Football club “Atletico de Madrid”

Football club “Atletico de Madrid”

Spanish football clubs (“Atlético de Madrid”). The date of foundation: 26/04/1903. Home arena: the Club of Madrid plays the home game at the stadium “Estadio Vicente Calderon”, opened in 1966. It accommodates 54 851 visitors.
Achievements in the championship of Spain: “Atletico” is a tenfold champion of Spain– seasons: 1939/40 – at that moment, the team was called “Atletico aviacion”. The team managed to get 14 wins in 22 games and end 1 match in a draw.
Atletico failed seven times. The goal difference: 43-29. 1940/41 – second consecutive champion’s title of “Atletico” for 13 wins, 7 draws and 2 failures in one season. 1949/50 – the championship of Spain has changed, and the total number of matches increased to 26: 15 wins, 3 draws and 8 failures, the goal difference: 71-51. 1950/51 – the new season brought a large number of matches – “Atletico” scored 40 points in 30 matches (17 wins, 6 draws and 7 failures); 1965/66 – the season resulted in the relentless fight against “Real Madrid”. “Atletico” beat its opponents by 1 point. 1969/70 – in this season, the main rival of “Atletico” for the title was “Atletico de Bilbao”, but the fortune smiled to “Atletico” – they became champions again. 1972/73 – the fight with three strong clubs – “Barcelona”, “Español” and “Real Madrid”, won by a margin of 2 points. 1976/77 – only “Barcelona” could beat “Atletico”, but at the finish of the championship it was 2 points behind. 1995/96 – one tour before the end of championship, “Atletico” won the championship: they won 26 of 42 matches and had 9 draws. 2013/14 – the club won its tenth and currently the last title. As a result of the season, “Atletico” surpass “Barcelona” and “Real Madrid” by 3 points. The statistics of participation in the championship: Madrid played 2539 matches during the championship: 1191 wins, 585 draws and 763 failures. The goal difference: 4404-3265. The biggest wins in the championships: 9:0 (there are two of them in the asset of “Atletico”): in September 1955 they defeated “Hercules”, and in October 1957 the teams repeated the result in match against “Las Palmas”. The largest failures in the championship: 1:8 – in December 1954 (in match against “Celta”). The participation in European cups: “Atletico” won the Europa League twice (2009/10, 2011/12), and twice became the finalist of Champions League (1973/74, 2013/14). The biggest wins in the Europa League: 6:1 – during 1/32 Cup “Atletico” defeated “Servette”. 5:0 – in the first round of UEFA Cup (2007/08) “Atletico” defeated the Turkish team “Kayseri Erciyesspor”. The biggest failures in the Europa League: 1:4 – in September 1981 (1/32 of the UEFA Cup)- with such score “Atletico” failed to the Portuguese club “Boavista”. 0:3 – Spaniards failed with such score three times: in 1/16 Cup of 1967/68 (Turkish “Göztepe”); in 1/32 UEFA Cup of 1979/80 (German “Dynamo Dresden”; in 1/32 UEFA Cup of 1983/84 (Dutch“Groningen”). The largest wins in the Champions League: 8:0 – in the preliminary round of the season 1958/59 they beat Irish “Home Farm”. The biggest failures in the Champions League were 0:4 (twice- in a season finale of 1973/74 Spaniards failed to the German “Bayern”, and in the group stage of the season 2009/10 “Atletico” failed to “Chelsea”.