Atlético Madrid (women's football)

Atlético Madrid (women's football)
Basic data
Surname	Club Atlético de Madrid
Seat	Madrid , Spain
founding	1903: Association 2001: Department
Colours	Red White
president	Enrique Cerezo
Website	atleticodemadrid.com
First soccer team
Head coach	José Luis Sánchez Vera
Venue	Estadio Cerro del Espino
Places	3376
league	Primera División
2018/19	1st place
home Away

Amanda Sampedro , veteran and Atlético Madrid captain.

The women's football department of the sports club Atlético Madrid (officially: Club Atlético de Madrid ) from Spain was first established in 1989 and revived in 2005.

history

Under the name Atlético Villa de Madrid , Atlético opened a football section for women for the first time in 1989, which immediately won the Spanish championship title in the first year of its existence. After only three years, the team was disbanded in 1992. In 2001, a new independent women's team was formed in Madrid under the name Atlético Féminas , which initially started in the regional league and made it through to the second division until 2003. In 2005, this team was finally incorporated as a new club section at Atlético Madrid and was able to complete promotion to the Primera División (then called Superliga) as the second division champions in 2006.

As runners-up in the 2014/15 season, Atlético qualified for the first time for the UEFA Women's Champions League competition in the 2015/16 season, from which the club was eliminated in the round of 16 against eventual winners Olympique Lyon . Winning the Copa de la Reina 2016 marks the first major title win in the new millennium. With the two subsequent championship titles, Atlético consolidated its place among the fixed sizes in Spanish women's football alongside FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao .

On March 17, 2019, Atlético, as the host club, set a new record number of spectators in women's club football in the top league match against FC Barcelona (final score 0: 2) at the Estadio Metropolitano with 60,739 entries. In the 2018/19 season Atlético was able to defend the Spanish championship for the second time in a row, but failed again to reach the national double after a 1: 2 final defeat in the Spanish Cup against Real Sociedad on May 11, 2019.

Squad for the 2019/20 season

No.	Nat.	Surname	birthday	in the team since	Last club
goal
		Dolores Gallardo	06/10/1993	2012	Sporting Huelva
		Sari van Veenendaal	04/03/1990	2019	Arsenal FC
Defense
		Elena Linari	04/15/1994	2018	AC Florence
		Aïssatou Tounkara	March 16, 1995	2018	Paris Saint-Germain
		Carmen Menayo	04/14/1998	2016	Santa Teresa CD
		Kenti Robles	02/15/1991	2015	Espanyol Barcelona
		Natia Pantsulaia	12/28/1991	2019	ALG Spor
		Laia López	08/25/2000	2019	FC Barcelona
		Kylie Storm	03/18/1992	2019	Sparta Prague
midfield
		Olga García	06/01/1992	2018	FC Barcelona
		Ángela Sosa	01/16/1993	2014	Sporting Huelva
		Amanda Sampedro	06/26/1993	2002	Atlético Madrid B
		Alex Chidiac	01/15/1999	2018	Adelaide United FC
		Virginia Torrecilla	09/04/1994	2019	HSC Montpellier
		Silvia Meseguer	03/12/1989	2013	Espanyol Barcelona
		Olga Ovdiychuk	12/16/1993	2019	FK Zhytlobud
		Leicy Santos	05/16/1996	2019	Independiente Santa Fe
Storm
		Ana Marcos	07/09/2000	2016	Atlético Madrid B
		Ludmila	December 01, 1994	2017	São José EC
		Charlyn Corral	09/11/1991	2019	Levant UD
		Toni Duggan	07/25/1991	2019	FC Barcelona
As of September 19, 2019

successes

Spanish championship	(4 ×):	1990, 2017, 2018, 2019
Spanish Cup	(1 ×):	2016

Remarks

1. ^ Las reines del Atlético de Madrid conquistan la Copa. In: marca.com. Marca , June 26, 2016, accessed September 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Over 60,000 spectators watch Atlético against Barcelona. In: sueddeutsche.de. SZ , March 17, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Over 60,000 fans watch Atlético vs. Barcelona - world record. In: spiegel.de. Der Spiegel , March 17, 2019, accessed on March 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ La Real Sociedad hace historia con la conquista la Copa de la Reina. In: marca.com. Marca, May 11, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .