FC Barcelona
| FC Barcelona | |||
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| Surname | Futbol Club Barcelona | ||
| Seat | Barcelona , Spain | ||
| founding | November 29, 1899 | ||
| Colours | blue-carmine | ||
| Members | 143,459 (July 26, 2017) | ||
| president | Josep Maria Bartomeu | ||
| Website | fcbarcelona.cat | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Ronald Koeman | ||
| Venue | Camp Nou | ||
| Places | 99.354 | ||
| league | Primera División | ||
| 2019/20 | 2nd place | ||
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The Futbol Club Barcelona is a sports club from the Spanish city of Barcelona . The club, also known as Barça [ ˈbaɾsə ] for short , has played with its first men's professional football team since 1929 in the Primera División .
The club was founded as Football Club Barcelona in 1899 by a group led by the Swiss Joan Gamper and developed into a symbol of the cultural identity of Catalonia and Catalanism , especially under the Franco dictatorship . The conflict between the Catalans striving for independence and the Spanish central state, which at the time increasingly manifested itself in sport, has resulted in a rivalry with the capital city club Real Madrid that continues to this day . The meeting of the two clubs is known as El Clásico and is considered one of the most important football pairings in the world. True to its club motto Més que un club (“More than a club”), FC Barcelona continues this symbolism to this day and maintains its image in the 21st century through social engagement.
In Spain, the club is a record cup winner and the club with the second most national championship titles. At the European club level, FC Barcelona recorded its greatest success to date in 1992 when it won the European Cup (today: UEFA Champions League ) for the first time . The club had previously been successful in the European Cup Winners' Cup three times . Since then, the club has won the most important European club cup four more times. In 2009 the Catalans were the first Spanish club to achieve the so-called triple , which includes winning the Spanish championship, the Spanish Cup ( Copa del Rey ) and the UEFA Champions League. A few months later, FC Barcelona also won the UEFA Super Cup , the Spanish Super Cup ( Supercopa de España ) and the FIFA Club World Cup , making them the first football club to win six titles in one year. In 2015, FC Barcelona were also the first Spanish club to win the triple for the second time.
The club is organized as a non-profit association and is owned by its members. With 143,459 members, FC Barcelona is the seventh largest sports club in the world. He is known for his productive youth work , which encourages the offensive short passing game, the Tiki-Taka , from an early age . In addition, FC Barcelona has the largest football stadium in Europe, the Camp Nou .
The club also includes other professional sports sections, namely handball , basketball , futsal and roller hockey . In addition, there are sports departments in ice hockey , baseball, rugby, volleyball and athletics. The handball department is the most successful team at European club level with nine titles in the EHF Champions League . The basketball players won the EuroLeague , the highest title in European basketball , in 2003 and 2010 .
history
The foundation (1899–1908)
“Our friend and partner, Mr. Kans Kamper, from the soccer section of the Sociedad Los Deportes and former Swiss champion, wishing to organize a few games in Barcelona, asks everyone who likes this sport to contact him, Tuesday or Friday from 9:00 to 11:00 in his office get."
It all started with a simple classified ad in the Los Deportes magazine founded by the Swiss Joan Gamper . The then 22-year-old wanted to found a football club in Spain that, unlike the few Catalan football clubs that existed there, also accepts foreigners. Interested parties were asked to contact the editorial office. The following meetings led to the founding of the Football Club Barcelona on November 29, 1899 . The English name Football Club emphasized the Anglophile attitude of the founding members, more than half of whom were foreigners and Protestants.
The Swiss Walter Wild was elected as the first president and the club's founder Gamper as the first captain. FC Barcelona played their first game on December 8, 1899 against a selection of local Englishmen in the Velòdrom de la Bonanova . Barcelona lost 1-0 to a goal from English Barcelona player Arthur Witty , who played with his compatriots so that both teams could play with an equal number of ten players.
In 1900 the first Catalan championship was held under the name Copa Macaya . Barcelona finished second behind Hispània AC . A year later, the club won its first title in this competition.
With the move into the final of the first Spanish Cup in 1902, in which Barça lost 2-1 to the Basque team Vizcaya de Bilbao , FC Barcelona developed early on into one of the best Spanish clubs. Before that, the first meeting with Real Madrid took place on May 13, 1902 , in the Copa de la Coronación ( Alfons XIII's Coronation Cup ), a predecessor of the Copa del Rey . FC Barcelona, at that time already with six foreigners (including Udo Steinberg) in its ranks, was able to beat the recently founded Real Madrid, then still under the name Madrid Foot-Ball Club , 3-1 in the Spanish capital. The German Udo Steinberg scored the first two goals for Barcelona, so he is the first goalscorer in El Clásico .
In 1908 there was the first sporting and financial crisis that threatened the very existence. Barcelona had n't won a title since winning the Catalan Championship in 1905 and were on the verge of bankruptcy. Many members had left the club, only 38 were still members of the club at that time. Vicenç Reig gave up his presidency after 22 days and declared the club to be practically dead in his farewell speech.
The heyday (1908–1929)
The club's savior turned out to be Joan Gamper, who now called himself Joan Gamper in accordance with the Catalan name and was now the club's president for the first time. Gamper had become more and more of a supporter of Catalanism in the previous years . This fact led him back to FC Barcelona, from which he had since moved away because of the increasing Catholicization of the club. During Gamper's first of five terms, Barça received its first stadium of their own, the Camp del Carrer Indústria , where the team played from 1909. After almost a year, Gamper resigned his presidency for professional reasons and left behind a solid sporting club, which then became Catalan champions three times in a row between 1909 and 1911 .
In 1910, Gamper took over the presidency for the second time. The year before, the founding of the FECF , the first national football federation , laid the foundation for hosting the first Spanish championship. The Copa del Rey , which had already been held as an invitation tournament in previous years, was declared the first championship in 1910 due to the establishment of the association . In addition to Barcelona, only two other teams took part and played a round-robin tournament in the capital Madrid . After both FC Barcelona and Español de Madrid had won against Deportivo La Coruña , the two rivals met in the final game. The club from Madrid led 2-0 at the break, before Barcelona turned the game around in the second half and won the first Spanish championship with a 3-2 win. With the founding of the Primera División in 1929, the previous Copa del Reys were retrospectively rated as a Spanish Cup victory.
From 1911 to 1914, FC Barcelona won the Pyrenees Cup , one of the first international football tournaments, four times in a row . In 1912, the 15-year-old Filipino striker Paulino Alcántara made his debut , whose 369 goals for FC Barcelona until 2014 meant the club's record. Known for his shooting power, the striker scored three goals in his first game in the Catalan Championship. In the following four years, the club won the Catalan championship and the Copa del Rey twice. In 1917, FC Barcelona got their first coach with the Englishman John Barrow . A few months later, Barrow's compatriot Jack Greenwell took over as coach for seven years. Two years later, FC Barcelona converted to a professional club and signed two stars in 1919 . On the one hand, the 17-year-old offensive player Josep Samitier was hired , who was nicknamed El Mag ('The Magician') due to his creativity and scope . The second addition was goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora , who was considered one of the best goalkeepers of his time due to his responsiveness. With Greenwell as coach, the players Alcántara, Samitier, Sagi-Barba and Zamora, Barça's golden decade began with the 1918/19 season , in which the team triumphed nine times in the Catalan championship and five times in the Copa del Rey.
During Gampers third term (1917-1919) the club identified more and more with Catalonia. The club introduced Catalan as a language within the club . In addition, the club catalanized the first half of its club name on July 23, 1920 and was henceforth called Futbol Club Barcelona . In 1921, Joan Gamper contributed a million pesetas to the construction of a new 20,000-seat stadium. With the inauguration on May 20, 1922, the Camp de Les Corts football stadium became the new home of FC Barcelona. The growth of the club in this phase was also expressed in the increasing popularity of the population, so that at the end of Gampers fifth and final term of office (1924-1925) the club had 12,207 members.
During the military dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), the Les Corts stadium was forcibly closed for six months in 1925 due to a scandal during a friendly against an English amateur team. Before the start of the game, first the English and then the Spanish national anthem had been played. In order to give expression to the Catalan aspirations for autonomy, the audience sang a loud whistle concert during the Spanish anthem. The military regime of general and dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera then closed the stadium for six months. In addition, Joan Gamper was deposed as club president and he was advised to leave the country as soon as possible.
In 1928, FC Barcelona won the Copa del Rey after three finals against Real Sociedad San Sebastián . Barcelona owed its success mainly to the Hungarian keeper Ferenc Plattkó, to whom the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti then dedicated the Oda A Platko . In 1929, Barcelona crowned their golden decade by winning the first ever Primera División. Thanks to a strong second half of the season, FC Barcelona won the Spanish first division two points ahead of Real Madrid .
Under the influence of politics (1929-1944)
The successful 1920s was followed by a phase of decline for FC Barcelona. Although the club continued to have players like Josep Escolà or Martí Ventolrà , the sport moved more and more into the background due to the politically difficult times. Barça was faced with problems on an economic, political and sporting level and the number of members was falling steadily. In 1932 the football player Josep Samitier moved to arch-rivals Real Madrid due to internal disputes . As a result, Barça never finished the Spanish league better than with third place up to and including 1944, the 1933/34 season even with penultimate place. The club was lucky that it was not relegated due to the expansion of the league to twelve clubs. Only in the Catalan championship last held in 1938 did the club collect further titles and from 1930 increased the record by six more titles. In 1930, the dilapidated depression in club founder Joan Gamper shot after being in the wake of the global economic crisis had lost his entire fortune.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 , the Spanish championship was stopped for a total of three years. In the same year Josep Sunyol, as the then club president and member of the separatist ERC, was shot dead by troops of the later dictator Francisco Franco . The number of club members fell steadily and was 3486 at the beginning of the Franco regime . FC Barcelona was practically on the brink of extinction. As a result, the team toured the US and Mexico to avert financial ruin. With the proceeds from North America, the club became financially solvent again, but after the trip almost three quarters of the players left the team and went into exile in Mexico or France. On September 16, 1938, the club's premises were bombed by the fascists. A few months later, Franco came to power and from then on endeavored to suppress all regional aspirations for autonomy. In March 1940, Enrique Piñeyro, a collaborator close to Franco, was appointed president of FC Barcelona. In addition, the club's coat of arms was modified so that the Catalan flag was no longer included, and on January 15, 1941, the club name was changed to the Spanish variant Club de Fútbol Barcelona . Meanwhile, the stadium developed into a meeting place for the Catalans, where they could communicate in the officially banned Catalan language and discuss political issues.
In the meantime, eight clubs from Catalonia and the Valencia region played in the so-called Liga Mediterránea (Mediterranean League ) in the republican zone in 1936/37 . The champions were FC Barcelona, cup winners UD Levante . In 2007 the Spanish Senate decided unanimously to retrospectively recognize Levante as the 1937 Spanish Cup winner. The Spanish Football Association rejected this decision two years later, as did the attempt by FC Barcelona to subsequently receive the Spanish championship title of 1937.
With the 1939/40 season, the Spanish league resumed its gaming operations. With a few exceptions, a completely reformed FC Barcelona took ninth and fourth place in the first seasons after the end of the civil war. FC Barcelona ended the 1941/42 season with its worst league placement to date. After a twelfth place in the table, the team secured relegation in the relegation games against Real Murcia . In return, FC Barcelona won the Spanish Cup for the first time in 14 years this season. A season later, the defending champions FC Barcelona met Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Spanish Cup, which was called Copa del Generalísimo from 1939 . Barcelona won the first leg 3-0. The second leg turned out to be a scandal, Barcelona lost 1:11 and the State Security forced the game to continue.
Creation of the five-cup Barça and the Camp Nou (1944–1961)
The year 1944 marked a turning point in the history of FC Barcelona: The first official fan club (Penya) was set up to support the club financially, and the number of members rose again to over 20,000. Despite the difficult political situation, Barcelona became Spanish champions for the second time in their history in the 1944/45 season with Josep Samitier as coach and players like César Rodríguez , Juan Zambudio Velasco and Mariano Martín . This was followed by two further national championship titles in 1948 and 1949 and, for the first time, winning the Coupe Latine (1949), a forerunner of the European Cup.
In June 1950, FC Barcelona signed László Kubala . Known for his “strategic vision” and his “excellent passing game”, the offensive player scored the second most competitive goals for the club after César Rodríguez . In 1999 Barça fans voted him the best player in club history. Under the direction of Kubala - a native of Hungary who played for three different national teams ( Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Spain ) in the course of his career - FC Barcelona not only won the league title in the 1951/52 season, but also won all five competitions which the club participated: The Spanish Championship, the Spanish Cup, the Copa Latina , the Copa Eva Duarte and the Copa Martini & Rossi. This season's team, trained by Ferdinand Daučík , has since been known as the "Five Cup Barça". A year later, the Catalans successfully defended the Spanish championship.
In 1953, FC Barcelona was on the verge of signing the exceptional Argentine footballer Alfredo Di Stéfano , whom Real Madrid also tried. Di Stéfano had already signed for Barça. But since there were problems with the player's license and Santiago Bernabéu , then President of Real Madrid, left no stone unturned to get Di Stéfano to the Madrilenians, a protracted transfer dispute arose. Finally, the Spanish Football Association decided that Di Stéfano should play for two years for both clubs. FC Barcelona considered this solution to be unacceptable and the club president then declared that he would be without the player. The reasons for this waiver are controversial. While some Barça fans claim that pressure was exerted by the Franco regime , which was not very friendly to the Catalans , supporters of Real Madrid believe that FC Barcelona voluntarily renounced the player. When they first met on October 25, 1953, Di Stéfano scored three goals, at the end of the season Real won the Spanish championship for the first time in 21 years. From 1956, Di Stéfano led the Madrilenians to five victories in a row in the newly created European Cup .
A year after the transfer dispute over Di Stéfano, the Catalans managed a transfer coup in 1954. Deportivo La Coruña signed the 19-year-old midfield strategist Luis Suárez . The Galicians is still the only Spanish-born footballer to be European Footballer of the Year was chosen and received in relation to its game overview and fit the nickname El Arquitecto (the architect).
A milestone in club history followed on September 24, 1957. The then and now largest football stadium in Europe was inaugurated as the new home of FC Barcelona: Camp Nou , which at the time of opening still had 90,000 spectators.
In April 1958, the Argentine Helenio Herrera became the coach of FC Barcelona, which two weeks later won the trade fair cup , a forerunner of the UEFA Europa League , for the first time . Herrera had a strong offensive with the Hungarians Zoltán Czibor , Sándor Kocsis , László Kubala , the Brazilian Evaristo and Luis Suárez, which led the Catalans to a double of championship and cup in the 1958/59 season. The following season, Barça won the Spanish championship and the trade fair cup for the second time. The Catalans had reached the semi-finals in the European Cup . Opponent there was the four-time winner and defending champion, Real Madrid led by Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás . Barça lost 3-1 in both the first and second leg.
In the 1960/61 season, FC Barcelona managed to simultaneously reach the quarter-finals of the trade fair cup and, for the first time, the final of the European Cup . On the way to the final, Barcelona had defeated the only winner of the competition until then, Real Madrid, in the round of 16. In that final of the European Champions Cup, the three Hungarians suffered a déjà vu at Barça : Barcelona dominated their opponents Benfica Lisbon in the Wankdorf Stadium and led 1-0 early with a goal by Sándor Kocsis. Barça missed it despite numerous chances including three hits on the post to decide the game and lost 3-2.
Sporting crisis (1961–1973)
After the lost final against Benfica, there was a period marked by financial difficulties and sporting failures. Due to the high cost of building the Camp Nou, the association had accumulated a considerable mountain of debt. President Enric Llaudet then initiated an austerity course through which some local talents like Josep Fusté and Carles Rexach made the leap into the first team. As a consequence of the sporting crisis, the coaches were repeatedly replaced. After Herrera's dismissal in May 1960, the club wore out nine coaches by 1965. In 1962 the final of the trade fair cup against Valencia CF was reached, but the final was lost. In 1965 they made it to the semi-finals of the trade fair cup, but were eliminated from Racing Strasbourg due to a coin toss. The two teams had drawn each other three times and UEFA rules provided for a drawing of lots in this case. In the following year, FC Barcelona secured their third and last trade fair trophy.
Despite the unsuccessful time in sport, the number of members and Barcelona's role as a symbol of Catalonia grew. In the inaugural address of President Narcís de Carreras in January 1968, the club motto Més que un club (More than one club) was proclaimed for the first time . In the same year, the team beat arch rivals Real Madrid 1-0 in front of Franco in the Spanish Cup final. As bottles and the like kept flying onto the field in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium , the game went down in history as the "endgame of bottles". Through this success, the Catalans had qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup, in which they subsequently lost the final against ŠK Slovan Bratislava .
In 1969, Agustí Montal Costa, a proponent of Catalan nationalism, became president of FC Barcelona. It is thanks to him that Barça reintroduced their Catalan symbols and since November 8, 1973 have been able to call themselves FC Barcelona again. In addition, he campaigned for non-Spanish-born players to play in the Spanish league, which was banned until June 26, 1973. That opened the door that same year for one of the best players in FC Barcelona club history: Johan Cruyff .
For the 1971/72 season Rinus Michels was coach of FC Barcelona. This was the beginning of a Dutch-Catalan connection that continues to this day. Michels, named “Coach of the Century” by FIFA in 1999, had led Ajax Amsterdam to win the European Cup the previous season . Michels introduced total football at Ajax . The Dutchman also tried to introduce this system at Barcelona. But the team had a hard time at first. In the following years, the discipline fanatic Michels repeatedly offended his players and the sporting success continued to fail.
Total football (1973–1978)
In 1973 the club signed the Dutchman Johan Cruyff for a transfer fee of one million dollars , making him the most expensive player in the world until then. Cruyff, "head and engine [s] of a team" at the same time, was described as "a mixture of all the great stars [...] who had stepped before him on the stage of European football". In his first season he led the Catalans to their first league title in 14 years. When Cruyff made his debut on the 8th matchday of this season, the team was only 14th in the table. With the Dutchman, the club did not lose any of their 24 league games and won 18 of them. During this season, FC Barcelona also achieved their highest away win against Real Madrid to date. In the 5-0 success at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Cruyff excelled with four goal participations. Cruyff was then christened El Salvador (The Redeemer) by Barça fans and voted Europe's Footballer of the Year for the third time in 1974. In addition to Cruyff, local players such as Carles Rexach , Juan Manuel Asensi , Marcial Pina and Joaquim Rifé formed the championship team of FC Barcelona.
In the following three seasons, the club recorded no further titles. In the 1974/75 European Cup , Barça was eliminated in the semifinals against Leeds United and in the league Real Madrid secured five of six league titles by 1980. For the 1975/76 season Hennes Weisweiler was the club's coach. Weisweiler's engagement was short-lived, however, as he repeatedly clashed with Cruyff and was thus dismissed before the end of the season. For the 1976/77 season Rinus Michels returned as a coach to FC Barcelona. At the end of his tenure and Cruyff's last season for FC Barcelona, the club celebrated their first title in four years by winning the Copa del Rey .
Stabilization under Núñez and foreign world stars (1978–1988)
In 1978 the club president was elected for the first time by the members, Josep Lluís Núñez emerged as the winner in the election. The goals of the Basque building contractor, who remained President until 2000, included the depoliticization of the club and the transformation of the club into a commercial enterprise. At the same time, Barça got a new coach in the form of Frenchman Lucien Muller , who played for the Catalans for three years from 1965 to 1968. With seven game days before the end of his first season, Barcelona were in seventh place in the table, after which he was replaced by long-time Barça player Joaquim Rifé . With Rifé, the club moved into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in Basel for the second time . In a high-scoring game against Fortuna Düsseldorf , which equalized a deficit twice, Barcelona won 4: 3 after extra time in front of 30,000 Culés , the fans of FC Barcelona, who had traveled with them.
After five years, the Dutchman Johan Neeskens left the club in 1979 . For this came the Dane Allan Simonsen in the same year and the playmaker Bernd Schuster a year later . The German midfield director stayed in Barcelona for eight years before moving to Real Madrid in 1988. With the signing of Schuster, Barcelona faced the problem that only a maximum of two foreigners could play. The Austrian and top scorer of the 1978/79 season, Hans Krankl , who left the club two years later, suffered more.
