Real Club España

Beginnings

España F.C. was founded on March 20, 1912 in Mexico City, product of a separation of the previous club "México F.C." which had been founded on 1910 by Alfredo B. Cuellar, Jorge Gómez de Parada and Alberto Montaña. With the initial purpose of playing football, the dream of a handful of young Spanish immigrants who, longing for their distant homeland, formed what would later become the glorious football team "España FC". Later in 1920, the work of rapprochement and unity that España FC began to exercise within the Hispanic community resulted in the fact that, through the mediation of Don Antonio de Zayas, Duke of Amalfi, Minister of Spain in Mexico, His Majesty Don Alfonso XIII, saw fit to grant our Institution the Title of Royal, calling itself from that date Real Club España. Source: Club España history Archived 30 August 2024 at the Wayback Machine

Success

The success of Real Club España began immediately, the season after the club was founded, won its first amateur league title in the 1913–14 season of the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association. They won their first double, but it would not stop there, as the club won a total of 13 amateur league titles and 7 amateur cup tournaments between 1912 and the beginning of the professional era of Mexican football. When the first professional football league in Mexico was created in 1943, Real España was one of the favorites, but they lost the title to Asturias in a playoff match, and the next…

Top division

Liga Mayor Champions (1): 1944–45 Runners-up (1): 1943–44 Copa México Champions (1): 1943–44 Campeón de Campeones Champions (2): 1944, 1945

Amateur

Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association: 1913–14, 1914–15, 1915–16, 1916–17, 1918–19 Campeonato de Primera Fuerza/Liga Mayor: 1923–24, 1929–30, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1939–40, 1941–42 Liga Nacional: 1920–21, 1921–22 Copa Tower: 1914–15, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19 Copa Eliminatoria: 1920–21, 1921–22, 1927–28

Friendly

Torneo Centenario: 1921 Copa Covadonga: 1922–I, 1922–II Copa Alfonso XIII: 1919 Copa Elche: 1919