Top 10 European football clubs that have never been relegated

#3 Athletic Bilbao

Alongside Barcelona and Real Madrid, the club is one of three establishing individuals from the Primera División that have never been consigned from the top division. Like Real Madrid and Barcelona, Athletic is likewise possessed and worked by club individuals (making them the main three such clubs in Spain). Athletic are additionally a club with a rich history, having won the group on eight events, and are second just to Barcelona in Copa del Rey wins with 23.

Unfortunately, not at all like the two Spanish mammoths, Atletic are a club that has thought that it was hard to make an interpretation of their fruitful past into present day times.

Truth be told, Athletic came surprisingly close to not being on this rundown in the 2006/07 season, where they completed seventeenth in the class, only one point above Celta de Vigo. The last time they won the alliance was in 1983/84, a year in which they additionally won the Copa del Rey. From that point forward, Athletic have had an absolutely infertile period sandwiched between two Supercopa de Espana triumphs, one in 1984/85 and their triumph in a similar rivalry this season.

The club’s prosperity between the 1950s could to a great extent be credited to the strict furthest reaches that were forced on outside players. Clubs were once in a while permitted to have more than three remote players in their squad – that implied that no less than eight nearby players were required to play in each amusement.

Madrid and Barcelona groups of the period figured out how to diminish the effect of these tenets by evading them; playing double natives, for example, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, José Santamaria and Ladislao Kubala. Then again, Athletic clung entirely to their cantera arrangement (since its establishment, Athletic has played solely with Basque players), indicating practically zero adaptability.