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Real Madrid Club de Futbol are the most successful club in Spanish and European football history based in Spanish capital Madrid. They have won a record 30 La Liga titles and also hold the record for the most number of European Cup triumphs (now known as the UEFA Champions League). They have won the elite competition a massive 9 times.

Founded on March 6, 1902 as Sociodad Madrid FC in the Spanish region of Castille, this club has transcended all barriers of geography and demography to become arguably the biggest and most popular club in the entire world.

Real Madrid have won a record 30 La Liga titles and the Copa Del Rey trophy 17 times. But most importantly they have clinched the famous European Cup on no fewer than 9 occasions, the latest coming as recently as in 2002. This is a record in European football so much so that at the turn of this century, FIFA named Real Madrid as the Official FIFA Club of the Century.

Real Madrid have been successful ever since it as founded. Madrid FC, as it was previously known, won their first major title in 1905 when they emerged victorious in the Copa Del Rey (at the time it was still a statewide and not a nationwide football competition). They were bestowed the title “Royal” by the King of Spain in 1920 after which the cub came to be known as Real Madrid.

But it wasn’t until the 1931-1932 season that the club came to grasp its first Spanish league championship. Real Madrid won next season’s championship too but then a plethora of incidents such as the Spanish Civil War in the mid-1930s derailed them.

But Real did reemerge in the 1950s under the guidance of a certain lawyer christened Santiago Bernabeu Yeste when they won five consecutive European Cup finals from 1956-1960, famously defeating Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 in the final at Hampden Park in 1960 in what is regarded as the best European Cup match of all time. Real Madrid then won the most prestigious club competition in Europe and in the world in 1962, 1998, 2000 and 2002.

Real Madrid are known as Los Blancos and Los Merengues to their supporters. They have a total of 1,800 official members and supporters clubs spread across the world. Real Madrid play their home matches at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu; the capacity of this artistic stadium is 80,400.

Several great players have graced the Real Madrid colours. The likes of Alfredi Di Stefano, Frenc Puscas, Gento, Michael Laudrup, Bernd Schuster, Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Michael Owen and David Beckham have all been part of the Real Madrid set-up at one time or the other.

These days the Real Madrid flagship is being flown high by Raul, supposedly the most famous and most popular of all the Real Madrid greats, Guti, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Fabio Cannavaro and Iker Casillas. Bernd Schuster is the current coach of the club, Predrag Mijatovic is the sporting director and Ramon Calderon is the current president.

Real Madrid are one of only three clubs in Spain not to have been relegated from the first division ever and foster a fierce morbo against their archrivals FC Barcelona with whom they contest el clasico (also known as el derbi). Real also count their city rivals Atletico Madrid as massive adversaries and content the Madrid derby with Atletico.

The club’s major achievements include:

- 31 La Liga titles (record) - 17 Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup) - 7 Supercopa de Espana - 9 European Cup/UEFA Champions League (record) - 3 Intercontinental Cup - 2 UEFA Cup - 2 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup Edit text

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Our match database contains 150 number of games played between Aug '04 - May '08 by Real Madrid in the La Liga.

During that period, they scored a total of 163 goals as a home team. Their average number of goals scored as a home team was 2.17 per game. As the away team, they scored a total of 122 goals, with an average number of goals of 1.63 per game.

The average for all teams combined within the La Liga was 1.19 goals scored per game, and an average of 1.23 goals allowed against per game. This means that Real Madrid scored more goals than the average team, and also allowed fewer goals.

The average team in the La Liga won 35.35% of its games, compared to Real Madrid's 62.67%.

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The next game for Real Madrid will be played on May 18, 2008

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