Athletic Club's Celebration Of Colours For Non-League Day
For a third year running Athletic Club have linked up with English teams to promote its respective Non-League Day events.
Athletic Club, of Spain’s LaLiga, have teamed up with six English non-league clubs that play in red-and-white stripes as part of its 2025 Non-League Day celebrations.
The six teams (Altrincham FC, Bromsgrove Sporting, Evesham United, Sheppey United, Steyning Town and Witton Albion) have all received one Athletic men’s jersey and one Athletic women’s jersey to raffle off at their respective Non-League Day fixtures.
The selected sides which compete between Tier 5 and Tier 8 of the English football pyramid, will play at home on 22nd March and wear red-and-white striped tops.
This initiative follows on from previous collaborations in which Athletic has sought to connect Euskal Non-League Day with its UK counterpart. While prior link-ups focused on the Lions’ historical connections with British non-league teams, this year they have endeavoured to forge new ties with grassroots football in the UK.
The opening line of the club’s official anthem, “Athletic gorri ta zuria” (Athletic, red and white), is a powerful expression of the colours’ importance to Athletic’s history and identity, with red and white also being present on the flag of Bilbao.
The club’s first red-and-white kits, which made their debut in a 1910 friendly against Sporting Irun, originated from England – although it hasn’t yet been possible to establish for certain whether they came from the Sunderland or Southampton.
In the week leading up to Non-League Day 2025, Athletic Club will publish a series of articles about each of the clubs involved in this initiative with information about their respective histories, their kits and further details about their NLD matches.
