2013–14 Real Madrid CF season

Real Madrid
2013–14 season
Real Madrid players celebrating the club's 10th UEFA Champions League victory
PresidentFlorentino Pérez
Head coachCarlo Ancelotti
StadiumSantiago Bernabéu
La Liga3rd
Copa del ReyWinners
UEFA Champions LeagueWinners
Top goalscorerLeague:
Cristiano Ronaldo (31)

All:
Cristiano Ronaldo (51)
Highest home attendance85,454 (vs Barcelona, 23 March 2014)
Lowest home attendance54,500 (vs Espanyol, 28 January 2014)
Average home league attendance71,074
Biggest winReal Madrid 5–0 Rayo Vallecano
Real Betis 0–5 Real Madrid
Biggest defeatDortmund 2–0 Real Madrid
Celta Vigo 2–0 Real Madrid

The 2013–14 season was the 110th season in Real Madrid's history and their 83rd consecutive season in La Liga, the top division of Spanish football. It covered a period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014, and ended with the club clinching a unique European cup double.

The team competed for a record 33rd La Liga title and entered the UEFA Champions League for the 17th successive season, competing for a record 10th title. They also entered the Copa del Rey in the round of 32. Real Madrid's shirt sponsor for this season was Emirates, having replaced Bwin.com. The club's major signing of the summer window was the long-awaited transfer of Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur for €100 million.

In new manager Carlo Ancelotti's first season at the club, Real Madrid fought on all three fronts for the continental treble. Despite leading in the league standings on multiple occasions, Madrid ultimately finished in third place (level on points with Barcelona and three behind cross-city rivals Atlético Madrid), collecting 87 points in total and scoring a league-high 104 goals. By that time, Los Blancos had already secured the Copa del Rey – against rivals Barcelona – in April, with Bale scoring the winner. The major breakthrough came in the UEFA Champions League, where Real returned to the final after 12 years, having beaten defending champions Bayern Munich 5–0 on aggregate in the semi-finals. In the final, they defeated then-recently-league winners Atlético Madrid 4–1 a.e.t. to clinch their tenth European Cup (first since 2002) and become the first team to win ten European Cups/Champions League titles, an achievement known as "La Décima". Real's attacking trio of Bale, Benzema and Cristiano, dubbed the BBC, finished the season with 97 goals.

This season was the first since 2005–06 without Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuaín, who left to join Napoli, and the first since 2009-10 without German midfielder Mesut Özil who departed for Arsenal