Athletic head coach Ernesto Valverde played his 500th match for the Basque club. The Jubilee Game took place in the 34th round of La Liga, where the team defeated Alaves 4:2.

This achievement allowed Valverde to reach a high number of coaches, which earned him a record of 500 matches with one club in the Spanish championship. Previously, similar information was given only to Arsenio Iglesias, Miguel Munoz, Luis Aragones and Diego Simeone.

The Spanish leader has already voted to strip Athletic after the end of the season. This is the third period of his career in the club: he worked with the team from 2003–2005, 2013–2017, and also from 2022.

Zagal Valverde spent nine seasons with Athletic, during which the team achieved 230 victories, 113 draws and 157 defeats. The number of balls becomes 736:573. Under his leadership, the club won the Spanish Cup in 2024, the Super Cup in 2015 and qualified for the European Cups the same time..