After fourth and fifth places in the previous seasons, the Hungarian László Kubala took over again as coach of FC Barcelona for the 1980/81 season . After nine laps he was replaced by his predecessor Helenio Herrera . In March 1981, Barça's striker Quini was kidnapped for over three weeks. Without Quini, who was the league's top scorer despite everything, Barcelona only won one of 15 possible points and fell from second to fifth in the table, which was also the position at the end of the season. For the 1981/82 season, Barcelona received a five-time German master coach with Udo Lattek as head coach and at the end of the season won the Cup Winners' Cup for the second time with a 2-1 win over Standard Liège . The number of members rose to over 100,000 and in the same year the Mini Estadi was inaugurated a separate stadium for the second team.
In 1982, FC Barcelona signed the Argentine playmaker Diego Maradona for a record transfer fee of 7.3 million dollars , but he did not meet the expectations placed in him. Lattek fell out with Maradona and was replaced by Maradona's compatriot César Luis Menotti in March 1983 . Menotti led Barcelona into the Spanish Cup final, in which Real Madrid were defeated 2-1. In the cup final against Athletic Bilbao a year later there was a scuffle, triggered by the wildly kicking Maradona, who was in return for a foul by Andoni Goikoetxea the year before. This was also Diego Maradona's last action as a FC Barcelona player.
Without the two Argentinians and with English coach Terry Venables , Barcelona became Spanish champions for the first time in eleven years in the 1984/85 season. In 1986, FC Barcelona moved into the final of the European Cup for the second time after the team equalized the 3-0 from the first leg in the second leg in the semifinals against IFK Göteborg and finally prevailed on penalties. The final also went to penalties after 120 goalless minutes. Since not a single one of the Barcelona players converted their penalty, Steaua Bucharest ultimately secured the most important European club cup. In the league, Barcelona finished second behind Real Madrid in the 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons. And that despite the fact that England's World Cup top scorer Gary Lineker, who was signed for the 1986/87 season, scored 20 goals in his first season, including a hat-trick against Real Madrid, which has earned him cult status with the Culés to this day .
The 1987/88 season was surrounded by several scandals. Schuster, who had not played a game for Barcelona in the 1986/87 season, sued the club to terminate his contract and moved to Real Madrid in 1988. Venables was replaced by Luis Aragonés in September 1987 . In the league, the club was in the middle of the table. In the course of the Schuster trial, it emerged that many players had two contracts, but only one of them was known to the tax authorities. On April 28, 1988, the "Heredia Mutiny" occurred, in which the team demanded the resignation of President Núñez. During his ten-year tenure, the coach was replaced nine times and a championship title was won. Internal opposition grew and Barcelona threatened to lose their place as the second force behind Real Madrid to Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad .
The dream team (1988–1996)
In the summer of 1988 Johan Cruyff returned to the club as a coach. Over the next eight years he formed what is still called the dream team today and further developed the total football initiated by Rinus Michels with his “intelligent, space-oriented, dominant attacking football over the outside lane” . The “offensive short passing game”, which was shaped by Cruyff and aimed at a high percentage of possession, still influences the playing system of FC Barcelona today. This went hand in hand with a clear change in personnel: 13 departures were compared to 11 newcomers (all Spaniards) before the 1988/89 season. The Basque Andoni Zubizarreta , the only one left from the pre-Cruyff era , has been in goal since 1986 . After the first season under Cruyff was finished as runner-up behind serial champions Real Madrid, the club signed two essential pillars of the later dream team with the Dane Michael Laudrup and the Dutchman Ronald Koeman . By signing the Bulgarian left winger Christo Stoitschkow for the following season, the team received the aggressive leading player who had been missing until then. At the end of the season, FC Barcelona were ten points ahead of Athletic Bilbao champions and moved into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , in which the club Manchester United lost 2-1.
The Blaugrana achieved one of the greatest successes in the club's history on May 20, 1992: In the final of the European Cup against Sampdoria Genoa it was 0-0 right into extra time. In the 110th minute there was a controversial free kick for the Catalans at London's Wembley Stadium , which Ronald Koeman converted from a central position. After the Messestädte Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup , FC Barcelona had won the European Champions Cup for the first time. The dream team consisted of Catalans ( Guillermo Amor , Albert Ferrer , Pep Guardiola ), Basques ( José Ramón Alexanko , José Mari Bakero , Txiki Begiristain , Jon Andoni Goikoetxea , Julio Salinas , Andoni Zubizarreta ) and international world stars ( Ronald Koeman , Michael Laudrup and Christo Stoitschkow ).
Between 1992 and 1994, FC Barcelona became Spanish champions three more times. In the first two successes, Barça benefited from the defeats Real Madrid, which gambled away the championship in both cases on the last day of the game against CD Tenerife . Before the 1993/94 season, striker Romário was signed by the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven . This season it was Deportivo La Coruña , which was still in first place one match day before the end of the season. Once again, Barça benefited from the point losses of their competitors and ultimately won their fourth championship title in a row. Romário contributed 30 goals to this championship and was thus the league's top scorer. In the same season, FC Barcelona made it to the final of the UEFA Champions League for the first time . In this final, Barça lost 4-0 to AC Milan, coached by Fabio Capello .
After the lost final, the dream team disintegrated. For the migrated Zubizarreta and Laudrup and a little later Stoitschkow and Koeman, Cruyff found no equivalent replacement. In addition to the lack of sporting success, there were personal discrepancies between club president Núñez and Cruyff. Núñez, who is said to have had contract talks behind the coach's back, dismissed Cruyff before the end of the 1995/96 season.
"Hollandization" and the "Ambassadors of Offensive Football" (1996-2008)
Cruyff's successor was Bobby Robson from England at the beginning of the 1996/97 season . In the summer of 1996, the 20-year-old Brazilian Ronaldo was signed by PSV Eindhoven for 15 million euros. The Brazilian striker stayed for only a year but scored 34 league goals, which was a club record at the time. In addition to Ronaldo, Luis Figo and Luis Enrique also contributed to the club's record of 102 league goals this season . Despite the many goals, it was Real Madrid and not Barça who won the championship. But Barcelona won the final of the Spanish Cup . The club also won the Cup Winners' Cup for the fourth time after defeating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the final with a converted penalty from Ronaldo.
Ronaldo left Barcelona after a year due to difficulties renegotiating his contract and joined Inter Milan at the end of the season for the record transfer fee of 25 million euros . As a replacement for Ronaldo came the attacking midfielder Rivaldo , who was one of the most dangerous players in his position. Coach Bobby Robson also left FC Barcelona, followed by Louis van Gaal, a supporter of “system football” that led Ajax Amsterdam to win the Champions League in 1995. Under van Gaal it came to the "Hollandization" of FC Barcelona. Instead of trusting the young local talent, van Gaal relied largely on players with whom he had already been successful at Ajax Amsterdam. At the end of van Gaal's first term, eight Dutchmen were under contract with FC Barcelona. Success initially proved the discipline fanatic right when Barcelona won the championship and cup double in the 1997/98 season. Although the success of the Spanish championship was repeated the following year, fans increasingly expressed their displeasure with the authoritarian coach, whom they accused of playing too unattractively. On top of that, Barcelona were eliminated for the second time in a row in the group stage of the Champions League.
In May 2000, after losing the Champions League semi-finals against Valencia CF, a 22-year era came to an end with the resignation of President Núñez. His successor was the entrepreneur and previous Vice President Joan Gaspart , who was elected with a narrow majority. Van Gaal had to leave the club after the untitled 1999/2000 season and Luis Figo also turned his back on Barcelona to join Real Madrid. The following two years Barcelona finished in fourth place and failed in the semifinals of the European competitions at the eventual winner. For the 2002/03 season Louis van Gaal was again coach of FC Barcelona. After 19 matchdays, van Gaal's second term at Barcelona was over. At the time of his dismissal, the club was ranked twelfth in the table, three points away from a relegation zone. His role was taken over by the Serbian Radomir Antić , with whom the club reached a European Cup place at the end of the season.
In the summer of 2003, Joan Laporta was elected as the new president of FC Barcelona, which was a major change. His primary goal was the economic rehabilitation of the club, which was in debt with 160 million euros. Frank Rijkaard was presented as the new coach , the new star of the team was to be Ronaldinho , who was signed by Paris Saint-Germain for 27 million euros . The Brazilian Ronaldinho was named FIFA World Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005 . After the first half of the season with the new coach, Barcelona were in seventh place in the table. Thanks to a strong second half of the season in which only one game was lost, Barcelona ended up in second place. For the new season, the team was strengthened by the obligations of the Portuguese playmaker Deco and the Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto'o and won the Spanish championship for the first time since 1999 at the end of the 2004/05 season. The following season, Barcelona defended their title by twelve points. The team was then praised for their “inspiring moves” in connection with an “aesthetic, offensive, dominant game” and dubbed “ambassadors of offensive football”. At that time, the Barhrea training theory was no less “revolutionary”: Without a single endurance session, without a single training session in the weight room, Rijkaard's coaching team would have made Barça “the marveled eleven of an era”. In the same season, FC Barcelona achieved one of the greatest successes in the club's history: 14 years after winning the European Cup, they won the Champions League for the first time with a 2-1 win against Arsenal at the Stade de France . Similar to the dream team, this team was also a mixture of foreign stars (Ronaldinho, Deco, Eto'o and Larsson ) and homegrown ( Xavi , Iniesta , Valdés and Puyol ).
After winning the UEFA Champions League, FC Barcelona had two years without a title. Real Madrid triumphed twice in a row in the league, Barcelona finished second and third respectively. As a result of the failures, the contract with head coach Frank Rijkaard was dissolved at the end of the 2007/08 season .
Tiki-Taka and three Champions League titles based on youth work (2008-2015)
Rijkaard's post was taken over by Pep Guardiola for the 2008/09 season , who had led the B team to promotion to the Segunda Division B in his first year as coach the previous season . At the same time, the team was strengthened with new players, including Dani Alves and Gerard Piqué , for a total of more than 90 million euros , while key players of recent years such as Ronaldinho and Deco left the club. Although the start of the 2008/09 season failed with a defeat and a draw, FC Barcelona won all of their games in the league from the 3rd to the 22nd matchday - with the exception of one draw - and ended the season first nine points ahead of Real Madrid. In the final of the Spanish Cup , Athletic Bilbao were defeated 4-1 and the record number of titles rose to 25. Two weeks later, Barça also won the Champions League title by beating Manchester United 2-0 . Thus, FC Barcelona became the first Spanish team to achieve the triple . The then 38-year-old Guardiola made history in his debut year as a first-team coach. He particularly relied on players from his own offspring, so that in the Champions League final against Manchester there were seven La Masia graduates in the starting line-up. In addition to the offensive trio, consisting of Samuel Eto'o , Thierry Henry and Lionel Messi , the two midfielders Xavi and Andrés Iniesta were particularly praised for their "overwhelming passing game".
