Madrid CF is the original name of the club, by which it was founded in 1902. The club’s crest has these initials on the inside and the purple band that crosses the inside of the circumference.
In addition to Real Madrid in the first division, there are six other teams such as Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Real Valladolid, Celta Vigo, Real Mallorca and Espanyol that have a crown on their shields that accredits them as ‘Real’.
Why do Real Madrid CF have a crown on their crest?
The club’s coat of arms has the letters ‘M’, ‘C’ and ‘F’, which are the letters that refer to the original name of the club (Madrid Football Club).
Initially these letters were further apart on the shield, but in the various updates they have been joined together.
At first, the shield did not have the outer circumference, so it was just the three letters intertwined without any kind of support or element to accompany them.
It was 1908 when it was decided to enclose these three letters in a hollow circle with the edges colored blue, just like the letters, which in the beginning were also blue.
In 1920, King Alfonso XIII awarded the title of Royalty to the club for the work it did in promoting the city of Madrid all over the world, and from that moment the club was renamed Real Madrid CF.
The crest as Pedro Paragues Diego-Madrazo or Perico Parages, as he liked to be called by his friends, thought that the crest was complete enough to put the ‘R’ inside the circle, so it was decided to put the crown of the title that was awarded to the club.
During the Spanish Republic, the club had to withdraw the badge that Alfonso XIII granted it.
While the II Republic was in force in the country, the club added the stripe that crosses the shield from side to side from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.
The stripe was this purple color, not because of the republican regime, but in honor of Castilla.
Already in the minutes of the founding of the Concha Espina club, there was talk of a “wide purple band representative of the austere color of Castilla” that would cross the shirt, so that is the real reason.
Under the presidency of Antonio Santos Peralba Alvarez in 1941 after the Civil War, it was decided to put the crown badge back on the badge and it was decided to keep the stripe that had been added after the withdrawal of the award.
The last change took place in 1998 under the mandate of Lorenzo Sanz when the purple stripe became blue after being modified following the agreement with Adidas.