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Real Madrid C

Full name	Real Madrid Club de Fútbol C
Nickname(s)	RMC
Founded	1952 (as Real Madrid CF Aficionados) I 1973 (asCD San Ignacio de Loyola) II
Dissolved	2015 (I)
Ground	Ciudad Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Capacity	3,000
President	Florentino Pérez
Head coach	Pau Quesada
League	Segunda Federación – Group 5
2023–24	Tercera Federación – Group 7, 1st of 18 (champions)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Active departments of Real Madrid
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Real Madrid Club de Fútbol C, commonly known as Real Madrid C, is a Spanish association football team that plays in the Tercera Federación. It is Real Madrid's second reserve team. They played their home games at La Ciudad del Real MadridinValdebebas outside the city of Madrid. At the end of the 2014–15 Tercera División, Real Madrid C was disbanded. However in 2023, the team was brought back and was put in the Tercera Federación.

History[edit]

Real Madrid Aficionados[edit]

Real Madrid Aficionados was the amateur team for Real Madrid. In the 1960s, the team won eight Campeonato de Aficionados (national amateur cup) in an 11-year period, including six in succession. The last of their amateur championships qualified the team for the 1970–71 Copa del Generalísimo; they lost in the second round which was one further than their 'big brothers' at Plus Ultra achieved. The Aficionados' last Spanish Cup appearance was in the 1986–87 edition of the Copa del Rey. While Castilla lost in the first round, the amateurs lasted until the round of 16 where they were defeated 1–4 on aggregate by a senior Atlético Madrid side.

In league play, the Aficionados won promotion from the Preferente Castellana to the Tercera División in 1981. Their best year was the 1984–85 season, winning their Tercera group but renouncing their play-off spot in the Promoción de Ascenso.

Real Madrid C[edit]

After RFEF rulings about the status of reserve teams, the amateur team was renamed Real Madrid C in 1990. In 1990–91, the team again won their group, but was runner-up in the Liguilla de Ascenso (promotion mini-league). Two years later, the team won promotion to the Segunda División B. In 1997, the team was relegated back to the Tercera when Real Madrid B were demoted from the Segunda División to the Segunda División B. In 2005–06, the team missed promotion to the Segunda B by a single goal; Guijuelo won their home leg 1–0 and lost away 1–2 for 2–2 on aggregate, and the tie was broken by the away goals rule.

Real Madrid C gained promotion in 2012, and maintained an upper-table position in the third tier for two years before being forcibly demoted in 2014 when Castilla were relegated to the third level. After the 2014–15 Tercera División season, the C-team was disbanded.^[1][2]

In 2022, Real Madrid reached an agreement with RSC Internacional FC to make the club their C-team for the 2022–23 Tercera Federación.^[3] For the 2023–24 season, Real Madrid C returned to an active status and took RSC Internacional's place in the division.^[4]

Honours[edit]

• Tercera División Champions

Winners (5): 1984–85, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1998–99, 2005–06

• Tercera Federación

Winners (1): 2023–24

• Copa de la Liga

Winners (1): 1982–83 (Copa de la Liga de Tercera División)

• Campeonato de España de Aficionados^[5]

Winners (8): 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1969–70

• Copa de Comunidad

Winners (2): 2002–03 (Qualified for the Copa Federación where it was eliminated by Real Ávila in the preliminary round 0–2; 2–3), 2007–08 (Qualified for the Copa Federación; eliminated by SS Reyes in the second round 1–0; 0–2)

Season by season[edit]

Real Madrid Aficionados[edit]

Real Madrid C[edit]

• 6 seasons in Segunda División B
• 28 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Tercera Federación
• 8 seasons in Primera Regional Preferente

Current squad[edit]

As of 12 July 2024^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Guillermo Ruiz 2 DF  ESP David Jiménez 3 DF  ESP David Ruiz 4 DF  ESP Jaime Calleja 5 DF  ESP David Cuenca 6 MF  ESP Fer Rodríguez 8 MF  ESP Miguel Romera 10 FW  ESP Yeray Lancha 11 MF  ESP Borja Alonso 12 DF  ESP Kike Ribes

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ESP Guille Súnico 14 MF  ESP Manu Márquez 15 DF  ESP Juan Rodríguez 16 MF  ESP Carlos Rodríguez 17 FW  ESP Loren Zúñiga 18 FW  ESP Ángel Carvajal 19 FW  ESP Alexander Alemán 20 DF  ESP Manu Serrano 21 MF  ESP Andrés Campos

From Youth Academy[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF  MAR Yusi 24 DF  ESP Álex Pérez 25 GK  ESP Fran González 26 MF  ESP Antonio David 27 DF  ESP Mario Rivas 28 DF  ESP Jacobo Ramón

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF  ESP Chema Andrés 30 DF  ESP Joan Martínez 31 GK  ESP Hugo Mantecón 32 MF  ESP Dani Meso 33 MF  ESP Pol Fortuny

Other players under contract[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP David de la Víbora — DF  ESP Alfredo Sotres — MF  JPN Néstor Lucas

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ESP Andrés García — MF  ESP Samu Expósito — FW  ESP Abraham Nobrega

Out on loan[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Notable players[edit]

• N.B. Players in BOLD played for the senior team; players in ITALICS have not played in the Primera División.

Coaches[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Real Madrid C Official club website (in Spanish, English, and Japanese)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)