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Real Madrid

Value$9.05BHeartbreak#5303.9Top TeamMadrid

Madrid, Madrid · Spain · La Liga

League titles
36
last 2024
Major cups
83
last 2024
Top-2 finishes
63
Top-4 finishes
81

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)130Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/6069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

Against expectation

Every Spanish top-flight match this club has played in the Primera División, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 94 seasons from 1928-29 to 2024-25 it has beaten them by +121.6 match points.

1928-29 to 2024-25one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
2009-10 +19.1 league pts
96 points on 76.8 expected as Real Madrid
Worst season against expectation
2018-19 −8.9 league pts
68 points on 76.9 expected as Real Madrid

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1995-96 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable. The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

Madrid against expectation →How this is measured →

Title chances

This side's chance in each title race we forecast, frozen and scored like every forecast here.

Full odds: La Liga · Champions League · every title race

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012 on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€1.20b
07521.5b12-1314-1516-1718-1920-2122-2324-25

Peak
€1.39b in Dec 2025 · 27 players valued
Most recent
€1.20b in Jun 2026 · 25 players valued

Madrid on the rankings →

Who controls the club

The entity that holds control today, one per franchise; co-controllers and minority holders are listed, never summed.

How this is measured

Exactly one control entity is recorded per franchise, so a portfolio can never count a club twice. Co-controllers and minority holders are shown as published and carry no weight in any total.

The chip names the evidence. Sourced: a primary source is linked (league, club, filing or tier-one outlet). Cross-checked: matched against the ownership-change sweep. Contested: disputed or mid-sale. Rows are reviewed weekly.

Stakes are as published, often only “majority”, and are not pro-rated. A record of control is not a claim about anyone’s intent or conduct.

Who controls the clubMember-owned (98,272 socios); president Florentino Perez
Member-owned (98,272 socios); president Florentino Perezmembers' association· Member-owned
Sourcedas of 24 Nov 2025

Each socio holds one non-tradeable, non-monetary share. A Nov 2025 proposal would create a subsidiary in which outside investors take about 5% with dividends but no voting rights, subject to a member referendum. Sixth Street and Legends hold 30% of the Bernabeu stadium operations business, which is a venue joint venture, not club equity.

Also controls
Also linked to

Member-owned (98,272 socios); president Florentino Perez on the owners board →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciation is the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger−€441m
Spent
€1.26b
42 arrivals with a fee
Received
€815m
41 departures with a fee
Net
−€441m
179 moves with no fee
Appreciation
−€209m
14 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading +€4m and appreciation —. Over the last 5 seasons (2022-23–2026-27), trading −€329m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 36 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 83% EV-positive. €457m deployed for a 1.2× multiplier.

2026-27 spent — received €4mto 6 July 2026
out: Mario Martín €4m
—
unpriced
2025-26 spent €95m received €2m
in: Álvaro Carreras €50m
−€118m
squad gain
2024-25 spent €122m received €16m
in: Dean Huijsen €63m
−€18m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €160m received €7m
in: Jude Bellingham €127m
+€96m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €80m received €99m
in: Aurélien Tchouaméni €80m
+€140m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €31m received €75m
in: Eduardo Camavinga €31m
+€95m
squad gain
2020-21 spent — received €98m
out: Achraf Hakimi €43m
−€176m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €239m received €133m
in: Luka Jović €63m
−€90m
squad gain

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

● the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · ● this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

Real Madrid's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play. H, A and N mark home, away and a neutral venue; a ★ is a curated all-time classic (tap it for the model's own score).All-time board.

1
1960-05-18 · European Cup · Final
94.2
game score
2
1958-05-28 · European Cup · Final
90.5
game score
3
2022-05-04 · Champions League · Semifinals · 2nd leg, agg 6-5
89.5
game score
4
1962-05-02 · European Cup · Final
89.0
game score
5
2014-05-24 · Champions League · Madrid Derby · Final
88.5
game score
6
2022-05-28 · Champions League · Final
87.2
game score
7
1998-05-20 · Champions League · Final
86.5
game score
8
2024-05-07 · Champions League · Semi Finals · 2nd leg, agg 3-4
85.4
game score
9
2018-04-25 · Champions League · Semifinals · 1st leg
85.3
game score
10
2012-04-17 · Champions League · Semifinals · 1st leg
85.0
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
96
First season
1929
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index3.9 · #530

The Tortured · European Cup, 2024

3.9
Heartbreak
#530
of 1,138 clubs
#337
in Football
3.9
agony
The clocks
  • Champions-league since 20240.0
  • League title since 20240.0
  • Major trophy since 20250.0
Heaviest wounds

league runner-up, 2026 · league runner-up, 2025 · lost the national cup final, 2025 · league runner-up, 2023

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

YouTube

+71,866,430
views gained since 23 Oct 2026
+100,000
subscribers gained since 23 Oct 2026

Open the official channel on YouTube

Calculated by Citizen of Nowhere from YouTube channel statistics, as of 1 Nov 2026. Not part of the Fan Attention Index. Not ranked.

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers La Liga only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2027
La Liga (1) · P3● live
11 P · 9-0-2 · 28:10 · +18
27
pts
2026
La Liga (1) · P2
38 P · 27-5-6 · 77:35 · +42
86
pts
CLCL
2025
La Liga (1) · P2
38 P · 26-6-6 · 78:38 · +40
84
pts
CopaCLCL
2024
La Liga (1) · P1★
38 P · 29-8-1 · 87:26 · +61
95
pts
CLCL
2023
La Liga (1) · P2
38 P · 24-6-8 · 75:36 · +39
78
pts
CopaCLCL
2022
La Liga (1) · P1★
38 P · 26-8-4 · 80:31 · +49
86
pts
CLCL
2021
La Liga (1) · P2
38 P · 25-9-4 · 67:28 · +39
84
pts
CLCL
2020
La Liga (1) · P1★
38 P · 26-9-3 · 70:25 · +45
87
pts
CLCL
2019
La Liga (1) · P3
38 P · 21-5-12 · 63:46 · +17
68
pts
CLCL
2018
La Liga (1) · P3
38 P · 22-10-6 · 94:44 · +50
76
pts
CLCL
2017
La Liga (1) · P1★
38 P · 29-6-3 · 106:41 · +65
93
pts
CLCL
2016
La Liga (1) · P2
38 P · 28-6-4 · 110:34 · +76
90
pts
CLCL
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

2025
Copa del Rey
Runner-up
2025
Supercopa de España
Runner-up
2024
Supercopa de España
Runner-up
2023
Copa del Rey
Won
2023
Supercopa de España
Won
2022
Supercopa de España
Runner-up
2021
Supercopa de España
Won
2019
Supercopa de España
Won
2017
Supercopa de España
Won
2014
Copa del Rey
Won
2014
Supercopa de España
Runner-up
2013
Copa del Rey
Runner-up
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2025-26
Champions League(CL)
Quarter-final
2024-25
Champions League(CL)
Quarter-final
2024-25
FIFA Club World Cup(FCWC)
Semi-final
2024-25
Intercontinental Cup(IC)
Cup Winner
2024-25
UEFA Super Cup(USC)
Cup Winner
2023-24
Champions League(CL)
Cup Winner
2022-23
Champions League(CL)
Semi-final
2022-23
FIFA Club World Cup(FCWC)
Cup Winner
2022-23
UEFA Super Cup(USC)
Cup Winner
2021-22
Champions League(CL)
Cup Winner
2020-21
Champions League(CL)
Semi-final
2019-20
Champions League(CL)
Round of 16