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Team Overview

Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid
 Stadium:
Santiago Bernabeu

Honours:

 European Cup: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002
Intercontinental Cup: 1960, 1998, 2002
UEFA Cup: 1985, 1986
European Super Cup: 2002
League Winners: 1932, 1933, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1986/87, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1997, 2001
Spanish League Cup: 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1917, 1934, 1936, 1946, 1947, 1962, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1989, 1993
Spanish Super Cup: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1998 2002

Voted the team of the 20th century by FIFA, Real Madrid CF have already made their mark on the 21st - lifting the European Champion Clubs’ Cup for a record ninth time after winning the UEFA Champions League final in 2002.
Founded in March 1902 and originally called Madrid Football Club the team took their now legendary all-white colours from the London Corinthians and continued the English connection by appointing as their first coach an Englishman, Arthur Johnson. The club's name was changed to Real Madrid in June 1920 after King Alfonso XIII gave his official blessing to the club, allowing them to use the regal title.
Regional success had been immediate for the club and they already had a bulging trophy cabinet when the national league started up in 1928. Real won their first Spanish title in 1932 and 27 more have followed since, most recently in 2001. They have also won 17 of the 36 Spanish Cup finals they have contested.
Their first fenced-in pitch had been opened in 1912 and in 1947 a new stadium was built and named after the club president Santiago Bernabéu, who spent 66 years at Real after joining as a player in 1912. This ushered in a new era in the 1950s and saw the team dominate the early years of European club football. Bolstered by the arrival of world stars such as Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskás, Madrid won the first five European Champion Clubs' Cups (between 1956 and 1960), adding a sixth in 1966 (after being runners-up in both 1962 and 1964). Indeed, so impressive is their record that Madrid have only twice failed to qualify for European competition - in 1977/78 and 1996/1997.
However, despite winning eight Spanish league titles in the 1960s, five more in both the 1970s and 1980s and three in the 1990s, Madrid fans had to endure a frustrating 32 years between their sixth European Champion Clubs’ Cup success in 1966 and their seventh, in 1998. In that time they lost seven European Champion Clubs’ Cup semi-finals, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals (in 1971 against Chelsea FC and in 1983 against Aberdeen FC) as well as the 1981 European Cup final against Liverpool FC. The fans' only consolation during that barren run in Europe was back-to-back UEFA Cup final triumphs in 1985 (against Videoton FCF) and 1986 (against 1.FC Köln).
Madrid have bounced back in style in recent years, winning three of the last five UEFA Champions League finals - in 1998 (1-0 against Juventus FC), 2000 (3-0 against Valencia CF) and, in their centenary year 2002 (2-1 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
The club have never been afraid of splashing out on the best players and have twice paid world record transfer fees, firstly for Luis Figo in August 2000, and then for Zinedine Zidane, who cost €70 million in the summer of 2001. As if that wasn't enough, Real signed Brazil's World Cup winning striker Ronaldo in a deal worth €45m in August 2002. Meanwhile, Raúl Gonzalez is an example of the home-grown talent that continues to be nurtured at the Bernabéu, which the club hope will bring more success for many years to come.

QUICK FACT
The club has the original European Cup in its trophy room as reward for winning the competition for five straight seasons.