With his game idea of combination football , referred to by the media as Tiki-Taka , Bar Mita from then on had a direct influence on the most successful era of the Spanish national team. “For decades Italy had its catenaccio, England its long passes, Germany its Libero and the powerful game. Spain never had a style, "said Spain's former national coach Iñaki Sáez:" Now our moment has come. Fútbol y arte, football and art became our standard. "
At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Barcelona made one of the most spectacular transfers of the summer when they swapped Eto'o for the Swedish striker Ibrahimović plus 50 million euros. In December 2009 the club won the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time in Abu Dhabi after a 2-1 win in extra time in the final against Estudiantes de La Plata . As the first club ever, Barça won all six possible titles (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, Spanish Championship, Spanish Cup, Spanish Super Cup) within a year. This surpassed the previous record of five titles set by Ajax Amsterdam in 1972. At the end of the 2009/10 season , the team defended their championship title with a new record of 99 points, in the Champions League they were eliminated in the semi-finals against eventual winners Inter Milan . The outstanding player of this season was Lionel Messi with 34 league goals and a total of 47 competitive matches , setting the club record for the Brazilian footballer Ronaldo de Nazario . At the end of 2009 he was voted both Ballon d'Or winner and FIFA World Player of the Year by a wide margin .
In July 2010, the era of President Joan Laporta ended . His successor Sandro Rosell was faced with the task of economically consolidating the club, which was in debt with over 400 million euros. Before the 2010/11 season , Barça reduced its squad through the sales of Thierry Henry , Zlatan Ibrahimović , Rafael Márquez , Yaya Touré and Dmytro Tschyhrynskyj , which was simultaneously strengthened by the commitments David Villas and Javier Mascherano . Barça could again convincingly defend their league title; the third championship in a row was underpinned by a 5-0 win against runners-up Real Madrid . The two teams also met in the Spanish Cup final and in the Champions League semi-finals . In the former competition, Real Madrid prevailed 1-0, in the Champions League the Catalans advanced to the final. There the team around Messi, Iniesta and Xavi, who finished in the top three places in the 2010 election as world footballer, won 3-1 against Manchester United. The third Champions League title within six years then prompted parts of the international trade press to compare them with the best teams of all time.
FC Barcelona invested more than 55 million euros in summer 2011 to sign the players Cesc Fàbregas and Alexis Sánchez . In the 2011/12 season , the team performed at a comparable level to the previous season, won the FIFA Club World Cup in December 2011 and had a long chance of winning all three competitions. Although the three-time world footballer Lionel Messi set a new world record with his 73 competitive game goals, including 50 league goals, in the end all that remained was to win the Spanish Cup . Because between April 18 and 24, 2012, FC Barcelona lost a crucial game against Real Madrid in the championship and was also eliminated in the Champions League semi-finals against eventual winners Chelsea ; a 1-0 defeat away from home was followed by a 2-2 defeat in front of their own audience, with the team leading 2-0 until just before half-time. A few days later, coach Guardiola announced his retirement at the end of the season; with a total of 14 titles, he went down in history as the most successful Barcelona coach.
His successor was his assistant coach Tito Vilanova (* 1968, † 2014). Under Vilanova, Barça failed in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey to Real Madrid, in the Champions League 2012/13 the team was eliminated in the semi-finals against Bayern Munich . The championship won Barcelona ahead of Real Madrid and placed with 100 points their league record from the previous season one. After Vilanova had been absent from the season for several weeks due to cancer, he resigned on July 19, 2013 and passed away just under a year later.
In the 2013/14 season , FC Barcelona with the Argentine coach started Gerardo Martino and the Brazilian new signing Neymar , paid for the official 57 million euros. Club President Rosell resigned on January 23, 2014 in the course of the opening of a preliminary investigation into embezzlement against him from his position after allegations had been raised that Neymar's commitment had in fact cost 95 million euros. Rosell's successor was Josep Maria Bartomeu . After FC Barcelona ended the season with the Spanish Supercup, Gerardo Martino announced his resignation. Two days later, on May 19, 2014, the former player Luis Enrique was signed as coach from the 2014/15 season.
During the summer break, the release clause of 75 million pounds at Liverpool's Luis Suárez was activated, thus reinforcing the offensive before the impending transfer suspension ., Suárez had to serve a four-month suspension due to an assault during the 2014 World Cup and therefore only made his debut on Matchday 9 on October 25, 2014 against Real Madrid for FC Barcelona. At the end of December 2014, the International Court of Justice confirmed the transfer ban for FC Barcelona that FIFA had issued in April 2014. The club was not allowed to sign new players either in winter 2014/15 or in summer 2015. The background to this were breaches of the commitment of underage players in the past. With a 1-0 win against last year's champions Atlético Madrid , FC Barcelona was able to secure the championship on the penultimate matchday of the 2014/15 season. On May 30, they also won the Copa del Rey final against Athletic Bilbao 3-1 and the final of the Champions League on June 6th against Juventus Turin with 3-1. In the end, against all expectations due to the transfer ban, Barcelona secured five out of six possible titles in the 2015 calendar year and thus achieved the best result since 2009.
Loss of international dominance (since 2015)
After the transfer ban had expired on January 1, 2016, the club officially registered 77 new players just a few days later. In addition to junior and B-team players, these are also the pros Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal for the first team, who had already switched to the club in the summer for 50 million euros but were not yet allowed to play any competitive games. The season 2015/16 was awarded the National Double from Championship and Cup completed.
In the summer of 2016, Barcelona strengthened themselves with mainly young players such as André Gomes , Paco Alcácer , Samuel Umtiti , Lucas Digne , Denis Suárez and Jasper Cillessen for a total of 122.75 million euros . On March 1, 2017, Luis Enrique announced his resignation as coach at the end of the season after the 6-1 league win against Sporting Gijón in the subsequent media conference. The main reason he stated was the need for a break. After the 4-0 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 in Paris , the team achieved a 6-1 win in the second leg against Paris with three goals in the closing stages. In the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the club was eliminated against Juventus Turin .
For the season 2017/18 took Ernesto Valverde the post of head coach. During the summer break, Neymar withdrew his release clause of 222 million euros and moved to Paris Saint-Germain , making him by far the most expensive player in football history. FC Barcelona reinvested the transfer fee and signed 20-year-old Ousmane Dembélé from Borussia Dortmund for 105 million euros . In January 2018, the transfer of followed Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool for around 120 million euros. In the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League , the team were eliminated in the quarter-finals after losing 3-0 to AS Roma after winning the first leg 4-1. The first season under Valverde was concluded with the 25th league title and the 30th cup win in the Copa del Rey . For the club it was the fifth double in the last ten seasons.
In the 2018/19 season , the 26th Spanish league was won. They reached the semi-finals of the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League and were eliminated after a 3-0 win in the first leg and a 4-0 defeat in the second leg against eventual champions Liverpool . The Copa del Rey was also lost in the final.
Before the 2019/20 season , Frenkie de Jong , who had previously reached the semi-finals of the Champions League with Ajax Amsterdam , and Antoine Griezmann were signed by league rivals Atlético Madrid for 120 million euros . Coutinho, who had been signed for € 120 million a year and a half earlier, was loaned to FC Bayern Munich . In January 2020, Ernesto Valverde was sacked as head coach despite Barca leading the table at the time. He was followed by Quique Setién after Xavi , the actual preferred candidate of the club leadership, had rejected. In the 2019/20 Copa del Rey , Barca were eliminated from Athletic Bilbao in the quarter-finals under the new coach ; Liga finished the team as runners-up behind Real Madrid. On August 14, 2020, FC Barcelona suffered the biggest defeat in its Champions League history in the Champions League quarter-finals against FC Bayern Munich with 2: 8 (1: 4) . Never before had a team scored four goals in one half against FC Barcelona. There had also been no eight goals in a knockout game in the Champions League. After this defeat, Setién was dismissed as a coach.
For the 2020/21 season , Ronald Koeman took over the team who had previously been bond coach for the Dutch national team .
Club concept
Club motto
His own motto Més que un club (More than a club) has many meanings for FC Barcelona and also reflects the complex identity of the club. For the Catalans, the club symbolizes home and freedom and the many foreign fans also see Barcelona as an advocate of democracy and solidarity.
Catalonia's figurehead
FC Barcelona sees itself as "an image of the city [Barcelona] and the region of Catalonia". The club's motto was created by ex-president Narcís de Carreras , who in his inaugural speech in January 1968 emphasized the social importance of FC Barcelona in Catalonia . The origins of the motto can be found in 1908, when founding father Joan Gamper saved the club from liquidation. His reasoning why the club should be retained is the basis of the Barça ideology to this day. His intention was to set up a pro-Catalan association as an active representative of the Catalonia region.
Spurred on by industrialization in the 1870s, which strengthened the centuries-old economic supremacy of the region of Catalonia, the Catalan people developed an increasingly pronounced national consciousness, which intensified the permanent striving for autonomy. After Franco came to power in 1939 , Catalonia lost the autonomous status it had received a few years earlier. Under the Franco dictatorship, which massively suppressed the Catalan language and cultural tradition, the status of FC Barcelona was equivalent to a “social institution”. The home games of FC Barcelona were one of the few opportunities for the Catalans to show and maintain their “identity as a small country of their own”. The duels with Real Madrid were of particular importance during these years , as the capital club was the embodiment of the Spanish central state.
“To be for the club meant to be against the regime. That's why Barça will always be more than just a club. "
The tram boycott of 1951, which is considered to be the beginning of the anti-French resistance, contributed to a large extent to the role of “defender of democracy and freedom”. Triggered by an increase in tram fares, the population boycotted the trams. On March 4th, FC Barcelona played a home game against Racing Santander in torrential rain. The government saw this as a good opportunity to break popular resistance and sent several trams to the FC Barcelona stadium. But contrary to expectations, the Barça fans flocked resolutely home on foot. A little later, the old tariffs were reintroduced. This shows how well the association understood how to "root and connect with the essence of the city".
