Founded in 1913 as the
Centre Regional Federation (), the new organisation replaced the casual
Madrid Association of Foot-ball Clubs which had been formed a decade earlier, between 1902 and 1904. The
Centro Federation, expanded to include the wider
Castile region but always dominated by clubs from the capital, particularly
Real Madrid CF, took over the running of the existing
Madrid regional championship, the local league competition in which the best-placed teams qualified for the
Copa del Rey each year until these were disbanded in 1940.
Centro also played regional representative matches, mostly friendlies but they also participated in the
Prince of Asturias Cup between
1915 and
1924, and winning twice, in
1917 and
1918, their most frequent opponent being
Catalonia. In 1932, the name changed to the
Castilian Football Federation which remained in place until 1988, when separate federations were created for the established
autonomous communities of Spain, therefore
Castile and León, Castilla–La Mancha and Madrid have had different governing bodies since then. To celebrate the federation's centenary in 2013, a match was played between Madrid and the
Andalusia autonomous football team, the same opposition as for its 'golden jubilee' in 1963. However, matches are rarely played by the Madrid XI and other regions as such fixtures have not proven cost-effective to arrange, other than for the regions such as Catalonia and the
Basque Country with leanings towards independence whose matches draw larger crowds. ==References==