Real Madrid Castilla

History

AD Plus Ultra

In 1948, Agrupación Deportiva Plus Ultra, a local amateur team, then playing in the Tercera División, agreed to become a feeder club for Real Madrid. Originally formed in 1930, the team took its name from the national motto of Spain. Real gave AD Plus Ultra financial support and in return were given first refusal on the club's best players. By 1949, they made their debut in the Segunda División and in 1952, the club became the official Real reserve team. In 1959, they reached the quarter-finals of the Copa del Generalísimo, losing 7–2 on aggregate to eventual runners-up Granada.

During the 1950s and 1960s, future senior Real Madrid players and Spanish internationals such as José María Zárraga, Enrique Mateos, Ramón Marsal, Pedro Casado, Juan Manuel Villa, José María Vidal, Fernando Serena and Ramón Grosso all spent time at the club, and Juan Alonso finished off his career there. The singer Julio Iglesias played as a goalkeeper for the club in the early 1960s until injury ended his football career. Miguel Muñoz began his coaching career at the club. In 1972, Plus Ultra folded because of the demise of the insurance company of the same name, and their position in the Tercera División was taken by Castilla Club de Fútbol, the new reserve team for Real Madrid, on 21 July.

Castilla CF

As Castilla CF, the team enjoyed something of a golden age. During this era, with a team that included Agustín, Ricardo Gallego and Francisco Pineda, Castilla reached the final of the 1979–80 Copa del Rey. During their cup run, they beat four Primera División teams, including Hércules, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Sporting de Gijón. Castilla reached the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey on three further occasions, in 1984, 1986, and 1988.

In 1984, with Amancio Amaro as coach, Castilla won the Segunda División. Amaro's tenure as coach saw the rise of the famous La Quinta del Buitre – Emilio Butragueño, Manolo Sanchís, Martín Vázquez, Míchel, and Miguel Pardeza. Castilla were ineligible for promotion, however, because Real Madrid were already in the Primera División. In the 1987–88 season, they finished third in the Segunda División, but were once again ineligible for promotion.

Real Madrid B

In 1991, the Royal Spanish Football Federation banned the use of separate names for reserve teams and Castilla CF became known as Real Madrid Deportiva and then Real Madrid B. In the early 1990s, two former Castilla players, Vicente del Bosque and Rafael Benítez, began their coaching careers with the team. In 1997, the team was relegated to the Segunda División B, but despite this, they continued to produce internationally acclaimed players. These have included Raúl, Guti and Iker Casillas, who all became established members of the senior Real Madrid team.

Real Madrid Castilla

In the 2004–05 season, coach Juan Ramón López Caro guided the team back to the Segunda División and the team subsequently revived the El Castilla name and became known as Real Madrid Castilla. In 2006, the new stadium of the club's training facilities Ciudad Real Madrid was named the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium and Francisco Moreno Cariñena became the first independent chairman in 16 years. In this year, the team also has continued to produce quality players such as Roberto Soldado and Álvaro Arbeloa.

In the 2006–2007 season, the team was relegated to the Segunda División B under the management of ex-Real Madrid legend Míchel after occupying 19th place in the league in a disappointing season. Míchel received a lot of criticism and accepted all the blame for the team's bad performances, especially for those who had a wonderful season in the 2005–06 season, such as Rubén de la Red, Esteban Granero and Javi García. The reserves produced other quality players, including Juan Mata and Álvaro Negredo.

Real Madrid Castilla was promoted back to the Segunda División at the end of the 2011–12 season after beating Cádiz in the play-offs with an aggregate of score 8–1 and this year the club produced one quality player, Dani Carvajal who was sold to Bayer Leverkusen in 2012 before he returned to Real Madrid in 2013 to play with the first team.

In the 2013–14 season, three quality players Nacho, Álvaro Morata and Jesé were promoted to the first team, and then Castilla was relegated after being defeated by Real Murcia in the last matchday of the season.

Since 2014 when they played in the third division, Castilla continued to produce other quality players, including Lucas Vázquez, Fernando Pacheco, Borja Mayoral, Marcos Llorente, Sergio Reguilón, Óscar Rodríguez, Achraf Hakimi and Fran García.

