| One Club Award | |
|---|---|
_(one_club_man).jpg) 2019 award for Billy McNeill, on display at Celtic Park along with Athletic Bilbao scarf | |
| Presented by | Athletic Bilbao |
| First awarded | 2015 |
| Website | Official site |
The One Club Award is a football award established in 2015 by the Spain-based club Athletic Bilbao to reward footballers whose careers in a single team represent values of loyalty, commitment, responsibility, sportsmanship and respect that the club considers linked to its identity. The award is presented at halftime during an Athletic Bilbao home match by club ambassador José Ángel Iribar.
It is one of the few awards given out by an individual club that celebrates players from other teams. For that reason, the award has been described as rare point of non-tribalism in the modern game.[1] The male award, The One Club Man, has been awarded since 2015, while also awarding a female award, known as One Club Woman, from 2019.
- ^ Bloor, Seb Stafford (5 September 2019). "Celebrating a rare Corinthian flourish in Bilbao..." Football News -. Retrieved 5 February 2021.