UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE

COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of February, 2018

Commission file number: 1-10110

BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

BANK BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

Calle Azul 4,

28050 Madrid

Spain

(Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:

Form 20-F             X                          Form 40-F

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):

Yes                                 No                     X

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):

Yes                                 No                     X

ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A.

BILBAO, MARCH 16, 2018

CALL NOTICE

The Board of Directors of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (hereinafter, the “Company”, “BBVA” or the “Bank”), at its meeting of February 12, 2018, agreed to call the Company’s Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, to be held in Bilbao at Palacio Euskalduna, Calle Abandoibarra, 4, for March 15, 2018 at 12:00pm on first summons, and in the same place at the same time on March 16, 2018 on second summons, in accordance with the following:

AGENDA

ONE.- Annual financial statements, profit allocation and corporate management:

1.1    Examination and approval of the annual financial statements and management reports of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. and its consolidated group for the year ended December 31, 2017.

1.2    Approval of the allocation of the 2017 profit.

1.3    Approval of corporate management during 2017.

TWO.- Adoption of the following resolutions regarding the re-appointment and appointment of members to the Board of Directors:

2.1 Re-appointment of José Miguel Andrés Torrecillas

2.2 Re-appointment of Juan Pi Llorens

2.3 Re-appointment of Belén Garijo López

2.4 Re-appointment of José Maldonado Ramos

2.5 Appointment of Jaime Caruana Lacorte

2.6 Appointment of Ana Peralta Moreno

2.7 Appointment of Jan Verplancke

Pursuant to paragraph 2 of article 34 of the Company Bylaws, determination of the number of directors at the number resulting from the resolutions adopted under this agenda item, which will be reported to the General Meeting for all due effects.

THREE.- Authorization for the Company to carry out the derivative acquisition of its own shares, directly or through Group companies, setting the limits or requirements thereon and conferring on the Board of Directors the powers necessary to execute the acquisition, rendering without effect the unused portion of the authorization given at the General Shareholders’ Meeting held on March 14, 2014.

FOUR.- Approval of a maximum level of variable remuneration of up to 200% of the fixed component of total remuneration for a group of employees whose professional activities have significant impact on the Group’s risk profile.

FIVE.- Conferral of authority on the Board of Directors, with may in turn delegate such authority, to formalize, correct, interpret and implement the resolutions adopted by the General Meeting.

SIX.- Consultative vote on the Annual Report on the Remuneration of Directors of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE CALL AND PRESENTATION OF PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS

Pursuant to the Corporate Enterprises Act, shareholders representing at least three per cent of the share capital, may: (i) request the publication of a supplement to the call notice of the Meeting, including one or more items on the agenda, provided that the new items are accompanied by substantiation or, as appropriate, a substantiated proposed resolution; and (ii) submit substantiated proposed resolutions on matters already included or that should be included on the agenda.

These rights must be exercised by duly certified notice to the Company, which must be received at the registered office at Plaza de San Nicolás, 4, 48005, Bilbao, within five days following publication of this call notices.

ATTENDANCE

Pursuant to the Company’s Bylaws, holders of 500 or more shares are entitled to attend the General Meeting when these shares are on record in the corresponding accounting ledger at least five days before the scheduled date of the General Meeting.

As the General Meeting will foreseeably be held on second summons, pursuant to article 517 of the Corporate Enterprises Act, it is hereby stated that the deadline by which shareholders must have registered their shares in their name will be no later than March 11, 2018.

The Company will issue a personalized attendance card to each shareholder entitled to attend, giving them access to the venue where the General Meeting is to be held. This will indicate the number of shares they hold. Applications may be submitted through the Shareholder Office, the website (www.bbva.com), or any BBVA branch.

Holders of fewer shares may group together until they have at least the required number, though they must apply for a group card from any BBVA branch office.

In order to accredit the identity of shareholders and their valid proxies, persons presenting their attendance card on entering the building where the General Meeting is to be held may be asked to provide documents accrediting their status as proxy and, as appropriate, to present their national identity document or any other official document generally accepted for such purposes.

REMOTE VOTING AND PROXIES

WRITTEN VOTING AND PROXIES

Shareholders not personally attending the General Meeting may vote remotely, using the voting method included in the attendance card, which can be requested and delivered at any BBVA branch office.

Shareholders wishing to vote by post may apply to the Company, as from the date of publication of this notice of meeting, through the Shareholder Office or at any BBVA branch, requesting the issue of a document for postal voting in their name. Once completed according to its instructions and within the deadlines established, it must be sent by registered post with acknowledgment of receipt to the Shareholder Office at C/ Azul 4, 28050 Madrid, to be processed and counted.

