.jpg) Sancet withAthletic Bilbao in 2023 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Oihan Sancet Tirapu[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (2000-04-25)25 April 2000 (age 24)[1] | |||||||||||||
| 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 | 155 | (36) | |||||||||||
| 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 16:20, 23 February 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 07:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||
Oihan Sancet Tirapu (born 25 April 2000) is a Spanish professionalfootballer who plays as anattacking midfielder forLa Liga clubAthletic Bilbao and theSpain national team.
Born inPamplona,Navarre, Sancet joinedAthletic Bilbao'syouth setup fromOsasuna in 2015.[2] On 18 June 2018, he was called up to pre-season with the first team by managerEduardo Berizzo.[3]
Sancet made his senior debut withthe reserves on 25 August 2018, starting and opening a 2–0Segunda División B home win againstTudelano.[4] In early September he suffered aknee injury (a tear to his leftanterior cruciate ligament),[5] returning to action the following March.[6]
For the2019–20 season, Sancet was included in the main squad by managerGaizka Garitano.[7] He made his professional andLa Liga debut on 16 August 2019, coming on as a second-halfsubstitute forÓscar de Marcos in the 1–0 home victory overBarcelona.[8] On 27 June – his sixth league start – he scored his first goal in a 3–1 defeat ofMallorca also atSan 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 ahat-trick to help his side come from behind at Osasuna to win 3–1.[11] It was thefirst in the league scored by an Athletic player sinceAritz Aduriz in 2016,[12] with Sancet the youngest scorer of three in a match for the club sinceJulen 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 fromBilbao.[12]
On 3 February 2023, Sancet scored three times in a 4–1 home win overCádiz.[14] In April, he extended his contract until 2032.[15]
In the2024 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 apenalty shootout.[16]
On 8 February 2025, Sancet scored all of their goals in the 3–0 home victory againstGirona.[17] With three further strikes in as many matches taking his total for the period to six, he was named theLa Liga Player of the Month forFebruary 2025.[18]
Sancet earned his firstcap forSpain at under-21 level on 10 October 2019, in a 1–1friendly draw withGermany held inCórdoba.[19] He played all the matches for the runners-up at the2023 UEFA European Championship, scoring in the 5–1 semi-final defeat ofUkraine.[20][21]
In October 2023, Sancet received his first call-up to thesenior team for twoUEFA Euro 2024qualifiers withScotland andNorway.[22] He made his debut as a substitute against Scotland inSeville, and scored the second goal of a 2–0 win four minutes from time (described initially as anown goal byRyan Porteous in some reports).[23][24]
| Club | Season | League | Copa del Rey | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | 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 | |||
| 2024–25 | La Liga | 21 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 5[c] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 14 | |
| Total | 155 | 36 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 183 | 39 | ||
| Career total | 179 | 43 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 208 | 46 | ||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 October 2023 | La Cartuja,Seville, Spain |  Scotland | 2–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying |
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