Real Madrid Club de Futbol (Spanish pronunciation"re'al ma'drid 'klub"de 'fudbol" which translates to Royal Madrid Football Club) Commonly called Real Madrid or simply Real is one of the Spanish professional football team based in Madrid.
The club was founded in 1902 under the name Madrid Football Club, the club has always worn the white home kit since the club's inception. The official name "real" is Spanish meaning "royal" as well as given on Real Madrid in 1920 by the King Alfonso XIII in 1920 in conjunction with the royal crown on the emblem. Real Madrid have played their home matches at the 81,044 capacity Santiago Bernabeu Stadium located in the city center of Madrid in the year 1947. Contrary to the majority of European sporting organizations Real Madrid's owners ( socios) have operated and owned the club for the entirety of its existence.
The team was estimated as valued at $5.1 billion by 2022, making it the most valuable football team in the world. In 2021 they were the second-highest-earning soccer club around the globe with a revenue that was EUR640.7 million. Real Madrid is one of the teams that is most popularly supported worldwide.
As one of the three original members of La Liga that have never been knocked out of the highest division since it was established on the 29th of November 1929 (along with Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona), Real Madrid holds many long-running rivalries, including El Clasico with Barcelona and El Derbi Madrileno with Atletico Madrid. The club was an important force in Spanish as well as European football in the 1950s and 1960s with five consecutive wins in total European Cups and making it to two finals. This was replicated in the domestic arena as well, with Madrid winning 12 league titles over the course of just 16 years. The team that was comprised of Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas, Francisco Gento as well as Raymond Kopa, is considered by some within the game to be among the best team of all time.
In their domestic soccer Real Madrid has won 68 awards; an unprecedented 35 La Liga titles, 19 Copa del Rey, 12 Supercopa de Espana, a Copa Eva Duarte, and the Copa de la Liga. For European soccer, Real Madrid have won the record number of trophies: the record number of fourteen European cup/UEFA Champions league titles and 2 UEFA Cups and four UEFA Super Cups. In international tournaments, they've won the record for seven world championships for clubs.
Real Madrid was recognised as the FIFA Club of the 20th Century on 11 December 2000, with 42.35 percent of the votes and was awarded the FIFA Centennial Order of Merit on May 20th, 2004. The club was also awarded the title of the Best European Club of the 20th Century by the IFFHS on 11 May, 2010. In June of 2017, Madrid succeeded in becoming the first club to earn consecutive titles during the Champions League era. They won the Champions League in 2022. took home an unprecedented 14th European Cup, making it five titles over the course of nine seasons. As of May 2022, Real Madrid are ranked fourth behind Bayern Munich, and Liverpool within"the UEFA league rankings.
