Malaga

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Malaga's roots go its roots back CD Malaga, a club that was founded in 1904. Club Atletico Malagueno was founded on May 25, 1948. It was an ex-reserve squad that was part of CD Malaga, after the club was absorbed by CD Santo Tomas with the goal of creating an reserve team. The team was renamed Malaga's primary team.

Club Atletico Malagueno and CD Malaga were able to join forces during the 1959-60 Tercera Division after CD Malaga was dropped at the conclusion of 1958-59 Segunda Division. Since they were reserve teams, CD Malaga would have had to be relegated in regional tournaments. To to avoid this, they split with their club parent and were registered as an independent club in the Royal Spanish Football Federation. This allowed to CA Malagueno to survive after CD Malaga suspended operations.

The 1992-93 season was a time of CA Malagueno playing in Tercera Division Group 9. After a great campaign, the team was promoted to Segunda Division B. However, the following season the club was delegated once more and, facing financial problems, was at risk of being forced to fold.

On the 19th of December 1993, in a vote, the members of the club voted in favor of changing their names. Consequently, on June 29, 1994 CA Malagueno changed their name to Malaga Club de Futbol S.A.D.

In the beginning of 2000, Malaga were a club that was awash with talented and young players. They also had an upgraded and modern stadium. While they didn't push for an Champions League place, Malaga had a great run under the legendary Joaquin Peiro.

The team made only one performance at Malaga's appearance at the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002 and won their first official trophy when they beat Gent, Willem II and Villarreal. The Malaga run of the UEFA Cup was something of an oversuccess, and they lost by penalty in the quarter-finals to Boavista after having defeated Zeljeznicar Sarajevo (who had been removed of in the Champions League by Newcastle United), Amica Wronki, Leeds United (after a 2-1 victory in the 2-1 win at Elland Road, courtesy of two Julio Dely Valdes goals) and AEK Athens.

After Peiro's retirement an exodus of players slowly began. Dario Silva Kiki Musampa Dely Valdes, and Pedro Contreras all left the club. Juande Ramos was appointed as coach and led the 5-1 win at home against Barcelona the club's most memorable win against the Catalan giants. He also scored a hat-trick by loanee Salva Ballesta. Ballesta ended up missing out on the Pichichi Trophy by two goals. Ramos did leave to join Sevilla as Gregorio Manzano was the new coach.

Despite leading Malaga into their 2nd straight finishing in the tenth spot, Manzano could not prevent the team from being dropped and finishing at the lowest of the league, with only 24 points.

Malaga started the new second division season in a positive way. But their performance slowed significantly and for two days of their remaining 6 weeks, they were in the zone of relegation. Malaga did manage to get out of the situation and even made it through their first Segunda season.

In 2007 and 2008, the Segunda Division also began impressively with seven consecutive wins. Malaga appeared to be in good shape for promotion, but after a dip in performance and a loss to Numancia, they were pushed out of the leading by Numancia. They had to win their final match, at home against Tenerife for a chance to be promoted. Two goals scored by Antonio Hidalgo secured a 2-1 victory, and Malaga was promoted to the top division as runners-up.

Because of the club's financial issues, the president Fernando Sanz found investments at Doha in Qatar to begin a huge project. He also began conversations about the project with Sheikh Abdullah ben Nasser Al Thani. On the 11th of June, 2010, following a period of talks, Al Thani became the company's new owner. He was named president on July 28 at the meeting of the members.

On the 28th of June, 2010 Jesualdo Ferreira was appointed coach while Moayad Sharatat was named general manager and vice president. After this, the club signed of prominent players such as Salomon Ronaldo and Eliseu. In November, however Jesualdo was dismissed as he was not able to deliver the expected results, which put his team in the bottom zone. Then Shatat announced Manuel Pellegrini as coach.

In the absence of "The Caretaker" as the head of the team the team was able to cut players from the team and replace them with players such as the centre-back Martin Demichelis and midfielder Julio Baptista. The record-breaking streak of five consecutive La Liga wins, alongside the draw against Athletic Bilbao at San Mames at the beginning of January 2011 allowed the team to continue to gain momentum throughout the league. They finished the 2011-11 season in the 11th position.

