Malaga Football Club

The Málaga Club de Fútbol, S. A. D. is a professional football club from the Spanish city of Málaga. Its first men's team is in the Second Division of Spain while its women's team is in the second category; its largest shareholder is the Qatari sheikh Abdullah ben Nasser Al Thani, being the first Arab sheikh to become the largest shareholder of a football club in Spain.

The city's first team was Málaga Football Club, which played on April 3, 1904, the first recorded soccer match in Málaga.

The current Málaga Club de Fútbol was founded as Club Atlético Malagueño on May 25, 1948 and became a sports limited company on June 29, 1994 under the name Málaga Club Football. Its subsidiary team is Atlético Malagueño, founded in 1990, which currently plays in group IX of the Third Division.

The best moments of the club occurred in the 2002/03 season, the year in which, after winning the Intertoto Cup, it competed in the UEFA Cup, and especially the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, when he obtained the pass and played for the first time in the UEFA Champions League, reaching the quarterfinal phase of the continental tournament.

History

Malaga Football Club

Málaga's first soccer team was the Málaga Football Club, founded in the first months of 1903 and validated by the Civil Government. The main promoters of the club were, among others, Don Antonio López, affectionately nicknamed Mr. López for his British appearance, Mr. Félix Pérez Montault, Mr. Ernesto Rittwagen, Mr. Enrique García de Toledo, who would advocate the construction of the Balneario del Carmen field, and Mr. Emilio Andersen Menard, who was active as a player for a short time, but became a long-lived player patron and follower, whose merits were recognized by being appointed honorary president of both C. D. Malacitano as from C. Mr. Malaga.

The first eleven on record is that of the team that faced the crew of the English ocean liner Xarifa, considered Málaga's first international match; those players were: Guille; Garcia de Toledo, Benhard; Canas, Antonio Lopez, Castro; Salvador Arias, Rodríguez, Leonardo Campuzano, Spain Heredia and Manuel Arias. Málaga prevailed with the bulky score of eight goals in favor against four.

Already in 1909 as Málaga Fútbol Club there was the first displacement to defeat the Granada club Sierra Nevada by three goals to nil. But there were more excursions. In Seville, Málaga opened in a tournament against the Sevillian title holder and Cádiz. They formed by the Malacitano team Font as goalkeeper; Garrido and Minguet, defenders; Martínez González and Fernández in the middle; and the León brothers, Guillermo Álvarez, Wens and Quintana as forwards.

A rainy day in the Estadio de los Baños del Carmen in 1922.

In 1915 a second Málaga Football Club arose from a split of the Football Club Malagueño, born in 1912, and from that moment a great rivalry arose between both teams and fans, the malaguistas against the malagueñistas.

Malagueño F.C. ended up disappearing, to make room in 1923 for a new Malagueño Football Club after the merger of Victoria F.C. and España F.C., playing their matches from the Campo del Cristo de la Epidemia. Málaga F.C. had moved a year earlier to its new field inaugurated on August 23, 1922 in Baños del Carmen. The rival in the opening match was "Real España" from Granada, and Málaga F.C. won by eleven goals to one.

In the 1924/25 season, Málaga F.C. achieved promotion to the elite of Andalusian football by beating Sparta Seville 11-0. The squad with which Málaga made its debut in the first regional category was made up of the goalkeepers Hucha and Padín; defensemen Marmolejo, Prolongó, Martínez, Rey and León; the media Vides, Casado, Pardo, Martín, Recio and Palomeque; and up front Kustner, Pedrós, Vallerías, Corsi, Huelin, Núñez and Segovia. In 1927, due to efforts carried out by the president of the club, Mr. Larrazaga, he offered himself to S.M. Alfonso XIII the honorary presidency of the entity, accepted by the monarch on August 11, for which the team was renamed Real Málaga. This name would last until insurmountable economic difficulties forced the club's leaders to reappear in the 1930/31 season under the name Málaga Sport Club.

Málaga FC in 1922.- (on foot, from izq. to der.) -aficionado- Manolo Martín, Kustner, Pedrós, Jiménez, Federé, Rosas, Vicente Cuberta, Casado; (sentados) Marmolejo, Vargas and Scheider.

As an anecdote, during the Malaga Fair of 1930, the F. C. Malagueño would obtain two resounding victories over the Real Club Deportivo Español de Barcelona, on August 16 and 17, when the Catalan team had among its ranks the legendary Ricardo Zamora, who would later become the coach of C.D. Malaga during its first season in the first division. And in 1931 he would defeat Arenas de Guecho, which was one of the most outstanding teams in national football, during the "Trofeo Ayuntamiento" by five goals to three.

Malaga Sports Club

On March 22, 1933 F.C. Malagueño and Málaga S.C. summoned their partners, who decided to merge into what would become the Club Deportivo Malacitano, also agreeing to speed up the construction of what was to be new field, generating a shareholder society that would provide the necessary funds. Therefore, in the 33/34 season, Málaga Sport Club, with his white jersey and blue shorts, evicted Segalerva, where he usually held his matches, moving to Baños del Carmen, where he played his matches. the FC Malagueño. On May 22, 1933, in their debut at the Baños del Carmen Stadium, Malacitano defeated Deportivo Alavés by five goals to one. The lineup of the Malacitano was made up of: Albarracín; Shawls, Gamero; Vines, Valley, Pequerull; Fernandito, Seijas, Puyol, Diaz and Berruezo.

On November 18, 1934, the club achieved its first promotion to the second division, leaving Jerez, Onuba and Recreativo de Granada in the ditch. The feat was celebrated on December 2 of that same year against Levante, when Malacitano wore the second-class team finery for the first time. The Malacitano eleven was made up of: Albarracín, Patricio, Shawls, Vides, Adorna, Huete, Meri, Tomasín, Fernández, Díaz-Moreno and Liz.

Another record for the Malacitano would be the achievement of one hundred goals in a single year during the 1939/40 season.

On May 5, 1940, the Malacitano won Malaguismo's first title. That day he defeated the Madrid team Agrupación Deportiva Ferroviaria by five goals to two, proclaiming himself champion of the President's Cup. Such a valuable conquest was achieved by prevailing against teams like Club Atlético Osasuna, C.D. Sabadell or Recreativo de Granada.

The C.D. Malacitano during these years he would wear a light blue shirt with white collars and cuffs, and white pants, and after the Civil War, and due to the immediate scarcity of fabrics, he would change his clothing to a white shirt and black pants.

On July 19, 1941, Vice President José Soriano Alba proposed the change of name from Club Deportivo Malacitano to Club Deportivo Málaga.

Although on April 13, 1941, the first match took place at La Rosaleda against the Ferroviaria during the match that faced them in the Copa del Generalísimo, it would not be until September 14 when the official inauguration of La Rosaleda Stadium would take place.

On May 25, 1948, the Club Atlético Malagueño, currently Málaga Club de Fútbol, was founded with the staff of the Club Deportivo Santo Tomás as the base of the new team, to turn it into its subsidiary. After its separation as a subsidiary team, in 1959, it would get rid of the liquidation of C.D. Málaga, becoming the current Málaga Club de Fútbol.

