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Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid CF.svg
Full nameReal Madrid Club de Fútbol[1]
Nickname(s)Los Blancos (The Whites) Los Merengues (The Meringues) Los Vikingos (The Vikings)[2]
Foondit6 Mairch 1902; 121 years ago (1902-03-06)
as Madrid Football Club[3]
GroundApple-Santiago Bernabéu
Ground Capacity81,044[4]
PresesFlorentino Pérez
ManagerCarlo Ancelotti
LeagueLa Liga
2022/231st
WabsteidClub wabsteid
Away colours
Current saison

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Spaingie pronunciation: [reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfuðβol]; Ryal Madrid Fitbaa Club), commonly kent as Real Madrid, is a perfaisional fitbaw club based in Madrid, Spain.

The club is the warld's richest fitbaw club in terms o revenue, wi a annual turnower o €513 million, an the maist valuable sports team, wirth €2.4 billion (US$3.3 billion).[5][6][7] Real Madrid is ane o three foondin members o the Primera División which hae niver been relegatit frae the tap diveesion, alang wi Athletic Bilbao an FC Barcelona. Real Madrid haulds mony lang-staundin rivalries, maist notably El Clásico wi FC Barcelona an El Derbi madrileño wi Atlético Madrid.

In domestic fitbaw, Real Madrid haes wan a record 32 La Liga titles, 19 Copas del Rey, 9 Supercopas de España, 1 Copa Eva Duarte an 1 Copa de la Liga.[8] Internaitionally it haes wan a record 11 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles an a jynt record three Intercontinental Cups, as well as twa UEFA Cups, an twa UEFA Super Cups.

Current squad[eedit | eedit soorce]

As o 1 September 2014[9]

Note: Banners indicate naitional team as defined unner FIFA eligibility rules. Players mey haud mair nor ane non-FIFA naitionality.

No. Poseetion Player
1 Spain GK Iker Casillas (caiptain)[10]
2 Fraunce DF Raphaël Varane
3 Portugal DF Pepe (vice-caiptain)[11]
4 Spain DF Sergio Ramos (vice-caiptain)[10]
5 Portugal DF Fábio Coentrão
6 Germany MF Sami Khedira
7 Portugal FW Cristiano Ronaldo
8 Germany MF Toni Kroos
9 Fraunce FW Karim Benzema
10 Colombie MF James Rodríguez
11 Wales MF Gareth Bale
No. Poseetion Player
12 Brazil DF Marcelo (vice-caiptain)[10]
13 Costa Rica GK Keylor Navas
14 Mexico FW Javier Hernández (on lend frae Manchester United)
15 Spain DF Daniel Carvajal
17 Spain DF Álvaro Arbeloa
18 Spain DF Nacho Fernández
19 Croatie MF Luka Modrić
20 Spain FW Jesé
22 Argentinae MF Ángel di María
23 Spain MF Isco
24 Spain MF Asier Illarramendi

Oot on lend[eedit | eedit soorce]

Note: Banners indicate naitional team as defined unner FIFA eligibility rules. Players mey haud mair nor ane non-FIFA naitionality.

No. Poseetion Player
Brazil MF Casemiro (at Porto till 30 Juin 2015)
Roushie MF Denis Cheryshev (at Villarreal till 30 Juin 2015)

Honours[eedit | eedit soorce]

Domestic competeetions[eedit | eedit soorce]

Winners (34): 1931–32, 1932–33, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2019–20
Runners-up (21): 1929, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1941–42, 1944–45, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1965–66, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13
Winners (19): 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1917, 1934, 1936, 1946, 1947, 1961–62, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1992–93, 2010–11, 2013–14
Runners-up (20): 1903, 1916, 1918, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1940, 1943, 1958, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1967–1968, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1991–92, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2012–13
Winners (9): 1988, 1989*, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012
Runners-up (5): 1982, 1995, 2007, 2011, 2014
(* Wan Copa del Rey an La Liga)
Winners (1): 1947
Winners (1): 1984–1985
Runners-up (1): 1982–1983

European competeetions[eedit | eedit soorce]

Winners (11): 1955–56*, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1965–66, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2013–14, 2015–16
Runners-up (3): 1961–62, 1963–64, 1980–81
(* First iver winners)
Winners (2): 1984–85, 1985–86
Runners-up (2): 1970–71, 1982–83
Winners (2): 2002, 2014
Runners-up (2): 1998, 2000

Warldwide competeetions[eedit | eedit soorce]

Winners (1) : 2014
Winners (3): 1960*, 1998, 2002
Runners-up (2): 1966, 2000
(* First iver winners)

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

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