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All About Atl�tico Madrid
Club Atl�tico de Madrid, SAD (), commonly known as Atl�tico de Madrid, or Atl�tico, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga, where they are the current champions.
Atl�tico have won La Liga on ten occasions, including a league and cup double in 1996; the Copa del Rey on ten occasions; 1 Supercopa de Espa�a and 3 Copa Eva Duarte; in Europe, they won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1962, runners-up in 1963 and 1986, were European Cup runners-up in 1974 and 2014, won the Europa League in 2010 and in 2012, and won the UEFA Super Cup in 2010 and 2012, as well as the 1974 Intercontinental Cup.
The club play their home games at the Vicente Calder�n, which holds up to 54,960 spectators
In 2016, Atletico are due to move to their new home of Estadio La Peineta, which will have a capacity of 70,000.
Atletico'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 1911
The current club kits are manufactured by Nike and sponsored by Azerbaijan.
During their history, the club has been known by a number of nicknames, including Los Colchoneros ("The Mattress Makers" in English), 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 was 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.