Association football club
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Football cabaret

Futbol Club Barcelona ( catalan pronunciation : [ fubˈbɔl ˈklub bəɾsəˈlonə ] ( ) ), normally referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça ( [ ˈbaɾsə ] ), is a professional football baseball club based in Barcelona, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of spanish football. Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Spanish, German and English footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto “Més que un club” ( “More than a club” ). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the fourth-most valuable sports team in the world, worth $ 4.06 billion, and the populace ‘s richest football club in terms of tax income, with an annual turnover of €840.8 million. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The official Barcelona hymn is the “ Cant del Barça “, written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. [ 4 ] Barcelona traditionally play in dark shades of blasphemous and crimson stripes, leading to the nickname Blaugrana. domestically, Barcelona has won a record 75 trophies : 26 La Liga, 31 Copa del Rey, thirteen Supercopa de España, three Copa Eva Duarte, and two Copa de la Liga titles, vitamin a well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions. In international club football, the clubhouse has won twenty dollar bill european and global titles : five UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cups, a joint record five UEFA Super Cups, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, and three FIFA Club World Cups. Barcelona was ranked first in the International Federation of Football History & Statistics Club World Ranking for 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015, and occupies the fourth position on the UEFA club rankings as of 2021. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The club has a long-standing competition with Real Madrid, and matches between the two teams are referred to as El Clásico. Barcelona is one of the most wide supported teams in the populace, and the club has one of the largest social media following in the world among sports teams. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Barcelona players have won a commemorate number of Ballon d’Or awards ( twelve ), with recipients including Johan Cruyff, a well as a record count of FIFA World Player of the year awards ( seven ), with winners including Ronaldo, Romário, Ronaldinho, and Rivaldo. In 2010, three players who came through the club ‘s young person academy ( Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi ) were chosen as the three best players in the universe in the FIFA Ballon d’Or awards, an unprecedented feat for players from the same football academy. additionally, players representing the club have won a commemorate number ( eight ) of european Golden Shoe awards. Barcelona is one of three founding members of the Primera División that have never been relegated from the top part since its origin in 1929, along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. In 2009, Barcelona became the first spanish club to win the continental treble consist of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League, and besides became the first spanish football cabaret to win six out of six competitions in a single class, by besides winning the spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup. [ 11 ] In 2011, the club became european champions again and won five trophies. This Barcelona team, which won fourteen trophies in fair four years under Pep Guardiola, is considered by some in the sport to be the greatest team of all time. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] By winning their fifth Champions League trophy in 2015, Barcelona became the first european football clubhouse in history to achieve the continental double doubly .

history

1899–1922 : Beginnings

[15]Walter Wild, the club’s first president (1899–1901). His main achievement was getting Barça its first home ground."SPORT NOTES Our friend and partner, Mr. Kans Kamper, from the Foot-Vall Section of the <<Sociedad Los Deportes>> and former Swiss champion, wishing to organize some matches in Barcelona, requests that everyone who likes this sport contact him, come to this office Tuesday and Friday nights from 9 to 11.”‘ class=”thumbimage” height=”136″ src=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Futbol_club_barcelona_-_notas_de_sport.jpg/250px-Futbol_club_barcelona_-_notas_de_sport.jpg” width=”250″/> <i>Los Deportes</i> —- <i>English translation</i>  : “SPORT NOTE. Our friend and partner, Mr. Kans Kamper, from the Foot-Vall Section of the ‘Sociedad Los Deportes’ and former Swiss champion, wishing to organise some matches in Barcelona, requests that everyone who likes this sport contact him, come to this office Tuesday and Friday nights from 9 to 11.”[16] Gamper ‘s ad in — — : “ SPORT NOTE. Our acquaintance and partner, Mr. Kans Kamper, from the Foot-Vall section of the ‘Sociedad Los Deportes ‘ and former Swiss champion, wishing to organise some matches in Barcelona, requests that everyone who likes this mutant contact him, come to this office Tuesday and Friday nights from 9 to 11. ” On 22 October 1899, swiss Hans Gamper placed an ad in <i>Los Deportes</i> declaring his wish to form a football cabaret ; a positive response resulted in a meet at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended – Walter Wild ( the first director of the baseball 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. [ 16 ] [ 17 ]<br /> <img decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="156" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vitrina-1.v1311695239.jpg/250px-Vitrina-1.v1311695239.jpg" width="250"/> A constitution of FC Barcelona in 1903 FC Barcelona had a successful beginning in regional and national cups, competing in the Campionat de Catalunya and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the golf club won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and participated in the first base Copa del Rey, losing 1–2 to Bizcaya in the final. [ 18 ] In 1908, Hans Gamper – nowadays known as Joan Gamper – became baseball club president in a desperate try to save Barcelona from extinction, finding the club struggling not just on the pitch, but besides financially and socially, after not winning a rival since the Campionat de Catalunya in 1905. He said in a meet, “ Barcelona can not die and must not die. If there is cipher who is going to try, then I will assume the responsibility of running the golf club from now on. ” [ 19 ] Club president on five divide occasions between 1908 and 1925, he spent 25 years in total at the helm. One of his main achievements was ensuring Barça acquire its own stadium and frankincense generate a stable income. [ 20 ] On 14 March 1909, the team moved into the Camp de la Indústria, a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. To celebrate their new surroundings, the club conducted a logo contest the follow class. Carles Comamala won the contest, and his suggestion