Futbol Club Barcelona (also renowned as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça) is a Spanish expert football association, founded in Barcelona, Spain. They play in La Liga, and is one of the only three associations to have not ever been relegated, along with Athletic Bilbao and competitor Real Madrid. They are the present Spanish and European football champions.
Founded as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona in 1899 by a assembly of Swiss, English and Spanish footballers directed by Joan Gamper, the association has become a emblem of Catalan heritage and Catalanism, therefore the motto "Més que un club" (English: More than a club). The authorized Barça anthem is the "Cant del Barça" in writing by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Unlike numerous other football associations, the supporters own and function Barcelona. It is the world's second most rich football association in periods of income, with an yearly turn-over of €398 million. The association retains a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, and agrees between the two groups are mentioned to as "El Clásico".
FC Barcelona is the second most thriving association in Spanish football in periods of general trophies, having won 21 La Liga names, a record 25 Spanish Cups, nine Spanish Super Cups and two League Cups. It is furthermore one of most thriving associations in European football, having won 11 UEFA competitions. It is the only European association to have performed continental football every time of the year since 1955. In 2009, Barcelona became the first association in Spain to win the treble comprising of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. That identical year, it furthermore became the first football association ever to win six out of six affrays in a lone year, therefore accomplishing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
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Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
On 22 October 1899, Hans Kamper put an promotion in Los Deportes affirming his desire to pattern a football club; a affirmative answer produced in a gathering at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended—Walter Wild (the first controller of the club), Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Pujol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons, and William Parsons—and Foot-Ball Club Barcelona was born.
FC Barcelona had a thriving start in local and nationwide cups, vying in the Campionat de Catalunya and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the association won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and took part in the first Copa del Rey, mislaying 1–2 to Bizcaya in the final. Gamper became association leader in 1908, the association in economic adversity after not triumphant a affray since the Campionat de Catalunya in 1905. Club leader on five distinct events between 1908 and 1925, he expended 25 years in total at the helm. One of his major achievements was double-checking Barça come by its own stadium and therefore develop a steady income.
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Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
On 14 March 1909, the group shifted into the Camp de la Indústria, a bigger stadium with a seating capability of 8,000 people. From 1910 to 1914 Barcelona took part in the Pyrenees Cup, which comprised of the best groups of Languedoc, Midi, Aquitaine (Southern France), the Basque Country, and Catalonia. At that time it was advised the finest affray open for participation. During the identical time span, the association altered its authorized dialect from Castilian to Catalan and step-by-step developed into an significant emblem of Catalan identity. For numerous followers, carrying the association had less to manage with the game itself and more with being a part of the club's collective identity.
Gamper commenced a crusade to employ more association constituents, and by 1922 the association had over 20,000 constituents and was adept to investment a new stadium. The association to shifted to the new Les Corts, inaugurated the identical year. Les Corts had an primary capability of 22,000, which was subsequent amplified to 60,000. Jack Greenwell was employed as the first full-time supervisor, and the club's treasures started to advance on the field. During the Gamper era, FC Barcelona won eleven Campionat de Catalunya, six Copas del Rey, and four Pyrenees Cups, its first "golden age".
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Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
On 14 June 1925, the gathering in the stadium jeered the nationwide anthem in a spontaneous dispute contrary to Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. The ground was shut for six months as a retaliation, and Gamper was compelled to relinquish the association presidency. This coincided with the club's transition to professionalism; in 1926 the controllers of Barcelona publicly announced Barcelona a expert edge for the first time. The club's 1928 triumph in the Spanish Cup was commemorated with a verse titled "Oda a Platko", in writing by a constituent of the Generation of '27, bard Rafael Alberti, who was motivated by the "heroic performance" of the Barcelona keeper. On 30 July 1930, Gamper pledged suicide after a time span of despondency conveyed on by individual and economic problems.
