Bizkaia Boggarts

Bizkaia Boggarts is a quidditch team based in Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain. It was founded in December 6, 2014. Yeray Espinosa Cuevas is the captain and the coach Irene Velasco. The first match they played was in 2015 Catalonian Quidditch Cup against Imperius Zaragoza, winning 210*-70.

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

They won the 2015-2016 Basque Quidditch League, the first ever Basque Quidditch League, where Gasteiz Gamusins were runner-ups.

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 a 8-players roster. Even with that they defeated Toulouse Quidditch and Nightmare Grims to reach the final and lose by snitch catch, 80*-30, against Barcelona Eagles. 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 12th, 2015 the Basque Quidditch League started. They won the league without losing any game.

On February 6th and 7th, 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 Malaka Vikings, with a player in the hospital and another player injured. Due to those injuries and tireness, they couldn't repit the great deed 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 13th, 2016 they announced the deal to have Miguel Vázquez in their team, after the player left Madrid Wolves.

Honours

Official tournaments

Friendly tournaments

Bizkaia Boggarts in tournaments

• 1st in the 2015-2016 Basque Quidditch League.
• 2nd in the Transpiriquove.
• 2nd in the 2015 Mangamore Kopa.
• 2nd in the 2015-2016 Spanish Quidditch Cup.

Roster