Sevilla FC

Sevilla Fútbol Club (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈβiʎa ˈfuðβol ˈkluβ]) is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It plays in Spanish football's top flight, La Liga. Sevilla have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League seven times, the most of any club. It is Spain's oldest sporting club solely devoted to football. The club was formed on 25 January 1890, 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 rivals Real Betis.

Sevilla
Full nameSevilla Fútbol Club, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)Los Nervionenses
Los Hispalenses
Palanganas
Blanquirrojos
Rojiblancos
Sevillistas
Short nameSevilla
Founded1905 (1905)
as Sevilla Foot-ball Club
GroundRamón Sánchez Pizjuán
Capacity42,714
OwnerSevillistas de Nervión S. A.
PresidentJosé María del Nido Carrasco
Head coachQuique Sánchez Flores
LeagueLa Liga
2022–23La Liga, 12th of 20
WebsiteClub website

Sevilla are also the most successful football club in Andalusia in terms of titles, with eighteen Andalusian Cups, 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 Cups/UEFA Europa Leagues (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.

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.

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