Although they proceeded to have players of the standing of Josep Escolà, the association went into a time span of down turn in which political confrontation overshadowed games all through society. Although the group won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, and 1938, achievement at a nationwide grade (with the exclusion of a argued name in 1937) avoided them. A month after the Spanish Civil War started in 1936, some players from Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao recruited in the ranks of those who battled contrary to the infantry uprising. On 6 August, Josep Sunyol, the association leader and agent of a pro-independence political party, was killed by Falangist fighters beside Guadarrama. Dubbed the martyrdom of barcelonisme, the killing was a characterizing instant in the annals of FC Barcelona. In the summer of 1937, the squad went on trip in Mexico and the United States, where it was obtained as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. That trip protected the association financially, but furthermore produced in half the group searching asylum in Mexico and France. On 16 March 1938, Barcelona came under aerial bombardment, producing in over 3,000 deaths; one of the blasting apparatus strike the club's offices. Catalonia came under occupation a couple of months later. As a emblem of 'undisciplined' Catalanism, the association, down to just 3,486 constituents, faced several restrictions. After the Civil War, the Catalan flag was ostracized and football associations were prohibited from utilizing non-Spanish names. These assesses compelled the association to change its title to Club de Fútbol Barcelona and to eliminate the Catalan flag from its association shield.
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Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
In 1943, Barcelona faced competitors Real Madrid in the semi-finals of Copa del Generalísimo. Their first agree at Les Corts was won by Barcelona 3–0. Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a altering room visit from Franco's controller of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only playing due to the "generosity of the regime". Real Madrid overridden the agree, triumphant 11–1. Despite the tough political position, CF Barcelona relished substantial achievement throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1945, with Josep Samitier as managers and players like César, Ramallets, and Velasco, they won La Liga for the first time since 1929. They supplemented to this total in 1948 and afresh in 1949. They furthermore won the first Copa Latina that year. In June 1950, Barcelona marked Ladislao Kubala, who was to be an influential number at the club.
On a rainy Sunday in 1951, the gathering left Les Corts stadium after a 2–1 win contrary to Santander on base, denying to apprehend any trams and astonishing the Francoist authorities. A tram hit was taking location in Barcelona, which obtained the support of blaugrana fans. Events for example this made the association comprise much more than just Catalonia; numerous progressive Spaniards glimpsed the association as a staunch protector of privileges and freedoms.
Managers Ferdinand Daučík and László Kubala directed the group to five distinct trophies encompassing La Liga, the Copa del Generalísimo (now the Copa del Rey), the Copa Latina, the Copa Eva Duarte, and the Copa Martini Rossi in 1952. In 1953, the association won La Liga and the Copa del Generalísimo again.
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Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1978)
With Helenio Herrera as supervisor, a juvenile Luis Suárez, the European Footballer of the Year in 1960, and two influential Hungarians suggested by Kubala, Sándor Kocsis and Zoltán Czibor, the group won another nationwide twice in 1959 and a La Liga and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice in 1960. In 1961 they became the first association to trounce Real Madrid in European Cup affray, but lost 3–2 to Benfica in the final.
The 1960s were less thriving for the association, with Real Madrid monopolising La Liga. The construction of the Camp Nou, accomplished in 1957, intended the association had little cash to spend on new players. On the affirmative edge, the ten years glimpsed the emergence of Josep Maria Fusté and Carles Rexach, and the association won the Copa del Generalísimo in 1963 and the Fairs Cup in 1966. Barça refurbished some of its previous dignity by drubbing Real Madrid 1–0 in the 1968 Copa del Generalísimo last at the Bernabéu, in front of Franco, with previous republican navigate Salvador Artigas as manager. The end of Franco's dictatorship in 1974 glimpsed the association altering its authorized title back to Futbol Club Barcelona and reverting the crest to its initial conceive, afresh encompassing the initial letters.
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Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1978)
The 1973–74 time of the year glimpsed the appearance of Johan Cruyff, who was acquired for a world record £920,000 from Ajax. Already an established contestant in Holland, Cruyff rapidly won over the Barça followers when he notified the European press he chose Barça over Real Madrid because he could not play for a association affiliated with Franco. He farther endeared himself when he chose the Catalan title Jordi, after the localized saint, for his son. Next to players of value like Juan Manuel Asensi, Carles Rexach, and Hugo Sotil, he assisted the association win the La Liga name in 1973–74 for the first time since 1960, beating Real Madrid 5–0 at the Bernabéu along the way. He was crested European Footballer of the Year in 1973 throughout his first time of the year with Barcelona (his second Ballon d'Or win; he won his first while playing for Ajax in 1971). Cruyff obtained this prestigious accolade a third time (the first contestant ever to manage so) in 1974 while he was still with Barcelona.
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