Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , usually known simply as Real Madrid) 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.Full name : Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
Nickname(s) : Los Blancos (The Whites) Los Merengues (The Meringues)
Founded : 6 March 1902 (as Madrid Football Club)
Ground : Santiago Bernabéu Madrid, Spain(Capacity: 80,354)
President : Vicente Boluda
Head Coach : Juande Ramos
League : La Liga
Website : http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/Home
Rivalries
El Clasico : F.C.Barcelona
El Derbi madrileño : Athletico Madrid
Players
Forwards
Raúl (captain)
Javier Saviola
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Gonzalo Higuaín
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Mid Fielders
Lassana Diarra
Fernando Gago
Wesley Sneijder
Arjen Robben
Rafael van der Vaart
Javi García
Mahamadou Diarra
Rubén de la Red
Guti
Royston Drenthe
Dani Parejo
Julien Faubert (on loan from West Ham United)
Defenders
Míchel Salgado
Pepe
Sergio Ramos
Fabio Cannavaro
Marcelo
Christoph Metzelder
Miguel Torres
Gabriel Heinze
Goalkeepers
Iker Casillas (vice-captain)
Jordi Codina
Jerzy Dudek
Youth system
Forwards
Alberto Bueno
Miquel Palanca
Ádám Szalai
Mid Fielders
Pedro Mosquera
Javi Hernández
Defenders
David Mateos
Javier Velayos
Chema Antón
Goalkeepers
Felipe Ramos
Antonio Adán
Out on loan
Defender
Ezequiel Garay (at Racing Santander)
Domestic
* La Liga
Winners (31 – record): 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
Runners-up (17): 1928–29, 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
* Copa del Rey
Winners (17): 1904–05, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1916–17, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1961–62, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1992–93
Runners-up (19): 1902–03, 1915–16, 1917–18, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1932–33, 1939–40, 1942–43, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1967–68, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1991–92, 2001–02, 2003–04
* Supercopa de España
Winners (8 – record): 1988, 1989*, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2008
Runners-up (3): 1982, 1995, 2007
(* Won Copa del Rey and La Liga)
* Copa de la Liga
Winners (1): 1984–85
Runners-up (1): 1982–83
International
* European Cup/UEFA Champions League
Winners (9 – record): 1955–56*, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1965–66, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02
Runners-up (3): 1961–62, 1963–64, 1980–81
(* First ever winners)
* Intercontinental Cup
Winners (3 – record): 1960, 1998, 2002
Runners-up (2): 1966, 2000
* UEFA Cup
Winners (2): 1984–85, 1985–86
* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Runners-up (2): 1970–71, 1982–83
* UEFA Super Cup
Winners (1): 2002
Runners-up (2): 1998, 2000