In the 1949/50 season, Club Deportivo Málaga was promoted to the First Division for the first time in its history. Led by president Miguel Navarro Nogueroles and coach Luis Urquiri, the club achieved promotion on the last day of the 1948/49 season, finishing in second place only behind leaders Real Sociedad, and thanks to the positive goal difference with Granada CF, who remained in the Second Division. One of the most notable players was the goalscorer Pedro Bazán, the team's and category's top scorer, and who had previously achieved feats such as scoring 9 goals in the same match against Hércules CF.

In this first stage in the First Division, Málaga remained for two consecutive seasons in the elite of Spanish football, with the legendary former player Ricardo Zamora occupying the bench of La Rosaleda. The first relegation to the Second Division came at the end of the 1950/51 season, with only one point missing to achieve mathematical permanence in the category and the team being forced to play a league in which they finished in third position, which was not It did not serve to maintain the category either. In the years immediately following, Málaga achieved two new promotions to the First Division in the 1951/52 and 1953/54 seasons, only to find new relegations to the Second Division at the end of the 1952/53 and 1954/55 seasons, with stays of a single season in each of these two stages in the elite.

Ricardo Zamora, Malaga coach from 1949 to 1951, was in charge of directing the team at its premiere in First Division.

Even so, the 1952/53 season, and whose second round was led on the bench by the famous Argentine coach Helenio Herrera, was remarkable for the historic and massive win that Málaga managed to endorse Real Madrid at La Rosaleda, in a game that ended with the result of Málaga 6 - Real Madrid 0, and which to this day continues to be the most extensive result that the malaguista club has achieved against this team. That same season, Málaga also managed to beat Club Atlético de Madrid away for the first time, which was then playing in the old and now-defunct Estadio Metropolitano, in a match that paradoxically led to the removal of Helenio Herrera from the mattress bench and subsequent signing of the same for Malaga.

The following years were not lucky for Málaga. In 1956, the Malaguista expedition suffered a plane crash at the Tenerife airport; fortunately without consequences. And in 1959, the club suffered a new relegation to the Third Division, thirteen years after having emigrated from it for the last time. It was then, during the 1959/60 season when the C.A. Malagueño and C.D. Málaga were to meet together in the Spanish Third Division. As a subsidiary, C.A. Malagueño should have been relegated. To avoid this, they separated both clubs in the Federation, thus being able to avoid relegation.

In 1961 the first edition of the Costa del Sol International Trophy was held, organized by the C.D. Málaga, in whose final Athletic Bilbao beat Sevilla Fútbol Club by four goals to nil. The French team from Olimpique de Nice and the Austrian team from SC Wiener Neustadt also participated in this edition. Málaga began to play the summer tournament from the following edition, in 1962, and won its first trophy in 1963 by beating Real Madrid by two goals to one. For Malaguista fans, it was the opportunity to see great teams and world-class stars playing at La Rosaleda, such as Eusébio's SL Benfica in the 1966 edition or Santos FC led by Pelé in 1967.

After several promotions to the First Division throughout the 1960s, which ended in immediate relegation after a stay of only one or two seasons in the top flight, Málaga achieved a new promotion to the First Division in the 1969 season /70, under the presidency of Antonio Rodríguez López and the work on the bench of Jenő Kálmár, who marked history for being the beginning of one of the longest Malaguista careers in the top flight, with five consecutive seasons in it. Unfortunately, President Antonio Rodríguez López was assassinated under mysterious circumstances in 1971, and he was replaced by Rafael Serrano Carvajal who held the presidency for most of this fruitful period in the First Division.

With outstanding players such as Deusto, Migueli or Macías, led by the international midfielder for Argentina, Sebastián Viberti, the club achieved some of its best sporting achievements in these consecutive years in the elite: two seventh places in the 1971/72 seasons and 1973/74, the best classifications of the club in the First Division until the 2011/12 season; a Zamora Trophy in the 1971/72 season won by the Spanish international goalkeeper Juan Antonio Deusto; and the best participation in the history of the Malaguista team in the Cup, reaching the semifinals in the 1972/73 season and being just one step away from reaching the final after being eliminated by Athletic Club de Bilbao. A historic first victory for Málaga was also achieved at the Camp Nou, beating FC Barcelona by the result of Barcelona 0 - Málaga 1 on the last day of the 1971/72 season. On the other hand, in 1973 the official anthem of the club was established today, Málaga, La Bombonera.

Marcel Domingo, Malaga coach from 1972 to 1974. Its famous disagreements with Viberti led to the departure of the Argentine midfielder, and to the last, the end of the 'fifth of gold'.

After Viberti's controversial departure from the club at the end of the 1973/74 season, those considered the golden years ended with a new relegation to the Second Division in the 1974/75 season and due to the mere fact of having lost the particular difference of goals with Granada CF. What followed that same decade, with boards of directors chaired by José Ibáñez Narváez first and Federico Brinkmann later, was a poor performance by the Malaguista team that had already left behind what is popularly known as the golden five-year period, with a couple of promotions to the top flight in 1976 and 1979 (the latter achieved with the return of Viberti, who took the bench in tandem with his former coach Jenő Kálmár) that ended in two immediate returns to the second division in 1977 and 1980 after two disastrous seasons in which the team finished in both cases as bottom of the category.

In the 1979/80 season in particular, controversial events also took place such as the club's failure to appear in a match against AD Almería that was to be played at El Mirador de Algeciras due to the closure of La Rosaleda due to incidents in a match against Rayo Vallecano, as well as a complaint about fixing a match against U.D. Salamanca that ended with a 0-3 result in favor of the Salamanca team and which in the end ended up being dismissed for lack of reliable evidence of the fact.

A temporary 1980/81 season in the silver category, with the presence of Abdallah Ben Barek on the Malaguista bench, would lay the foundations for what would come later. In the 1980/81 season, Mr. Antonio Pérez-Gascón Cobos was appointed president and Antonio Fernández Benítez came to the bench with him. The former player from Malaga of Alicante origin had been training at the subsidiary for several years and was a continuator of the pro-cantera policy given the precarious economic situation that the club was going through, especially affected by the remodeling of the La Rosaleda Stadium in order to hold official matches of the 1982 Soccer World Cup, the cost of which was fully assumed by the Malaga club given its status as owner of the venue.

With a cast of outstanding players from Atlético Malagueño such as Fernando Peralta, Popo, Canillas, Dany Mariscal, Recio, José, the brothers Antonio and Manolo Hierro and the brothers Nacho and Juan Carlos Pérez Frías, Málaga de Benítez held a great season that earned him promotion to the First Division in 1982 as third place, returning to the top flight two years later with a team that, with the exception of some additions such as the Argentine-German Regenhardt, fully inherited the base of the promotion team.

