Sevilla Fútbol Club (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈβiʎa ˈfuðβol ˈkluβ]) is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, Andalusia, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. The club was formed on 25 January 1890, making it Spain’s second oldest sporting club solely devoted to football, after Recreativo de Huelva. The Scottish-born Edward Farquharson Johnston was one of Sevilla’s founders, also becoming 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 are also the most successful football club in Andalusia in terms of titles, with eighteen Andalusian Cups, one La Liga 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 reserve team Sevilla Atlético, founded in 1958, currently play in Segunda Federación – Group 4. 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 Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, who was the president of Sevilla for 17 years. Sevilla has a long-standing rivalry with cross-city rival Real Betis, and matches between the pair are the Seville derby.