As preparations in preparation for 2011-2012 the club signed an agreement with Nike as the supplier of kits for the club. Malaga also signed a cooperation agreement with UNESCO that has also become the main sponsor of the kit. The most notable signings of the season were Dutchman Ruud Van Nistelrooy the former Lyon French midfielder Jeremy Toulalan, and the most expensive acquisition in the history of the club, Santi Cazorla, who came from Villarreal in the shape of a EUR21 million agreement. Other lesser-known players, such as Isco and the former Spanish International midfielder Joaquin and left-back Nacho Monreal, played a major role in the success that came to Malaga. In the very first season in the club's past history, they was selected for Champions League after finishing the 2011-12 La Liga campaign in fourth. For their first time of the Champions League, Malaga were joined by Italian titans Milan and the reigning Belgian as well as Russian champions Anderlecht and Zenit Saint Petersburg, respectively. Malaga did manage to get through the group stage without losing and won their games against each of the clubs. For the 16th round the team played Portuguese champions Porto and lost the initial away game 1-0 , while winning at home by 2-0, and progressing to the quarterfinals. In a much-anticipated tie in the quarter-finals against German Champions Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Dortmund, the home game ended 0-0, providing Malagauistas with a decent possibility of progressing result of a draw in the away match. In the second game, which was marred by controversial refereeing decisions, the scoreboard was 2-2 after the 90-minute mark, which seemed to secure Malaga's place in the semis however, two goals in the final minutes scored by Marco Reus (90 1st minute) and Felipe Santana (90 3rd minute) changed the game in favor of the home side. After the defeat of the team, the club's the president Abdullah ben Nasser Al Thani declared that a formal complaint would be lodged before UEFA in addition to FIFA.

The next year, Malaga was banned by the UEFA together with other clubs, due to its obligations. In a statement, the UEFA stated that the club would be disqualified from competitions in which it could be eligible, over the next four seasons. The restriction was later reduced to one year and the club was subsequently excluded of the 2013-14 Europa League.

As of the end of the 2013 summer Isco was transferred Isco to Real Madrid, Joaquin to Fiorentina and midfielder Jeremy Toulalan to Monaco. The manager's position was has also changed as Bernd Schuster replacing Manuel Pellegrini.

After the year 2013, Malaga suffered a steady decline , which would lead to the team finishing lower throughout the season. On 19 April 2018, Malaga faced Levante U.D. looking to end their streak of 10 consecutive defeats which put them in the 20th spot in LaLiga. But, the game turned worse , and Malaga lost a goal to the Levante's Emmanuel Boateng in stoppage time for the final score to be at 0-1. The result was that Malaga was relegated into the Segunda Division, ending a streak of ten seasons playing in Europe's top league.

In the year 2019, Malaga was close to being moved up to La Liga, finishing third in the Segunda Division, but was eliminated in the first round of Play-offs against Deportivo de La Coruna. In this year's 2019-20 Segunda Division season, Victor Sanchez del Amo will remain as the coach.

In the first quarter of 2020, reports surfaced that the owner of the club Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani and his family members, who are owed by Malaga EUR7.3m in credit lines and loans were buying shares of smaller shareholders for their personal expenditures and business interests, but until February 2022, there was there is no evidence to prove any violation of the law that could allow judges to decide that a criminal charge is justifiable. . [22] In August of 2020 the administrator appointed by the court announced that he was planning to cut the entire first team squad to prevent the club from going under but no evidence of the necessity was offered.

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• Segunda División
  • Winners (1): 1998–99
• Segunda División B
  • Winners (1): 1997–98
• Tercera División
  • Winners (3): 1963–64, 1992–93, 1994–95

• UEFA Champions League
  • Quarter-finals (1): 2012–13
• UEFA Europa League
  • Quarter-finals (1): 2002–03
• UEFA Intertoto Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2002

• Trofeo Costa del Sol
  • Winners (7): 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016
• Schalke 04 Cup
  • Winners (1): 2014
• Copa EuroAmericana
  • Runner-up (1): 2015

Between 1961 between 1961 and 1982, it hosted its own summer event in the form of known as the Trofeo Costa del Sol. In the first year of the competition the club took the title of the competition three times winning against Real Madrid, Red Star Belgrade and Derby County in the finals. After a period of inactivity starting in 1983 the competition came back in 2003. Since since then, the club has won the tournament seven times and has beaten Newcastle United, Real Betis, Parma, Penarol, Everton, Lekhwiya and Sampdoria in the finals. The trophies of all ten are kept inside the museum Malaguista at La Rosaleda.

Malaga's biggest rivalry is Granada CF, known as the Derby of the eastern part of Andalusia. Both clubs are situated around 90 kilometers away.

