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Club Atlético de Madrid, SAD (Spanish pronunciation: commonly known as Atlético de Madrid or Atlético is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid and is currently playing in La Liga. In terms of importance of titles and number of followers, Atlético Madrid is the third most successful club in Spanish football, behind Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. In terms of the number of titles, Atlético Madrid is the fourth most successful club in Spanish football, behind Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. Atlético have won La Liga on ten occasions, including a league and cup double in 1996; the Copa del Rey on ten occasions; 2 Supercopas de España and 1 Copa Eva Duarte; in Europe, they won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1962, were runners-up in and 1986, were European Cup runners-up in 1974 and 2014,[2] won the Europa League in 2010 and in 2012, won the UEFA Super Cup in 2010 and 2012, won the Intertoto Cup in 2007, as well as the 1974 Intercontinental Cup. The club play their home games at the Vicente Calderón,[3] which holds up to 54,960 spectators. In 2016, Atlético are due to move to their new home of Estadio La Peineta which will have a capacity of 70,000. Atlético's home kit is red and white vertical striped shirts, with blue shorts, accompanied by blue and red socks. This combination has been used since The current club kits are manufactured by Nike and the main sponsor is Plus500. During their history, the club has been known by a number of nicknames, including Los Colchoneros ("The Mattress Makers"), due to their first team stripes being the same colours as old-fashioned mattresses. During the 1970s, they became known as Los Indios, allegedly due to the club signing several South American players after the restrictions on signing foreign players were lifted. However, there are a number of alternative theories which claim they were named so because their stadium is "camped" on the river bank, or because Los Indios (The Indians) were the traditional enemy of Los Blancos (The Whites), which is the nickname of the club's city rivals, Real Madrid.[4] Felipe VI, the current king of Spain, has been the Honorary President of the club since The club co-owns the Indian Super League franchise of Kolkata, named Atlético de Kolkata, which won the inaugural season of the competition in 2014.
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