After the democratization process began in Spain in the mid-1970s and Catalonia regained its autonomous status in 1978 , Barça was largely depoliticized under the presidencies of Núñez and Gaspart . Only with the presidency of Laporta , who has sat in the Catalan parliament since 2010, did Barcelona's role as the “unarmed army of Catalonia” come back to the fore. Laporta made the club the "most Catalan" FC Barcelona of all time and tried to use the club for an independent Catalonia.
social commitment
The sports club underpins its club motto through its social commitment around the world. For this purpose, the Fundació FC Barcelona was founded in 1994 , whose goals are the promotion of sport and education, especially for third world children, as well as the promotion of Catalonia. For this reason, the foundation set up the XICS and JES projects . Both projects see sport as a central means of improving teaching conditions and social integration. The solidarity centers offered by XICS (Xarxa Internacional de Centers Solidaris) guarantee about 10,000 children from developing countries on-site extracurricular education, medical, psychosocial and leisure care as well as access to sports and leisure activities. The JES (Jornades d'Esport Solidari) organizes sports and leisure activities and takes care of the training of sports teachers .
"We are more than a club ... because we are associated with democracy and the defense of human rights."
Since June 2006, the club also obliged to comply with the Millennium Development Goals of the UN and donates since 2006/07 year 0.7% of his income to the project. A few months later the association entered into a cooperation agreement with the UN children's aid organization UNICEF for a period of five years. Accordingly, the association will support UNICEF's work with € 1.5 million annually until 2016 to support children with AIDS in third world countries. Without being obliged to do so, Barça will wear the UNICEF logo on its jerseys during the term of the contract - a novelty for the club, whose jersey has not featured a company name for over 107 years. FC Barcelona also works with the World Cultural Organization UNESCO and the refugee agency UNHCR and, together with the organizations, campaigns against racism, doping and violence as well as promoting education and support for refugees. The club was awarded the FIFA Fair Play Prize in 2007 for its commitment .
Between 2011 and 2013, FC Barcelona promoted the Qatar Foundation , a non-profit organization that supports various educational projects in the Middle East .
economy
Business model
Unlike many other top football clubs, FC Barcelona is still organized today as a non-profit association instead of a corporation . Thus, no shares like shares can be sold to third parties and the primary goal is still to pursue sporting goals instead of making a profit for the shareholders. Any financial inventory is usually only used for internal purposes and the association is not obliged to disclose its debt level.
When Joan Laporta took over the presidency of FC Barcelona in 2003, Barcelona had amassed a mountain of debt of over € 160 million. Laporta therefore declared the economic consolidation of the association to be the top priority. In addition to increasing ticket prices and reducing wage costs, this should be achieved, in particular, by promoting global marketing of the club. Starting in 2003, the association recruited tens of thousands of new members around the world with an extensive campaign. A major role is played by the kit supplier Nike, with whom there is a contractual agreement for the global marketing of the club. In the period from 2005 to 2009, the FC Barcelona shirt sold over 1 million times worldwide, making it the third most sold football shirt.
Between 2009 and 2011, three studies by the University of Navarra showed that FC Barcelona is the most important media brand in world football. It is noteworthy that the club continues to have such strong links with Catalonia and the city of Barcelona, where at the same time the number of foreign members is growing. This is achieved by spreading the “FC Barcelona brand” to all five continents, for example by promoting tourism in Catalonia, most recently in Asia or the USA, during the preparation for the season.
In the 2010/11 season, FC Barcelona received € 183.7 million in television money, more than any other club. The fact that only Real Madrid in Europe has a comparable amount is due to the decentralized marketing of Spanish television money in connection with the worldwide demand for broadcasts. In Spain, the clubs can negotiate the broadcasting rights to their home games individually with the media companies , which guarantees FC Barcelona an average annual income of € 150 million through the television group Mediapro . In the marketing sector, Barça has also generated above-average income for several years (2010/11: € 156.3 million), although it had no shirt sponsor until 2011. The contract with the shirt supplier Nike (until 2018) brings the club around € 30 million annually.
In December 2010, the club signed a shirt sponsorship deal for the first time due to immense financial difficulties. Through this contract with Qatar Sports Investments, FC Barcelona collected € 75 million in the first two and a half years. The club has been promoting Qatar Airways since the 2013/14 season and will earn at least € 96 million in three years.
After the re-election of club president Bartomeu in 2015, a strategic plan for the period up to 2021 was announced. The economic goals include increasing sales to 1 billion euros per year and digitizing the club's activities.
Rakuten has been a shirt sponsor since the 2016/17 season . The contract, which will run until the end of the 2020/21 season, will bring the club 55 million euros per year.
Finances
With a brand value of $ 1.3 billion, FC Barcelona is the third most valuable football club in the world based on data from the 2010/11 season. At the same time, Barça took second place worldwide with an annual turnover of € 450.7 million in the specified period - behind Real Madrid. This is more than double compared to the 2004/05 season. In 2019, the club was valued at $ 4 billion, making it the second most valuable football club in the world .
Like the vast majority of Spanish first division clubs, FC Barcelona is also in debt. One reason for the high level of debt is the team's steadily growing budget, which reached a record € 494 million in the 2011/12 season. In addition, in 2012 no other sports club in the world paid its players a higher average total salary ($ 8.68 million) than FC Barcelona.
An independent audit, ordered by the new President Sandro Rosell , found income of € 408.9 million and expenses of € 477.9 million and a gross loss of € 83.0 million for the 2009/10 season. Ex-President Joan Laporta had reported a net profit of € 11 million. These were the first losses for FC Barcelona in seven years. In response to the high level of debt, Barça downsized its squad and took out a € 155 million loan. With the help of these measures, the association reduced its net debt from € 431 million to € 364 million by June 2011. The gross loss in the 2010/11 season was € 21 million, € 62 million less than in the previous year. As a result of the sporting successes, the club achieved an additional 23 million euros in sales, but made 4 million euros less profit than budgeted due to increased bonus payments. In the 2011/12 season, the club generated an increase of € 40 million, the gross debt was reduced to € 320 million. At the beginning of 2012, newspapers stated that FC Barcelona still had tax liabilities of 48 million euros to the tax office, the club itself did not provide any information.
The sales target mentioned above was achieved in the 2018/19 season. With a turnover of 990 million euros, the result was a profit of 5 million euros. The results have been positive for nine years. The total accumulated profit amounts to 213 million euros. For the 2018/19 season, players' salaries totaled 642 million euros. In 2016/17 it was 432 million euros. In total, the club is in debt with 217 million euros.
Youth work
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The youth work of FC Barcelona went through numerous later national players, including Lionel Messi , Andrés Iniesta and Xavi, the top three in the 2010 World Player of the Year election . The association's youth work is one of the reasons for the success of the Guardiola era to date . In 2009 Barça won the UEFA Champions League final against Manchester United with seven La Masia graduates in the starting line-up. In the first team, according to the goal of FC Barcelona, at least half of the players should have been trained in their own youth department. The Dutch coach Johan Cruyff was the first to rely heavily on players from his own youth and decided to have the same game system practiced in all age groups of the club.
Football training is based on precise and fast short passing, the so-called Tiki-Taka , and less, as is usual in other clubs, on physical training. Up to the age of 16, the players do not complete any strength training or endurance runs. Strength, endurance and speed should only be improved through excessive training with the ball. The focus is on playing fast in a minimal space, combined with the acquisition of technical skills.
FC Barcelona's youth academy, La Masia , has been located in Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper , the club's training area, since October 2011 . Between 1979 and 2011, she was housed in a Catalan country house just a few meters from Camp Nou . On April 14, 2014, the U19s won the first edition of the UEFA Youth League in Nyon (Switzerland) against the U19s from Benfica Lisbon . The success in the UEFA Youth League was repeated in 2017/18 with a win against the Chelsea U19s .
The model came under repeated criticism in the 2017/18 season when the first team started without a player from their own youth academy for the first time since 2002. In November 2012 , all Barça starting players had roots in La Masia in the game against Levante .
Following
Fans
The fans of FC Barcelona are known as culers (in Spanish culés ), derived from the Catalan word cul (ass). The fans received this nickname at the time when FC Barcelona played their home games at the Camp del Carrer Indústria football stadium (also known as L'Escopidora ). There the last row of spectators sat on the wall surrounding the stadium, which gave passers-by a picture of backsides lined up.
In a survey in Spain in 2007, 25% of those questioned said they were fans of FC Barcelona, only Real Madrid had a higher proportion with 32%. Across Europe, Barcelona have significantly more fans than Real Madrid and are by far the club with the most fans, a total of 57.8 million. In terms of the number of followers on Facebook , the club ranked ahead of all other sports clubs in January 2014 with 50 million fans. While the fans initially came from the working class, the club now unites all social classes.
Barça fans receive information about their club from the daily Spanish sports newspapers Mundo Deportivo and Diario Sport , which almost exclusively report on FC Barcelona. Barça TV , which has been produced by FC Barcelona since 1999 and can be received on Spanish pay TV , is especially aimed at fans . Barça TV is broadcast in Spanish and Catalan and broadcasts match coverage, club news, club history and background coverage over 15 hours a day. In addition, the club's official website, which has existed since 1997, provides daily information. This page is available in nine languages: Catalan, Spanish, English , Arabic , French , Japanese , Malay , Portuguese, and Chinese . The R @ dio Barça on this website also offers free live commentary on FC Barcelona games.
FC Barcelona's anthem is El Cant del Barça . It was written in 1974 on the occasion of the association's 75th birthday. The text, written in Catalan, comes from Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs , the music was composed by Manuel Valls .
"Socis"
The socis (Spanish: socios ), the members of FC Barcelona, have a major influence on club politics . The president of FC Barcelona is elected by the votes of the members. Besides Real Madrid , Athletic Bilbao and CA Osasuna, FC Barcelona is one of the few clubs that is owned by its members.
