Polideportivo de Artunduaga

The Polideportivo de Artunduaga does not look like a place built for football. It is a municipal complex in Basauri, a town in the province of Biscay, where the primary function is athletics. The facility includes an indoor swimming pool, a climbing wall, and a tennis court, but it is the athletics track that anchors the site. The track was constructed in 1993, and the local club Ad. Atletismo Artunduaga de Basauri was founded three years later. The first edition of the Basauriko Probak Paralympic Athletics Meeting was held there in 1998.

Club Deportivo Basconia plays on the main football pitch, which has an artificial turf surface. The pitch was replaced in 2019. The venue has undergone recent improvements, including LED lighting and the installation of 784 solar panels by Greening-e. These panels cover 30 percent of energy consumption. The official seating capacity is listed as 5,000, though figures vary between sources. Wikipedia and Soccer Wiki cite 8,500, a number likely originating from the club’s former stadium, Estadio Pedro López Cortázar.

The address is Calle Artunduaga, s/n. The ground has not had sponsored commercial names and is consistently referred to by its municipal title. The partnership between Basconia and Athletic Bilbao, formed in 1997, brought attention to the club but not to the infrastructure of the pitch itself.