Real Madrid C

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol C, commonly known as Real Madrid C, is a Spanish association football team, and is Real Madrid's second reserve team. They play in Segunda Federación – Group 5, holding their home games at La Ciudad del Real Madrid in Valdebebas outside the city of Madrid.

Real Madrid C

Full name	Real Madrid Club de Fútbol C
Nickname(s)	RMC
Founded	1952 (as Real Madrid CF Aficionados) I 1973 (as CD San Ignacio de Loyola) II
Dissolved	2015 (I)
Ground	Ciudad Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Capacity	3,000
President	Florentino Pérez
Head coach	Álvaro Gómez-Rey
League	Segunda Federación – Group 5
2023–24	Tercera Federación – Group 7, 1st of 18 (champions)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

At the end of the 2014–15 Tercera División, Real Madrid C was disbanded. However in 2023, the team was brought back and was put in the Tercera Federación after taking the place of RSC Internacional.

History

Real Madrid Aficionados

Real Madrid Aficionados was the amateur team for Real Madrid. In the 1960s, the team won eight Campeonato de Aficionados (national amateur cup) in an 11-year period, including six in succession. The last of their amateur championships qualified the team for the 1970–71 Copa del Generalísimo; they lost in the second round which was one further than their 'big brothers' at Plus Ultra achieved. The Aficionados' last Spanish Cup appearance was in the 1986–87 edition of the Copa del Rey. While Castilla lost in the first round, the amateurs lasted until the round of 16 where they were defeated 1–4 on aggregate by a senior Atlético Madrid side.

In league play, the Aficionados won promotion from the Preferente Castellana to the Tercera División in 1981. Their best year was the 1984–85 season, winning their Tercera group but renouncing their play-off spot in the Promoción de Ascenso.

Real Madrid C

After RFEF rulings about the status of reserve teams, the amateur team was renamed Real Madrid C in 1990. In 1990–91, the team again won their group, but was runner-up in the Liguilla de Ascenso (promotion mini-league). Two years later, the team won promotion to the Segunda División B. In 1997, the team was relegated back to the Tercera when Real Madrid B were demoted from the Segunda División to the Segunda División B. In 2005–06, the team missed promotion to the Segunda B by a single goal; Guijuelo won their home leg 1–0 and lost away 1–2 for 2–2 on aggregate, and the tie was broken by the away goals rule.

Real Madrid C gained promotion in 2012, and maintained an upper-table position in the third tier for two years before being forcibly demoted in 2014 when Castilla were relegated to the third level. After the 2014–15 Tercera División season, the C-team was disbanded.^[1][2]

Main article: RSC Internacional FC

In 2022, Real Madrid reached an agreement with RSC Internacional FC to make the club their C-team for the 2022–23 Tercera Federación.^[3] For the 2023–24 season, Real Madrid C returned to an active status and took RSC Internacional's place in the division.^[4]

Honours

• Tercera División Champions

Winners (5): 1984–85, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1998–99, 2005–06

• Tercera Federación

Winners (1): 2023–24

• Copa de la Liga

Winners (1): 1982–83 (Copa de la Liga de Tercera División)

• Campeonato de España de Aficionados^[5]

Winners (8): 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1969–70

• Copa de Comunidad

Winners (2): 2002–03 (Qualified for the Copa Federación where it was eliminated by Real Ávila in the preliminary round 0–2; 2–3), 2007–08 (Qualified for the Copa Federación; eliminated by SS Reyes in the second round 1–0; 0–2)

Season by season

Real Madrid Aficionados

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1970–71 — — — Second round 1973–74 4 Reg. Pref. 6th 1974–75 4 Reg. Pref. 8th 1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 13th 1976–77 4 Reg. Pref. 9th 1977–78 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1978–79 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 1979–80 5 Reg. Pref. 8th 1980–81 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1981–82 4 3ª 7th 1982–83 4 3ª 7th 1983–84 4 3ª 2nd First round 1984–85 4 3ª 1st First round 1985–86 4 3ª 4th First round 1986–87 4 3ª 8th Round of 16 1987–88 4 3ª 10th 1988–89 4 3ª 4th 1989–90 4 3ª 5th

