The team play in all-white, from which derives the nickname Los merengues. Home stadium is the Santiago Bernabéu, which seats 85,000 spectators.
Since the middle of the twentieth century, Real Madrid has consistently been ranked as one of the top football clubs in Europe. It has won the European Cup more times than any other club, winning the first five European Cups. The rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona is legendary, and draws as much from Spanish politics as it does from footballing matters.
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The other two main clubs from Madrid are Atlético de Madrid and (less famously) Rayo Vallecano[?].
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