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The first goal was scored in the 4th minute by Madrid midfielder Chus Alonso after receiving a pass from Barinaga. [17] The stadium's official name at the time was Estadio Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, although it continued to be known among fans as Nuevo Estadio Chamartín (English: New Chamartín Stadium) or simply Chamartín. The stadium had ...
Football was introduced to Madrid at the end of the 19th century when the industrial exchange between the Spanish capital and Great Britain was in full effect. The first stone was laid around May 1879, when the Britons and some members of the city's high society agreed to form a society dedicated to cricket and football, the Cricket and Football Club of Madrid, which followed the British ...
Madrid Madrid: Real Madrid Castilla] 1922 [33] 29: Estadio Balear: 6,000: Palma Canary Islands: Atlético Baleares] 1922 [34] 30: Estadio Maspalomas: 6,000: San Bartolomé de Tirajana Castile and León: CD Maspalomas] 1950 31: Johan Cruyff: 6,000: Sant Joan Despí Catalonia: Barcelona Atlètic] 2019 32: Anduva: 5,759 [35] Miranda de Ebro ...
[21] [22] As of 15 April 2017, around 48,500 season tickets had been reserved by the club fans. [23] On 16 September 2017, the Estadio Metropolitano's inaugural event was a 2017–18 La Liga match between Atlético Madrid and Málaga CF. King Felipe VI of Spain attended the match.
This list of fan-owned sports teams includes professional and semi-professional teams solely owned by fans/supporters, either via a collective organisation or where the assumption of majority ownership by a small group is prohibited by the club's constitution or governing documents.
Since the inception of La Liga in 1929, Spain's highest level of association football annual league tournament, 88 football stadiums have been used to host matches. The inaugural round of La Liga matches took place on 10 February 1929 with five clubs hosting the opening fixtures.
Real Madrid has the second highest average all-time attendance in Spanish football and regularly attracts over 74,000 fans to the Bernabéu. One of the best supported teams globally, Real Madrid was the first sports team (and first brand) to reach 100 million fans on Facebook in April 2017.
Football is the most popular sport in Spain, with 61% of the population interested in it. [1] Spain has some of the most influential teams in Europe (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, and others) as well as many players (mostly unprofessional) and teams registered in all categories (1,063,090 players in 21,148 clubs). [2]