OTD E0126 — 06 Mar 1902: Real Madrid Is Founded — The Paperwork That Built Football’s Greatest Empire

06 Mar 1902: Real Madrid begins as “Madrid Foot-Ball Club” — a formal founding born from Madrid’s early football circles and the splintering of Foot-ball Sky. We trace Spain’s imported early-game influences, the Padrós/Palacios founding moment, the first recorded Clásico (a 3–1 loss in 1902’s Coronation Cup), the 1920 “Real” title and crest, republic-era identity shifts, Bernabéu’s post-war institution-building, and the European Cup era that made Madrid global.Email: [email protected]