Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (also known as Real Madrid, Los Blancos, Los Merengues) is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1902, the club plays in La Liga and was voted by FIFA as the most successful football club of the 20th century, having won a record thirty-one La Liga titles, seventeen Copa del Rey and a record nine European Cup titles. Real Madrid was a founding member of The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the defunct G-14 group of Europe's elite football clubs, and its replacement, the European Club Association.
The club plays its home professional games in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in downtown Madrid. Unlike most football clubs, the club members (socios) have owned and operated Real Madrid since its foundation.
Real Madrid maintains a large fanbase and holds numerous long-standing rivalries with several other clubs, the most notable with FC Barcelona with whom they biannually contest the El Clásico. The club is the world's richest in football (€351m) in terms of revenue and the 2nd most valuable (worth over €950m as of 2008).
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