Real Valladolid Club de Futbol, S.A.D., or simply Real Valladolid (pronounced [re'al bayado'lid]) or Valladolid is a professional soccer club located within Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain that competes in La Liga, the top league in the Spanish league system.
The colours of the club are white and violet, that are used on the kit in stripes since its founding on June 20, 1928. The team plays home matches in the Estadio Jose Zorrilla, which has seating for 27,846 fans. Valladolid's honors include one trophy that is of significant importance that was lost, the Copa de la Liga 1983-84. It was runner-up at the Copa del Rey on two occasions (1949-50 and 1988-89) as well as participating in two seasons of the UEFA Cup (1984-85 and 1997-98) and one version of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1989-90). The team's subsidiary club is The Real Valladolid Promesas, currently are with the Primera Division RFEF.
From the club's La Liga debut in the 1948-49 season (in which it was the first club from the region to participate with La Liga - five others have also done it since then), Valladolid is the most successful soccer team in Castile and Leon in terms of honours and historical records and has played 45 years within the First Division, 36 in the Second Division and Ten in the Third. In terms of historical records, Valladolid is the 13th-best team in Spain in terms of overall league points. Two players from the team have been awarded the Pichichi Trophy: Manuel Badenes and Jorge da Silva; and 10 were internationals for the Spain national team. The 21st century has seen a change in the way that they perform the performance of the club in domestic play is based on a yo-yo pattern of club that has seen numerous promotions to (and being relegated out of) to the premier division.
On the 3rd of September, 2018 the club announced the Brazilian ex-international footballer Ronaldo Nazario had become the majority shareholder following the purchase of 51% of the controlling share in the team. At the time of April, 2020 Ronaldo held 82% of shares owned by the club.