Real Madrid C

Season Tier Division Place 1990–91 4 3ª 1st 1991–92 4 3ª 1st 1992–93 4 3ª 2nd 1993–94 3 2ª B 7th 1994–95 3 2ª B 13th 1995–96 3 2ª B 9th 1996–97 3 2ª B 13th 1997–98 4 3ª 3rd 1998–99 4 3ª 1st 1999–00 4 3ª 2nd 2000–01 4 3ª 4th 2001–02 4 3ª 11th 2002–03 4 3ª 6th 2003–04 4 3ª 14th 2004–05 4 3ª 11th 2005–06 4 3ª 1st 2006–07 4 3ª 6th 2007–08 4 3ª 9th 2008–09 4 3ª 8th 2009–10 4 3ª 6th

Season Tier Division Place 2010–11 4 3ª 5th 2011–12 4 3ª 2nd 2012–13 3 2ª B 5th 2013–14 3 2ª B 9th 2014–15 4 3ª 9th 2015–2023 DNP 2023–24 5 3ª Fed. 1st 2024–25 4 2ª Fed.

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• 6 seasons in Segunda División B
• 1 season in Segunda Federación
• 28 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Tercera Federación
• 8 seasons in Primera Regional Preferente

Current squad

As of 30 August 2024^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Ferrán Quetglas 2 DF  ESP Alejandro Moya 3 DF  ESP Alfredo Sotres 4 DF  ESP Jaime Calleja 5 MF  ESP Carlos Rodríguez 6 DF  ESP Cristian Perea 7 MF  ESP Baba Diocou 8 MF  ESP Miguel Romera 9 FW  ESP Ángel Carvajal 10 MF  ESP Bruno Iglesias 11 MF  ESP Hugo De Llanos 12 DF  ESP Asier de Castro

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ESP Sergio Mestre 14 DF  ESP Álex Pérez 15 DF  ESP Kike Ribes 16 MF  ESP Pol Fortuny 17 DF  ESP Nico Sánchez 18 MF  ESP Dani Meso 19 FW  ESP Jacobo Ortega 21 MF  ESP Joan Mascaró 22 FW  ESP Álvaro Ginés 25 GK  ESP Guille Súnico 28 MF  ESP Álex Sánchez

From Youth Academy

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 DF  ITA Emanuel 27 DF  ESP Melvin Ukpeigbe 29 DF  ESP Mario Rivas 30 MF  ESP Carlos Díez 31 GK  UKR Ilya Voloshyn 32 MF  ESP Beto Martínez 33 GK  ESP Javier Navarro 34 DF  ESP Óscar Mesa

No. Pos. Nation Player 35 FW  ESP Carlos Muñoz 36 DF  ESP Víctor Valdepeñas 38 DF  ESP Jesús Fortea 39 MF  ESP Aimar Santiago 40 MF  ESP Jorge Cestero 42 MF  ESP Erik Vázquez 44 MF  ESP Ignacio Gascón

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ESP Álex Alemán (at Marino de Luanco until June 2025) — FW  ESP Yeray Lancha (at Marbella until June 2025) — MF  ESP Manu Márquez (at Guadalajara until June 2025)

Notable players

GK Santiago Cañizares 1988–89 GK Raúl Valbuena 1994–95 GK José Manuel Roca 1995–97 GK Oliver 1996–97 GK Iker Casillas 1998–99 GK Carlos Sánchez 1999–2000 GK Manu Herrera 2000–01 GK Diego López 2000–03 GK David Sierra 2002–04 GK David Cobeño 2003–05 GK Kiko Casilla 2004–06 GK Antonio Adán 2004–06 GK Tomás Mejías 2007–10 GK Fernando Pacheco 2011–13 GK Rubén Yáñez 2012–13 GK Ander Cantero 2015 DF Rafael Benítez 1978–79 DF David Belenguer 1992–93 DF Alberto Marcos 1993 DF Felipe Vaqueriza 1994–95 DF José García Calvo 1994–95 DF Roberto Rojas 1994–95 DF Vicente Valcarce 1995–96 DF Manuel Tena 1997–98 DF Rubén Pulido 1998–2000 DF Francisco Pavón 1998–2000 DF Óscar Miñambres 1999–2000 DF Raúl Bravo 2000–01 DF Álvaro Mejía 2001–02 DF Álvaro Arbeloa 2002–03 DF Javi Barral 2002–03 DF Juan Duque 2002–03 DF Javi Soria 2003–06 DF Miguel Torres 2005–06 DF Laure 2005–06 DF Jordi 2005–08 DF David Mateos 2006–07 DF Javier Velayos 2006–07 DF Krzysztof Król 2007 DF Kamil Glik 2007–08

