Joaquín Loyzaga Sr. (born Joaquín de Loyzaga Martínez; July 12, 1890 – July 4, 1935) was a Filipino international footballer who has played in the Far Eastern Championship Games, the precursor of the Asian Games.

Loyzaga has played for the Philippines national football team in three editions of the Far Eastern Championship Games from 1913 to 1917. In the 1917 Games, he helped the national team win 15–2 over Japan.

Joaquín Loyzaga

He was born to José Antonio Eugenio de Loyzaga y Ageo, a wealthy criollo businessman and sixth-generation member of landed Old Manila gentry, and María de la Luz Martínez Vial, a middle-class criolla. He was married to María del Carmen Matute y Sequera, who herself was a well-to-do ninth-generation criolla. He is the father of Carlos Loyzaga who was a very well-known as a basketball player. The younger Loyzaga was initially involved in football.

Joaquín Loyzaga

At the inaugural Manila Youth Games in 2002, plagues of recognition of select athletes from Manila, including Loyzaga, were presented.

Joaquín Loyzaga

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Filipino men's footballers

Philippines men's international footballers

Date of death missing

Men's association football players not categorized by position

Filipino people of Basque descent

1890 births