Athletic Club 0-0 Deportivo Alavés: Primera Division Match Report, 19 September 2026

Athletic Club 0-0 Deportivo Alavés, and the half-time score settles any question about how the ninety minutes were shaped: it was 0-0 at the interval too. Nothing in the record says where the chances went, only that neither side converted anything in either half. It is also the first goalless meeting in the four these clubs have on record — Alavés lost 2-4 at home to Athletic last May, won 1-0 at Athletic's ground in September 2025, lost 1-0 there in May 2025, and drew 1-1 in December 2024.

Athletic came in eighth on seven points from five matches, goal difference +1. That had been assembled the awkward way round: beaten in each of their first two games of the season, then two wins, then a draw. Alavés arrived sixth with ten points from six and +5, a return built almost entirely on the opening month — three wins and a draw from their first four, then defeats in their next two.

So the figures gave the visitors the better season to date by three points, and the fixture gave Athletic the ground. Neither advantage produced a goal. For two sides who had between them scored eighteen in eleven league matches going in, a blank afternoon was the least likely of the plausible results, and it is the one on the books.

A point each took Athletic to eight from six and Alavés to eleven from seven. Modest, but both were ahead of last season's pace, when Athletic finished twelfth on 45 points with a goal difference of -15 and Alavés fourteenth on 43 with -12. Both had ended that season double figures in the red on goal difference; both were in credit here, and a goalless draw kept them there.

Six and seven matches is still a small sample, and the weeks that followed showed why. Athletic went to Valencia on 17 October and drew 0-0 again, so their next league match also passed without a goal at either end. Alavés lost 1-2 at home to Atlético Madrid on 10 October and 2-1 at Celta de Vigo on 18 October, which stretched a winless run that had started on 12 September to five matches.

We published no pre-match call on this one. The site stood still through the second half of September and the start of October, and these backfilled reports are the record of what was played while it did — stated from the score, the half-time split and the table as it stood, and no further.