became the crest that the golf club hush wears – with some minor changes – as of the present day. [ 21 ] With the new stadium, Barcelona participated in the inaugural address interpretation of the Pyrenees Cup, which, at the time, consisted of the best teams of Languedoc, Midi and Aquitaine ( Southern France ), the Basque Country and Catalonia ; all were early members of the Marca Hispanica region. The contest was the most prestigious in that earned run average. [ 22 ] From the inaugural year in 1910 to 1913, Barcelona won the rival four consecutive times. Carles Comamala played an built-in separate of the four-time champion, managing the side along with Amechazurra and Jack Greenwell. The latter became the club ‘s beginning full-time coach in 1917. [ 23 ] The last edition was held in 1914 in the city of Barcelona, which local rivals Espanyol won. [ 24 ] During the same period, the club changed its official lyric from castilian to Catalan and gradually evolved into an important symbol of Catalan identity. For many fans, participating in the cabaret had less to do with the game itself and more with being a part of the club ‘s collective identity. [ 25 ] On 4 February 1917, the clubhouse held its first tribute match to honour Ramón Torralba, who played from 1913 to 1928. The match was against local side Terrassa where Barcelona won the match 6–2. [ 26 ] Gamper simultaneously launched a crusade to recruit more golf club members, and by 1922, the baseball club had more than 20,000, who helped finance a new stadium. The club then moved to the new Les Cortes, which they inaugurated the like year. [ 27 ] Les Cortes had an initial capacity of 30,000, and in the 1940s it was expanded to 60,000. [ 28 ] Gamper recruited Jack Greenwell as the first base full-time coach in Barcelona ‘s history. After this rent, the club ‘s fortunes began to improve on the field. During the Gamper-led era, Barcelona won eleven Campionats de Catalunya, six Copa del Rey and four Pyrenees Cups and enjoyed its first gear “ golden age ”. [ 18 ] [ 20 ]</p> <h3> 1923–1957 : rivera, Republic and Civil War</h3> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Black-and-white photo of the city from high above. Smoke from a bomb can be seen" class="thumbimage" height="143" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Barcelona_bombing_%281938%29.jpg/220px-Barcelona_bombing_%281938%29.jpg" width="220"/> The aeriform bombing of Barcelona in 1938 On 14 June 1925, in a spontaneous reaction against Primo de Rivera ‘s dictatorship, the herd in the stadium jeered the Royal March. As a reprisal, the land was closed for six months and Gamper was forced to relinquish the presidency of the golf club. [ 29 ] This coincided with the transition to master football, and, in 1926, the directors of Barcelona publicly claimed, for the first time, to operate a professional football clubhouse. [ 27 ]<br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="155" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Barcelona_fc_lamina_elgrafico.jpg/220px-Barcelona_fc_lamina_elgrafico.jpg" width="220"/> <i>El Gráfico</i>, 1926 team of FC Barcelona, published on, 1926 On 3 July 1927, the club held a second base tribute couple for Paulino Alcántara, against the spanish national team. To kick off the equal, local diarist and pilot program Josep Canudas dropped the ball onto the cant from his airplane. [ 30 ] In 1928, victory in the spanish Cup was celebrated with a poem titled “ Oda a Platko “, which was written by a penis of the Generation of ’27, Rafael Alberti, inspired by the expansive performance of the Barcelona goalkeeper, Franz Platko. [ 31 ] On 23 June 1929, Barcelona won the inaugural Spanish League. A class after winning the backing, on 30 July 1930, Gamper committed suicide after a menstruation of depression brought on by personal and fiscal problems. [ 20 ] Although they continued to have players of the stand of Josep Escolà, the golf club now entered a period of decline, in which political dispute overshadowed sports throughout society. attendance at matches dropped as the citizens of Barcelona were occupied with discussing political matters. [ 32 ] Although the team won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936 and 1938, [ 18 ] success at a national degree ( with the exception of the 1937 disputed title ) evaded them. A calendar month after the spanish Civil War began in 1936, several players from Barcelona enlisted in the ranks of those who fought against the military get up, along with players from Athletic Bilbao. [ 33 ] On 6 August, Falangist soldiers near Guadarrama murdered club president Josep Sunyol, a example of the pro-independence political party. [ 34 ] He was dubbed the martyr of <i>barcelonisme</i>, and his murder was a define consequence in the history of FC Barcelona and Catalan identity. [ 35 ] In the summer of 1937, the police squad was on enlistment in Mexico and the United States, where it was received as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. The tour led to the fiscal security of the club, but besides resulted in half of the team seeking refuge in Mexico and France, making it harder for the remaining team to contest for trophies. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] On 16 March 1938, Barcelona came under aeriform bombardment from the Italian Air Force, causing more than 3,000 deaths, with one of the fail hitting the club ‘s offices. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] A few months late, Catalonia came under occupation and as a symbol of the “ undisciplined ” Catalanism, the golf club, now down to just 3,486 members, faced a total of restrictions. All signs of regional patriotism, including speech, masthead and early signs of separationism were banned throughout Spain. The Catalan flag was banned and the clubhouse were prohibited from using non-Spanish names. These measures forced the cabaret to change its name to <i>Club de Fútbol Barcelona</i> and to remove the Catalan flag from its crest. [ 40 ] In 1943, Barcelona faced rivals very Madrid in the semi-finals of Copa del Generalísimo ( now the Copa del Rey ). The first match at Les Corts was won by Barcelona 3–0. veridical Madrid comfortably won the moment leg, beating Barcelona 11–1. [ 41 ] According to football writer Sid Lowe, “ There have been relatively few mentions of the game [ since ] and it is not a result that has been particularly celebrated in Madrid. indeed, the 11–1 occupies a far more outstanding position in Barcelona ‘s history. This was the crippled that first formed the identification of Madrid as the team of the dictatorship and Barcelona as its victims. ” [ 42 ] It has been alleged by local diarist Paco Aguilar that Barcelona ‘s players were threatened by patrol in the deepen room, though nothing was ever prove. [ 43 ]<br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="220" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Kubala.jpg/190px-Kubala.jpg" width="190"/> A prolific ahead, László Kubala led Barcelona to success in the 1950s. His statue is built outside the Camp Nou. Despite the difficult political situation, <i>CF Barcelona</i> enjoyed considerable success during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1945, with Josep Samitier as coach and players like César, Ramallets and Velasco, they won La Liga for the first clock since 1929. They added two more titles in 1948 and 1949. [ 44 ] In 1949, they besides won the first base Copa Latina. [ 45 ] In June 1950, Barcelona signed László Kubala, who was to be an crucial figure at the club. [ 46 ] On a showery Sunday of 1951, the crowd left Les Corts stadium after a 2–1 succeed against Santander by foot, refusing to catch any trams, and surprising the Francoist authorities. The reason was bare : at the same time, a tramcar assume was taking topographic point in Barcelona, receiving the support of blaugrana fans. Events like this made CF Barcelona represent much more than precisely Catalonia and many progressive Spaniards saw the clubhouse as a steadfast defender of rights and freedoms. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Coach Ferdinand Daučík and László Kubala led the team to five different trophies including La Liga, the Copa del Generalísimo, the Copa Latina, the Copa Eva Duarte, and the Copa Martini Rossi in 1952. In 1953, the baseball club won La Liga and the Copa del Generalísimo again. [ 28 ]</p> <h3> 1957–1978 : Club de Fútbol Barcelona</h3> <p> With Helenio Herrera as coach, a young Luis Suárez, the European Footballer of the class in 1960, and two influential Hungarians recommended by Kubala, Sándor Kocsis and Zoltán Czibor, the team won another national double in 1959 and a La Liga and Fairs Cup double in 1960. In 1961, they became the first club to beat actual Madrid in a european Cup play-off. however, they lost 2–3 to Benfica in the final. [ 49 ] [ 50 ]<br /> The 1960s were less successful for the club, with real Madrid monopolising La Liga. The completion of the Camp Nou, finished in 1957, meant the cabaret had fiddling money to spend on new players. [ 50 ] The 1960s saw the emergence of Josep Maria Fusté and Carles Rexach, and the club won the Copa del Generalísimo in 1963 and the Fairs Cup in 1966. Barcelona restored some pride by beating Real Madrid 1–0 in the 1968 Copa del Generalísimo concluding at the Santiago Bernabéu in front of Francisco Franco, with coach Salvador Artigas, a former republican navigate in the Civil War. With the goal of Franco ‘s dictatorship in 1974, the club changed its official name back to <i>Futbol Club Barcelona</i> and reverted the crest to its original design, including the original letters once again. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The 1973–74 season saw the arrival of Johan Cruyff, who was bought for a populace commemorate £920,000 from Ajax. [ 53 ] Already an established player with Ajax, Cruyff quickly won over the Barcelona fans when he told the European crush that he chose Barcelona over Real Madrid because he could not play for a golf club associated with Francisco Franco. He far endeared himself when he named his son “ Jordi ”, after the local Catalan Saint George. [ 54 ] Next to champions like Juan Manuel Asensi, Carles Rexach and Hugo Sotil, he helped the club win the 1973–74 temper for the first gear time since 1960, [ 18 ] defeating Real Madrid 5–0 at the Santiago Bernabéu en road. He was crowned european Footballer of the year in 1973 during his first season with Barcelona ( his moment Ballon d’Or win ; he won his first while playing for Ajax in 1971 ). Cruyff received this prestigious award a third gear time ( the first player to do so ) in 1974, while he was still with Barcelona. [ 55 ]</p> <h3> 1978–2000 : Núñez and stabilization</h3> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="146" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/La_Masia_%28Can_Planas%29_%28Barcelona%29_-_1.jpg/220px-La_Masia_%28Can_Planas%29_%28Barcelona%29_-_1.jpg" width="220"/> [56][57] In 1979, Barcelona bought La Masia, a farmer ‘s house built in 1702, to be a mansion for youthful academy players. It would late play a meaning function in the cabaret ‘s future success. In 1978, Josep Lluís Núñez became the first elected president of FC Barcelona, and, since then, the members of Barcelona have elected the clubhouse president. The action of electing a president of FC Barcelona was closely tied to Spain ‘s passage to democracy in 1974 and the end of Franco ‘s dictatorship. The fresh president ‘s main aim was to develop Barcelona into a first club by giving it stability both on and off the deliver. His presidency was to last for 22 years, and it deeply affected the picture of Barcelona, as Núñez held to a nonindulgent policy regarding wages and discipline, letting become of such players as Diego Maradona, Romário and Ronaldo rather than meeting their demands. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] On 16 May 1979, the golf club won its first base european Cup Winners ‘ Cup by beating Fortuna Düsseldorf 4–3 in Basel in a final watched by more than 30,000 travelling <i>blaugrana</i> fans. The same year, Núñez began to invest in the club ‘s young person program by converting La Masia into a dormitory for young academy players from abroad. The name of the dormitory would by and by become synonymous with the youth program of Barcelona. [ 60 ]<br /> In June 1982, Diego Maradona was signed for a world phonograph record fee of £5 million from Boca Juniors. [ 61 ] In the pursuit season, under coach César Luis Menotti, Barcelona won the Copa del Rey, beating real Madrid. Maradona ‘s time with Barcelona, however, was ephemeral and he soon left for Napoli. At the begin of the 1984–85 season, Terry Venables was hired as coach and he won La Liga with noteworthy displays by german midfielder Bernd Schuster. The adjacent season, he took the team to their second european Cup final, only to lose on penalties to Steaua București during a dramatic evening in Seville. [ 58 ] Around this time, tensions began to arise between what was perceived as president of the united states Núñez ‘s dictatorial dominion and the chauvinistic confirm group, Boixos Nois. The group, identified with a leftist segregation, repeatedly demanded the resignation of Núñez and openly defied him through chants and banners at matches. At the same fourth dimension, Barcelona experienced an bang in skinheads, who frequently identified with a rightist segregation. The skinheads lento transferred the Boixos Nois ‘ ideology from liberalism to fascism, which caused division within the group and a sudden hold for Núñez ‘s presidency. [ 62 ] Inspired by british hooligans, the remaining Boixos Nois became crimson, causing havoc leading to large-scale arrests. [ 63 ] After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, Barcelona signed the English top scorer Gary Lineker, along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta, but the team could not achieve success, as Schuster was excluded from the team. Terry Venables was subsequently fired at the begin of the 1987–88 season and replaced with Luis Aragonés. The season finished with the players rebelling against president of the united states Núñez, in an consequence known as