A new perspective the origin of sports club in Madrid (1833-1936)

Abstract

Most writers have related the origin of the sports club with the arrival of British companies to our country, considering Huelva Recreation Club (1889) as the first Spanish club. This paper aims to show a new perspective of the origin of the sports club in Madrid, considering that what is now the province Autonomous Region was before. There were previous clubs the aforementioned; Institute of Gymnastic, Riding and Fencing (1842) and Real Spanish Gymnastic Society (1887). In addition, no comparative studies references, from the legal point of view, Statutes of the first Madrid sports clubs, the analysis of this source along with the study of the contemporary legislation and additional documents allowing concrete form and type of the first sports legal forms as well as differences with current.