In order to process votes sent remotely, these must be received at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled date for the General Shareholders’ Meeting on first summons. Any votes arriving later than this will not be counted.

Any shareholder entitled to attend may be represented by another person, who need not necessarily be a shareholder. The representation must be conferred by using the delegation method shown in the attendance/absentee voting/delegation card and may be sent to the Company by any of the means set out in this section.

REMOTE VOTING AND PROXIES

Remote voting and proxy rights must be exercised through the Bank’s website (www.bbva.com). To do so, shareholders must follow the rules and instructions shown in the “2018 General Shareholders’ Meeting” section on the website.

In order to guarantee their identity, shareholders wishing to vote or confer proxies remotely must obtain a password on the Company website (www.bbva.com) and follow the instructions in the “2018 General Shareholders’ Meeting/Electronic Vote and Proxy” section. In order to obtain the password, shareholders will need to prove their identity in the following ways:

Once shareholders have their password, they may vote and/or confer proxies by electronic means prior to the General Meeting in the “2018 General Shareholders’ Meeting/Electronic Vote and Proxy” section on the Company website (www.bbva.com) from February 23, 2018 up 12:00pm on the day before the General Meeting is held on first summons, i.e. until 12:00pm on March 14, 2018. To do so, they must complete the forms and follow the instructions contained therein for the exercise of each of their rights.

SUSPENSION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

The Company reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel or restrict the mechanisms for remote voting and proxies when this becomes necessary or advisable for technical or security reasons.

The Company shall not be liable for damages that may be caused by overloads, breakdowns, collapsed lines, connection faults or similar events not attributable to it that may temporarily prevent use of the remote voting or proxy systems.

REVOCATION OF VOTE OR PROXY

Shareholders’ personal attendance at the General Meeting will revoke any proxy or vote submitted prior to the Meeting.

Proxies may always be revoked through the same means used to confer them.

RIGHT TO INFORMATION

Shareholders may request, up to five days before the scheduled date of the General Meeting, that directors furnish any information or clarifications needed, or send written queries regarding matters on the agenda, information accessible to the public as provided by the Company to the CNMV (National Securities Market Commission) since the previous General Meeting and regarding the auditor’s report.

Shareholders wishing to exercise their right to information may do so in writing, sending their communications to the Shareholder Office at C/ Azul 4, 28050 Madrid; or by email, in the “Right to Information” section on the “2018 General Shareholders’ Meeting” area of the Company website (www.bbva.com), following the instructions therein.

As of the time of this call notice, any shareholder may examine at the corporate address, at Plaza de San Nicolás 4, in Bilbao, or on the Company’s website (www.bbva.com), in the “2018 General Meeting” section the full texts of the proposed resolutions submitted for the General Meeting’s approval and the directors’ reports on the agenda items required; the separate and consolidated annual financial statements

and management reports, submitted for approval by the General Meeting, together with the respective auditor reports; the annual corporate governance report for 2017; the curriculum vitae, category and required proposals and reports on the re-appointment and appointment of the directors proposed in item Two above; the report on the Recommendations of the Board of Directors on the proposal presented in item Four; and the Annual Report on the Remuneration of Directors of BBVA; and any other legal documentation related to the General Meeting required.

In addition, shareholders will have at their disposal the reports of the directors and auditors other than the Company’s statutory auditor appointed by the Commercial Registry issued since the previous General Meeting regarding the use of authorization to issue convertible bonds, which will be explained to the General Meeting and were already published and made available to shareholders at the time of the issuance.

Shareholders may request all the aforementioned documents be delivered or sent to them immediately and free of charge.

Likewise, once this call notice has been published and until the General Shareholders’ Meeting is held, all documents and information relating to the General Shareholders’ Meeting will be available on the Company website (www.bbva.com), in the “2018 General Shareholders’ Meeting” section.

ONLINE SHAREHOLDER FORUM

Pursuant to article 539.2 of the Corporate Enterprises Act, BBVA has enabled an Online Shareholder Forum for the calling of the General Meeting on the Company website (www.bbva.com) for the legally established purpose, to which individual shareholders and associations of shareholders authorized to do so may access with due guarantees.

Shareholders may use the Forum to publish proposed resolutions they wish to submit as supplements to the agenda listed in the notice; requests to second these proposed resolutions, and initiatives to achieve the threshold percentage of votes required to exercise the minority right established by law. They may also post offers of or calls for voluntary proxies as per the specific instructions for this announcement posted on the Bank’s website (www.bbva.com).

