Beginnings Founded at the end of 1902 as
The Modern Foot-Ball Club, the entity almost immediately made its name Hispanic,
Moderno Foot-Ball Club. At the time, football was beginning to become popular in the city and numerous football societies were being founded. Its first and only known president,
Fernando Kummer, organized the first meeting of the club on 13 November, although the number of members they had in that first meeting remains unclear. Within just one month of its foundation, in December 1902, Moderno FC took part in the
Concurso de Bandas, the first tournament organized by the recently established
Madrid Football Federation, thus engaging in some of the very first competitive football matches in the city despite having played just a handful of preparatory matches prior to it. At the tournament, Moderno came face-to-face with Madrid FC for the first time in a match held at the Plaza de Toros Avenue on 25 December 1902, ending with a resounding 0–16 loss to Madrid, who came out winners of the tournament after comfortably beating the remaining opponents. This was the club's biggest ever defeat in its short history.
1903 Centro Championship In 1903, Moderno took advantage of crises within the societies of
Iberia Football Club and
Victoria Football Club to absorb both clubs, thus incorporating several of their most prominent players, which meant a big leap in quality for the club, and as a result, they managed to win the only title of its short history, the 1903 Centro Championship, the successor of Concurso de Bandas. Moderno won the title with 7 points, just one more than Madrid who finished with 6. However, the term "Moderno", the last trace of the club, fell into disuse over time and in the following season, the team again became the "Madrid Football Club". Carlos Padrós was elected president post-merger. ==Honours==