Real Madrid Femenino Launched.

Spanish champions  Real Madrid will join arch rivals Athletico Madrid and Barcelona in launching  a professional women’s team with their aquisition of  Tacon Ladies Football  Club for 300,000 EUR.
The Tacones were formed in 2014 and will now take their place as part of the Galacticos from today.
Other Spanish Liga clubs such as Athletico Madrid and Barcelona have well established ladies teams with Athletico going back to 2012.
Athletico Ladies hold the record for attendance of any club game in Europe.

The announcement was made today following a board meeting of Real Madrid football club presided over by Florentino Perez with the aim of turning Real Madrid Feminino into national and European powerhouses.

“The time has come to build a team that you will all be very proud of,” said Perez today.

Women´s football has since a huge increase in interest and support thoughout Europe in recent years.

In 2018 FIFA inaugurated  the Women’s Ballon d’Or

In the 2019 Women´s World Cup won by the Unites States the average match attendance was over 20,000 spectators.

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