Between 2003 and 2010, the number of members of FC Barcelona rose sharply as the club recruited tens of thousands of new members through a global campaign. With this measure, the indebted association strengthened its income from membership fees and merchandising. In February 2010 the number of members was 173,701 and at the beginning of 2012 even 176,158. After this sudden increase in the number of members in the previous years, the association has not accepted any new members since November 1, 2010 - unless you are related to a member, are under 14 years old or have already been a member. At the beginning of 2013 the number had dropped to 171,751 members. FC Barcelona has the third highest number of registered club members worldwide after Benfica Lisbon and FC Bayern Munich . Members also include prominent figures such as the Spanish tenor Josep Carreras ; also John Paul II. was once a member.
"Penyes"
Many of the members are organized in penyes (Spanish: peñas ). All over the world there are over 1,400 such fan clubs that support the club financially. In the 1940s, Barça lacked financial and public support under the Franco dictatorship. For this purpose, the first fan club, the Penya Solera , was formed in 1944 , an association of supporters and former players of the club. These fan clubs contributed financially to the construction of Camp Nou , which was completed in 1957. To this day, the club grants its Penyes participation in club policy. The fan clubs advertise FC Barcelona in their home environment and receive advantageous offers in return, for example when buying tickets.
The Boixos Nois are considered ultras of FC Barcelona . They were founded in 1981 by left-wing Catalan separatists and were critical of the club's management from the start. In the mid-1980s, the group's political orientation changed. By joining several skinheads, he increasingly approached the right-wing camp and from then on was conspicuous for his racism. In 1985, shortly after the Heysel disaster , its members held up a banner reading “Thank you Liverpool for the Juve deaths” and a Senyera that had been replaced by a swastika during a game . The group also made headlines with death threats against the club's management, acts of violence or the burning of the Spanish flag . The Boixos Nois have officially been banned from stadiums since 2003, but are still active.
Rivalries
real Madrid
The arch-rival of FC Barcelona is Real Madrid , based in the Spanish capital , which is the Spanish record champions with 33 titles. The meeting of the most successful clubs from the two largest metropolises in the country, known as "El Clásico", is considered to be one of the most important duels in club football and also arouses great interest outside the Spanish borders. Both teams were seen from the start as representatives of the regions of Catalonia and Castile as well as the cities of Barcelona and Madrid . Catalonia, located in northeastern Spain, has always felt independent and sees FC Barcelona as a way of expressing this. In contrast to this is Madrid, which was allowed to call itself Real ('royal') from 1920 and thus showed itself to be loyal to state power.
Especially under the fascist regimes of the Spanish generals and dictators Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and Francisco Franco (1939–1975) the political explosiveness of the games reached its climax. At the time, Barcelona fans saw Real Madrid as an embodiment of Spanish centralism, which went against the separatist Catalans. At the time, fans celebrated every victory against their rivals as a political victory, since Real Madrid is said to have maintained good contacts with the Franco regime under the presidency of Santiago Bernabéus (1943–1978). Although Franco's favored Real Madrid were granted some perks, the allegation of Real Madrid's involvement with the Franco regime is considered controversial. This assumption is, however, supported by the events of the semi-final second leg in the Copa del Rey 1942/43; Barça won the first leg 3-0, but after the Catalans were threatened by State Security officials in their dressing room at half-time in the second leg, Barça were beaten 1:11 by the Madrilenians. The transfer of Alfredo Di Stéfano , who had already signed a contract with FC Barcelona but then moved to Real Madrid, is still considered controversial .
Many Catalans still remember FC Barcelona's memorable 5-0 away win at Clásico on February 17, 1974 with an outstanding Johan Cruyff , who was involved in four goals in his first appearance at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu . Many saw it as a symbol of the beginning of the end of the dictatorship of Franco , who died the following year.
Thanks to the democratization of the political system in the last few decades, which went hand in hand with the restoration of Catalonia's autonomous status, the political explosiveness of the Clásico decreased, but the sporting rivalry remained. From the 2008/09 season, Barça won five league Clásicos in a row for the first time, including the 6-2 win at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the 2008/09 season and the 5-0 home win in the 2010/11 season.
Espanyol Barcelona
Barça's local rival is Espanyol Barcelona , who play in white and blue . Almost a year after FC Barcelona, Espanyol was founded by exclusively Spanish football fans loyal to the king and thus stands in contrast to the multinational founding fathers of FC Barcelona. With the establishment of Espanyol, the group around the Spanish student Ángel Rodríguez tried to create a national contrast to FC Barcelona, which they saw as a team of foreigners. In 1912, the rivalry was further stoked when Espanyol, renamed Real Club Deportivo Español Barcelona , became the royal patronage of King Alfonso XIII of Spain . accepted. Accordingly, Espanyol's first stadium, the Estadi Sarrià , was located in an elegant area of Barcelona, while FC Barcelona had its first large stadium built in the Les Corts district . When the movement for Catalan independence became more and more popular in 1918, some organizations started a petition for the autonomy of Catalonia, of which FC Barcelona was one of the signatories. In return, the Peña Ibérica , supporters of Espanyol prepared to use violence , initiated a petition against the existing aspirations for autonomy. During the Spanish Civil War , some of these Espanyol fans joined the fascist Falange movement. Particularly under the Franco dictatorship , a large part of the Catalan population realized that Espanyol was entering into complicity with the central regime, while Barça was still one of the last revolutionary bastions.
While the derby used to be seen as a clash between Catalanism and Spanish nationalism, the political explosiveness of the game has fallen sharply in recent years. In 1995, the local rival also adapted its club name to the Catalan spelling. El Derbi Barceloní , as the clash between the two clubs in Spain is called, is the most common local derby in the Spanish league , but also one of the most unbalanced. Since the Spanish league was founded, Espanyol only ranked three times ahead of FC Barcelona at the end of the season.
Symbols
coat of arms
The first club crest was based on the coat of arms of the city of Barcelona . In 1910 the club held a competition to design its own logo. The winner was the design by the then Barça player Carles Comamala . This created the logo that the club still bears, only slightly changed. Two symbols from the first coat of arms also found their way into the new bowl-shaped design. In the upper left half, the Saint George Cross remained in honor of the patron saint of the city of Barcelona. St. George was a Christian martyr and Roman soldier in the fourth century who, according to a legend, killed a dragon and became a symbol of Catalonia during the Renaixença . The Senyera , the arrangement of four red and yellow stripes, was still in the upper right half and symbolizes Catalonia and Barcelona. In addition, there were the club initials FCB in the middle of the coat of arms and the blue-red club colors with a ball in the center in the lower half.
Since 1910 the club only made minor modifications to the pattern or aesthetics. The most serious changes were politically motivated. When the dictator Franco came to power in 1939 , the club was forced to Hispanize its name . Instead of FCB, there was from then on the lettering C. de FB and from 1949 the lettering CFB on the coat of arms. In addition, two of the four yellow-red stripes in the upper right half had to be removed in order to remove the Catalan flag from the logo. The Catalan flag returned in 1949 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, the original initials only in 1974. The coat of arms was last edited in 2002. The dots and the space between the initials were removed or reduced. For easy reproducibility, the lines and edges were also simplified and stylized.
shirt
The club colors of FC Barcelona were blue and red from the start. For this reason, Barça is nicknamed Azulgrana (Spanish) or Blaugrana (Catalan), which translates as “blue-red” or, more precisely, “blue-carmine”. At the end of the 19th century, FC Barcelona ran onto the field for the first time with the blue and red vertical stripes on the jersey. Since then, the design of the jersey has changed little, only the width, number and color intensity of the vertical stripes varied from season to season.
In the 15/16 season, the jersey was divided into blue and red horizontal instead of vertical stripes for the first time. In 2019/20 the traditional stripe design was completely dispensed with for the first time and replaced by alternating brown and red squares.
Since the 2005/06 season, the Catalan flag , which also adorns the captain's armband, has been below the back collar and on the trouser leg.
The origin of the club colors is still discussed today. Allegedly, club founder Joan Gamper took over the blue and red club colors from one of his former clubs, FC Basel or FC Excelsior Zurich . The son of Barça founding member Arthur Witty , in turn, claimed that his father suggested using the same colors as the rugby team at his former school, the Merchant Taylors' School in Crosby . It can be assumed that none of the theories corresponds to the truth, because on the one hand there is a lack of conclusive evidence and on the other hand the matches found are more or less random.
In 2006 the club received its first shirt sponsor through a cooperation agreement with UNICEF. At UNICEF , the club donates annually since been € 1.5 million. In December 2010, Barcelona signed a contract with Qatar Sports Investments , through which Barcelona raised money for the first time through jersey advertising (€ 165 million until 2016). The Qatar Foundation became the new shirt sponsor for the 2011/12 season . Since then, the UNICEF logo has been located below the back number on the back. As part of the contract, the association has been advertising for Qatar Airways since the 2013/14 season and thus for the first time for a commercial company.
On November 16, 2016, it was announced that the internet retailer Rakuten will be the club's new jersey sponsor for four years from the 2017/18 season.
Club area
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The club area of FC Barcelona is located in the Les Corts district. The first team plays their home games in Camp Nou, the largest football stadium in Europe . Integrated into the stadium is the FC Barcelona Museum , the third most popular museum in the city. In addition, the club's premises include a ball sports hall (the Palau Blaugrana ), the B-team football stadium (the Mini Estadi ) and an ice rink. The FC Barcelona training ground, which opened in 2006, is about five kilometers away. The Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper ('Joan Gamper Sports City') offers training opportunities for the various departments of the club on an area of 13.7 hectares. Since October 2011 it has also been home to the FC Barcelona's youth academy, La Masia .
Previous venues
When Barcelona was founded in 1899, there were no real football fields. At that time, football was played in Barcelona on streets, vacant land or other sports fields. FC Barcelona shared its first venue, the Velòdrom de la Bonanova , with FC Català . On December 8, 1899, the first game in the club's history took place on this course, which was littered with holes and had a slope. At the end of 1900, Barça rented its own home at the Hotel Casanovas for a year. The club then acquired a place in the Horta district , the Camp de la Carretera d'Horta . After the owners of Horta decided in 1905 to build office buildings on this site, the association moved to Camp del Carrer Muntaner .
In 1909 the club received its first stadium with the Camp del Carrer Indústria . Also known as L'Escopidora ('spittoon'), the arena had a capacity of 6,000, had a two-story wooden main grandstand and was the first stadium in the country to have artificial lighting. The opening game reportedly saw almost 2,000 spectators.
