Villarreal CF is a Spanish football club from Villarreal, a small town in the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community. It was founded in the 1920s and spent most of its history in the lower divisions. In the late 1990s, with the backing of the businessman Fernando Roig, the owner of the Mercadona supermarket chain, the club rose to La Liga and became an unexpected force. It reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2006 and in 2022, and in 2021 won the UEFA Europa League, beating Manchester United in a penalty shoot-out. Villarreal is known as the Yellow Submarine, after its kit and a Beatles song, and plays at the Estadio de la Cerámica.
Before and after
- from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925Occupation of the Ruhr
- 4 February 1923Birth of Conrad Bain
- 10 February 1923Death of Wilhelm Röntgen
- 3 March 1923Time
- 10 March 1923Founding of Villarreal CF
- 26 March 1923Death of Sarah Bernhardt
- 4 April 1923Founding of Warner Bros. Entertainment
- 10 May 1923Birth of Heydar Aliyev
- 27 May 1923Birth of Henry Kissinger
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