BirthdayGame day with a birthday: a myth turns 122! For decades, the Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, founded on March 6, 1902, has been one of the most glorious and important football clubs in the world. Officially the best club of the 20th century and the most valuable football club in the world is celebrating its 122nd anniversary. REAL TOTAL looks back on a unique history.
Real Madrid celebrates its 122nd birthday and will soon complete the Bernabéu renovation – Photo: JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images
March 6, 1902: The birth of a unique myth
MADRID. On the day of the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 against RB Leipzig, there is tension among the Royals because it is about continuing the path to their 15th title in the premier class. Did the founding fathers of today’s Spanish record champions and Champions League record winners have such gigantic numbers in mind? At the end of the 19th century, thanks to influences from England, Spain achieved a new sport – football. In the period that followed, numerous clubs were founded. The first years of the Merengues are associated with the figure of Julián Palacios, who in 1900 called a general assembly to select the players who would form the first team of Madrid. The founding of the Madrid Foot Ball Club took place on March 6, 1902, with Juan Padrós as chairman of the board.
Today, exactly 122 years later Real Madrid Football Club the most successful, best-known and most valuable football club in the world. With the almost unbelievable numbers of 35 Spanish championship titles (record), 20 national cup victories, 14 CL successes (record), eight FIFA Club World Cups or World Cups (record) and numerous other titles, a unique football myth was founded.
- First division: 35
- Copa del Rey: 20
- Spain Supercup: 13
- UEFA Champions League: 14
- UEFA Super Cup: 5
- World Cup: 3
- FIFA Club World Cup: 5
- UEFA Cup: 2
Die Ära des Santiago Bernabéu
In the post-war period took over Santiago Bernabéu Yeste the office of club president, whose goal was not only to rebuild Real Madrid, but also to make it the best and largest football club in the world. Bernabéu built a brand that would exude excellence in all areas. A new stadium was built – the Nuevo Chamartín was later renamed Santiago Bernabéu – and a number of high-profile international players were signed. With a first world selection that was formed around superstars Alfredo di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, Raymond Kopa and Francisco Gento, Real won four league titles and a Copa del Rey at the end of the 1960s. The Blancos were able to win the newly founded European Cup five times in a row from 1956 to 1960 – this legendary team is still largely considered the greatest football team of all time – this era created the myth of Real Madrid as the most successful and best club in the world.
Santiago Bernabéu (right) is the most important figure in Real Madrid’s history – Foto: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Von „El Madrid Ye-yé“ bis zur „Quinta del Buitre“
The following two decades were just as successful for the growing army of madridistas, although their great dominance at European level had only just come to an end. In 1966, Los Blancos won another European Cup – it would be their last triumph in the premier class for a long time. At the national level, especially during the “Ye-yé Generation” in the late 1960s, early 1970s and the “Quinta del Buitre” in the second half of the 1980s, Real Madrid almost dominated Spanish football at will. With the UEFA Cup victories in 1985 and 1986, the Royals were once again able to set highlights in international business. Real Madrid experienced its most difficult moment in this phase of its history off the pitch, when the great Santiago Bernabéu died in 1978.
Barça dominance and total upheaval
However, in the first half of the 1990s, Real lost ground both domestically and internationally and in Spain their arch-rivals FC Barcelona took over. Real President Lorenzo Sanz was forced to act in 1995 – and acted with all his might. In addition to star trainer Fabio Capello, he brought a whole range of international stars to the Spanish capital. The team around Predrag Mijatović, Davor Šuker, Roberto Carlos and Clarence Seedorf promptly won the national league title in the first season. Just a year later, in May 1998, the team, now coached by the German Jupp Heynckes, won the Champions League final against the heavy favorites Juventus Turin 1-0 and ended the now almost manic longing of madridismo for their seventh triumph in the premier class after 32 years.
Die „Galactics“
“La Séptima” not only ended Real’s eternal drought and longing for the European crown, but it also ushered in Real’s second great era in Europe. In 2000 and 2002, the capital city team added their eighth and ninth premier class titles – the reputation as “best club in the world” was further reinforced in 2000 by FIFA officially honoring Real Madrid as the best football club of the 20th century. In the era of the “Galácticos”, which is associated with Florentino Pérez’s first term in office (2000 to 2006), top stars such as Luís Figo, Ronaldo, Zinédine Zidane and David Beckham shaped the perception of Los Blancos. In addition to the sporting successes – including two championship titles, two Supercopa successes and a Champions League victory – Real Madrid established itself during that time as one of the strongest brands in sports worldwide.
Ronaldo era and dominance in Europe
In the summer of 2009, not only did President Peréz’s second term in office begin, but almost at the same time Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Madrid. Los Blancos had the royal transfer cost a whopping 94 million euros – to date the largest transfer fee ever paid for a footballer. In the following nine seasons, CR7 would partially pulverize almost all club and world records in terms of goals and efficiency. He represents one of the greatest and most successful phases in the history of the Royals. While the Madrilenians won the Handle Cup for the first time in twelve years under Carlo Ancelotti in May 2014, they won it three times in a row in 2016, 2017 and 2018 during Zinédine Zidane’s first coaching term.
No end to the success story in sight
After the departures of CR7 and Zidane in the summer of 2018, there was no upheaval but rather a constant change that was marked on the one hand by further sporting triumphs and, on the other hand, by the conversion of the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu into one of the most modern stadiums in the world. In these almost six years, the Royals won two more national championships, their 14th Champions League title and a number of other cups. With a mixture of experienced players from the previous era and new young stars and talents, which are being carefully built up by the returning Ancelotti, the club is not only in the fight for the two most important trophies this season, but fundamentally has a promising future. This is even more true when you consider that the stadium renovation is almost complete and that Los Blancos will soon have another enormous revenue machine at their disposal. A unique success story of foresight and courageous action is entering its 123rd year.
Happy birthday, Real Madrid!
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Royal birthday: Real Madrid turns 122
Game day with a birthday: a myth turns 122! For decades, the Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, founded on March 6, 1902, has been one of the most glorious and important football clubs in the world. Officially the best club of the 20th century and the most valuable football club in the world is celebrating its 122nd anniversary. REAL TOTAL looks back on a unique history.
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