After the resumption of competitions in the 2020–21 season, the team finished runner-up in their group and qualified to play in the promotion system to the new categories of Spanish football after a restructuring of the same by the RFEF for the 2021–22 season. In the promotion playoffs, the team finished third, which secured their place in the Primera Federación. They also had the chance to move up to the Segunda División, but they were eliminated in the semifinals by Ibiza. The team was thus one of those that premiered the new Primera Federación, being placed in Group II. In 2022–23 season, Castilla placed in Group I and finished in third place, they have chance promotion to Segunda División, but they were eliminated in the final play off by Eldense. In the 2023–24 season, still under the direction of Raúl González, they finished in tenth position. In 2024–25 season, Castilla failed achieved to play off promotion to Segunda and finished in sixth position, this year one of quality player Raúl Asencio made his debut with first team and become part of first team following injuries to the defenders in the first team.

Starting of 2025–26 season, Raúl left as Castilla head coach and replaced by Álvaro Arbeloa.

Season by season

• As AD Plus Ultra

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• As Castilla CF

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• As a reserve team

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• 33 seasons in Segunda División
• 5 seasons in Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF
• 22 seasons in Segunda División B
• 20 seasons in Tercera División

European record

European Cup Winners' Cup:

Honours

• Segunda División
  • Winners: 1983–84
• Copa del Rey
  • Runners-up: 1979–80
• Segunda División B
  • Winners: 1990–91, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2011–12
• Tercera División
  • Winners: 1948–49, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1967–68

Players

Current squad

From [[Real Madrid C]] and [[Real Madrid CF (youth)|Youth Academy]]

Players on loan

Personnel

Current technical staff

• Last updated: 11 September 2025
• Source: Real Madrid

Coaches

Records

:Players in bold are still active with club.

Top scorers

;All competitions (excluding Third Division and regional)

Most appearances

;All competitions

Stadium

Main article: Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium

On 9 May 2006, the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium was inaugurated at the City of Madrid where Real Madrid usually trains. The inaugural match was between Real Madrid and Stade de Reims, a rematch of the European Cup final won by Real Madrid in 1956. Real Madrid won the inaugural match 6–1 with goals from Sergio Ramos, Antonio Cassano (2), Roberto Soldado (2), and José Manuel Jurado.

The venue is part of the Ciudad Real Madrid, the club's new training facilities located outside Madrid in Valdebebas, near Madrid–Barajas Airport.

The capacity of the main stand at the west is 4,000 seats, with additional 2,000 seats at the eastern stand, giving the stadium a total capacity of 6,000 seats. It is envisaged to increase the seating capacity up to 25,000 at the completion of the expansion.

Notable players

Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have reached international status.

