Oihan Sancet Tirapu (born 25 April 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain national team.
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Full name | Oihan Sancet Tirapu[1] | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 25 April 2000|||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pamplona, Spain | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Athletic Bilbao | |||||||||||||
Number | 8 | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
2010–2015 | Osasuna | |||||||||||||
2015–2018 | Athletic Bilbao | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
2018–2020 | Bilbao Athletic | 24 | (7) | |||||||||||
2019– | Athletic Bilbao | 134 | (23) | |||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
2018 | Spain U18 | 4 | (1) | |||||||||||
2019–2023 | Spain U21 | 13 | (1) | |||||||||||
2023– | Spain | 4 | (1) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:20, 27 April 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 07:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC) |
Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Sancet joined Athletic Bilbao's youth setup from CA Osasuna in 2015.[2] On 18 June 2018, he was called up to pre-season with the first-team by manager Eduardo Berizzo.[3]
Sancet made his senior debut with the reserves on 25 August 2018, starting and opening a 2–0 Segunda División B home win against CD Tudelano.[4] In early September he suffered a knee injury (a tear to his left anterior cruciate ligament),[5] returning to action the following March.[6]
For the 2019–20 season, Sancet was included in the main squad by manager Gaizka Garitano.[7] He made his professional and La Liga debut on 16 August 2019, coming on as a second-half substitute for Óscar de Marcos in the 1–0 home victory over FC Barcelona.[8] On 27 June – his sixth league start – he scored his first goal in a 3–1 defeat of RCD Mallorca also at San Mamés.[9] By December 2020, he had reached sufficient milestones to trigger a €150,000 development payment to Osasuna.[10]
On 3 January 2022, Sancet scored a hat-trick to help his side come from behind at Osasuna to win 3–1.[11] It was the first hat-trick in the league scored by an Athletic player since Aritz Aduriz in 2016,[12] with Sancet the youngest scorer of three in a match for the club since Julen Guerrero in 1994 and the first from Navarre to do so for any club against Osasuna,[13] as well as being the first goals he had scored for the senior team away from Bilbao.[12]
On 3 February 2023, Sancet scored three times in a 4–1 home win over Cádiz CF.[14] In April, he extended his contract until 2032.[15]
In the 2024 Copa del Rey final against Mallorca, Sancet scored Athletic's equalising goal at the start of the second half. His side went on to win the trophy via a penalty shootout.[16]
Sancet earned his first cap for Spain at under-21 level on 10 October 2019, in a 1–1 friendly draw with Germany held in Córdoba.[17] He played all the matches for the runners-up at the 2023 UEFA European Championship, scoring in the 5–1 semi-final defeat of Ukraine.[18][19]
In October 2023, Sancet received his first call-up to the senior team for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers with Scotland and Norway.[20] He made his debut as a substitute against Scotland in Seville, and scored the second goal of a 2–0 win four minutes from time (described initially as an own goal by Ryan Porteous in some reports).[21][22]
Club | Season | League | Copa del Rey | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Bilbao Athletic | 2018–19 | Segunda División B | 10 | 1 | – | – | 10 | 1 | ||
2019–20 | Segunda División B | 14 | 6 | – | 1[a] | 0 | 15 | 6 | ||
Total | 24 | 7 | – | 1 | 0 | 25 | 7 | |||
Athletic Bilbao | 2019–20 | La Liga | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 19 | 1 | |
2020–21 | La Liga | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | |
2021–22 | La Liga | 27 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 33 | 6 | |
2022–23 | La Liga | 36 | 10 | 5 | 0 | – | 41 | 10 | ||
2023–24 | La Liga | 30 | 4 | 8 | 2 | – | 38 | 6 | ||
Total | 134 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 157 | 25 | ||
Career total | 158 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 183 | 32 |
Athletic Bilbao
Spain U18
Spain U21