Atlético 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 team with the most seasons in the Primera División, having played 89 of the 94 editions, and is one of the ten founding clubs of the competition and a participant in the inaugural 1929 edition. In 1991 it reached 3rd place in the all-time table of Spanish football, lost that position in 2001, regained it in 2016 and has held it ever since. It plays its home matches at the Metropolitano stadium, which has a capacity of 70,692 spectators.

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

At the continental level, it is one of the eight most decorated European teams in UEFA competitions: it has taken part in nineteen editions of the European Cup/Champions League, reaching three finals as runner-up; nine editions of the Cup Winners' Cup, winning one title and finishing runner-up twice; and twenty-four editions of the UEFA Cup/Europa League, winning three titles. It has also been crowned three-time champion of the UEFA Super Cup and champion of the Intercontinental Cup in 1975, which makes it one of the 31 clubs recognized by FIFA as world champions. As of 2022 it ranks ninth in the UEFA coefficient rankings, and sixth in the performance ranking of the last decade.

Atlético de Madrid is one of the pioneers of women's sport in Spain, achieving great national successes in the 1930s in sports such as tennis and hockey. In football, it founded its first women's team in 1989 and won its first Primera División league title in 1990, although that women's section, together with all the other men's and women's multi-sport sections the club had, among which handball stood out, disappeared a few years later. The current women's Club Atlético de Madrid 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 that of the predecessor women's team must be added).

It has a men's reserve team that won a Segunda División League Cup and was runner-up in the Segunda División, as well as a women's reserve team. It also has a youth football academy for both sexes, with numerous successes in the country. At the international level, since 2014 it has invested in football teams in order to position the Atlético de Madrid brand worldwide, participating in teams such as Atlético Kolkata in India, Club Atlético de San Luis in Mexico and Atlético Ottawa in Canada.

At the social level, it has more than 150,000 members, of whom more than 60,000 are season-ticket holders, and 850 supporters' clubs (peñas), 150 of them outside Spain. It also has more than 60 million followers on social media in 2023 and is the third football club with the most supporters in Spain, according to a Statista survey from 2018. In addition, the organization "is among the ten clubs in the world with the largest social base", according to its majority shareholder.

At the economic level, it ranks eleventh in the list of revenues of European clubs, with an amount of 416.2 million euros per season. The organization is also estimated to be valued at 2,100 million euros.