Málaga Club de Fútbol is the team from the fifth metropolitan area of Spain and the country’s principal tourist destination, where football began over a century ago with a match between a group of locals ahead of their time, on 3rd April 1904.

The Club from the city of Málaga has had various denominations over more than 115 years of Málaga footballing history. Málaga Football Club, FC Malagueño, Real Málaga FC, Málaga Sport Club, CD Malacitano, CD Málaga and CA Malagueño preceded the current Málaga CF, named on 29th June 1994.

An institution that, as Málaga CF, has competed in seventeen seasons -across two separate spells- in the top tier of Spanish football (1999-2006 and 2008-2018), and which, including the now-defunct CD Málaga, has accumulated 37 seasons in the First Division and 41 in the Second Division. The club has also won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002 and participated in both the UEFA Cup (2002-03) and the UEFA Champions League (2012-13), reaching the quarter-finals in both European competitions in remarkable fashion.