Atletico Madrid is a Spanish professional
football club based in Madrid, that plays in La Liga. The club play their home games at the
Wanda Metropolitano, which has a capacity of
68,000.
Enrique Allende, first President of the club after its establishment in 1903
The club was founded on 26
April 1903 as Athletic Club de Madrid by three Basque students living in Madrid. These founders saw the new club as a youth branch of their childhood team, Athletic Bilbao. In 1904, they were joined by dissident members of Real Madrid. They began playing in blue and white, similarly to Athletic Bilbao, but by 1911, Athletic were playing in their current colours of red and white stripes. Many believe the
change was influenced because red and white striped tops were the cheapest stripes to make, because the same combination was used to make
bed mattresses
