Armando) and by the Catalan brothers, Juan and Carlos Padrós, the latter two being future presidents of Real Madrid. On 6 March 1902, after a new Board presided by Juan Padrós was elected, Madrid FC was officially founded. First tournaments The Padrós brothers were the fundamental heads behind the development of football in Madrid. Carlos Padrós, willing to improve the model of the Catalan Copa Macaya and taking advantage of the coronation of King Alfonso XIII, sponsored the Copa de la Coronación in 1902 with the help of the City Council. Despite being hosted in Madrid, however, the final was ultimately contested by Catalan FC Barcelona and Basque Athletic Club de Bilbao. One year later, Carlos Padrós also promoted the creation of the first football federation in Madrid, the Madrid Association of Foot-ball Clubs, of which he was its first president. It was the second football association in Spain only to the Catalan one. In December 1902, this entity organized its first-ever tournament, Concurso de Bandas, which is now regarded as the first incarnation of a Madrid Cup and the forerunner for the Regional Championship of Madrid that began in the following year. These first and archaic competitions were contested by the likes of Moncloa FC (June 1902), Moderno FC and Iberia FC (October 1902), New Foot-Ball Club (former Sky Football club), Español de Madrid (created from a second split within Sky), all of which, sept for the latter, ended up being obsorved by Madrid FC, besides other almost insignificant clubs with hardly any importance such as Hispania FC, Club Retiro and Victoria FC. The first edition of the regional championship was won by Moderno FC to the surprise of many, who was followed by Español de Madrid, who had been recently strengthened with the incorporating several dissent members of Madrid FC, such as the Giralts, Antonio Neyra, Ramón de Cárdenas and Manuel Vallarino. In the year 1903, a Basque colony of students led by Eduardo de Acha met representatives of Athletic Club, one of the clubs of the team Bizcaya that had won the Copa de la Coronación (now Copa del Rey) to create a branch of the club of Bilbao in Madrid: Athletic de Madrid (nowadays, Club Atlético Madrid). Athletic Club helped Athletic de Madrid since the first moment, giving them uniforms, the badge and the name. In the first years, Athletic de Madrid could not participate in