FC Barcelona

Barcelona
Full nameFutbol Club Barcelona
Nickname(s)Barça (team)
Culés or Barcelonistas (supporters)
Blaugranas or Azulgranas (supporters)
Foondit29 November 1899; 125 years ago (1899-11-29)
as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona
GroundCamp Nou
Ground Capacity99,354[1]
PresesJoan Laporta
ManagerXavi
LeagueLa Liga
2022–23La Liga, 1st o 20 (champions)
WabsteidClub wabsteid

Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fubˈbɔɫ ˈkɫub bərsəˈɫonə] ( listen)), kent as Barcelona an familiarly as Barça an aw,[2] is a perfaisional fitbaw club, based in Barcelona, Catalonie, Spain.

Foondit in 1899 bi a group o Swiss, Inglis an Catalan fitbawers led bi Joan Gamper, the club haes become a seembol o Catalan cultur an Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club" (Mair nor a club). Unlike mony ither fitbaw clubs, the supporters awn an operate Barcelona. It is the warld's seicont-richest fitbaw club in terms o revenue, wi a annual turnover o $613 million an the third maist valuable sports team, worth $2.6 billion.[3][4] The offeecial Barcelona anthem is the "Cant del Barça", written bi Jaume Picas an Josep Maria Espinàs.[5]

Barcelona is the maist successful club in Spain, in terms o oweraw offeecial titles wan (80). Barcelona wis rankit first in the 'All-Time Club World Ranking' bi IFFHS, on 31 Dizember 2009,[6] an is currently placit on top o the UEFA club rankins an aw.[7] They wan 22 La Liga, 26 Copa del Rey, 11 Supercopa de España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte[8] an 2 Copa de la Liga trophies, as well as bein the record haulder for the latter fower competeetions. In internaitional club fitbaw, Barcelona haes wan fower UEFA Champions League, a record fower UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, fower UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[9] an a record twa FIFA Club Warld Cup trophies.[10] The club haes a lang-staundin rivalry wi Real Madrid; matches atween the twa teams are referred tae as "El Clásico".

Honours

Teep Competition Titles Seasons
Domestic La Liga 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
Copa del Rey 30 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
Supercopa de España 13 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018
Copa Eva Duarte 3 1948, 1952, 1953
Copa de la Liga 2 1983, 1986
European UEFA Champions League 5 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 4 1978–79, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1996–97
UEFA Super Cup 5S 1992, 1997, 2009, 2011, 2015
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 3 1955–58, 1958–60, 1965–66
Worldwide FIFA Club Warld Cup 3 2009, 2011, 2015
  •   Record
  • S Shared record

Players

Current squad

As o 19 Julie 2023[11][12]

Note: Banners indicate naitional team as defined unner FIFA eligibility rules. Players mey haud mair nor ane non-FIFA naitionality.

No. Poseetion Player
1 Germany GK Marc-André ter Stegen (vice-caiptain)
4 Uruguay DF Ronald Araújo (3rd caiptain)
6 Spain MF Gavi
7 Fraunce FW Ousmane Dembélé
8 Spain MF Pedri
9 Poland FW Robert Lewandowski
10 Spain FW Ansu Fati
11 Spain FW Ferran Torres
13 Spain GK Iñaki Peña
15 Denmark DF Andreas Christensen
17 Spain DF Marcos Alonso
19 Ivory Coast MF Franck Kessié
20 Spain MF Sergi Roberto (caiptain)
No. Poseetion Player
21 Netherlands MF Frenkie de Jong (4t caiptain)
22 Brazil FW Raphinha
23 Fraunce DF Jules Koundé
24 Spain DF Eric García
Fraunce DF Clément Lenglet
Spain DF Iñigo Martínez
United States DF Sergiño Dest
Spain MF Álex Collado
Germany MF İlkay Gündoğan
Spain MF Nico González
Spain MF Oriol Romeu
Morocco FW Abde Ezzalzouli
Portugal FW Francisco Trincão

Oot on lend

Note: Banners indicate naitional team as defined unner FIFA eligibility rules. Players mey haud mair nor ane non-FIFA naitionality.

No. Poseetion Player

References

  1. ↑ Camp Nou – FC Barcelona Official Page
  2. ↑ Pronooncit [ˈbar.sə].
  3. ↑ Badenhausen, Kurt (15 Julie 2013). "Real Madrid Tops The World's Most Valuable Sports Teams". Forbes. Retrieved 6 Januar 2014.
  4. ↑ "Deloitte Football Money League 2013". Deloitte UK. Archived frae the original on 30 Julie 2013. Retrieved 30 Januar 2013.
  5. ↑ "FC Barcelona Hymn". FC Barcelona.
  6. ↑ "All-Time Club World Ranking, by International Federation of Football History & Statistics". Archived frae the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 15 Januar 2014.
  7. ↑ "UEFA club coefficients 2013/14".
  8. ↑ The Copa Eva Duarte wis anerly recognisit an organisit wi that name bi the RFEF frae 1947 till 1953, an tharefore Barcelona's "Copa de Oro Argentina" win o 1945 is no includit in this coont, i.e. anerly the 1948, 1952 an 1953 trophies are.
  9. ↑ Considered a major title by FIFA (see FIFA.com F.C. Barcelona's profile at http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/clubs/club=44217/ Archived 2012-01-06 at the Wayback Machine) but generally not an official title, as the competition was not organised by UEFA
  10. ↑ "Football Europe: FC Barcelona". Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Archived frae the original on 3 Juin 2010. Retrieved 4 Mey 2009.
  11. ↑ "First Team". FC Barcelona. Retrieved 7 Julie 2023.
  12. ↑ "FC Barcelona's new captains confirmed" (in Inglis). FC Barcelona. 21 Julie 2023. Retrieved 22 Julie 2023.