Bizkaia Boggarts

Bizkaia Boggarts
	Bizkaia Boggarts' logo.
Full name	Bizkaia Boggarts Quidditch Taldea
Nicknames	Boggarts
Sport	Quidditch
Founded	December 6, 2014; (7 years ago)
Association
League
Conference
Based in	Bizkaia
Colours	White, dark green and red;
Chairman	Yeray Espinosa Cuevas
Head coach	David López
Captain	Aitor Langarika
League titles	3
Website	Official site

Bizkaia Boggarts is a quidditch team based in Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain. It was founded on December 6, 2014. Yeray Espinosa Cuevas is the captain and the coach David López. The first match they played was in against Imperius Zaragoza, winning 210*-70.

They achieved the second position in the 2015 transpyrinee cup and Mangamore cup, losing both against , and in the 2016 Spanish Quidditch Cup against .

They won the , the first ever Basque Quidditch League, where were runners-up.

History[]

Even if it was officially created on December 6, 2014, the project was initiated by Yeray Espinosa in March that same year. After some months looking for people to join him, he met enough people to start training. The first to join the team where Nahia Otegui, Javier Fernández and Irene Velasco. One month later, Sergio Gutiérrez and Ander Carbón joined the team. This was the roster when they played their first game ever, where they won 210*-70 against Imperius Zaragoza.

After some months without any games, they played against the newly created Gasteiz Gamusins in the neighbour city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, winning again 40*-110. In that summer Nagore Marquina, Josema Molinos, Sergio Johan Serrato and Sandor-Aritz Augusto joined the team.

They played their first tournament on August 8, 2015, the Transpirynees Cup. Their roster for the tournament was of only six players, and Nil (Barcelona Eagles) and Miguel (Madrid Wolves) joined them to complete an 8-players roster. Even with that they defeated and to reach the final and lose by snitch catch, 80*-30, against . They had their biggest victory there, winning 200*-0 against Toulouse. After this tournament and before next season started, Andoni Aranguren and Alexander Domínguez joined the team.

On September 12, 2015, the started. They won the league without losing any game.

On February 6 and 7, 2016 the team achieved the runner-up position in the 2016 Spanish Quidditch Cup, with a roster of only 9 players. Heroic was the victory in semifinals, 80*-20 against , with a player in the hospital and another player injured. Due to those injuries and fatigue, they couldn't repeat in the final and they lost 140-70* against Madrid Wolves.

Katia Domínguez, Borja Martín, Michele Serrato, Alba Romero has joined the team since then. On July 13, 2016, they announced the deal to have Miguel Vázquez in their team, after the player left .^[1]

Honours[]

Official tournaments[]

Tournament	Champion	Runner-up	Third place
	3 (,,)

Spanish Quidditch Cup		2 (2015-2016,)	1 ()
European Quidditch Cup

Friendly tournaments[]

Tournament	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
	1 ()	1 (,)
		2 (,)

Bizkaia Boggarts in tournaments[]

1st in the .
2nd in the .
2nd in the .
2nd in the 2015-2016 Spanish Quidditch Cup.

Roster[]

Number	Name	Nationality	Position	Gender
00	Ander Carbon	Euskadi	Beater	Male
2	Josema Molinos	Euskadi	Chaser	Male
3	Sergio Johan Serrato	Colombia	Chaser	Male
4	Katia Domínguez	Euskadi	Chaser	Female
6	Sergio 'Guti'	Cantabria	Chaser	Male
7	Irene Velasco	Euskadi	Chaser	Female
8	Sandor-Aritz Augusto	Euskadi	Chaser/Seeker	Male
9	Javier Fernández	Euskadi	Keeper	Male
10	Alexander Domínguez	Euskadi	Chaser	Male
11		Euskadi	Chaser/Beater	Male
12	Borja Martin	Euskadi	Chaser	Male
13	Miguel Vázquez	Madrid	Keeper/Chaser	Male
15	Michelle Serrato	Colombia	Beater	Female
16	Alba Romero	Euskadi	Chaser	Female
18	Nagore Marquina	Euskadi	Beater	Female
22	Miguel Castrillo	Euskadi	Chaser	Male
27	Nahia Otegui	Euskadi	Beater	Female
403	Andoni Aranguren	Euskadi	Keeper	Male

References[]

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