Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (also known as Real Madrid, Los Blancos, Los Merengues) is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the most successful team in Spanish football and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record thirty-one La Liga titles, seventeen Spanish Cups, a record nine European Cups and two UEFA Cups.Real was a founding member of FIFA and the now-defunct G-14 group of Europe's leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association.
Founded in 1902,Real Madrid has since spent all of its history in the top flight of Spanish football.In the 1940s, the club, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Ciudad Deportiva were rebuilt following the Spanish Civil War. The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s. In the 1980s, the club had one of the best teams in Spain and Europe (known as La Quinta del Buitre), winning two UEFA Cups, five Spanish championships in a row, one Spanish cup and three Spanish Super Cups.
Real is considered to be the club with biggest fanbase around the world with an estimated total of 367 million Real supporters.the club has more than 1,800 peñas (official, club-affiliated supporters' groups) in Spain and around the world.
The club's traditional home colours are all white. Its crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand; the current crest is a modified version of the one first adopted in the 1920. Real's home is the 80,354-person-capacity.Santiago Bernabéu football stadium in downtown Madrid, where it has played since 1947. Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception.
It has a long-standing and fierce rivalry with FC Barcelona, although Atlético Madrid is actually the closest professional football club. The El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona has been played since 1929. Real is the world's 2nd richest football club (€352m) in terms of revenue and the second most valuable (worth over €950m as of 2008).
Current squad
Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.
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See Also: Real Madrid Castilla
(B list players from [1] Uefa Champions League Roster)
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| Full name | Real Madrid Club de Fútbol[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Los Blancos (The Whites) Los Merengues (The Meringues)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 6 March 1902 (as Madrid Football Club)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Santiago Bernabéu Madrid, Spain (Capacity: 80,354[1]) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President |  Vicente Boluda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head Coach | Juande Ramos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | La Liga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–08 | La Liga, 1st[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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