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| Founded | 1897 | ||
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| Dissolved | 1903 | ||
| Ground | Tiro del Pichón | ||
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The New Foot-Ball Club, especially known by its original name of (Society) Foot-ball Sky, was a Spanish football club based in Madrid that was founded in 1897 by Cambridge and Oxford University graduates, and dissolved in 1903 due to internal differences and numerous splits in its 6-year history.[1] In 1900, a conflict between Sky Football members caused some of them to leave and found a new club that would later become Real Madrid,[1] and in 1901, a new split within the club led to the creation of Club Español de Madrid, and finally, in January 1903, a new and definitive split led to the disappearance of the club, with New's best players founding Internacional Foot-ball Club.[2]
Sky Football is best known for being the first-ever football club in the capital with the sole purpose of practicing this sport, and it was until the year 1900, the only existing club legalized for its exclusive practice in Madrid. Their original name was Sky Football, but following a restructuring in 1902, Sky was renamed as New Foot-Ball Club, the name under which it competed in the 1902 Copa de la Coronación, the first national championship disputed in Spain and the forerunner for the Copa del Rey.[3]
- ^ a b "Historia del Real Madrid Football Club" [History of Real Madrid Football Club]. lafutbolteca.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Temporada 1902-03". www.leyendablanca.galeon.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ "Spain - Cup 1902". RSSSF. 15 September 2000. Archived from the original on 17 September 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2016.