The team managed to satisfactorily maintain the category in the 1982/83 season, in a season without great fanfare that ended with Málaga in tenth position. There was nothing to presage that in the 1983/84 season that same squad, without excessive changes in it, could have such a different and, to say the least, superior performance. In that season the team made a first round with an average of points that allowed the dispute of the UEFA Cup, achieving overwhelming goals against teams from the upper area such as Málaga 6 Real Madrid 2 and Málaga 5 Atlético de Madrid 1, even reaching Málaga to co-lead the classification up to two times. This excellent first round, however, did not have continuity in the second part of the championship, where the team showed a lower performance that placed it in a final ninth position, which meant a satisfactory stay in the elite.

Eleven holder of Malaga on September 11, 1983, the day of the historic victory for six goals to two in front of Real Madrid.

In the 1984/85 season, however, the final result would not be so favorable for the club. Málaga reached the last day after eleven games without winning. On April 21, 1985, Málaga faced Real Betis at La Rosaleda, drawing 1-1. But Hércules' 1-0 victory against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu and Valladolid's 2-0 victory against Sevilla at the Sánchez Pizjuán would condemn the team to relegation, despite starting the day with an advantage since a victory for Málaga at home would have mathematically ensured their permanence.

With the club back in the Segunda División and maintaining a battered financial balance, a fateful era was coming in the silver category that had begun with the abandonment of Pérez-Gascón from his presidential post. He would be succeeded by Eduardo Padilla, in a mandate that would continue with the same economic austerity guidelines that his predecessors had had, trying to solve the situation with initiatives such as the introduction of advertising for the Malaga newspaper Diario SUR on the shirt, for the first time in the Malaga history.

On December 21, 1986, in a match played at the Balaídos Stadium against Celta de Vigo, the homegrown goalkeeper José Antonio Gallardo had a collision with the Brazilian striker Baltazar from which he initially recovered satisfactorily, but seventeen days after the coup he fell into a coma. A week later he would die at the Carlos Haya Hospital. To replace him, the club had to resort to veteran Jesús Manuel Sola Olivares, goalkeeper from the ATL de Marbella club who was signed in the face of the unfortunate situation.

At the dawn of the 1987/88 season, businessman Francisco García Anaya became president of the club. Sparing no expense, as the previous boards of directors had done, Málaga hired the famous former coach Ladislao Kubala as coach, and veteran players of quality and proven experience in the First Division arrived, such as Juan Gómez "Juanito", Esteban Vigo, who was returning to the club after a decade of absence, Clemente Villaverde and Miguel Ángel Ruiz García. The club achieved promotion as champion of the category, and Kubala the all-time record percentage of victories for a coach at Málaga, with 60.61% victories in thirty-three games. Even so, and after a controversial decision, Kubala was dismissed after confirming the mathematical promotion. His position was occupied in the last games by the subsidiary coach, Pepe Sánchez, and for the following season in the First Division his replacement would be the former Real Zaragoza coach, Luis Costa.

The team was already known by Malaguista fans as Super Málaga, due to the players of proven fame that were present in their squad. In the 1988/89 season this trend continued with the arrival of John Lauridsen, Antonio Álvarez and Francisco Pineda, with the purpose of maintaining the category without great trouble. In order to try to increase the club's income, the board chaired by García Anaya manages to sign an advertising contract with the French telecommunications company Alcatel. After a defeat against Real Murcia at La Rosaleda at the start of the second round and seven games without victory, Luis Costa was dismissed from his position and it was decided that his position would be occupied by Antonio Benítez. With the man from Málaga on the bench, the team manages to maintain a somewhat more regular dynamic than that of his predecessor, maintaining the category in the sixteenth position of the qualifying table.

Juanito's retirement from active soccer in June 1989 served as an outstanding precedent for a 1989/90 season in which the club finished in seventeenth position and was forced to play a permanence promotion. The rival was RCD Español, who had been relegated to Second the previous season. The first leg at the Sarriá Stadium ended in a one-nil defeat. In the second leg at La Rosaleda, played on June 16, 1990, Málaga managed to equalize the tie and force extra time with a goal from José Antonio Rivas. In the penalty shootout, Malaguista goalkeeper Pedro Jaro made two saves that were weighed down by mistakes by Rivas and by Jaro himself from the penalty spot. After several sudden death shots, Villa missed another shot, to which the Spanish player Albesa responded by scoring his own and certifying Málaga's relegation to the Second Division.

The 1990/91 season in the silver category was a desperate attempt to ascend to the First Division, maintaining a good part of the squad that had been relegated and assuming higher risks for the increasingly battered economy of the club. The transfer of Pedro Jaro to Real Madrid was offset by the return of Fernando Peralta from Sevilla F.C., a signing that led to a dispute over non-payment of the same that was linked to the entity's problems with the Treasury. After the departure of Antonio Benítez, Waldo Ramos was the coach who started the season, but he was dismissed after eleven games due to poor results and replaced in his duties by Abdallah Ben Barek. With the Moroccan franc on the bench, the team had a good second round and, with two games to go, managed to mathematically certify the promotion promotion dispute. The promotion's First Division rival is Cádiz C. F., which had finished the season in eighteenth position. The first leg, played on June 12, 1991 at La Rosaleda, ended with the result of one to zero in favor with a goal from Esteban. In the second leg, played a week later, Cádiz equalized the tie with a goal from José González and, like the previous year, the promotion must be decided first by extra time and finally by penalties. In the shootout, after Raúl Procopio's miss for Cádiz, Málaga hit all four of their shots until Antonio Mata missed the final one after a save by exporter Malaguista goalkeeper József Szendrei, who saved another penalty from Emilio Pérez Rodríguez in sudden death, depriving the club to promote to the First Division.

After the failure of the previous season, president José Toboso decides to make changes to the club in order to deal with the delicate economic situation and prevents José Pardo from returning to the presidency despite the provisional nature of his departure. The proceeds from the transfer of Antonio Mata to CD Tenerife serve to prevent administrative relegation to Second Division B as a result of complaints filed by sixteen players with the AFE. With a squad made up of homegrown players from Club Atlético Malagueño, the team has a terrible league start with two games lost away from home and a humiliating defeat at La Rosaleda against Unió Esportiva Figueres by zero goals to five. José Luis Monreal replaces Ben Barek, but fails to improve the team's performance and is likewise dismissed after fifteen games played. It is then that they decide to use the subsidiary's coach, Nene Montero, who also fails to get the team out of the bottom places in the standings. The repeated non-payments in the payrolls lead to the confinement of the players in the changing rooms of La Rosaleda and a protest sit-in prior to the game against S.D. Compostela held on May 17, 1992, which sentenced the team to relegation to Second Division B with one day left to finish the competition.

The club's efforts throughout 1992 to take advantage of the reorganization plan with which the National Professional Soccer League intended to safeguard the most indebted Spanish soccer clubs had been useless. Carrying a total debt of 2,429 million pesetas and numerous short-term financial commitments, the social capital of 970 million pesetas that the club had to cover in order to become a Public Limited Sports Company seemed too high, and the citizen commission that the Malaga City Council had settled with local businessmen to try to save the club. As the conversion process into a Sports Public Limited Company was not completed satisfactorily and with the aggravating circumstance of finding the club in Second Division B, José Toboso's board of directors resigned in full in June 1992. After two extraordinary assemblies called for the election of a new president That he was willing to direct the club, on July 27, 1992 the management commission, with the presence of forty members, decided the liquidation of the entity and the consequent immediate dismissal of its employees. Club Deportivo Málaga ceased to exist.

