Sevilla FC

Sevilla FC

Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D. is a Spanish football team (registered by Spanish law as a Sporting Limited Association) located in Seville. It currently plays in Spain's top flight, La Liga. The club was founded on 14 October 1905 and played its first La Liga season in 1934-35. The team plays at the 45,500-capacity Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in the Sevillian district of Nervión.

Sevilla is the most successful club in Andalusia, winning a national league title in 1945-46, and five Copas del Rey. On the European level, it has won two consecutive UEFA Cups (2006 and 2007) and the 2007 UEFA Super Cup. Sevilla have competed 67 seasons in the First Division and 13 in Second, a record which places as the seventh-best team in the history of Spanish league football. They were designated by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the best club in the World in 2006 and 2007, currently the only team that has achieved this distinction in consecutive years. Sevilla's main rivalry is with their cross-city rivals Real Betis in the Seville derby.

Its reserve side Sevilla Atlético, founded in 1958, currently play in the Segunda B, and the club are affiliated to a side in Puerto Rico of the same name. Other clubs related to Sevilla include their women's team, futsal team and former Superleague Formula team. In 2005 the centennial of Sevilla's foundation was celebrated with a variety of events across the city.