Atlético de Madrid

Club Atlético de Madrid, S. A. D. is a Spanish football club founded on 26 April 1903 in the city of Madrid, Spain. It is the fifth club with the most seasons in Primera División, having competed in 89 of the 94 editions, and is one of the ten founding clubs of the competition and participants in the inaugural 1929 edition. In 1991 it reached third place in the historical ranking of Spanish football, losing that position in 2001, regaining it in 2016 and maintaining it since then. It plays its home matches at the Estadio Metropolitano, which has a capacity of 70,692 spectators. It is considered one of the three so-called big clubs and, together with Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, one of the most important in the history of Spanish football.

Identified by its red and white colours, from which it takes the nicknames «rojiblancos» or «colchoneros», it is one of the most decorated Spanish clubs, with more than thirty titles between national and international competitions. With eleven league titles, it is the third most decorated club in the competition. In the national Copa del Rey it has won a further ten titles and been runner-up in nine more editions. In addition to the twenty-one titles mentioned above, the club has won two Supercopa de España titles, along with three predecessor titles of that competition (the first of which has a disputed official status).

At continental level, it is one of the ten most decorated European clubs in UEFA competitions. It has played nineteen editions of the European Cup/Champions League, reaching the final in 1974, 2014 and 2016, and the semi-final on four occasions; twenty-four of the UEFA Cup/Europa League, winning three titles; and nine of the European Cup Winners' Cup, winning one title and finishing runner-up twice. It has also won the European Super Cup three times and the Intercontinental Cup in 1975, which makes it one of the 32 clubs recognised by FIFA as world champions. As of 2026, it ranks tenth in the UEFA club coefficient ranking and seventh in the performance ranking over the last decade.

Atlético de Madrid is one of the pioneers of women's sport in Spain, already enjoying major national successes in the 1930s in sports such as tennis and hockey. As far as football is concerned, it founded its first women's team in 1989 and won its first Primera División title in 1990, although that women's section, together with all the other multi-sport sections, men's and women's, that the club had, among which handball stood out, disappeared a few years later. The current Club Atlético de Madrid women's team was formed in 2001 and was promoted until it competed in Spain's Primera División. It is one of the most successful women's clubs in the country, having won one Supercopa de España, two Copas de la Reina and three consecutive league championships (to which the title of the predecessor women's team must be added).

The club has a men's reserve team that won the Copa de la Liga de Segunda División and was runner-up in Segunda División, in addition to a women's reserve team.