Real Madrid C

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)
	Current season

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.

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]

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.

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; some limited exceptions apply. 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	MF	ESP	Cristian Perea
7	FW	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	MF	ESP	Nico Sánchez
18	MF	ESP	Dani Meso
19	FW	ESP	Jacobo Ortega
20	DF	ESP	Manu Serrano
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; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	DF	ITA	Emanuel Benjamín
27	DF	ESP	Melvin Ukpeigbe
29	DF	ESP	Mario Rivas
30	MF	ESP	Carlos Díez
31	GK	UKR	Illya 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; some limited exceptions apply. 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)