Sevilla Fútbol Club, S.A.D. (seˈβiʎa ˈfuðβol ˈkluβ), or simply
Sevilla FC, is a Spanish football team (registered by Spanish law as a Sporting Limited Association) located in
Seville. It currently plays in Spain's top flight,
La Liga. The club was founded on 14 October 1905 and played its first
La Liga season in
1934–35. The team plays at the 45,500-capacity
Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in the Sevillian district of
Nervión.
Sevilla is the most successful club in Andalusia, winning a national league title in
1945–46, and five
Copas del Rey. On the European level, it has won two consecutive
UEFA Cups (
2006 and
2007) and the
2006 UEFA Super Cup. Sevilla have competed 67 seasons in the
First Division and 13 in
Second, a record which places as the seventh-best team in the history of
Spanish league football. They were designated by the
International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the best club in the World in 2006 and 2007, currently the only team that has achieved this distinction in consecutive years. Sevilla's main rivalry is with their cross-city rivals
Real Betis in the
Seville derby.
Its reserve side
Sevilla Atlético, founded in 1958, currently play in the
Segunda B, and the club are affiliated to a side in
Puerto Rico of the same name. Other clubs related to Sevilla include their
women's team,
futsal team and former
Superleague Formula team. In 2005 the centennial of Sevilla's foundation was celebrated with a variety of events across the city.