Real Madrid football club
Club Information | ||||||||||
| League: Primera Division (Spa) | ||||||||||
| Nickname: los Merengues | ||||||||||
| Year Founded: 1902 | ||||||||||
| Location: Madrid, Spain | ||||||||||
| Stadium: Santiago Bernabeu | ||||||||||
| Capacity: 85000 | ||||||||||
| Official Website: realmadrid.com | ||||||||||
| Record Transfer Fees Paid: £80m for Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United in 2009 | ||||||||||
| Record Transfer Fees Received: £20.29m for Nicolas Anelka from Paris-SG in 2000 | ||||||||||
| Average age of players: 27 years | ||||||||||
| Number of foreigners: 16 | ||||||||||
| Longest serving player: Iker Casillas (13 years) | ||||||||||
Squad Information | ||||||||||
| No. | Name | Pos. | Age | Birthplace | Ht | Wt | Contr. | Signed | From | Fee |
Staff | ||||||||||
| - | Aitor Karanka (Spa) | Ast | 38 | Vitoria | 181 | 79 | - | 2010 | Un-attached | Hired |
| - | Jose Mourinho (Por) | Mgr | 49 | Setubal | - | - | 06/2014 | 2010 | Inter Milan (Ita) | Hired |
Goalkeepers | ||||||||||
| 1 | Iker Casillas (Spa) | GK | 30 | Madrid | 182 | 85 | 06/2017 | 1999 | - | - |
| 13 | Jerzy Dudek (Pol) | GK | 39 | Rybnik | 188 | 82 | 06/2011 | 2007 | Un-attached | Free |
| 26 | Antonio Adan (Spa) | GK | 25 | Madrid | 190 | 92 | - | 2009 | - | - |
Defenders | ||||||||||
| 2 | Alvaro Arbeloa (Spa) | RB | 29 | Salamanca | 183 | 76 | 06/2014 | 2009 | Liverpool (Eng) | £3.45m |
| 4 | Sergio Ramos (Spa) | RB | 26 | Camas | 183 | 81 | 06/2013 | 2005 | Sevilla (Spa) | £18.48m |
| 12 | Marcelo (Bra) | LB | 24 | Rio de Janeiro | 172 | 73 | 06/2015 | 2007 | Fluminense (Bra) | £4.69m |
| 3 | Pepe (Por) | CD | 29 | Maceio | 187 | 81 | 06/2012 | 2007 | FC Porto (Por) | £20.3m |
| 18 | Raul Albiol (Spa) | CD | 26 | Valencia | 188 | 80 | 06/2014 | 2009 | Valencia (Spa) | £12.78m |
| 19 | Ezequiel Garay (Arg) | CD | 25 | Rosario | 188 | 84 | 06/2014 | 2008 | Racing Santander (Spa) | £7.96m |
| - | Ricardo Carvalho (Por) | CD | 33 | Amarante | 183 | 79 | 06/2012 | 2010 | Chelsea (Eng) | £6.6m |
Midfielders | ||||||||||
| 6 | Mahamadou Diarra (Mali) | DM | 30 | Bamako | 182 | 80 | 06/2011 | 2006 | Lyon (Fra) | £17.7m |
| 10 | Lassana Diarra (Fra) | DM | 27 | Paris | 172 | 73 | 06/2013 | 2009 | Portsmouth (Eng) | £20m |
| 22 | Xabi Alonso (Spa) | CM | 30 | Tolosa | 185 | 75 | 06/2014 | 2009 | Liverpool (Eng) | £27.2m |
| 8 | Kaka (Bra) | MF | 30 | Brasilia | 183 | 73 | 06/2015 | 2009 | AC Milan (Ita) | £56m |
| 8 | Fernando Gago (Arg) | MF | 25 | Ciudadela | 177 | 72 | 06/2013 | 2007 | Boca Juniors (Arg) | £13.72m |
| 24 | Esteban Granero (Spa) | MF | 24 | Madrid | 179 | 77 | 06/2013 | 2009 | Getafe (Spa) | £3.44m |
| - | Hamit Altintop (Tur) | MF | 29 | Gelsenkirchen | 182 | 82 | 06/2015 | 2011 | Bayern Munchen (Ger) | Bosman |
| - | Sergio Canales (Spa) | MF | 21 | Santander | 176 | 65 | 06/2016 | 2010 | Racing Santander (Spa) | £4.35m |
| - | Angel Di Maria (Arg) | MF | 24 | Rosario | 167 | 55 | 06/2016 | 2010 | Benfica (Por) | £20.45m |
| - | Sami Khedira (Ger) | MF | 25 | Stuttgart | 189 | 81 | 06/2015 | 2010 | VfB Stuttgart (Ger) | £11.7m |
| - | Mesut Ozil (Ger) | MF | 23 | Gelsenkirchen | 180 | 68 | 06/2015 | 2010 | SV Werder Bremen (Ger) | Undisc. |
| - | Pedro Leon (Spa) | RW | 25 | Mula | 183 | 72 | 06/2016 | 2010 | Getafe (Spa) | £8.34m |
| 9 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Por) | WG | 27 | Madeira | 184 | 75 | 06/2015 | 2009 | Manchester United (Eng) | £80m |
Forwards | ||||||||||
| 11 | Karim Benzema (Fra) | ST | 24 | Lyon | 184 | 83 | 06/2015 | 2009 | Lyon (Fra) | £29.76m |
| 20 | Gonzalo Higuain (Arg) | ST | 24 | Brest | 184 | 81 | 06/2016 | 2007 | River Plate (Arg) | £8.72m |