the Hesperia mutiny, and a 1–0 victory in the Copa del Rey final against real Sociedad. [ 58 ]</p> <h4> The <i>Dream Team</i> earned run average</h4> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="179" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Cruyff_a_la_banqueta_del_Camp_Nou.jpg/200px-Cruyff_a_la_banqueta_del_Camp_Nou.jpg" width="200"/> As coach of the “ Dream team ”, Johan Cruyff won four straight league titles with Barcelona. In 1988, Johan Cruyff returned to the club, this prison term as coach and he assembled what would late be dubbed the “ Dream team ”. [ 64 ] He used a mix of spanish players like Pep Guardiola, José Mari Bakero, Jon Andoni Goikoetxea, Miguel Angel Nadal and Txiki Begiristain while signing international players such as Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romário and Hristo Stoichkov. [ 65 ]<br /> It was ten years after the origin of the young program, La Masia, when the young players began to graduate and play for their foremost team. One of the first graduates, who would subsequently earn international acclaim, was future Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola. [ 66 ] Under Cruyff ‘s steering, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. They beat Sampdoria in both the 1989 UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup concluding and the 1992 european Cup final at Wembley, with a dislodge kick back goal from Dutch external Ronald Koeman. They besides won a Copa del Rey in 1990, the European Super Cup in 1992 and three Supercopa de España trophies. With 11 trophies, Cruyff became the baseball club ‘s most successful director at that point. He besides became the club ‘s longest straight service director, serving eight years. [ 67 ] Cruyff ‘s luck was to change, and, in his final examination two seasons, he failed to win any trophies and fell out with president Josep Lluís Núñez, resulting in his deviation. [ 58 ] On the bequest of Cruyff ‘s football doctrine and the pass expressive style of play he introduced to the club, future bus of Barcelona Pep Guardiola would state, “ Cruyff built the cathedral, our job is to maintain and renovate it. ” [ 68 ] Reacting to Cruyff ‘s departure, an independent protest group was organised by Armand Caraben, Joan Laporta and Alfons Godall. [ 69 ] The aim of the group, called <i>L’Elefant Blau</i>, was to oppose the presidency of Núñez, which they regarded as a corruption of the club ‘s traditional values. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] Laporta would late take over the presidency of Barcelona in 2003. [ 71 ] Cruyff was concisely replaced by Bobby Robson, who took appoint of the baseball club for a single season in 1996–97. He recruited Ronaldo for a world record transportation tip from his former club, PSV and delivered a cup treble, winning the Copa del Rey, UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup and the Supercopa de España, with Ronaldo registering 47 goals in 49 games. [ 72 ] Despite his achiever, Robson was lone ever seen as a short-run solution while the clubhouse waited for Louis avant-garde Gaal to become available. [ 73 ] Like Maradona, Ronaldo only stayed a inadequate clock time before he left for Inter Milan in another world read transfer. [ 72 ] however, fresh heroes emerged, such as Luís Figo, Patrick Kluivert, Luis Enrique and Rivaldo, and the team won a Copa del Rey and La Liga double in 1998. In 1999, the cabaret celebrated its <i>centenari</i>, winning the Primera División title, and Rivaldo became the fourthly Barcelona player to be awarded european Footballer of the Year. Despite this domestic achiever, the failure to emulate Real Madrid in the Champions League led to van Gaal and Núñez resigning in 2000. [ 73 ]</p> <h3> 2000–2008 : passing Núñez, figure Laporta</h3> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="165" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Centenari_Logotip.JPG/220px-Centenari_Logotip.JPG" width="220"/> Plaque commemorating the centennial of FC Barcelona The departures of Núñez and Van Gaal were barely noticed by the fans when compared to that of Luís Figo, then club vice-captain. Figo had become a fad hero and was considered by Catalans to be one of their own. Barcelona fans, however, were distraught by Figo ‘s decision to join arch-rivals Real Madrid, and, during subsequent visits to the Camp Nou, Figo was given an extremely hostile reception. Upon his first return, a piglet ‘s head and a full bottle of whiskey were thrown at him from the crowd. [ 74 ] The following three years saw the club in decline, and managers came and went. Van Gaal was replaced by Lorenzo Serra Ferrer who, despite an across-the-board investment in players in the summer of 2000, presided over a mediocre league campaign and a first-round Champions League exit, and was dismissed belated in the temper. Long-serving Barcelona deputy coach Carles Rexach was appointed as his refilling, initially on a irregular footing, and managed to at least steer the club to the last Champions League blemish on the final day of the season against Valencia via an exceptional performance from Rivaldo, who completed arguably the greatest hat-trick in history with an overhead bicycle recoil achiever in the final examination minute to secure reservation. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] [ 77 ] Despite better form in La Liga and a good run to the semi-finals of the Champions League, Rexach was never viewed as a long-run solution and that summer Van Gaal returned to the club for a second spell as director. What followed, despite another becoming Champions League operation, was one of the worst La Liga campaigns in the club ‘s history, with the team a first gear as 15th in February 2003. This led to Van Gaal ‘s resignation and replacement for the rest of the campaign by Radomir Antić, though a sixth-place eat up was the best that he could manage. At the end of the season, Antić ‘s short-run sign was not renewed, and club president Joan Gaspart resigned, his placement having been made completely indefensible by such a black season on top of the cabaret ‘s overall decline in fortunes since he became president three years prior. [ 78 ]<br /> After the disappointment of the Gaspart era, the combination of a newfangled young president, Joan Laporta, and a youthful fresh director, early Dutch and Milan star Frank Rijkaard, saw the club bounce back. On the playing field, an inflow of international players, including Ronaldinho, Deco, Henrik Larsson, Ludovic Giuly, Samuel Eto’o, Rafael Márquez and Edgar Davids, combined with home grown spanish players, such as Carles Puyol, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi and Víctor Valdés, led to the club ‘s return to success. Barcelona won La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and Ronaldinho and Eto’o were voted beginning and third, respectively, in the FIFA World Player of the year awards. [ 81 ]<br /> In the 2005–06 season, Barcelona repeated their league and Supercopa successes. The pinnacle of the league season arrived at the Santiago Bernabéu in a 3–0 win over real Madrid. It