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Real Madrid Club de Futbol

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Founded in 1902, the club has been owned and operated by its members (called 'socios') since its inception. Home matches are played at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (Capacity: 80,354). As of 2009, Real Madrid had been European Champions a record 9 times and had won 31 Spanish Championships (La Liga) plus seventeen Spanish Cups (Copa del Rey). According to Deloitte, in 2004/05 season Real became the biggest club in the world as measured by turnover (£186.2m) displacing Manchester United for the first time since Deloitte began their analysis. In June 2009, the club broke its own record for the highest ever transfer fee when it paid Manchester United €96 million (£80 million) for Cristiano Ronaldo.

Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in Euro millions.

Financial Overview

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2007/08

365.847

12.382

45.7

724

2006/07

350.950

25.656

47.7

704

2005/06

292.216

33.986

46.5

 

2004/05

275.653

30.396

52.4

771

2003/04

236.001

38.089

53.4

768

2002/03

192.581

-99.035

 

 

2001/02

152.191

 

 

 

2000/01

 

 

 

 

1999/00

163.800

 

 

 

1998/99

116.347

-20.556

61.4

323

1997/98

110.893

0.169

58.5

291

1996/97

81.879

6.379

51.5

278

1995/96

54.676

-1.324

58.5

 

1994/95

43.404

-16.798

85.6

 

Website: 
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