Real Club Deportivo Mallorca Spanish football team from Palma

rcd mallorca

Real Club Deportivo Mallorca is a Spanish football team from Palma, Majorca. Founded on 5 March 1916, it currently plays in the Spanish first division.

Mallorca plays in red shirts and black shorts with black socks. Their home stadium is the Son Moix, seating 23,142 spectators.

The Ono Estadi lies some 3km outside the city centre. The atmosphere of the inner city Estadio Lluis Sitjar was never recouped after their move to San Moix in 1999 (now renamed Ono Estadi after the sponsor). Just take a taxi to get out there from the centre of Palma.

son moix stadium

The oldest club in the Balearic Islands, Mallorca was originally formed by Adolfo Vázquez, a republican engineer, who named the club Junta Directiva del Alfonso XIII FBC after the then king. The first stadium, inaugurated on 25 March, was called the Buenos Aires, with a match against Barcelona (which Barcelona won 8-0). A year later, the club changed its name to Real Sociedad Alfonso XIII, which remained until the club was renamed in 1931, for political reasons, Club Deportivo Mallorca. In 1949 they were granted royal patronage, allowing them to use the Real prefix.

In 2003, Mallorca won the Copa del Rey for the first time. In its history, the team spent 20 seasons in Primera División, 29 in Segunda División, 2 in Segunda División B and 11 in Tercera División.