In February 1922, construction work on a larger stadium began in the Les Corts district. Three months later, the Camp de Les Corts was completed. The stadium, which initially had a capacity of 21,500, underwent several renovations and expansions, so that it finally offered space for up to 60,000 spectators. Under the fascist military dictatorship of Primo de Rivera , it was closed for three months in 1925 because Barça fans mocked the Spanish national anthem at a game at Les Corts.
Camp Nou
The national league titles of 1948 and 1949 and the commitment of László Kubala prompted the club's management to plan the construction of a new stadium. Lengthy negotiations about the location of the Camp Nou delayed its construction until 1954. After a construction period of three and a half years, the inauguration of Camp Nou followed on November 24, 1957. The construction costs amounted to about 288 million pesetas (estimated were about 66 million). The capacity has varied over time: at the opening it offered 93,000 spectators, in 1982 this number was increased to 120,000 in the wake of the World Cup in Spain . At the end of the 1990s, the capacity had to be reduced to just under 99,000 spectators, as new rules prohibited the standing area. The capacity in the 2011/12 season was 99,354 (96,636 for international games).
Achievements and Statistics
successes
Barça has been one of the most successful teams in Spain and Europe since the middle of the 20th century. This is reflected in the successes and titles that the club has won in its history.
International success
- European Champion Clubs' Cup / Champions League (5): 1991/92 , 2005/06 , 2008/09 , 2010/11 , 2014/15
- European Cup Winners' Cup (4 - record): 1978/79 , 1981/82 , 1988/89 , 1996/97
- Exhibition Cities Cup (3 - record): 1955–58 , 1958–60 , 1965/66
- UEFA Super Cup (5 - record): 1992 , 1997 , 2009 , 2011 , 2015
- Copa Latina (2 record): 1949, 1952
- Pyrenees Cup (4 - record): 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913
- FIFA Club World Cup (3): 2009 , 2011 , 2015
- Punta Cup (1): 2005
National successes
- Spanish Championship (26): 1929 , 1944/45 , 1947/48 , 1948/49 , 1951/52 , 1952/53 , 1958/59 , 1959/60 , 1973/74 , 1984/85 , 1990/91 , 1991 / 92 , 1992/93 , 1993/94 , 1997/98 , 1998/99 , 2004/05 , 2005/06 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2012/13 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2017/18 , 2018/19
- Spanish Cup (30 record): 1909/10 , 1911/12 , 1912/13 , 1919/20 , 1921/22 , 1924/25 , 1925/26 , 1927/28 , 1941/42 , 1950/51 , 1951 / 52 , 1952/53 , 1956/57 , 1958/59 , 1962/63 , 1967/68 , 1970/71 , 1977/78 , 1980/81 , 1982/83 , 1987/88 , 1989/90 , 1996/97 , 1997/98 , 2008/09 , 2011/12 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 , 2017/18
- Spanish Super Cup (13 - record): 1983 , 1991 , 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 2005 , 2006 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2016 , 2018
- Copa de Oro Argentina / Copa Eva Duarte (4 - record): 1945, 1948, 1952, 1953
- Spanish League Cup : (2 record): 1983 , 1986
Regional successes
- Copa Macaya / Copa Barcelona / Catalan Championship (23 - record): 1901/02, 1902/03, 1904/05, 1908/09, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1912/13, 1915/16, 1918/19, 1919/20, 1920/21, 1921/22, 1923/24, 1924/25, 1925/26, 1926/27, 1927/28, 1929/30, 1930/31, 1931/32, 1934/35, 1935 / 36, 1937/38
- Copa Generalitat / Copa Catalunya (6 - record): 1990/91, 1992/93, 1999/00, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2006/07
- Supercopa de Catalunya (2): 2014/15, 2017/18
- Lliga Mediterrània (1): 1937
- Lliga Catalana (1): 1937/38
Other successes
These successes are tournaments with a friendly character.
- Joan Gamper Trophy (42 - record): 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 , 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Trofeo Teresa Herrera (5): 1948, 1951, 1972, 1990, 1993
- Trofeo Ramón de Carranza (3): 1961, 1962, 2005
Beach soccer
Individual successes
- FIFA Ballon d'Or / FIFA World Player of the Year (10 - record): Romário (1994), Ronaldo (1996), Rivaldo (1999), Ronaldinho (2004 and 2005), Lionel Messi (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015)
- Ballon d'Or (European Footballer of the Year) (7 - record): Luis Suárez (1960), Johan Cruyff (1973 and 1974), Christo Stoitschkow (1994), Rivaldo (1999), Ronaldinho (2005), Lionel Messi (2009 )
- UEFA Footballer of the Year (2): Ronaldinho (2006), Lionel Messi (2009)
- Africa's Footballer of the Year (2): Samuel Eto'o (2004 and 2005)
- Golden Shoe (8): Ronaldo (1997), Lionel Messi (2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), Luis Suárez (2016)
- Top scorer of the Primera División : (17): Mariano Martín (1943), César Rodríguez (1949), Cayetano Ré (1965), Carles Rexach (1971), Hans Krankl (1979), Quini (1981 and 1982), Romário (1994) , Ronaldo (1997), Samuel Eto'o (2006), Lionel Messi (2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), Luis Suárez (2016)
- UEFA Champions League top scorer : (8): Ronald Koeman (1994), Rivaldo (2000), Lionel Messi (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)
- Trofeo Zamora (20 - record): Juan Zambudio Velasco (1948), Antoni Ramallets (1952, 1956, 1957, 1959 and 1960), José Manuel Pesudo (1966), Salvador Sadurní (1969, 1974 and 1975), Miguel Reina (1973 ), Pedro María Artola (1978), Urruti (1984), Andoni Zubizarreta (1987), Víctor Valdés (2005, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012), Claudio Bravo (2015)
- FIFA / FIFPro World XI deployments (42 - record)
Seasonal balance sheets
Records
The record for most competitive games has been held by midfield director Xavi since January 2011 , who replaced Migueli with over 550 competitive games . In October 2011, Xavi surpassed another internal club record by Migueli with his 392nd league game. The club's most successful goalscorer since March 2014 has been Lionel Messi, who broke the almost 90-year-old record of the Philippine Paulino Alcántara (369 goals in 357 games). With more than 200 league goals for FC Barcelona, Lionel Messi is the most successful shooter in the club's history, ahead of César Rodríguez (190 league goals ) and László Kubala (131). Messi also holds the record for most competitive and European goals. He also set the club record for the most competitive goals in one season in the 2011/12 season.
Awards
The Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport voted the football club “ World Team of the Year ” in 2009, 2011 and 2015 .
staff
President and Management
| position | Surname | since |
|---|---|---|
| president | Josep Maria Bartomeu | 2014 |
| executive Director | Óscar Gray | 2016 |
| Sports director football | Ramón Planes | 2020 |
The president of the club is responsible for the entire management, including the obligation of players and staff and is elected by the club members - according to the statutes of 2009 - for six years. In the event of the president's resignation, the vice-president is allowed to take over the management of the club. By 2014, FC Barcelona had 39 presidents, four commissions and one dead president. The majority of the 39 presidents were Catalans.
Coaching staff
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| function | Nat. | Surname | Birthday (age) | Function since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head coach |
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Ronald Koeman | 21 Mar 1963 (57) | 2020 |
| Assistant coach |
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Alfred Schreuder | Nov 2, 1972 (47) | 2020 |
| Assistant coach |
|
Henrik Larsson | Sep 20 1971 (48) | 2020 |
| Goalkeeping coach |
|
José Ramón de la Fuente | Dec 22, 1970 (49) | 2012 |
After the coaching post had been carried out by the team captain until 1917, the club has had 53 coaches since then, 25 of whom previously played for the club themselves.
player
Current squad 2020/21
The team is captained by Lionel Messi. Its representatives are in turn Sergio Busquets, Gerard Piqué and Sergi Roberto.
