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media type="custom" key="7642795" media type="custom" key="7642777" Founded in 1902, Real Madrid has never been relegated from La Liga, the top league of Spanish football. The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s. In the 1980s, the club had one of the best teams (known as //[|La Quinta del Buitre]//) in Spain and Europe, winning two [|UEFA Cups], five consecutive Spanish championships, one [|Spanish Cup] and three [|Spanish Super Cups]. The team's traditional home kit colour is white, although it initially adopted a blue oblique stripe on the shirt. Its crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand it. The current crest is a modified version of the one first adopted in the 1920s. Real Madrid's home ground is the 80,354-seater [|Santiago Bernabéu] football stadium in downtown Madrid, where it has played since 1947. The [|Bernabéu] was the venue for the European cup (or [|UEFA Champions League]) finals of 1957, 1969, 1980 and 2010. Real Madrid holds long-standing rivalries with other football clubs, most notably [|FC Barcelona], with matches between the two teams referred to as "[|el Clásico]". Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (//socios//) have owned and operated the club since its inception. The club is the world's [|richest football club] ([|€401m]) in terms of revenue and [|the second most valuable] worth over €950m in 2008.
 * Real Madrid Club de Fútbol** ( Spanish pronunciation: [|[reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfutβol]] //Royal Madrid Football Club//), commonly known as **Real Madrid**, is a professional [|association football] club based in [|Madrid], [|Spain]. It is the [|most successful team] in [|Spanish football] and was voted by [|FIFA] as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record 31 [|La Liga] titles, 17 [|Spanish "Copa del Rey" Cups], a record 9 [|UEFA Champions Leagues], 2 [|UEFA Cups], 1 UEFA Supercup, and 3 Intercontinental Cups. Real Madrid was a founding member of FIFA and the now-defunct [|G–14] group of Europe's leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the [|European Club Association]. The word "Real" in the club's name is the Spanish term for "royal", and was given by the [|King Alfonso XIII] in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem – several other Spanish football teams also received this royal distinction: [|Real Sociedad], [|Real Unión de Irún], [|Real Betis], and [|Real Zaragoza].