RC Celta

Real Club Celta de Vigo, also known as Celta de Vigo, Real Club Celta or simply Celta, is a football club from the city of Vigo, in Galicia. Its first team plays in the Primera División of Spain and it is the Galician club with the most appearances in the top national competition, and 9th in Spain, level with Real Betis. It was founded on 23 August 1923 as a result of the merger of Real Fortuna and Vigo Sporting. It plays its home matches at the Estadio de Balaídos, with a capacity of 24,870 spectators.

A historic team in Spain after playing 60 seasons in the Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, occupying tenth place in the competition's all-time table, level in seasons with ninth. In the Copa del Rey it has achieved three runners-up finishes, in 1948, 1994 and 2001, having reached the semi-finals of the competition on eight occasions. It has been league champion three times in Segunda, once in Segunda B and once in Tercera. It has spent only 2 years outside professional football.

At continental level, it has played one edition of the UEFA Champions League, Europe's top club competition, in the 2003-04 season, in which it reached the round of 16 and fell to Arsenal, and also nine editions of the UEFA Cup/Europa League, reaching the semi-finals in the 2016-17 campaign. It also won the now-defunct Intertoto Cup in 2000. In the current 2025-26 season, it is playing in the UEFA Europa League, having come through the league phase of the competition.

At a social level it has nearly 40,000 season-ticket holders, counting those without the right to a seat (Carnet Celtista), and according to the CIS it is the ninth club with the highest percentage of supporters in Spain. It also maintains a historic rivalry with Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, with which it plays the Galician derby, one of the fiercest matches in Spanish football, even though Deportivo de La Coruña is not in the top flight.