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Raúl has spent his entire club career with Real Madrid, with whom he has won six Spanish league titles. He began the 1994-95 season in Madrid's C-team, but after a flurry of sixteen goals in seven games, he was promoted to first team status by coach Jorge Valdano. He became the youngest player (seventeen years and four months) ever to play for the senior side, scoring in his second senior game against Atletico Madrid, the team he had played for until 1992. In all, Raúl registered nine goals in 28 appearances to help Real Madrid win the 1994-95 league championship in his first season. Over the next eight seasons, he won several honours, including another three La Liga titles and three Champions Leagues. For most of this time, Raúl struck up a prolific scoring partnership with Fernando Morientes (and later, Ronaldo). Raúl took over the captaincy of Real Madrid when Fernando Hierro departed in 2003, a responsibility he holds to this day. Unusually for such a successful and long-serving player, and despite appearing in two finals, 2002 (in which he scored) and 2004, Raúl has never won the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup).

He became the first player to score fifty Champions League goals when he netted in a 2-1 group stage win over Olympiakos on September 28, 2005, and continues to be the all-time leader in both CL goals (64) and appearances (123). He is also the only player to score in two Champions League finals, netting in the finals of both 2000 v Valencia in Paris, and 2002 v Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow.

Raúl holds the distinction of having never received a red card throughout his 14 years at the professional level. Earlier this season, on 11 November 2008, Raul scored his 300th goal for Real Madrid with a hat-trick against Real Union, with Real winning the game 4-3 but being eliminated on away goals after drawing 6-6 on aggregate. He has scored 309 career goals for Real Madrid, breaking the long-standing club record of Alfredo di Stéfano with a volleyed goal v Sporting Gijon on February 15 2009. He is also the top active La Liga goalscorer with 216 of his 309 goals scored in La Liga matches, and is presently 6th on the all-time list, which is headed by Telmo Zarra with 251 goals. One club record that Raúl does not (yet) hold exclusively is that of all-time top La Liga scorer for Real Madrid. Alfredo di Stéfano still jointly holds that record with Raúl on 216 apiece (Although Di Stefano scored 227 La Liga goals in total, only 216 were for Real Madrid, for whom he played between 1953 and 1964).