DF Tano 2010–11 DF Carlos Expósito 2010–11 DF Derik Osede 2011–13 DF Javi Noblejas 2011–13 DF Diego Llorente 2012–13 DF Ángel 2012–14 DF Joel Johnson 2012–14 DF José León 2013–15 DF Mario Hermoso 2014–15 DF Philipp Lienhart 2014–15 DF Álvaro Tejero 2015 DF Luismi Quezada 2015–16 MF Antonio Gómez 1993–94 MF Jaime 1993–94 MF Álvaro Benito 1994–95 MF Guti 1994–95 MF Fernando Morán 1994–95 MF Víctor Sánchez 1994–95 FW Alberto Rivera 1995–96 MF Javier Artero 1995–97 MF Fernando 1997–99 MF Andrés Santos 1998–99 MF David Sousa 1998–99 MF Julio Álvarez 1999–2000 MF Corona 1999–2000 MF José Luis Capdevila 2000–01 MF José Cabrera 2001–02 MF Álex Pérez 2002–03 MF Manuel Tello 2003–04 MF Marcos Tébar 2003–05 MF Borja Valero 2004–05 MF Esteban Granero 2004–06 MF Rodri 2005–06 MF Ferrán 2005–06 MF Juanmi Callejón 2005–07 MF Pedro Mosquera 2006–07 MF Fernando Guerrero 2007–09 MF Antonio Martínez 2009–10 MF Óscar Plano 2010–11

MF Jordi Martín 2010–12 MF Enrique Castaño 2011–12 MF Sergio Aguza 2011–13 MF Dani Ramírez 2011–14 MF Omar Mascarell 2012–13 MF Álvaro Medrán 2012–14 MF Gonzalo Melero 2013–14 MF Javier Muñoz 2014 MF Enzo Fernández 2014–15 MF Aleix Febas 2014–15 FW Víctor 1993 FW Raúl 1994 FW Irurzun 1994–96 FW Javi Guerrero 1995–96 FW Mista 1996–97 FW Carlos Aranda 1998–2000 FW David Aganzo 1999–2000 FW Luis García 2000–01 FW Riki 2000–02 FW David Barral 2002–03 FW Álex Colorado 2004–05 FW Javier Balboa 2004–05 FW Tha'er Bawab 2004–06 FW Rayco 2005–06 FW José Callejón 2006–07 FW Jesús Berrocal 2007–09 FW Juankar 2008–09 FW Samuel Sáiz 2008–11 FW Rodrigo 2009 FW Lucas Vázquez 2010–11 FW Fran Sol 2010–14 FW Rubén Belima 2011–13 FW Rubén Sobrino 2011–13 FW Burgui 2012–13 FW Raúl de Tomás 2012–13 FW Mariano Díaz 2012–14 FW Juanjo Narváez 2013–15 FW Álvaro Jiménez 2013–15 FW Sergio Sánchez 2014–15

• N.B. Players in BOLD played for the senior team; players in ITALICS have not played in the Primera División.

Coaches

Toni Grande 1989–96 Juan Martín Delgado 1996–1997 Miguel Ángel Portugal 1997 Paco Hernández 1997–1999 Paco Buyo 1999–2000 José Aurelio Gay 2000–02 José Manuel Díaz 2002–03 Paco Buyo 2003–04 Abraham García 2004–07 José María Salmerón 2007–08 Antonio Díaz Carlavilla 2008–09 Alberto Toril 2009 Manolo Díaz 2009–13 José Aurelio Gay 2013–15 Pau Quesada 2023–2024 Álvaro Gómez-Rey 2024–

References

1. "Real Madrid disbanding C team will have repercussions for development". ESPN. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
2. "So long, Real Madrid C". Marca. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
3. "El Real Madrid C ya es un hecho" [Real Madrid C is a thing] (in Spanish). Marca. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
4. "Pretemporada 23/24 | El Real Madrid C es una realidad" [23/24 pre-season | Real Madrid C is a reality] (in Spanish). Madridista Real. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
5. Spain – Amateur Champions (Campeonato de España Amateur) 1930-1987, RSSSF, 20 May 2020
6. "Real Madrid C". realmadrid.com. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol. Retrieved 1 July 2024.

External links

• Real Madrid C Official club website (in Spanish, English, and Japanese)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)