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• 17 seasons in La Liga
• 8 seasons in Segunda División
• 4 seasons in Segunda División B
• 39 seasons in Tercera División

• La Rosaleda Stadium

Albania

•  Keidi Bare

Algeria

•  Mohamed Benkhemassa

Argentina

•  Willy Caballero
•  Martín Demichelis
•  Javier Saviola
•  Ariel Zárate

Brazil

•  Júlio Baptista

Cameroon

•  Carlos Kameni

Chile

•  Manuel Iturra

Costa Rica

•  Paulo Wanchope

Denmark

•  Patrick Mtiliga

France

•  Jérémy Toulalan

Mexico

•  Guillermo Ochoa

Morocco

•  Nordin Amrabat
•  Youssef En-Nesyri
•  Munir Mohamedi
•  Nabil Baha

Netherlands

•  Joris Mathijsen
•  Ruud van Nistelrooy

Panama

•  Julio Dely Valdes

Paraguay

•  Roque Santa Cruz

Portugal

•  Duda
•  Edgar
•  Eliseu

Spain

•  Apoño
•  Francesc Arnau
•  Basti
•  Francisco Bravo
•  Javier Calleja
•  Ignacio Camacho
•  Santi Cazorla
•  Pedro Contreras
•  Jesús Gámez
•  Gerardo
•  Luis Hernández
•  Antonio Hidalgo
•  Fernando Hierro
•  Isco
•  Joaquín
•  Juanito
•  Domingo Larrainzar
•  Albert Luque
•  Miguel Ángel
•  Nacho Monreal
•  José María Movilla
•  Recio
•  Miguel Ángel Roteta
•  Francisco Rufete
•  Salva Ballesta
•  Sergio Sánchez
•  Sandro
•  Fernando Sanz
•  Vicente Valcarce
•  Manuel Velázquez
•  Esteban Vigo

Uruguay

•  Sebastián Fernández
•  Marcelo Romero
•  Darío Silva

Venezuela

•  Juanpi
•  Salomón Rondón
•  Roberto Rosales

•  Manuel Olivares (1941–43)
•  Francisco Bru (1941–43)
•  Ricardo Zamora (1949–51)
•  Helenio Herrera (1952)
•  Sabino Barinaga (1961–63)
•  José María Zárraga (1964)
•  Domènec Balmanya (1964–65)
•  Luis Miró (1965–66)
•  Otto Bumbel (1967–69)
•  José María Zárraga (1969)
•  JenÅ‘ Kálmár (1970–72)
•  Marcel Domingo (1972–74)
•  Milorad Pavić (1975–77)
•  Otto Bumbel (1977–78)
•  Sebastián Viberti (1978–80)
•  JenÅ‘ Kálmár (1978–80)
•  Abdallah Ben Barek (1980–81)
•  Antonio Benítez (1 July 1981 – 14 October 1985)
•  Antonio Benítez (11 March 1986 – 30 June 1987)
•  Ladislao Kubala (1987–88)
•  Luis Costa (1988–89)
•  Antonio Benítez (1988–90)
•  Abdallah Ben Barek (1990–91)
•  Ricardo Albis (1994)
•  Antonio Benítez (1994–95)
•  Pepe Cayuela (1996)
•  Ricardo Albis (1997)
•  Ismael Díaz (1997–98)
•  Joaquín Peiró (1 July 1998 – 16 June 2003)
•  Juande Ramos (1 July 2003 – 14 June 2004)
•  Gregorio Manzano (2004–05)
•  Antonio Tapia (12 January 2005 – 30 January 2006)
•  Manolo Hierro (2006)
•  Marcos (2006)
•  Juan Muñiz (2006–08)
•  Antonio Tapia (1 July 2008 – 30 June 2009)
•  Juan Muñiz (2009–10)
•  Jesualdo Ferreira (2010)
•  Rafa Gil (interim) (2010)
•  Manuel Pellegrini (5 November 2010 – 23 June 2013)
•  Bernd Schuster (12 June 2013 – 16 May 2014)
•  Javi Gracia (1 July 2014 – 24 May 2016)
•  Juande Ramos (27 May 2016 – 27 December 2016)
•  Marcelo Romero (28 December 2016 – 6 March 2017)
•  Míchel (7 March 2017 – 13 January 2018)
•  José González (13 January 2018 – 20 June 2018)
•  Juan Muñiz (20 June 2018 – 14 April 2019)
•  Víctor Sánchez (15 April 2019 – 11 January 2020)
•  Sergio Pellicer (11 January 2020 – 31 May 2021)
•  José Alberto López (1 June 2021 – Present)