| No. | Nat. | Surname | birthday | in the team since | Contract until | Exit clause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goal | ||||||
| 1 |
|
Marc-André ter Stegen | Apr 30, 1992 (28) | 2014 | 2022 | € 180 million |
| 13 |
|
Neto | July 19, 1989 (31) | 2019 | 2023 | € 200 million |
| 26th |
|
Iñaki Peña B | 2nd Mar 1999 (21) | 2012 | 2021 | |
| Defense | ||||||
| 2 |
|
Nélson Semedo | Nov 16, 1993 (26) | 2017 | 2022 | € 100 million |
| 3 |
|
Gerard Piqué | Feb 2, 1987 (33) | 2008 | 2022 | € 500 million |
| 6th |
|
Jean-Clair Todibo | Dec 30, 1999 (20) | 2019 | 2023 | |
| 15th |
|
Clement Lenglet | June 17, 1995 (25) | 2018 | 2023 | € 300 million |
| 16 |
|
Moussa Wagué | Oct 4, 1998 (21) | 2018 | 2023 | € 100 million |
| 18th |
|
Jordi Alba | 21 Mar 1989 (31) | 2012 | 2020 | € 500 million |
| 20th |
|
Sergi Roberto | Feb 7, 1992 (28) | 2006 | 2022 | € 500 million |
| 23 |
|
Samuel Umtiti | Nov 14, 1993 (26) | 2016 | 2023 | € 500 million |
| 24 |
|
Júnior Firpo | 22 Aug 1996 (24) | 2019 | 2024 | € 200 million |
| 26th |
|
Juan Miranda | Jan 19, 2000 (20) | 2014 | ||
| 33 |
|
Ronald Araújo B | 7th Mar 1999 (21) | 2018 | 2023 | € 100 million |
| midfield | ||||||
| 4th |
|
Ivan Rakitić | 10 Mar 1988 (32) | 2014 | 2021 | € 125 million |
| 5 |
|
Sergio Busquets | July 16, 1988 (32) | 2005 | 2023 | € 500 million |
| 12 |
|
Rafinha | Feb 12, 1993 (27) | 2006 | 2021 | € 75 million |
| 19th |
|
Carles Aleñá | Jan 5, 1998 (22) | 2005 | 2022 | € 75 million |
| 21st |
|
Frenkie de Jong | May 12, 1997 (23) | 2019 | 2024 | € 400 million |
| 22nd |
|
Arturo Vidal | May 22, 1987 (33) | 2018 | 2021 | € 300 million |
| 28 |
|
Riqui Puig B. | Aug 13, 1999 (21) | 2013 | 2021 | € 100 million |
| 35 |
|
Oriol busquets | Jan 20, 1999 (21) | 2007 | 2021 | € 200 million |
|
|
Philippe Coutinho | June 12, 1992 (28) | 2018 | 2023 | € 400 million | |
|
|
Matheus Fernandes | June 30, 1998 (22) | 2020 | 2025 | € 300 million | |
|
|
Pedri | Nov 25, 2002 (18) | 2020 | 2022 | € 100 million | |
|
Miralem Pjanic | Apr 2, 1990 (30) | 2020 | 2024 | € 400 million | |
| Storm | ||||||
| 9 |
|
Luis Suarez | Jan 24, 1987 (33) | 2014 | 2021 | € 200 million |
| 10 |
|
Lionel Messi 
|
June 24, 1987 (33) | 2000 | 2021 | € 700 million |
| 11 |
|
Ousmane Dembélé | May 15, 1997 (23) | 2017 | 2022 | € 400 million |
| 17th |
|
Antoine Griezmann | 21 Mar 1991 (29) | 2019 | 2024 | € 800 million |
| 19th |
|
Martin Braithwaite | June 5, 1991 (29) | 2020 | 2024 | € 300 million |
| 31 |
|
Ansu Fati | Oct 31, 2002 (17) | 2013 | 2022 | € 170 million |
|
|
Francisco Trincão | Dec 29, 1999 (20) | 2020 | 2025 | € 500 million | |
As of August 25, 2020
Squad changes 2020/21
| Accesses | ||
|---|---|---|
| time | player | Transferring club |
| Summer 2020 | Carles Aleñá | Betis Sevilla (Loan) |
| Oriol busquets | FC Twente Enschede (loanee) | |
| Philippe Coutinho | FC Bayern Munich (loanee) | |
| Matheus Fernandes | Palmeiras São Paulo | |
| Juan Miranda | FC Schalke 04 (loanee) | |
| Pedri | UD Las Palmas | |
| Miralem Pjanic | Juventus Turin | |
| Rafinha | Celta Vigo (borrower) | |
| Jean-Clair Todibo | FC Schalke 04 (loanee) | |
| Francisco Trincão | Sporting Braga | |
| Moussa Wagué | OGC Nice (loanee) | |
| Departures | ||
|---|---|---|
| time | player | Receiving club |
| Summer 2020 | Arthur | Juventus Turin |
FC Barcelona B
The FC Barcelona B , formerly FC Barcelona Atlètic , the second team of FC Barcelona and played for the season 2016/17 in the Spanish second division, the Segunda División . Since 1982 she has played her home games in the Mini Estadi with a capacity of 15,276 .
The team emerged in 1970 from the merger of two reserve teams from FC Barcelona. As a precursor of the FC Barcelona B, which was founded in 1934 is considered CD Condal . Since its inception, the team has belonged to the Spanish second division in almost half of all seasons. From this, the team rose to the third Spanish league for the last time in the 1998/99 season . After eight years in this division, another relegation to the Tercera División followed in 2007 . Under coach Pep Guardiola , the team succeeded in the immediate rise in the 2007/08 season, two years later his successor Luis Enrique led Barcelona B back to the second highest Spanish division. There Barcelona B finished third in the 2010/11 and 2013/14 seasons , the best placement in the club's history. After relegation to the third-class Segunda División B in the 2014/15 season, promotion to the second-rate Segunda División was made in the 2016/17 season . Gerard López has been the coach since summer 2015 .
FC Barcelona women
Other sports departments
In September 1915, the until then pure football club Barcelona set up its own athletics section. Over the years, the sports club has founded other sports departments and in 2011/12 includes twelve other sports in addition to football. The club has other professional departments in the sports of handball , basketball , roller hockey and futsal . The individual sports sections are divided into up to 18 different age groups and teams.
Handball
On November 29, 1942, FC Barcelona founded its handball department. The team won the Spanish championship five times in its first nine years of existence. At that time handball was still played according to the rules of field handball , only from the 1950s onwards did FC Barcelona play its games indoors. There was no further success until he won the Spanish Cup in 1969, and in the 70s it was mainly other clubs that were more successful. But Valero Rivera , who was appointed coach in 1983, turned the team into a top European team. During his 21-year tenure, the team dominated Spanish handball and won the Spanish championship five times in a row between 1987 and 1992 and between 1995 and 2000. There were also nine titles in the Spanish Cup by the turn of the millennium. Barcelona was also extremely successful at the European level in the Rivera era, winning the EHF Champions League six times and the European Cup Winners' Cup five times . The last time FC Barcelona triumphed in the Champions League in 2015 and with nine titles is still the most successful European handball team.
basketball
The basketball division was launched on August 24, 1926. The team recorded their first national successes in the 1940s when they won the Copa del Rey six times . In 1961 the department was dissolved for economic reasons, but was re-established a year later after fan campaigns. In the following years the team was mostly overshadowed by Real Madrid and remained untitled until 1978. One of the most successful periods for the team began in the 80s, with the team winning the Spanish championship six times . Also in the 1990s, the team was one of the best Spanish teams and four times Spanish champions. In the new millennium, Regal FC Barcelona finally established itself as the top European team and won the most important European basketball club cup, the ULEB Euroleague , for the first time in 2003 and 2010 .
Other departments
See also: FC Barcelona (futsal) , FC Barcelona (roller hockey) and FC Barcelona (ice hockey)
In roller hockey, Barcelona has had its own team since 1942, which is considered to be the most successful in Europe with 19 titles in the Euroliga. The indoor soccer department has existed since 1978 and recorded its greatest successes with winning the Spanish Cup twice (1989 and 2011) and the European Cup Winners' Cup (1990).
At the amateur level, FC Barcelona has branches in athletics , rugby , baseball , volleyball , wheelchair basketball , hockey , ice hockey and figure skating . The rugby team won its only two Spanish league titles in 1953 and 1954 . There are also five and three national championships in baseball and ice hockey, respectively. The athletics department's trophy collection includes two Olympic bronze medals from José Manuel Abascal in 1984 and Javier García in 1992.
FC Barcelona has also created more departments for women in recent years. The association has women's departments in football, athletics, hockey, figure skating and two affiliated departments in basketball and volleyball.
literature
- Ronald Reng : Barça - The great years . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-98508-6 .
- Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling : Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-720-8 .
- Jaume S. Sabartés: FC Barcelona - Between Sport and Politics. History of the association from 1939 to 1981 . edition tranvía, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-925867-01-5 .
- Jimmy Burns: Barça: A People's Passion . Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2009, ISBN 1-4088-0578-2 (English).
Web links
Footnotes
Remarks
- ↑ This year there were two Copas del Rey, both of which are officially recognized by the Spanish Federation. One was held in San Sebastián by the UECF , won by Athletic Bilbao, and the other by the FECF in Madrid, won by FC Barcelona.
- ↑ In previous years, the office of coach was simultaneously exercised by the captain of the team.
- ↑ The name is therefore not a purely Catalan name, but a Catalan-English name
- ↑ It was only with his international successes in the European Cup at the end of the 50s that Real Madrid became Franco's “darling”. Before that, he is said to have favored Atlético Madrid , which at the time was closely connected to the Spanish military.
- ↑ The Spanish league championship (the Primera División) has been awarded since 1929. Between 1910 and 1928, the Copa del Rey (now the Spanish Cup) had the status of a national championship and was partially played in league mode.
- ↑ The prize was awarded for the last time in 2009 and from 2010 has been merged with the “World Footballer of the Year” award.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sport.es: Oficial: El FC Barcelona tiene 143.459 socios , (Spanish)
- ↑ Phil Ball: Morbo. The Story of Spanish Football . WSC Books Limited, London 2003, ISBN 0-9540134-6-8 , pp. 89 (English).
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 16-21 .
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 26-27 .
- ↑ Spain - Final Tables Catalonia. In: rsssf.com. RSSSF , October 22, 2000, accessed August 25, 2010 .
- ^ Spain - Cup 1902. In: rsssf.com. RSSSF , September 15, 2000, accessed December 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Martin Pelzl: How a Saxon shoots FC Barcelona to victory in the first El Clásico against Real Madrid - Grew up in Chemnitz, studied in Mittweida, became immortal in Catalonia: The multi-sportsman Udo Steinberg, who died at Christmas 100 years ago, was instrumental in the first major victory of the FC Barcelona involved via Real Madrid. . Leipziger Volkszeitung online, print publication on December 28, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019
- ↑ a b Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 29-31 .
- ↑ 1910 season. In: iffhs.de. IFFHS , accessed December 30, 2010 .
- ^ Xavier G. Luque: La leyenda del Romperredes . In: La Vanguardia . November 18, 2001, p. 4 ( online [PDF; accessed September 9, 2011]).
- ↑ Phil Ball: Morbo. The Story of Spanish Football . WSC Books Limited, London 2003, ISBN 0-9540134-6-8 , pp. 93-98 (English).
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 36-43 .
- ↑ a b c From Les Corts to Camp Nou (1922–1957). (No longer available online.) In: FCBarcelona.cat. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012 ; Retrieved December 30, 2010 .
- ^ Spain 1928/29. In: rsssf.com. RSSSF , June 14, 2007, accessed December 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 56 .
- ↑ a b Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 61-63 .
- ↑ UD Levante receives cup victory recognized too late. In: FOCUS online. June 29, 2007, accessed December 30, 2010 .
- ↑ La Asamblea no reconoce la Copa de España ganada por el Levante en 1937. In: MARCA.com. Marca , July 10, 2009, accessed September 1, 2011 (Spanish).
- ↑ La FEF no reconocerá al Barça la Liga del año 37. In: as.com. As , April 3, 2009, accessed December 30, 2010 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b c Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 59-68 .
- ↑ El 'arquitecto' que construyó un fútbol diferente. In: MARCA.com. August 18, 2009, Retrieved May 20, 2011 (Spanish).
- ↑ When Benfica shocked the Spanish ... (No longer available online.) In: FIFA.com. FIFA , May 31, 2011, archived from the original on June 20, 2011 ; Retrieved June 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 71-74 .
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