The Forum is not a communications channel between the Company and its shareholders and is only established to facilitate communication among BBVA shareholders prior to the General Meeting.

To access and use the Forum, shareholders must have a password, which they can obtain via the Company website (www.bbva.com), following the instructions given in the “2018 General Shareholders’ Meeting/Online Shareholder Forum” section.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Shareholders may consult the Regulations of the General Shareholders’ Meeting on the Company website (www.bbva.com) regarding aspects related to the General Shareholders’ Meeting that are not contained in this announcement.

For additional information, shareholders may contact the Shareholder Office at C/ Azul, 4, 28050 Madrid, from 9:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday; on the Shareholder Helpline at 902-200-902 / 912-249-821, from 8:00am to 10:00pm, Monday to Friday; or by sending an email to [email protected].

NOTARY PUBLIC AT THE GENERAL MEETING

The Board of Directors has resolved to require the presence of a notary public to record the minutes of the General Meeting, pursuant to article 203 of the Corporate Enterprises Act and article 101 of the Commercial Registry Regulations.

PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING

Personal data regarding the shareholders’ exercise of the rights to attend, receive information, vote, participate in the Online Shareholder Forum and any other data necessary to comply with other legal obligations stemming from the calling and holding of the General Meeting will be added to the shareholders file for which the Company is responsible. This data will be processed by the Company to manage the development, compliance with, and control of the shareholder relationship with respect to the announcement, holding and communication of the General Meeting. This data will be communicated to the notary public in relation to the certification and putting on record of the Meeting and may be provided to third parties in the exercise of the right to information provided for by law, or be made accessible to the general public insofar as it appears in the documentation that is available on the website (www.bbva.com) or is made public at the General Meeting, the holding of which may be recorded by audiovisual means and disclosed publicly on said website. When attending the General Meeting shareholders consent to the recording and publication of the same and accepts that their image will be incorporated into the file of shareholders owned by the Company in order to manage the audiovisual recording and public dissemination of the General Meeting.

Individuals whose personal data appear on these files have the right to access, rectify, cancel or challenge their data, as established under prevailing legislation, by writing to the Shareholder Office at C/ Azul 4, 28050 Madrid or sending an email to “[email protected]”.

Shareholders must inform their proxies of the content of the preceding paragraphs, ensuring that they have their consent. Shareholders must also comply with any other requirements that may be applicable for the correct transfer of personal data to the Company, without the company having to perform any additional action in terms of information or consent.

NOTE

THE GENERAL MEETING WILL FORESEEABLY BE HELD ON SECOND SUMMONS ON MARCH 16, 2018 AT THE INDICATED TIME AND PLACE, UNLESS SHAREHOLDERS ARE OTHERWISE NOTIFIED THROUGH THE DAILY PRESS OR THE COMPANY WEBSITE (www.bbva.com).

Bilbao, 14 February 2018, the Secretary General and of the Board of Directors.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS UNDER AGENDA ITEM ONE FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. TO BE HELD ON 16 MARCH 2018

In this respect, it is resolved to ratify, insofar as necessary, the resolution adopted on 27 September 2017 by the Bank’s Board of Directors approving the payout of interim dividends for fiscal year 2017.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS UNDER AGENDA ITEM TWO FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. TO BE HELD ON 16 MARCH 2018

In this item on the agenda, following the proposal made by the Appointments Committee, it is submitted to General Shareholders’ Meeting the re-election of José Miguel Andrés Torrecillas, Belén Garijo López and Juan Pi Llorens, as members of the Board of Directors, for the statutory term of three years, with the status of independent directors.

It is also submitted to the General Shareholders’ Meeting, after receiving a favorable report from the Appointments Committee, the re-election of José Maldonado Ramos as member of the Board of Directors, for the statutory term of three years, in his capacity as external director.

Finally, following the proposal made to the Board of Directors by the Appointments Committee, it is proposed that the General Shareholders’ Meeting appoints, for the statutory term of three years, Jaime Félix Caruana Lacorte, Ana Cristina Peralta Moreno and Jan Paul Marie Francis Verplancke as members of the Board of Directors, with the status of independent directors.

Each proposed re-election and appointment is accompanied by an explanatory report by the Board of Directors, as required by article 529 decies of the Corporate Enterprises Act and, in the case of the proposed re-election of José Maldonado Ramos, accompanied by the favorable report of the Appointments Committee. These reports are made available to the shareholders since the notice of the General Shareholders’ Meeting is published.

