Real Madrid CF announces that Álvaro Arbeloa will be the manager of Castilla from the 2025-2026 season.
Arbeloa is a legend of Real Madrid and Spanish football and is one of the most iconic youth players in our club.
In 2001 he trained in our youth system as a player in the U19 A-Team and in the 2004-2005 season he was part of the Castilla team that reached promotion until the second division.
With our first team he played 238 games between 2009 and 2016. During these seven seasons he started one of the most successful periods in our history. He won two European cups, one club World Cup, a European Super Cup, one La Liga title, two Copa del Rey titles and one Spanish super cup.
With the Spanish national team he earned 56 caps. He won the unforgettable World Cup 2010 in South Africa and two European championships, in 2008 and 2012.
He joined the first team of Real Madrid from Liverpool, where he played 98 games in three seasons.
His entire coaching career has been spent since 2020 in the youth teams of Real Madrid. He led the U14 a team in the 2020-2021 season and won the league title, the U16 A-team in the 2021-2022 season and the U19 A team from 2022 to 2025.
As a coach of the Under-19S he reached the Treble in 2022-2023: La Liga, Copa del Rey and Copa de Campeanes. He also won the LA Liga title this season and is currently in the last four of the Copa de Campeonses.
Arbeloa has always represented an example of our club and he transferred them to our youth team during his time as a coach.