Malaga Football Club

On May 25, 1948, Club Atlético Malagueño was founded with the staff of Club Deportivo Santo Tomás as the base of the new team, to become a subsidiary of Club Deportivo Malaga. In the 1958-59 Second Division season, Club Deportivo Málaga was relegated to the Third Division, where Club Atlético Malagueño competed, and due to the ban on affiliate teams from playing in the same category as the first team, CA Malagueño disassociated of Club Deportivo Málaga to avoid its administrative relegation and to be able to compete both clubs in the Third Division. Thanks to this, it was not liquidated with Club Deportivo Málaga when this entity had to disappear at the end of July 1992 due to financial insolvency, since it had an independent registration number in the Royal Spanish Football Federation. It then became the representative team of Malaga.

In the 1992/93 season, C. A. Malagueño, chaired by Antonio Domínguez Martín and directed on the bench by Fernando Rosas, played in Third Division Group IX and maintained the base of the squad from the previous season. After a successful campaign, they were promoted to Second Division B, however, in the 1993/94 season the premises for making the squad did not change much and they were relegated to Third.

On December 19, 1993, a membership referendum was held, changing the official name of the team to Málaga Club de Fútbol, S. A. D , with a legal date of June 19, 1994. The first match under the new name that Málaga played was a friendly match against Club Deportivo Alhaurino on June 26, 1994 at the Miguel Fijones Municipal Stadium in Alhaurín el Grande, with the result zero to two for the malaguistas.

The recently established Sports Limited Company, chaired by businessman Federico Beltrán and which had the support of fellow businessman Fernando Puche and former president Eduardo Padilla, faces the 1994/95 season in the Third Division with new additions and a presence in the bench of Antonio Benítez, achieving promotion to Second Division B.

Presidency of Fernando Puche

After two seasons in Second Division B, in the 1997/98 season Málaga CF passed into the hands of businessman Antonio Asensio Pizarro, owner of Grupo Zeta, who drew up an ambitious plan for promotion to the First Division in two years and entrusted the presidency of the club to the one who until then was vice president, Fernando Puche. It is then that players like Sandro, Movilla or Pablo Guede would arrive at the club, and it occurs with the return of former players like Quino or Merino. Although the season was started by coach Tolo Plaza, it is the Asturian Ismael Díaz Galán who replaces him after a series of poor results. After finishing the regular phase in first place in Group IV, the malaguistas faced Terrasa FC, Talavera CF and SD Beasain in the promotion phase. The Malaga team certified their return to the Second Division on June 28, 1998, after beating Terrasa on the last day by four goals to one with a hat-trick by Argentine striker Pablo Guede.

In the 1998/99 season, with veteran Joaquín Peiró at the helm of the Malaguista bench, the team faced a championship full of good results and with four games to go they managed to certify promotion to the elite of Spanish football in a match against Albacete Balompié, also getting the title of the category. The team that achieved Málaga's twelfth promotion to the top flight included players like the Spanish-Brazilian striker Catanha, who won the Pichichi Trophy of the Second Division with twenty-six goals, or the Portuguese Edgar, and the midfielders De los Santos, Rufete, Agostinho, Movilla and Sandro, together with homegrown players like Basti or Bravo who had fully participated in Málaga's rise from the Third Division to the First Division. In this way, Málaga would complete the brilliant rise in two seasons from the Second Division B to the Spanish First Division.

In the 1999/2000 season, far from struggling to remain in the First Division, the team showed great football, defeating FC Barcelona in their own stadium, and achieving mathematical permanence four days from the end, with the Brazilian Catanha in a hard fight to get the Pichichi trophy. Therefore, a new and important stage began in the top flight, in which the club broke the record for staying in it, with seven consecutive seasons in the top flight of national football.

Dely Valdés celebrating a goal.

The 2000/01 season consolidated practically all of the previous year's squad, except for the departure of Catanha to Celta de Vigo for a high financial amount. In his place came Real Oviedo's Panamanian striker Julio César Dely Valdés, who formed a lethal duo known as the Double D along with Uruguayan Darío Silva. Thanks in part to the sixteen goals from the Panamanian and the thirteen from the Uruguayan, this season's records were even better than the previous one and the club fought to enter the access positions to European competitions, finishing in a decent eighth position.

The first European participation

In the 2001/02 season, the team undergoes a series of changes in the organization chart after the death of its owner Antonio Asensio, with the director of Grupo Zeta Serafín Roldán being the president who replaces the outgoing Fernando Puche. Joaquín Peiró would continue on the bench, but the new board of directors, despite the signs of discontent from the fans, would release basic players in the squad such as Rufete, De los Santos, Movilla or Agostinho, being replaced by other new players such as Duda, Gerardo, Marcelo Romero, Litos or Miguel Ángel. The team does not suffer from this restructuring of the squad and returns to set another great championship fighting for the dispute in European competitions. At the end of the season, although direct access to the UEFA Cup was not achieved, the team secured its presence in the UEFA Intertoto Cup with its tenth place in the standings, a competition in which it had registered and which it would play for the summer of 2002.

Kiki Musampa, Malaga player between 1999 and 2003.

On August 27, 2002, the club won the Intertoto Cup, which gave them the right to play in the UEFA Cup. To do this, they had to overcome three qualifying rounds, beating Ghent, Willem II and Villarreal CF, and becoming the first Andalusian club to win an official European title. The subsequent participation in the UEFA Cup was remarkable, reaching the quarterfinals and eliminating teams with a long tradition in European competitions such as Leeds United or AEK Athens after winning in their own stadiums with results of one goal to two and nil. goals to one respectively. Finally, the team was eliminated against the Portuguese Boavista, in the penalty shootout.

In June 2003, the team's affiliate, Málaga B, today called Atlético Malagueño, was promoted to the Second Division, and the youth category team was proclaimed champion of Spain. The club's board of directors, taking advantage of the good moment of the Malaguista youth academy and at the same time trying to reduce the salary bill, dispenses with several starters from recent years such as Contreras, Roteta, Musampa, Sandro, Dely Valdés and Darío Silva among others, being replaced by players from the youth academy such as Calatayud, Juanito, Juan Rodríguez, Koke and Geijo who carried out the necessary generational replacement. On December 3, 2003 Málaga, coached by Juande Ramos during the 2003/04 season, defeated FC Barcelona by the bulky result of five to one, goals scored by Salva Ballesta, on three occasions, the Uruguayan striker Diego Alonso and by Manuel Canabal.

