Hala Madrid
y Nada Más

It started with an argument. In April 2011 Madrid beat Barça in the Copa del Rey final, and the rivalry in Bangladesh's football groups on Facebook was bitter. After one heated debate with Barça fans in FLCB (Football Lovers Club Bangladesh), the Madrid fans in it wanted a group of their own, for Madridistas only. Md. Tanbir Hossain, later the club's first president, told Anik Dev to open one, and Anik opened the Facebook group “Madridista™” that same night, 11 June 2011, and members began adding the Madridistas they knew. It has since grown into a Facebook community of nearly 5K group members.

Our first meetup, at Captains World in January 2012, drew seven or eight people. That June we celebrated the La Liga title at Boomers Cafe expecting fifteen or twenty; more than thirty came, many of them members we had never met, each paying the registration fee to be there. By 2014, we were hosting nationwide screenings for the historic La Décima, and Chittagong Madridistas joined Real Madrid Foundation coaches at a football clinic held there by YKK Asia and the Bangladesh Football Federation.

On December 26, 2019, Real Madrid recognized us as the first official supporters' club in Bangladesh.

That recognition opened doors: a dedicated feature from Managing Madrid, coverage from Spain's La Galerna, and two invitations to meet club president Florentino Pérez in person in Jeddah, where we presented him with a hand-stitched Bengali nakshi kantha bearing the Real Madrid crest. Real Madrid C.F.'s own Facebook page has featured the moment directly.

Since 2022, we've secured 120 official match tickets across 37 fixtures for our members: Bernabéu nights, away Champions League legs, Supercopa finals in Jeddah, and two seats at the 2024 Champions League Final in Wembley. A supporter in Bangladesh is far from Madrid, but being part of this family closes that distance.