FC Barcelona B

	FC Barcelona B
Venue	Estadi Johan Cruyff
Places	6000
Head coach	Xavi García Pimienta
league	Segunda División B Group 3
2018/19	8th place
home	Away

The FC Barcelona B , formerly FC Barcelona Atlètic , the second team of FC Barcelona . The team was founded in 1970 and has played in the Segunda División B since the 2018/19 season .

As a reserve team of a professional club, the team is not allowed to play in the same league as the first team, nor to participate in the Spanish Cup . FC Barcelona B plays its home games at the Estadi Johan Cruyff , which has a capacity of 6,000 spectators.

history

SD España Industrial , founded in 1934, was the first team to be officially considered a reserve team for FC Barcelona . This club was renamed in 1956 in CD Condal , as it wanted to participate in the first division as an independent team in the 1956/57 season . After reintegration into FC Barcelona, CD Condal served as a reserve team again from 1968.

In 1970 the then president of FC Barcelona decided to merge the CD Condal and the youth team Atlètic Catalunya . The resulting team was initially called FC Barcelona Atlètic , until it was given its current name FC Barcelona B in 1991 ; from 2008 to 2010 the team was called again FC Barcelona Atlètic .

Since the team was founded, Barcelona B has belonged to the second Spanish league for almost half of all seasons and was thus an integral part of Spanish professional football. Unlike in Germany, B-teams from a first division club are also allowed to compete in the second-highest division. Every player has a professional contract, as the team is by no means a pure youth team. In 1999, the team rose from the second division to the third division, the Segunda División B , from. After eight years in the Segunda División B, relegation to the Tercera División followed in the 2006/07 season . Under the then new coach Pep Guardiola , the team succeeded in being promoted as first place one year later. Guardiola was then named head coach of the first team and Luis Enrique took over his post.

In the 2009/10 season Barcelona Atlètic reached second place in Segunda División B and thus qualified for the relegation games to the Segunda División . After the team prevailed in the relegation final against local rivals UE Sant Andreu , the team has been playing in the second Spanish league again since the 2010/11 season . In its first second division season in eleven years, Barcelona B then finished third, the best placement in the club's history. From the 2011/12 season, the team was trained by Eusebio Sacristán , with whom the team also took third place in the 2013/14 season . After a sporting downturn, Eusebio was released in February 2015 and initially replaced by Jordi Vinyals, who, however, could not prevent relegation as bottom of the table.

Gerard López took over the team for the 2015/16 season . In the 2017/18 season , the team played in the second-rate Segunda División after advancing through the playoffs. Towards the end of the 2017/18 season, López was fired and replaced by Garcia Pimienta , who looked after the U-19s from Barça. The relegation to the Segunda División B could not be prevented.

League affiliation

Segunda División seasons : 22
Periods Segunda División B : 18
Tercera División seasons : 4
Divisiones Regionales seasons: 1
Best placement in the Segunda División : 3rd in the 2010/11 and 2013/14 seasons

successes

Promotion to the Segunda División (5): 1974, 1982, 1991, 1998, 2010, 2017
Master Segunda División B (3): 1982, 1991, 2002
Master Tercera División (2): 1974, 2008

Current squad 2019/20

goal

Defense

midfield

attack

01	Spain	Sergi Puig	1998
13	Montenegro	Lazar Carevic	1999
25th	Spain	Iñaki Peña ¹	1999

02	Spain	Dani Morer	1998
03	Spain	Jorge Cuenca	1999
04th	Spain	Òscar Mingueza	1999
05	Spain	Guillem Jaime	1999
15th	Uruguay	Ronald Araújo ¹	1999
18th	Spain	Sergio Akieme	1997
21st	Spain	Chumi	1999
22nd	Netherlands	Mike van Beijnen	1999

06th	Spain	Riqui Puig	1999
07th	Spain	Alex Collado	1999
08th	Spain	Monchu	1999
14th	Spain	Ferran Sarsanedas (C)	1997
16	Spain	Jandro Orellana	2000
20th	Netherlands	Ludovit rice	2000
30th	Spain	Ilaix Moriba ^U19	2003

09	Spain	Abel Ruiz	2000
10	Spain	Carles Pérez ¹	1998
11	Ecuador	Kike	1999
12	Japan	Hiroki Abe	1999
17th	Spain	Alejandro Marqués	2000
29	Spain	Nils Mortimer ^U19	2001
22nd	Albania	Rey Manaj	1997

¹ also in the first team squad

^U19 also in the U19 squad

Well-known former players

The following former players have played more than 50 league games for the first team or more than 10 international matches. Players in bold are active for the first team.