Sevilla FC

This article is about the Spanish football club. For the former club in Puerto Rico, see Sevilla FC Puerto Rico.

Sevilla
Full nameSevilla Fútbol Club, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)Los Nervionenses
Los Hispalenses
Palanganas
Blanquirrojos
Rojiblancos
Sevillistas (supporters)
Short nameSevilla
Founded1905; 119 years ago (1905)[1][2][3][4]
as Sevilla Foot-ball Club
GroundRamón Sánchez Pizjuán
Capacity42,714[5]
OwnerSevillistas de Nervión S. A.
PresidentJosé María del Nido Carrasco
Head coachXavier García Pimienta
LeagueLa Liga
2023–24La Liga, 14th of 20
Websitesevillafc.es
Current season
Active departments of
Sevilla FC
Football
(Men's)		 Football B
(Men's)		 Football C
(Men's)
Football
Youth (Men's)		 Football
(Women's)		 Rowing
Inactive departments of Sevilla FC
Football in
Puerto Rico		 Superleague
Formula

Sevilla Fútbol Club (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈβiʎa ˈfuðβol ˈkluβ]) is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.

Sevilla have won the UEFA Cup / Europa League seven times, the most of any club, most recently in 2023.[6] It is Spain's oldest sporting club solely devoted to football.[7][8][9][10] The club was formed on 25 January 1890,[7][8][9][10] with the Scottish-born Edward Farquharson Johnston as their first president. On 14 October 1905, the club's articles of association were registered in the Civil Government of Seville under the presidency of the Jerez-born José Luis Gallegos Arnosa. Sevilla has a long-standing rivalry with cross-city rival Real Betis.

Sevilla are also the most successful football club in Andalusia in terms of titles, with eighteen Andalusian Cup,[11] one national league title in 1945–46, five Spanish Cup titles (1935, 1939, 1948, 2007, and 2010), one Spanish Super Cup (2007), a record seven UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League (2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, and 2023) and one UEFA Super Cup (2006). They were also designated by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the World's Best Club in 2006 and 2007, thus being the first club to achieve this distinction in two consecutive years.[12]

The youth team Sevilla Atlético, founded in 1958, currently play in Primera División RFEF. Other clubs related to Sevilla FC include their women's team. The rowing team that defends its crest in the yearly Sevilla-Betis boat race is not a section of the club but a call-up of registered-as-supporters professional rowers from the various rowing clubs of Seville.

The club's home ground is the 43,883-seat Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium. It is located in the neighborhood of Nervión, Seville, and is named after the late Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, who was the president of Sevilla FC for a total of 17 years.

  1. ^ Sevilla F. C. Official website «Historia (1890 a 1914)» (in Spanish). Archived 29 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Sevilla F.C. homepage – Official UEFA website Archived 3 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. ^ Sevilla F.C. homepage – Official LFP website Archived 30 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  4. ^ FIFA Classic Clubs series on Sevilla F.C. – Official FIFA website. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Sevilla FC – The Club". Sevilla FC. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  6. ^ UEFA.com. "Most titles | History | UEFA Europa League". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Your BNA Stories: Sevilla Football Club – the Oldest Football Club in Spain, Founded in 1905 by British Residents". The British Newspaper Archive. 5 October 2012. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Courier proves Seville's claim as Spain's oldest football club". The Courier. 7 February 2013. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013.
  9. ^ a b "The day Spanish football was born". Marca. 9 October 2012. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  10. ^ a b "How Glasgow man Hugh McColl helped set up Spain's oldest football club". Evening Times. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  11. ^ "Honours". sevillafc.es. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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