The following season, 2004-05, was not easy for Málaga. Gregorio Manzano was dismissed as coach on matchday 18, with the club in relegation places. Only the promotion of the subsidiary's coach, Antonio Tapia, and the arrival of Brazilian striker Fernando Baiano managed to ensure Málaga's permanence in the First Division. Under the Cordovan coach, Málaga got 36 points in 20 games, including a 6-1 defeat against Osasuna, the biggest win in the club's history. The following year the Málaga CF project failed and the team was relegated to the Second Division as last classified, with only 24 points and five victories in the League. The season was turbulent, including dismissals of coaches and rebellion of footballers against the club.

Presidency of Fernando Sanz

Duda, Malaga footballer on three occasions between 2001 and 2017. In the image appears with the second outfit, abode and green, colors of the flag of Malaga.

After a season marked by the financial failure of the club and a new sale of players, Málaga was relegated to the Second Division in 2005/06, and the entity was put up for sale. That same summer, Fernando Sanz, son of the former president of Real Madrid, Lorenzo Sanz, took control of 97% of the company's shares, becoming president of the club.

In 2007, Málaga presented an employment regulation file to lay off fifteen people; among them, three players, Marcelo Romero, 'Chengue' Morales and Manu.

After two seasons in the silver division, on June 15, 2008, on the last matchday, the team achieved promotion to the First Division after beating Club Deportivo Tenerife by two goals to one, both malaguista goals scored by the midfielder Antonio Hidalgo.

In the 2008/09 season, the team's work and play were praised; being recently promoted and having one of the lowest financial budgets in the League, Málaga CF fought until the last days to qualify for European positions. This gave them the privilege of being considered the revelation team of the season and the best team, at that time, of the history of the club.

On March 28, 2009, Málaga Club de Fútbol played a charity match at La Rosaleda in front of five thousand spectators, raising twenty-four thousand euros to benefit the damage caused by the Málaga Tornado; Málaga CF's rival was a team made up of former club players, active or retired, called Malaguista Legends and led by the legendary coach Joaquín Peiró. That summer Málaga played in the 2009 Peace Cup, an international friendly tournament, one of the venues being the La Rosaleda stadium.

That same year the Málaga CF Foundation would be created, with the aim of disseminating sporting values and Malaguista history within the city and the province, as well as the club's museum, which was inaugurated in December, and the official social headquarters, the Málaga CF Sports Bar, the meeting place for the team's fans.

After a harrowing season (2009/10), the team managed to stay on the last day of the league, on May 16, 2010, after drawing (1-1) against Real Madrid at La Rosaleda.

Presidency of Sheikh Abdullah ben Nasser Al Thani

June 1, 2011, official presentation of Ruud van Nistelrooy, attended by 15 000 Malaysians.

Due to the economic limitations of the entity, then-president Fernando Sanz sought investors in Doha (Qatar) to launch a more ambitious project, engaging in talks with a member of the Qatari royal family, Sheikh Abdullah ben Nasser Al Thani. On June 11, 2010, after weeks of negotiation, Mr. Al Thani became the new owner of the entity, being appointed president on July 28 at the shareholders' meeting.

Manuel Pellegrini arrived in Malaga in November 2010, being the main architect of the historic seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13.

On June 28, 2010, the new manager of Málaga CF, Jesualdo Ferreira, was introduced. Among the new players hired, Eliseu and Salomón Rondón stood out. On November 2, 2010, Ferreira was dismissed by the Martiricos entity due to the poor results achieved that relegated the club to the red lantern of the category. Later the signing of Manuel Pellegrini was made official.

Three years of legend with Manuel Pellegrini

With the new coach, it was decided to discard some members of the squad and reinforce it with players like Enzo Maresca, Martín Demichelis, Ignacio Camacho or Julio Baptista. After a new record of five consecutive victories in the First Division, together with the draw Started in San Mamés against Athletic Club, permanence in the category was achieved, ending the championship in eleventh position.

With a view to the 2011/12 season, a contract is signed with the company Nike as a supplier of the different categories of the club. Likewise, the entity carries out a collaboration agreement with UNESCO, through which, in addition, the organization will be the main sponsor of the team's shirt. The most notable signings for that season would be Ruud van Nistelrooy, Nacho Monreal, Jerémy Toulalan, Joaquín Sánchez, Isco Alarcón and the most expensive addition in the club's history, Santi Cazorla, contracted for twenty million euros and from Villarreal CF. That season the team would carry out an excellent campaign, certifying on May 13, 2012 their classification to the previous phase of the UEFA Champions League after finishing 4th in the 2011/2012 League; up to now the best classification of the club in the First Division.

Eleven holder of Malaga CF in his premiere with victory for three to zero in front of the Zenit of St.Petersburg in Champions League.- (on foot) Knight, Demichelis, Camacho, Weligton, Joaquín (sentados) Isco, Gámez, Saviola, Portillo, Monreal, Eliseu.

In the summer of 2012 the club, in an official statement, announced an internal restructuring to adapt to financial Fair Play standards, with the intention of guaranteeing the entity's self-sufficiency and stability. In December of that year, the club Málaga CF was sanctioned by the UEFA Club Financial Control Committee with a fine of three hundred thousand euros and excluded from the next continental competition for which it will qualify within the next four years. The club communicated in the hours later that said sanction would be appealed before the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

In the 2012/13 season, Málaga made the best start in its history in the league with three wins and a draw.

First appearance in the Champions League

On August 28, 2012, after beating Panathinaikos FC by two goals to zero at La Rosaleda and drawing zero at the Spyros Louis Olympic Stadium in Athens, the team qualified for the first time in its history to play the UEFA Champions League 2012/13, becoming one of the best rookies in the history of that competition, by winning the first three games without conceding a goal, against the three rivals in their group: AC Milan, FC Zenit de Saint Petersburg and RSC Anderlecht.

On September 18, 2012, Málaga played its first match in the Champions League, beating the Russian Premier League champion at the time, Zenit Saint Petersburg, by three goals to nil. That day the eleven who defended the albiceleste from the start were: Caballero; Gamez, Demichelis, Weligton, Monreal; Camacho; Portillo, Isco, Eliseu; Joaquin and Saviola.

On November 6, 2012, the team qualified for the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League after drawing 1-1 at the San Siro against AC Milan.

The Malaysian Isco has his magnificent participation in the 2012/13 Champions League made him worthy of the 2012 Golden Boy Awards and Trofeo Bravo 2013.

Four months later, on March 13, 2013, the team would qualify for the quarterfinals after beating FC Porto by two goals to nil at La Rosaleda, coming from behind from the first leg. Málaga formed that Opening evening with: Caballero, Gámez, Demichelis, Weligton, Antunes, Iturra, Toulalan, Joaquín, Baptista, Isco and Saviola. The Malaga team would achieve a memorable victory; After forty-two minutes Isco, with an unstoppable shot from outside the area, would score 1-0 and in the seventy-sixth minute the goal from Paraguayan Roque Santa Cruz would arrive, which meant the round pass, causing an outburst of jubilation in the stands. Said classification made Málaga the seventh Spanish team, after Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Valencia CF, Deportivo de la Coruña, Villarreal CF and Atlético de Madrid, to reach the quarterfinal phase of the UEFA Champions League. After drawing zero in the first game against Borussia Dortmund at La Rosaleda, on April 9, 2013 Málaga would be eliminated from the competition after being defeated by three goals to two (Joaquín 24', Eliseu 82') at Signal Iduna Park Stadium. That night Málaga enjoyed qualifying for the semifinals from the twenty-fourth minute of the first half until the ninety-third minute of the game, when the British-Scottish referee Craig Thomson awarded the German team an offside goal. That arbitration error would put an end to an outstanding first participation of the club in the maximum continental championship.