was Rijkaard ‘s second victory at the Bernabéu, making him the first base Barcelona coach to win there doubly. Ronaldinho ‘s performance was therefore impressive that after his second goal, which was Barcelona ‘s third base, some Real Madrid fans gave him a standing ovation. [ 82 ] In the Champions League, Barcelona beat the English club Arsenal in the final examination. Trailing 1–0 to a ten-man Arsenal and with less than 15 minutes remaining, they came back to win 2–1, with utility Henrik Larsson, in his final examination appearance for the club, setting up goals for Samuel Eto’o and chap substitute Juliano Belletti, for the club ‘s first european Cup victory in 14 years. [ 83 ] Despite being the favourites and starting strongly, Barcelona finished the 2006–07 season without trophies. A pre-season US enlistment was later blamed for a string of injuries to key players, including leading scorer Eto’o and rising headliner Lionel Messi. There was open feud as Eto’o publicly criticised coach Rijkaard and Ronaldinho. [ 84 ] Ronaldinho besides admitted that a miss of seaworthiness affected his human body. [ 85 ] In La Liga, Barcelona were in inaugural place for much of the season, but inconsistency in the New Year saw Real Madrid overtake them to become champions. Barcelona advanced to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, winning the beginning leg against Getafe 5–2, with a finish from Messi bringing comparison to Diego Maradona ‘s goal of the hundred, but then lost the second leg 4–0. They took partially in the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, but were beaten by a former finish in the final examination against brazilian side Internacional. [ 86 ] In the Champions League, Barcelona were knocked out of the contest in the last 16 by eventual runner-up Liverpool on away goals. [ 87 ] Barcelona finished the 2007–08 season third base in La Liga and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League and Copa del Rey, both times losing to the eventual champions, Manchester United and Valencia, respectively. The day after a 4–1 kill to Real Madrid, Joan Laporta announced that Barcelona B coach Pep Guardiola would take over Frank Rijkaard ‘s duties on 30 June 2008. [ 88 ]</p> <h3> 2008–2012 : Guardiola earned run average</h3> <p> Barcelona B youth director Pep Guardiola took over Frank Rijkaard ‘s duties at the ending of the season. [ 88 ] Guardiola brought with him the immediately celebrated tiki-taka stylus of bid he had been taught during his clock time in the Barcelona young teams. In the march, Guardiola sold Ronaldinho and Deco and started building the Barcelona team about Xavi, Andrés Iniesta and Lionel Messi .<br /> Barça beat Athletic Bilbao 4–1 in the 2009 Copa del Rey Final, winning the contest for a record-breaking twenty-fifth meter. A historic 2–6 victory against Real Madrid followed three days late and ensured that Barcelona became 2008–09 La Liga champions. Barça finished the season by beating Manchester United 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, with goals from Eto’o and Messi, to win their one-third Champions League title, and complete the first always soprano won by a spanish team. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] [ 92 ] The team went on to win the 2009 Supercopa de España against Athletic Bilbao [ 93 ] and the 2009 UEFA Super Cup against Shakhtar Donetsk, [ 94 ] becoming the beginning european club to win both domestic and european Super Cups following a treble. In December 2009, Barcelona won the 2009 Club World Cup. [ 95 ] Barcelona accomplished two new records in spanish football in 2010 as they retained the La Liga trophy with 99 points and won the Supercopa de España for a ninth time. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] After Laporta ‘s passing from the clubhouse in June 2010, Sandro Rosell was soon elected as the fresh president of the united states. The elections were held on 13 June, where he got 61.35 % ( 57,088 votes, a commemorate ) of total votes. [ 98 ] Rosell signed David Villa from Valencia for €40 million [ 99 ] and Javier Mascherano from Liverpool for €19 million. [ 100 ] At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Barcelona players that had graduated from the club ‘s La Masia youth system would play a major role in Spain becoming populace champions. On 11 July, seven players who came through the academy participated in the concluding, six of which were Barcelona players whom started the peer, with Iniesta scoring the winning goal against the Netherlands. [ 101 ] In November 2010, Barcelona defeated their chief equal Real Madrid 5–0 in <i>El Clásico</i>. At the ceremony for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d’Or in December, Barcelona ‘s La Masia became the foremost young academy always to have all three finalists for the Ballon d’Or, with Messi, Iniesta and Xavi being named the three best players in the world for 2010. [ 102 ] In the 2010–11 season, Barcelona retained the La Liga trophy, their one-third championship in succession, finishing with 96 points. [ 103 ] In April 2011, the club reached the Copa del Rey final, losing 1–0 to Real Madrid at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia. [ 104 ] In May, Barcelona defeated Manchester United in the 2011 Champions League Final 3–1 held at Wembley Stadium, a repeat of the 2009 final, winning their fourth european Cup. [ 105 ] In August 2011, La Masia graduate Cesc Fàbregas was bought from Arsenal and he would help Barcelona defend the spanish Supercup against Real Madrid. The Supercup victory brought the sum number of official trophies to 73, matching the total of titles won by actual Madrid. [ 106 ] subsequently the same month, Barcelona won the UEFA Super Cup defeating Porto 2–0 with goals from Messi and Fàbregas. This extended the club ‘s overall number of official trophies to 74, surpassing Real Madrid ‘s full amount of official trophies. [ 107 ] The Super Cup victory besides saw Guardiola win his 12th trophy out of a possible 15 in his three years at the helm of the clubhouse, becoming the all-time read holder of most titles won as a coach at Barcelona. [ 108 ]<br /> In December, Barcelona won the Club World Cup for a commemorate second gear time since its institution, after defeating 2011 Copa Libertadores holders Santos 4–0 in the final examination thanks to two goals from Messi and goals from Xavi and Fàbregas. [ 109 ] As a result, the overall trophy haul during the predominate of Guardiola was further stretch and saw Barcelona win their 13th trophy out of a possible 16. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] Considered by some in the sport to be the greatest team of all time, with Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson stating, ” They mesmerise you with their passing ”, [ 13 ] their five trophies in 2011 saw them receive the Laureus World Sports Award for Team of the Year. [ 112 ] In the 2011–12 season, Barcelona lost the semi-finals of the Champions League against Chelsea. Guardiola, who had been on a roll contract and had faced criticism over his holocene tactics and police squad selections, [ 113 ] [ 114 ] announced that he would step down angstrom director on 30 June and be succeeded by adjunct Tito Vilanova. [ 115 ] [ 116 ] Guardiola finished his tenure with Barça winning the Copa del Rey final examination 3–0, bringing the run to 14 trophies that Barça had won under his coach. [ 117 ] It was announced in summer of 2012 that Tito Vilanova, adjunct director at Barcelona, would take over from Pep Guardiola as director. [ 118 ] Following his appointee, Barcelona went on an incredible guide that saw them hold the exceed spot on the league postpone for the entire season, recording entirely two losses and amassing 100 points. Their acme scorer once again was Lionel Messi, who scored 46 goals in La Liga, including two hat-tricks. On 11 May 2013, Barcelona were crowned as the spanish football champions for the 22nd clock, inactive with four games left to play. ultimately, Barcelona ended the season 15 points clear of rivals Real Madrid, despite losing 2–1 to them at the begin of March. [ 119 ] They reached the semi-final phase of both the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, going out to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively. On 19 July, it was announced that Vilanova was resigning as Barcelona coach because his throat cancer had returned, and he would be receiving discussion for the second time after a three-month checkup impart in December 2012. [ 120 ]</p> <h3> 2014–2020 : Bartomeu era</h3> <p> On 22 July 2013, Gerardo “ Tata ” Martino was confirmed as coach of Barcelona for the 2013–14 season. [ 121 ] Barcelona won the 2013 Supercopa de España 1–1 on away goals. [ 122 ] On 23 January 2014, Sandro Rosell resigned as president by the admissibility of a complaint for alleged embezzlement following the transfer of Neymar. [ 123 ] Josep Maria Bartomeu replaced him to finish the condition. [ 124 ]<br /> Barcelona won the triple in the 2014–15 season, winning La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League titles, and became the first european team to have won the treble doubly. [ 125 ] On 17 May, the club clinched their 23rd La Liga title after defeating Atlético Madrid. [ 126 ] This was Barcelona ‘s one-seventh La Liga title in the last ten years. [ 127 ] On 30 May, the club defeated Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final at Camp Nou. [ 128 ] On 6 June, Barcelona won the 2015 Champions League Final with a 3–1 win against Juventus, which completed the soprano, the club ‘s second in six years. [ 129 ] Barcelona ‘s attacking trio of Messi, Suárez and Neymar, dubbed “ MSN ”, scored 122 goals in all competitions, the most in a season for an attacking trio in spanish football history. [ 130 ] On 11 August, Barcelona started the 2015–16 season winning a joint record fifth European Super Cup by beating Sevilla 5–4 in the 2015 UEFA Super Cup. They ended the year with a 3–0 succeed over Argentine club River Plate in the 2015 Club World Cup final on 20 December to win the trophy for a record third time, with Suárez, Messi and Iniesta the top three players of the tournament. [ 131 ] The Club World Cup was Barcelona ‘s twentieth international title, a record only matched by egyptian club Al Ahly. [ 132 ] [ 133 ] By scoring 180 goals in 2015 in all competitions, Barcelona set the record for most goals scored in a calendar class, breaking Real Madrid ‘s phonograph record of 178 goals scored in 2014. [ 134 ] On 10 February 2016, qualifying for the one-sixth Copa del Rey concluding in the last eight seasons, Luis Enrique ‘s Barcelona broke the clubhouse ‘s record of 28 consecutive games unbeaten in all competitions set by Guardiola ‘s team in the 2010–11 temper, with a 1–1 guide with Valencia in the second branch of the 2015–16 Copa del Rey. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] With a 5–1 acquire at Rayo Vallecano on 3 March, Barcelona ‘s 35th meet unbeaten, the baseball club broke Real Madrid ‘s spanish commemorate of 34 games unbeaten in all competitions from the 1988–1989 temper. [ 137 ] [ 138 ] After Barça reached 39 matches unbeaten, their run ended on 2 April 2016 with a 2–1 kill to Real Madrid at Camp Nou. [ 139 ] On 14 May 2016, Barcelona won their sixth La Liga title in eight seasons. [ 140 ] The front three of Messi, Suárez and Neymar finished the season with 131 goals, breaking the record they had set the previous year for most goals by an attacking trio in a single season. [ 141 ] On 8 March 2017, Barcelona made the largest rejoinder in Champions League history in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 second Leg, defeating Paris Saint-Germain 6–1 ( aggregate sexual conquest 6–5 ), despite losing the first gear leg in France by a score of 4–0. [ 142 ] On 29 May 2017, former player Ernesto Valverde was named as Luis Enrique ‘s successor. [ 143 ] On 20 September 2017, Barcelona issued a statement exercising their stance on the 2017 Catalan referendum saying, “ FC Barcelona, in holding the utmost respect for its divers consistency of members, will continue to support the will of the majority of Catalan people, and will do so in a civil, peaceful, and exemplary way ”. [ 144 ] The match against UD Las Palmas on the referendum day was requested to be postponed by the Barcelona board due to grave violence in Catalonia, but it ( the request ) was declined by La Liga, therefore being held behind close doors. [ 145 ] Two directors, Jordi Monés and Carles Vilarrubí, handed in their resignations in protest at the game ‘s being played. [ 146 ] Winning La Liga for the 2017–18 season, on 9 May 2018, Barcelona defeated Villarreal 5–1 to set the longest unbeaten streak ( 43 games ) in La Liga history. [ 147 ] On 27 April 2019, Barcelona won their 26th La Liga title. [ 148 ] however, the La Liga title was overshadowed by an improbable Champions League exit to Liverpool in the semi-finals, with Barça losing the second leg 0–4 after being up 3–0 after a home victory. [ 149 ] On 13 January 2020, following the loss to Atlético Madrid in the spanish Supercup, former Real Betis passenger car Quique Setién replaced Ernesto Valverde as the new head coach of Barcelona. [ 150 ] ultimately Barcelona finished the season trophyless for first time in 12 years. On 17 August, the club confirmed that Setién had been removed from his position as director with director of football Eric Abidal besides dismissed from his put. [ 151 ] Two days late, Ronald Koeman was appointed as the new principal coach of Barcelona. [ 152 ] Rising dissatisfaction among supporters due to worsening finances and decline on the pitch in the former season led to Josep Maria Bartomeu announcing his resignation as president on 27 October 2020, to avoid facing a vote of no confidence from the club members. [ 153 ] [ 154 ]</p> <h3> 2021–present : render of Laporta and departure of Messi</h3> <p> On 7 March 2021, Joan Laporta was elected president of Barcelona with 54.28 % of the vote. [ 155 ] Barcelona won their 31st Copa del Rey, their first trophy under Ronald Koeman, after defeating Athletic Bilbao 4–0 in the final. [ 156 ] On 5 August 2021, despite Barcelona and Messi