• Andorra Antoni Lima
• Argentina Esteban Cambiasso
• Argentina Juan Esnáider
• Argentina Nico Paz
• Argentina Rolando Zárate
• Austria Philipp Lienhart
• Brazil Casemiro
• Brazil César Prates
• Brazil Fabinho
• Brazil Pablo Felipe
• Brazil Filipe Luís
• Brazil Iarley
• Brazil Willian José
• Brazil Vinícius Júnior
• Brazil Rodrygo
• Cape Verde Valdo
• China Lin Liangming
• Denmark Flemming Povlsen
• Dominican Republic Mariano Díaz
• Equatorial Guinea Javier Balboa
• Equatorial Guinea Rubén Belima
• Equatorial Guinea Chupe
• Equatorial Guinea Juan Epitié
• Equatorial Guinea Omar Mascarell
• Finland Eero Markkanen
• Ghana Daniel Opare
• Hungary Ádám Szalai
• Iceland Andri Guðjohnsen
• Morocco Achraf Hakimi
• Nigeria Mutiu Adepoju
• Nigeria Oladimeji Lawal
• Nigeria Christopher Ohen
• Norway Martin Ødegaard
• Paraguay Sergio Díaz
• Peru Cristian Benavente
• Portugal Pedro Mendes
• Russia Denis Cheryshev
• Spain Antonio Adán
• Spain Albert Aguilà
• Spain Agustín
• Spain Adolfo Aldana
• Spain Marcos Alonso
• Spain Mikel Antía
• Spain Francisco José Antón
• Spain Santiago Aragón
• Spain Carlos Aranda
• Spain Álvaro Arbeloa
• Spain Sergio Arribas
• Spain Raúl Asencio
• Spain Carlos Dotor
• Spain David Barral
• Spain Miguel Bernal
• Spain Antonio Blanco
• Spain Alberto Bueno
• Spain Burgui
• Spain Emilio Butragueño
• Spain José Callejón
• Spain José Antonio Camacho
• Spain José Luis Caminero
• Spain Santiago Cañizares
• Spain Dani Carvajal
• Spain Kiko Casilla
• Spain Iker Casillas
• Spain Javier Castañeda
• Spain Chendo
• Spain Cholo
• Spain Pedro Contreras
• Spain Corona
• Spain Enrique Corrales
• Spain Isidro Díaz
• Spain Hugo Duro
• Spain José Manuel Espinosa
• Spain Kiko Femenía
• Spain Alfonso Fraile
• Spain Álex Fernández
• Spain Fernando Fernández
• Spain Borja Fernández
• Spain Fernando
• Spain Jorge de Frutos
• Spain Ricardo Gallego
• Spain Borja García
• Spain Dani García
• Spain Fran García
• Spain Gonzalo García
• Spain Javi García
• Spain José García Calvo
• Spain Luis García
• Spain Rafael García
• Spain José Aurelio Gay
• Spain Gerardo
• Spain Mario Gila
• Spain César Gómez
• Spain Adrián González
• Spain Esteban Granero
• Spain Javi Guerrero
• Spain Guti
• Spain Miguel Gutiérrez
• Spain Pepe Heredia
• Spain Mario Hermoso
• Spain Luis Hernández
• Spain Isidro
• Spain Jesé
• Spain Joselu
• Spain José María López
• Spain Juanfran Moreno
• Spain Juanfran Torres
• Spain Juanjo
• Spain Juankar
• Spain Juanmi
• Spain José Manuel Jurado
• Spain Ángel Lanchas
• Spain Diego Llorente
• Spain Julio Llorente
• Spain Marcos Llorente
• Spain Julen Lopetegui
• Spain Diego López
• Spain José Alberto López
• Spain Sebastián Losada
• Spain Enrique Magdaleno
• Spain Juan Maqueda
• Spain Alberto Marcos
• Spain Ángel Martín González
• Spain Rafael Martín Vázquez
• Spain Juan Mata
• Spain Javier Maté
• Spain Borja Mayoral
• Spain Gonzalo Melero
• Spain Míchel
• Spain Mista
• Spain Fernando Morán
• Spain Álvaro Morata
• Spain Rodrigo Moreno
• Spain Juan Morgado
• Spain Pedro Mosquera
• Spain Nacho
• Spain César Navas
• Spain Álvaro Negredo
• Spain José Ochotorena
• Spain Antolín Ortega
• Spain Fernando Pacheco
• Spain Miguel Pardeza
• Spain Javier Paredes
• Spain Dani Parejo
• Spain Paco Pavón
• Spain Óscar Plano
• Spain Ángel Pérez
• Spain Alfonso Pérez
• Spain Francisco Pineda
• Spain Javier Portillo
• Spain Quini
• Spain Luis Miguel Ramis
• Spain Raúl
• Spain Rubén de la Red
• Spain Sergio Reguilón
• Spain Fran Rico
• Spain Riki
• Spain Alberto Rivera
• Spain Ángel Rodríguez
• Spain Francis Rodríguez
• Spain Óscar Rodríguez
• Spain Rubén
• Spain Andrés Sabido
• Spain José Antonio Salguero
• Spain Jaime Sánchez
• Spain Sergio Sánchez
• Spain Víctor Sánchez
• Spain Manolo Sanchís
• Spain Sandro
• Spain Isidoro San José
• Spain José Luis Santamaría
• Spain Fernando Sanz
• Spain Pablo Sarabia
• Spain Rubén Sobrino
• Spain Jesús Solana
• Spain Roberto Soldado
• Spain Raúl de Tomás
• Spain Javier Torres Gómez
• Spain Miguel Torres
• Spain Víctor Torres Mestre
• Spain Lucas Torró
• Spain Roberto Trashorras
• Spain Ismael Urzaiz
• Spain Vicente Valcarce
• Spain Borja Valero
• Spain Lucas Vázquez
• Spain Jesús Velasco
• Spain Víctor
• Uruguay Leandro Cabrera
• Uruguay Federico Valverde
• Uruguay Guillermo Varela
• Venezuela Julio Álvarez
• Venezuela Jonay Hernández

References

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