Article updated: 24/04/2026
The history of club football in Spain has been occasionally punctuated by teams that were formed to represent a company. AD Plus Ultra, CD Calvo Sotelo & CD Pegaso all spring to mind. Set up as the sporting face of a firm, these clubs attached themselves to a community with varying degrees of success. Internacional de Madrid was slightly different, in that it was founded in 2002 by Stephen Newman, a London-born, Madrid-based property developer. The club faced an unusual dilemma: They had plenty of money, but little support beyond Newman and his small group of business associates. This led to Inter roaming the suburbs and outlying communities of Madrid in search of a home and a fan base.
Starting out in Madrid’s Regional divisions, Inter’s first home was in the southern suburb of Orcasitas. After two seasons of plundering the lower divisions of points & titles, Inter reached the Regional Preferente, and moved west to the district of Valdezarza and the very basic Campo Municipal Dehesa de la Villa. At the beginning of the 2006-07 season, it was time to move again, and this time Inter chose the outlying community of Moraleja de Enmedio, some 30km southwest of Madrid. The small municipal stadium remained home for the next ten seasons, and it was here in 2010 that Inter reached the Tercera. There followed five seasons of top-half finishes, missing out on the playoffs by just two points in 2013-14, before a near-disastrous 2015-16 campaign saw Inter finish 16th, one place above the drop zone.
The brush with relegation led to a rethink. After a decade of funding the club, Newman wanted to find a new home with the potential of a larger fan base and a sponsor. So the club upped-sticks once again and headed to Boadilla del Monte, one of the region’s wealthiest communities, 30km to the west of Madrid. Newman also stepped down as club president in 2016, and the changes reaped the reward of a sponsor in the shape of the Universidad Camilo José Cela, a private Madrid-based university. In addition, a first Tercera title and promotion to Segunda B were achieved at the end of the 2017-18 season, following a playoff victory over Tenerife B. There followed three seasons in Segunda B, with a best finish of 8th in the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season. In the summer of 2020, the club was purchased by DUX Gaming, becoming the first professional football club owned by an esports team. Renamed DUX Internacional de Madrid, the club was on the move again, this time 8km to the southwest of Boadilla del Monte to the Campo Municipal de Villaviciosa de Odón. It proved to be an ill-fated partnership, as the club played two further seasons before resigning from the Primera Federación on 1 September 2022.
What of the Polideportivo Municipal de Boadilla del Monte? Well, it isn’t going to get your pulse racing, which is ironic given that it was renamed the Complejo Deportivo Municipal Ángel Nieto in 2018, in honour of professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and 13-time World Champion, who lived nearby. Set in the grounds of the rather plush Club Las Encinas de Boadilla del Monte, it is rather sterile and has an atmosphere to match. The pitch is surrounded by football pitches and tennis & basketball courts, whose participants often outnumber spectators. The only structure of note is the main stand, which from the outside resembles the offices of a small regional insurance firm. It is a 40m-long, raised structure with spectator seating above the main changing facilities. The only redeeming feature is the roof, which features five barrelled-cantilevered vaults that splay high above the seating deck. Since Internacional de Madrid’s departure, the highest-ranked resident club is Club Deportivo Nuevo Boadilla, who play in the 6th tier of the Spanish football pyramid. The consistently excellent @TheTeamOnTour paid a visit to the Polideportivo Municipal de Boadilla del Monte in May 2018. Watch the video here.
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