having reached an agreement and the clear intention of both parties to sign a fresh abridge, the deal could not happen due to fiscal and geomorphologic obstacles posed by the spanish Liga regulations. [ 157 ] On 10 August it was announced that Messi had joined French Ligue 1 side Paris Saint-Germain, ending his 21-year enchantment with Barcelona. [ 158 ] Koeman was sacked as coach on 28 October 2021, and on 6 November Xavi was announced as the baseball club ’ s new director, with a contract until 2024. [ 159 ]</p> <h2> support</h2> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="165" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Tifo_at_Camp_Nou.jpg/220px-Tifo_at_Camp_Nou.jpg" width="220"/> Fans at the Camp Nou The nickname <i>culer</i> for a Barcelona patron is derived from the Catalan <i>cul</i> ( english : buttocks ), as the spectators at the first stadium, Camp de la Indústria, sat with their <i>culs</i> over the stand. In Spain, about 25 % of the population is said to be Barça sympathisers, second gear behind very Madrid, supported by 32 % of the population. [ 160 ] Throughout Europe, Barcelona is the front-runner second-choice golf club. [ 161 ] The club ‘s membership figures have seen a significant addition from 100,000 in the 2003–04 season to 170,000 in September 2009, [ 162 ] the sharp heighten being attributed to the influence of Ronaldinho and then-president Joan Laporta ‘s media strategy that focused on spanish and english on-line media. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] In addition to membership, as of 2015 there are 1,267 formally register fan clubs, called <i>penyes</i>, around the world. [ 165 ] The fan clubs promote Barcelona in their vicinity and receive beneficial offers when visiting Barcelona. [ 166 ] Among the best digest teams globally, Barcelona has the second highest social media following in the world among sports teams, with over 103 million Facebook fans as of December 2017, precisely behind real number Madrid. [ 9 ] [ 167 ] The club has had many big people among its supporters, including Pope John Paul II, who was an honorary member, and former prime minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. [ 168 ] [ 169 ]</p> <h2> Club rivalries</h2> <h3> <i>El Clásico</i></h3> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="154" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Forcejeo_Real_Madrid_-_FC_Barcelona.jpg/230px-Forcejeo_Real_Madrid_-_FC_Barcelona.jpg" width="230"/> <i>El Clásico</i> Players jostle in Barcelona ‘s 2–6 succeed against real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in a 2009 There is much a fierce competition between the two strongest teams in a home league, and this is peculiarly the lawsuit in La Liga, where the bet on between Barcelona and Real Madrid is known as “ The classical ” ( <i>El Clásico</i> ). From the start of national competitions the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain : Catalonia and Castile, angstrom well as of the two cities. The competition reflects what many attentiveness as the political and cultural tensions felt between Catalans and the Castilians, seen by one author as a re-enactment of the spanish Civil War. [ 170 ] Over the years, the record for Real Madrid and Barcelona is 97 victories for Madrid, 96 victories for Barcelona, and 51 draws. [ 171 ]<br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="165" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Camp_Nou_during_El_Clasico_October_2012.jpg/220px-Camp_Nou_during_El_Clasico_October_2012.jpg" width="220"/> <i>El Clasico</i> at the Camp Nou Barcelona fans creating a mosaic of the Catalan flag before a 2012at the Camp Nou </p> <div style="margin-bottom:15px;margin-top:15px;"> <p style="padding: 20px; background: #eaf0ff;">Read more: <a href="https://www.jorihulkkonen.com/aeblkheml-1639386485/" rel="bookmark noopener" target="_blank" title="*แบล็คเมล์* แปลว่าอะไร ความหมาย คำแปล หมายความว่า ตัวอย่างประโยค">*แบล็คเมล์* แปลว่าอะไร ความหมาย คำแปล หมายความว่า ตัวอย่างประโยค</a> </p> </div> <p> During the dictatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera ( 1923–1930 ) and specially of Francisco Franco ( 1939–1975 ), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages spoken in spanish district, except spanish ( Castilian ) itself, were formally banned. [ 172 ] [ 173 ] Symbolising the Catalan people ‘s desire for exemption, Barça became ‘More than a club ‘ ( <i>Més que un club</i> ) for the Catalans. [ 174 ] According to Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, the best way for the Catalans to demonstrate their identity was by joining Barça. It was less bad than joining a clandestine anti-Franco campaign, and allowed them to express their dissidence. [ 175 ] During Franco ‘s regimen, however, the <i>blaugrana</i> team was granted profit due to its adept relationship with the dictator at management flush, even giving two awards to him. [ 176 ] On the other hand, Real Madrid was widely seen as the embodiment of the sovereign oppressive centralism and the fascist regimen at management level and beyond : Santiago Bernabéu, the former club president for whom their stadium is named, fought on the Nationalist side during the spanish Civil War. [ 177 ] [ 178 ] During the spanish Civil War, however, members of both clubs such as Josep Sunyol and Rafael Sánchez Guerra suffered at the hands of Franco supporters. [ 179 ] During the 1950s, the competition was exacerbated far when there was a controversy surrounding the transfer of Alfredo Di Stéfano, who ultimately played for very Madrid and was key to their subsequent achiever. [ 180 ] The 1960s saw the competition reach the european phase when they met doubly in a controversial knock-out orotund of the european Cup, with Madrid receiving unfavorable treatment from the referee. [ 181 ] [ 182 ] In 2002, the european run into between the clubhouse was dubbed the “ Match of The Century ” by spanish media, and Madrid ‘s gain was watched by more than 500 million people. [ 183 ] An intense repair which is marked by its indiscipline in summation to memorable goal celebrations from both teams – often involving mocking the opposition – such celebrated celebrations occurred in 2009 when Barcelona captain Carles Puyol kissed his catalan armband in front of indignant Madrid fans at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and in 2017 when Lionel Messi celebrated his 93rd-minute achiever for Barcelona against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu by taking off his Barcelona shirt and holding it up to infuriate Real Madrid fans – with his name and number facing them. [ 184 ]</p> <h3> <i>El derbi Barceloní</i></h3> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="165" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/FC_Barcelona_vs_RCD_Espanyol_%282005-06%29_%2858%29_%28142178805%29.jpg/220px-FC_Barcelona_vs_RCD_Espanyol_%282005-06%29_%2858%29_%28142178805%29.jpg" width="220"/> Barcelona players parade La Liga trophy around the Camp Nou in May 2006 after defeating Espanyol in their final base game of the season Barça ‘s local rival has always