Oihan Sancet
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.jpg) Sancet with Athletic Bilbao in 2023 | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Oihan Sancet Tirapu[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 April 2000[1] | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pamplona, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | |||||||||||||
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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 | 189 | (41) | |||||||||||
| 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 as of 11:41, 27 April 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 07:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||
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.
Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Sancet joined Athletic Bilbao's youth setup from Osasuna in 2015.[2] On 18 June 2018, he was called up to pre-season with the first team by manager Eduardo Berizzo.[3]
Skipping the usual step with CD Basconia (Athletic's farm team), Sancet made his senior debut with the reserves on 25 August 2018, starting and opening a 2–0 Segunda División B home win against 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]
Sancet was included in the main squad by manager Gaizka Garitano for the 2019–20 season.[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 Barcelona.[8] On 27 June – his sixth league start – he scored his first goal in a 3–1 defeat of 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 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.[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]
On 8 February 2025, Sancet scored all of their goals in the 3–0 home victory against Girona;[17] with three further strikes in as many matches taking his total for the period to six, he was named the La Liga Player of the Month for February 2025.[18] He finished the campaign with a career-best 15, best in the squad.[19]
International career
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.[20] 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.[21][22]
In October 2023, Sancet received his first call-up to the senior team for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers with Scotland and Norway.[23] 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).[24][25]