Málaga received 32 million euros from UEFA after their successful campaign in this European tournament.

UEFA sanction

In the 2012/13 LaLiga season, Málaga had obtained a pass to play in the UEFA Europa League by qualifying sixth in the National League Championship, but on June 11, 2013, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected the appeal of the Martirícos club, confirming the sanction imposed by UEFA, a decision that represented an unprecedented award in the legal-sports field of the world of football, for which reason Málaga could not play the European competition to which it legitimately joined had classified.

Candidate for Best Club of the Year 2013

The EFAA (European Association of Soccer Players Agents) and the ECA (European Club Association) nominated Málaga Club de Fútbol, along with Chelsea FC, FC Bayern Munich, Juventus FC and FC Basel as a candidate for Best Club of the Year 2013 at the Globe Soccer Awards that are given annually in Dubai.

At the gates of returning to Europe

Weligton, club player since 2007-2017

After the departure of Pellegrini, forced by the fact that it was impossible to maintain the level of ambition in the sports project, the German Bernd Schuster was signed as the new coach. Faced with the owner's refusal to make new million-dollar investments and overwhelmed by economic pressures after the sanction imposed by UEFA, the team had a very irregular season in which it was ranked eleventh in La Liga and in which the tactics of the Teutonic coach did not obtain the acceptance of a large part of the stands at La Rosaleda, for which the club decides to terminate his contract and start a new project under the tutelage of Javi Gracia from Navarre.

This project emphasized greater control in the economic field and optimization of the club's resources, seeking to grow from the Academy and the lower categories of the club, in order to promote young promises such as Samu García, Juanmi Jiménez, Samu Castillejo, Sergi Darder, Juanpi Añor or Pablo Fornals to raise the level of the team and, later, through the sales of some of these young promises, to stabilize first and then develop the general project.

The team's game and the young players responded to the expectations placed on them, and after brilliant performances along with other more veterans such as Ignacio Camacho, Recio, Weligton, Carlos Kameni or striker Nordin Amrabat, they managed to qualify during the following seasons among the best in La Liga, something that allowed the club to obtain a better position in the distribution of the coveted television rights, income that in the coming years would be decisive for Málaga's growth possibilities.

The return to Second Division

Party disputed between the Deportivo de La Coruña and the Málaga CF.

After a 2017-18 season characterized by sporting and institutional collapse, the club was relegated to the Second Division after ten seasons in the top flight. The relegation was mathematically confirmed on April 19, 2018, with five games to go, after losing in the 90th minute by a goal to nil at the Ciudad de Valencia Stadium against Levante UD.

After a whole 2018-19 season struggling to achieve direct promotion, the team only managed to reach third position in the table and play the play-off. In it, they would lose in the first tie against Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña.

Stadium

The Rosaleda view from the Guadalmedina.

The Málaga C.F. It is located on the Paseo de Martiricos on the right bank of the Guadalmedina River. It was inaugurated in 1941, and renovated for the 1982 Soccer World Cup. During this period the stadium reached a capacity for 45,000 spectators.

In the year 2000 extensive rehabilitation works began that lasted until 2006, with the complete demolition and reconstruction of the stands. The remodeling was inaugurated on September 14, 2006, with the Málaga C.F. vs Nacional de Montevideo, corresponding to the XXIV edition of the Costa del Sol Trophy. The grandstand and preference stands were covered, while the back and goal stands underwent improvements in access and seats. The current capacity of La Rosaleda is 30,044 spectators.

La Rosaleda hosts the Costa del Sol Trophy, a summer tournament organized for the first time in 1961. In addition to hosting the 1982 Soccer World Cup, it has been the scene of eight international matches for the Spanish national team, two of they from qualifying rounds and six friendlies Also, given the large British community on the Costa del Sol, the stadium has hosted a friendly between England under-21 and Ecuador as well as several charity matches, such as some of the matches of the tournament Peace Cup 2009.

On December 10, 2010, President Abdullah Al Thani announced to the press in his country, Qatar, the future construction of a new stadium with a capacity for 65,000 spectators in Malaga, which he announced would receive the name Qatar Stadium, and would replace La Rosaleda.

Other club facilities are: the field next to the La Rosaleda stadium, the Ciudad de Málaga stadium, where the first team trains, and the Arraijanal Sports City, under construction.

Representative symbols of the club

Shield

Escudo de la ciudad de Málaga.

The current shield was created in 2003 and it is a shield pointed at the tip, in the center of which appears a ribbon with the name of the club and a soccer ball. This ribbon that crosses it from bottom to top and from left to right forming an angle of forty-five degrees, divides the shield into two quarters: in the upper-left quarter there is an engraving of the Gibralfaro Castle, the city of Malaga on the bay as it appears in the municipal coat of arms (some rocks on top of a town accompanied by a port below it) in reference to the city where the club is established; In the lower-right quarter there is a blue field crossed by five vertical white bars in reference to the colors of the team's home uniform (blue, predominantly in pants and shirt, and blue and white vertical stripes on the shirt). The upper-central area of the shield contains the initials "TM" in reference to the motto Tanto Monta , Fernando el Católico's personal motto that he granted to the city of Malaga after its reconquest. The border of the shield is golden.

In recent years the changes are appreciable in the upper quarter relative to Mount Gibralfaro, which has been placed on the right, and has changed its shape with respect to the previous ones and is now more similar to the emblazoned coat of arms from the city. Since the 2011/12 preseason, a small chromatic change can be seen in the logo, which now presents more faded colors and strokes.

Anthem

The Málaga C.F. It is known as La Bombonera. It has been official since August 10, 1973, when it was chosen as the anthem for the C.D. Málaga under the presidency of Rafael Serrano Carvajal. The music is the work of Luis Posadas Solera and arrangements by Manuel Alonso Borriño while the lyrics were composed by Antonio Benigno Celada Alonso y Tenorio, and in its title it refers to the metaphorical vision of the city from the old access road to Malaga through the mountains, a view that resembles a box of chocolates. To this day, this anthem continues to be the official hymn for Málaga Club de Fútbol.

Flag

The Málaga Club de Fútbol flag is present at the club's institutional events, such as player presentations, press conferences, member assemblies, etc. On national competition match days at La Rosaleda, it flies in the upper area of the Gol stand, next to the Spanish, Andalusian, Málaga, European and UEFA flags and their competition, when applicable.

The Málaga banner is made up of nine horizontal stripes of the same size, five blue and four white, with the club's crest located in the center. There are other types of variants designed for club marketing and used primarily by the hubby.