Consequently, it is proposed that the General Shareholders’ Meeting:

Pursuant to paragraph 2 of article 34 of the Company Bylaws, determination of the number of directors at the number resulting from the resolutions adopted under this item on the agenda, which will be reported to the General Shareholders’ Meeting for all due purposes.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS UNDER AGENDA ITEM THREE FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. TO BE HELD ON 16 MARCH 2018

One.- Repealing the unavailed part from the authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (the “Company” or “BBVA”), held on March 14^th, 2014, under agenda item three, to authorise the Company, directly or via any of its subsidiaries, for a maximum term of five (5) years as of the date on which this resolution is approved, for the derivative acquisition of BBVA shares at any time and on as many occasions as it deems appropriate, by any means permitted by law, including charging the acquisition to the year’s profits and/or unrestricted reserves, all pursuant to the applicable legislation, and to subsequently dispose of the shares acquired by any means permited by law.

The derivative acquisition of BBVA shares will be subject to the conditions established under the applicable legislation, under any external or internal regulation applicable at any timeand under any restrictions that may be applied by any relevant authority. Additionally, the derivative acquisition of BBVA shares will be subject to the following conditions:

To expresly authorise the treasury stock acquired by the Company or any of its subsidiaries hereunder to be partially or totally set aside for workers or directors of the Company or its subsidiaries, either directly or as a result of exercising any option rights that they may hold.

Two.- To confer authority on the Board of Directors, in the broadest terms, to exercise the authorisation contained in the previous resolution and to carry out any actions, procedures, requests or applications that may be necessary or convenient for the effectiveness of the authorisation, authorising the Board of Directors to delegate such authority to the Executive Committee, with express powers to delegate this in turn; to the Chairman of the Board; to the President & COO; or to any other director; and to empower, in the broadest terms, any Company proxy.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS UNDER AGENDA ITEM FOUR FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. TO BE HELD ON 16 MARCH 2018

For the purposes of the provisions of Article 34.1 g) of Act 10/2014 of June 26, on the regulation, supervision and solvency of credit institutions, to approve a maximum level of variable remuneration of up to 200% of the fixed component of total remuneration for a group of employees whose professional activities have significant impact on the Group’s risk profile, enabling subsidiaries of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., to likewise apply said maximum level to their professionals, pursuant to the Recommendations Report issued in this regard by the Board of Directors of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., on 12 February 2018, and which has been made available to shareholders as of the date on which this General Meeting was convened.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS UNDER AGENDA ITEM FIVE FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. TO BE HELD ON 16 MARCH 2018

To authorize the Board of Directors, with express substitution powers in favor of the Executive Committee or to the director or directors it deems convenient, as well as in favor of any other person whom the Board expressly empowers for the purpose, the necessary powers, as broad as required under law, to establish, interpret, clarify, complete, modify, correct, develop and execute, when they deem most convenient, each of the resolutions adopted by this General Meeting; to draw up and publish the notices required by law; and to perform the necessary proceedings as may be necessary to obtain the due authorizations or filings from the Bank of Spain; the European Central Bank; the Ministries of the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and of Tax and Public Administrations; the National Securities Market Commission; the entity in charge of the recording of book entries; the Commercial Registry; or any other national or foreign public or private body.

Additionally, to authorize the Chairman, Mr. Francisco González Rodríguez; the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Carlos Torres Vila; the Secretary General and of the Board, Mr. Domingo Armengol Calvo; and the Deputy Secretary of the Board, Ms. María del Rosario Mirat Santiago so that any of them, indistinctively, may perform such acts as may be appropriate to implement the resolutions adopted by this Annual General Meeting, in order to file them with the Commercial Registry and with any other Registries, including in particular, and among other powers, that of appearing before any Notary Public to execute the public deeds and notarized documents necessary or advisable for such purpose, correct, ratify, interpret or supplement what has been resolved and formalize any other public or private document that may be necessary or advisable to execute and fully register the resolutions adopted, without needing a new General Meeting resolution, and to make the mandatory deposit of the individual and consolidated annual accounts in the Company Registry.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS UNDER AGENDA ITEM SIX FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. TO BE HELD ON 16 MARCH 2018

To approve, on a consultative basis, the Annual Report on the Remuneration of Directors in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., corresponding to financial year 2017, which has been made available to shareholders, together with the remaining documents pertaining the General Meeting, as of the date on which the Meeting was called.

Born in Reus (Tarragona), in 1950

Married

Spanish national

Graduated in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona.

PDG - General Management Programme, IESE

Professional Background:

IBM Corporation

He was appointed to a BBVA directorship on 27th July 2011, he is Chair of the Risk Committee and is member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and of BBVA’s Technology and Cybersecurity Committee.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.