcelona have visited San Mames 93 times, with the Lions registering 43 wins, 22 draws and 28 defeats.
Our most recent home win over Barça in LaLiga came during the opening game of the 2020/19 campaign, with Aritz Aduriz scoring a legendary bicycle-kick goal.
Since then Athletic have drawn twice and lost twice against the Catalans at San Mames.
Last season's corresponding fixture was saw Athletic produce an outstanding defensive display to take a well-earned and vital point after a 0-0 draw in Bilbao.