Motto

The motto of Málaga C.F. is Memory, Commitment and Faith, coinciding with the initials of the club. It was chosen by the entity's employees in the 2008/09 season, symbolizing Memory the memory of everything experienced by Málaga in its history and that must always be taken into account for the future; Commitment the connection between the players and the fans and Faith, a value to always take into account in something that is done.

Uniform

The malaguista kit is a blue and white shirt with vertical stripes, with the sleeves and back in darker blue; pants and socks of the same blue. On the chest the logo of the Hummel brand and the club's shield.

Flag of Malaga.

The away kit uses purple and green, the colors of the city's flag.

In addition, the shirts include the emblems of the competitions that take place. In league competition, it wears the LaLiga logo on the right sleeve.

Club details

For statistical details of the club see Malaga Club of Football

Denominations

• Club Atlético Malagueño: (1948-94) The former subsidiary team, the new Malaysian headline after the liquidation of the Malaga CD.
• Malaga Club of Football, S. A. D.: (1994-Act.) Referendum, change of denomination and conversion of the CA Malagueño into an anonymous sports company.

Historical trajectory

It occupies the twenty-first place in the historical Classification of the Spanish first division of soccer among the sixty-three participating clubs at some time in the highest category of Spanish soccer. His best performance came in the 2011-12 championship with a fourth place, while his worst performance was recorded in the 2005-06 season when he finished in twentieth and last place. In the Second Division it has participated in four editions. Regarding the international scene, the club has participated in the highest continental competition, the UEFA Champions League during the 2012-13 season, being the eleventh Spanish club to do so. In it they reached the quarterfinals, becoming the seventh Spanish team, after Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Valencia CF, Deportivo de la Coruña, Villarreal CF and Atlético de Madrid, to reach that phase in the current top European competition. Likewise, Málaga CF is in 162nd place in the all-time ranking of the UEFA Champions League out of its 513 all-time participants.

In March 2016, he was ranked 160th in the IFFHS World Club Rankings with 101 points, while its UEFA club ranking was 43rd with 38,814 points, being the seventh Spanish club.

Honours of Prizes

International competition	Titles	Subcamponatos
Interto Cup	2002

Friendly tournaments	Titles	Subcamponatos
Trophy Costa del Sol	2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016	2004, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2017.
Torcal City Trophy (Antequera)	1998, 1989 (CD Malaga), 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2018	1995, 2001
Trophy The Cannons	2005, 2018, 2022	1989, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2017
Trophy of Vendimia	2011, 2022
Trophy of Olive	2002, 2011.
Trophy City of the Line		1999
Linense Balompedic Trophy		2000, 2006
Trofeo Ramón de Carranza (1)	2016.	2001, 2003, 2011, 2017
Trofeo Virgen de la Palma (Algeciras)	2003	1996, 1998
Trophy DirecTV	2015.
Schalke 04 Cup	2014.

Sponsorships and partnership agreements

The Malagueña company BeSoccer began to walk hand in hand in 2017 as a 'partner' technology in the development and improvement of the official app and other services for the benefit of Malaguista fans. The club also has other association agreements, such as the one signed with the beer firm with strong ties to the city of Málaga San Miguel, with the Malaga tourist municipality of Benahavís and with the Malaga insurance brokerage Pont Grup.

The American sports firm Nike and the Danish fashion company Selected are in charge of the team's official kits.

Sports organization chart

Players

Squad and coaching staff

Players	Technical body		More used tactical scheme
N.o Nac. Pass. Pos. Name Age Eq. provenance Cont. INT. Porteros 1 ESP! 0BY Manolo Reina 37 years R.C.D. Mallorca 2024 13 ESP! 0BY Rubén Yáñez 29 years Getafe C.F. 2025 Sub-20 Defense 3 ESP! 1DEF Javi Jiménez 27 years C.D. Mirandés 2023 4 ESP! 1DEF Unai Bustinza 31 years C.D. Leganés 2025 5 ESP! 1DEF Juande Rivas 23 years Formed in the quarry 2023 17 ESP! 1DEF Julián Delmás 27 years F.C. Cartagena 2024 20 ARG! 1DEF Esteban Burgos 31 years S.D. Eibar 2024 22 ANG! 1DEF Jonah Ramalho 29 years C.A. Osasuna 2024 27 ESP! 1DEF Victor Olmo 21 years Formed in the quarry 2023 31 ESP! 1DEF Andrés Caro 19 years Formed in the quarry 2023 Sub-18 Campers 6 ESP! 2MED Ramón Enríquez 21 years Formed in the quarry 2024 Sub-19 8 ESP! 2MED Luis Muñoz 26 years Formed in the quarry 2023 10 ESP! 2MED Aleix Febas 27 years R.C.D. Mallorca 2025 Sub-21 16 ESP! 2MED Genaro Rodríguez 25 years C.D. Mirandés 2023 18 SEN! 2MED Alfred N'Diaye 33 years Al-Shabab Club 2024 Absolute 19 ESP! 2MED Jozabed Sánchez 32 years R.C. Celtic 2023 21 ESP! 2MED Fran Villalba 24 years Real Sporting de Gijón 2023 Sub-21 23 ESP! 2MED Alberto Escassi 34 years C.D. Numance 2023 26 ESP! 2MED Alex Calvo 19 years Formed in the quarry 2023 Sub-19 39 ESP! 2MED Christian 22 years Formed in the quarry 2023 Delanteros 2 ENG! 3OF THE Arvin Appiah 22 years U.D. Almería 2023 Sub-19 7 CIV! 3OF THE Lake Junior 32 years R.C.D. Mallorca 2024 Absolute 9 ESP! 3OF THE Fran Sol 31 years Dinemo Kiev 2023 Sub-19 11 ESP! 3OF THE Álex Gallar 31 years Girona F.C. 2024 12 ARG! 3OF THE Pablo Chavarría 35 years R. C. D. Mallorca 2023 24 ESP! 3OF THE Rubén Castro 41 years F.C. Cartagena 2023 Sub-21 29 ESP! 3OF THE Loren Zuñiga 20 years Formed in the quarry 2024 Sub-19 - ESP! 3OF THE Adrián López 35 years C.A. Osasuna 2023 Absolute Cessions N.o Nac. Pass. Pos. Name N. Age Lost to Cont. INT. ESP! 3OF THE Roberto Fernández 20 years Barcelona Atlètic 2025 ESP! 2MED Kevin Villodres 22 years Gil 2025 ESP! 2MED Dani Lorenzo 19 years AD Mérida 2024	Coach(s) Sergio Pellicer Deputy(s) Nacho Pérez Weligton Robson Pena de Oliveira Physical Preparer(s) Nacho Oria, Enrique Ruiz and Julio Rodríguez Coach(s) of porters Toni Mengual Assistant(s) / Analyst(s) Layer Delegate(s) Josemi González Vito Giráldez Physical therapist(s) Fernando Lacomba Luis Barbado Iván Medina Doctor(s) Juan Carlos Pérez Legend Captain Mission quarry (club-trained) Training (association-trained) European passport Aliens Extracommunity without restriction Lost to the club Granted to another club Discarded / No chip Updated on July 16, 2022 Official web template		4-4-2 ESP! BY 1 DEF 2 DEF 4 DEF 5 DEF 3 MED 23 OF THE 9 MED 8 MED 11 MED 10 OF THE 24

