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Madrid FC team in 1902, the year of its foundation. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain.The club was formed in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, and played its first competitive match on 13 May 1902, when it lost 3–1 in the semi-final of the Campeonato de Copa de S.M. Alfonso XIII against FC Barcelona. [1]
In 1929, the first Spanish football league was founded. Real Madrid led the first league season until the last match, a loss to Athletic Bilbao, meant they finished runners-up to Barcelona. [48] Real Madrid won its first league title in the 1931–32 season and retained it the following year. [49]
Although the club was founded in 1900, Madrid FC was not officially established until 6 March 1902, in a meeting held in the back room of Al Capricho, the Padrós family business, in which they formalized the first board of directors with Juan Padrós being named the club's second president (the first officially). [5]
Below is the official presidential history of Real Madrid until the present day. [2] Santiago Bernabéu was club president for 34 years, 264 days and holds the record for longest serving president. Florentino Pérez is the current president of the club and holds the record for the most trophies won (34).
In the 1947–48 season, Madrid finished eleventh, which remains, as of 2024, the club's lowest final position. [4] Real Madrid won La Liga four times and the European Cup five times during the 1950s. However, the most successful period for the club in terms of domestic titles was the 1960s, when Real Madrid won eight league championships.
Football became their best source for escapism and so, together with the British graduates, they founded (Sociedad) Sky Football in December 1897, [7] commonly known as La Sociedad (The Society) as it was the only one based in Madrid, playing on Vallecas and Sunday mornings at Moncloa, one of the historical football areas of Madrid. [6]
Real Madrid, founded in March, played its first game as a soccer football team and lost to Barcelona, 3 to 1. The United States Congress voted to approve $300,000 for foreign aid relief to Martinique .
Real Madrid 8–2 Barcelona: 3 February 1935 La Liga Real Madrid 9–1 CD Castellón: 16 November 1941 Real Madrid 6–4 Real Sociedad: 4 January 1942 Barcelona 5–5 Real Madrid: 10 January 1943 Real Madrid 7–3 Eintracht Frankfurt: 18 May 1960 European Cup: Real Madrid 9–1 Real Sociedad: 16 September 1967 La Liga Real Madrid 7–3 Granada ...