• Players with dorsals above 25 are players of Atlético Malagueño and will be able to match matches with the first team and the subsidiary, as required by LFP standards.
• The templates of the Spanish teams are limited to a maximum of three players without a European Union passport. The list includes only the main nationality. Some of the extra-community players have another nationality from some EU country. (see table)

Foreign players who do not occupy extracommunity position
Player	Nationality	2.a nationality
Pablo Chavarría	Argentina	Italian (ascendence)

Ups and downs 2022-23

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Altas
Nac.	Player	Position	Proceedings	Type	Cost
	Manolo Reina	BY	R.C.D. Mallorca	Free	0 €
	Juanfran Moreno	DEF	Alanyaspor	Free	0 €
	Unai Bustinza	DEF	C.D. Leganés	Free	0 €

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Nac.	Player	Position	Destination	Type	Income
	Stefan Scepovic	OF THE	AEL Limassol	Free	0 €
	Orlando Sá	OF THE		Withdrawal	0 €
	Kellyan García	BY			0 €
	Yanis Rahmani	MED	U. D. Almería	Fin Cession	0 €
	Caye Quintana	OF THE	Cadiz CF	Fin Cession	0 €
	Cristian Rodríguez	MED	Extremadura U. D.	Fin Cession	0 €

Technical plot

Main Málaga coaches according to % wins Fte. Sports

Coaches	No. of parties	% of wins
Manuel Pellegrini	129	41.09%
Joaquin Peiró	224	39.73%
Sebastian Viberti	85	39.53%
Ben Barek	71	38.03%
Milorad Pavić	64	37.5 per cent
Juande Ramos	60	36.67%
Antonio Tapia	82	36.59%
Juan Ramón Muñiz	131	35.88%

Presidency and Board of Directors

Organizational chart
Cargo	Name
Chairman	José María Muñoz
Institutional Relations	Francisco Martín Aguilar
Consultative Council	Abdullah Ben Barek José Antonio Ruiz Guerra
Sports Director	Manolo Gaspar
Coordinator of the Academy	Duda
Chief Medical Services	Juan Carlos Pérez Frías
Delegate	J.M. González, "Josemi"

The Academy

The Academy assumes responsibility for the sports, educational and educational training of the young Málaga CF players.

Atletico Malagueño

Atlético Malagueño is the club's subsidiary team. Created as Sociedad Deportiva Málaga in 1990, it changed its name to Málaga C.F. "B" in 1995 and, later, to Atlético Malagueño in July 2009.

Its main objective is to train young players who will be promoted to the first team. He has usually stayed in the lower divisions, but in the 2003/2004 season he made his debut in the Second Division, where he remained for three consecutive seasons. He currently plays in Second Division B.

Youth

To promote new players from the youth academy, the club has two federated youth teams, each one in a different category. Sometimes the coach of the first team calls up youth players for some matches and some of them have made their debut and played in the first team as youth players.

The highest level competes in the Youth Honor Division. The Division of Honor is divided into 7 groups of 16 teams, which are established by geographical proximity. The champion of each group has access to the Youth League Champions Cup, while the last four classified descend to the National Youth League. Likewise, the 7 champions together with the 7 runners-up and the 2 best third parties qualify for the Copa del Rey. The Málaga youth team have twice been champions of their group, winning the Spanish Champions Cup twice, in 2003 and 2015.

The second youth team competes in the National Youth League whose territorial scope is the eastern provinces of Andalusia plus Melilla.

Cadets, children, fry, youngest children and pre-youngest children

The club develops and promotes soccer among educational institutions through soccer schools. The children who stand out the most, and whose families accept it, become part of the different federated teams that participate in different competitions.

Teams in the cadets category:

• In First Andalusia, the highest regional level.
• In Preferential Cadets.

Teams in the kids category:

• In the first street
• Preferred child.

As for the alevines, Málaga has three federated teams: the first in the preferred regional and the other two in the first provincial. In the benjamín category in Malaga there are three other federated teams, the first of them in the first province and the other two in the second province, while in the pre-benjamín category >, Málaga has a federated team in the first province.

Other sections

Women's Soccer

The women's soccer section plays in the Spanish Women's Second Division. An integral part of the club during the name Club Deportivo Málaga, in 2016 it once again became part of the women's section of Málaga CF.

His record includes a National Women's Soccer League in the 1997-98 season after beating Levante 2-0 in the final and a Queen's Cup that same season after beating Lagunak 4-0.

Atlético Málaga B plays in the 1st Provincial Division of Málaga.

Indoor soccer

The Málaga Club de Fútbol Former Players Association was born as a section of Málaga veterans, playing a series of friendly matches and soccer tournaments. Subsequently, its indoor soccer section would be formalized, characterized by being represented by a team of Málaga veterans.

In 2011 Málaga would play for the first time the National Indoor Soccer League Championship together with the 20 best teams according to the historical First Division soccer classification.

Hobby

La Rosaleda usually presents a great attendance and a great atmosphere every day.

The main animation groups are the "Frente Bokerón", founded in 1986 and "Malaka Hinchas", founded in 2001 and both groups are located behind the goal of Gol Bajo, forming the entertainment stands with the name of Fondo Sur 1904. Other enthusiastic sectors of the fans are the "Peña Universitaria Malaguista" or the "Guiri Army" made up of malaguista fans of British origin, as well as supporters clubs and private supporters who contribute their touch of color, such as some of the towns in the province where the malaguista supporters clubs of Antequera, Archidona, Ronda and Fuengirola stand out, among many others further. Outside the province, the most important clubs are "Boquerones en Madrid" and "Los 300", the latter from Barcelona.

The Malaguista fans usually celebrate their triumphs in the Plaza del General Torrijos, next to the Fountain of the Three Graces.

Historical rivalry

Málaga's quintessential derby was the one held against Granada C.F. and has provided numerous meetings since the decade of the thirties of the last century. Given the long period of time during which both teams did not face each other due to military in different categories, this rivalry is practically extinct today.

Currently, and since the appearance of the current Málaga Club de Fútbol, the rivalry has spread to the matches with the two teams from Seville, Real Betis Balompié, and especially Sevilla F.C. It is a struggle subsidiary of the one maintained by both cities around the capital of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia since its creation in the 1980s.

The club in the media

Multimedia

The club has its own television channel called MCF TV, as well as a radio station called Radio Málaga CF. the club's official website and its own channel on the YouTube.com site.

Cinema

The feature film Princesas, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa in 2005, shows a scene in the Vicente Calderón stadium corresponding to the Atlético de Madrid-Málaga C.F match. from the 2004/2005 season where Vicente Valcarce chases an attacker who approaches the goal.