been Espanyol. <i>Blanc-i-blaus</i>, being one of the clubs granted royal backing, was founded entirely by spanish football fans, unlike the multinational nature of Barça ‘s primary board. The initiation message of the club was clearly anti-Barcelona, and they disapprovingly saw FC Barcelona as a team of foreigners. [ 185 ] The competition was strengthened by what Catalonians saw as a provocative congressman of Madrid. [ 186 ] Their original grind was in the affluent district of Sarrià. [ 187 ] [ 188 ] traditionally, Espanyol was seen by the huge majority of Barcelona ‘s citizens as a baseball club which cultivated a kind of submission to the central authority, in stark contrast to Barça ‘s revolutionist spirit. [ 189 ] besides in the 1960s and 1970s, while FC Barcelona acted as an integrate effect for Catalonia ‘s newly arrivals from poorer regions of Spain expecting to find a better life, Espanyol drew their support chiefly from sectors cheeseparing to the government such as policemen, military officers, civil servants and career fascists. [ 190 ] In 1918, Espanyol started a counter-petition against autonomy, which at that time had become a apposite consequence. [ 185 ] Later on, an Espanyol garter group would join the Falangists in the spanish Civil War, siding with the fascists. Despite these differences in political orientation, the <i>derbi</i> has always been more relevant to Espanyol supporters than Barcelona ones due to the difference in objectives. In late years the competition has become less political, as Espanyol translated its official name and anthem from spanish to Catalan. [ 185 ] Though it is the most play local bowler hat in the history of La Liga, it is besides the most unbalance, with Barcelona overwhelmingly dominant. In the primera división league postpone, Espanyol has entirely managed to end above Barça on three occasions from 81 seasons ( 1928–2016 ) and the lone all-Catalan Copa del Rey final was won by Barça in 1957. Espanyol has the consolation of achieving the largest allowance gain with a 6–0 in 1951, while Barcelona ‘s biggest succeed was 5–0 on six occasions ( in 1933, 1947, 1964, 1975, 1992 and 2016 ). Espanyol achieved a 2–1 succeed against Barça during the 2008–09 temper, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble-winning temper. [ 191 ]</p> <h3> competition with A.C. Milan</h3> <p> Barcelona ‘s rival in european football is italian club A.C. Milan. [ 192 ] [ 193 ] [ 194 ] [ 195 ] The team against which Barcelona has played the most matches ( 19 ), it is besides the second most play match in european competitions, tied with Real Madrid–Juventus and both after Real Madrid–Bayern Munich ( 24 ). [ 196 ] [ 197 ] Two of the most successful clubs in Europe, Milan has won seven european Cups to Barça ‘s five, while both clubs have won a record five european Super Cups. [ 198 ] Barcelona and Milan have won other continental titles, which make them the second base and third most decorate teams in world football, with 20 and 18 titles respectively, both behind Real Madrid ‘s 26. [ 199 ] Barcelona leads the tete-a-tete record with eight wins and five defeats. The first base meet between the two clubs was in the 1959–60 european Cup. They faced off in the round of golf of 16 and Barça won the tie on a 7–1 aggregate score ( 0–2 in Milan and 5–1 in Barcelona ). [ 200 ] While Milan had never knocked Barcelona out of the european Cup, they beat Johan Cruyff ‘s Dream Team 4–0 in the 1994 Champions League final examination, despite being the underdogs. [ 201 ] [ 202 ] In 2013, however, Barcelona made a “ historic ” comeback from a 0–2 first peg get the better of in the round of 16 of the 2012–13 Champions League, winning 4–0 at the Camp Nou. [ 203 ] [ 204 ]</p> <h2> possession and finances</h2> <p> Along with Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, and Osasuna, Barcelona is organised as a registered association. Unlike a circumscribed company, it is not possible to purchase shares in the club, but only membership. [ 205 ] The members of Barcelona, called <i>socis</i>, form an assembly of delegates which is the highest governing body of the club. [ 206 ] As of 2016, the club has 140,000 <i>socis</i>. [ 207 ] In 2010, <i>Forbes</i> evaluated Barcelona ‘s worth to be around €752 million ( US $ 1 billion ), ranking them fourthly after Manchester United, Real Madrid and Arsenal, based on figures from the 2008–09 season. [ 208 ] [ 209 ] According to Deloitte, Barcelona had a recorded tax income of €366 million in the lapp period, ranking second to Real Madrid, who generated €401 million in tax income. [ 210 ] In 2013, <i>Forbes</i> magazine ranked Barcelona the one-third most valuable sports team in the earth, behind real Madrid and Manchester United, with a value of $ 2.6 billion. [ 211 ] In 2014, <i>Forbes</i> ranked them the second most valuable sports team in the world, worth $ 3.2 billion, and Deloitte ranked them the world ‘s fourth full-bodied football club in terms of gross, with an annual turnover of €484.6 million. [ 212 ] [ 213 ] In 2017, <i>Forbes</i> ranked them the fourth most valuable sports team in the populace with a team value of $ 3.64 billion. [ 214 ] In 2018, Barcelona became the foremost sports team to surpass $ 1bn in annual revenues. [ 215 ] In November 2018 Barcelona became the foremost sports team with average first-team wage in surfeit of £10m ( $ 13.8m ) per class. [ 216 ] [ 217 ] however, years of debauched spending under the reign of Josep Maria Bartomeu ( president between 2014 and 2020 ), such as on fail transfers, and other factors such as the COVID pandemic, saw the club ’ sulfur gross debt rise to about $ 1.4bn in 2021, much of it short-run. [ 215 ]</p> <h2> Records</h2> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="227" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/2012_2013_-_06_Xavi_Hern%C3%A1ndez.jpg/170px-2012_2013_-_06_Xavi_Hern%C3%A1ndez.jpg" width="170"/> <span><span>Xavi made 767 total appearances for Barcelona, a former club record</span></span> In March 2021, Lionel Messi overtook Xavi ‘s record of 767 games played for the golf club, and presently has made 778 official appearances in all competitions, while besides holding the commemorate for the most appearances in La Liga matches for Barcelona, with 520. [ 218 ]<br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="234" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Leo_Messi_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Leo_Messi_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="170"/> <span><span>Lionel Messi is Barcelona’s all-time top appearance maker, top scorer, and the highest scoring player for a single club.</span></span> Barcelona ‘s all-time highest goalscorer in official competitions is Lionel Messi with 672 goals, surpassing Paulino Alcántara ‘s 369 goals in March 2014, a record which stood for 87 years. [ 219 ] In December 2020, Messi besides overtook Pelé ’ s 643 goals for Santos to become the highest official scorer for a individual club. [ 220 ] Messi is the commemorate goalscorer for Barcelona in European and international club competitions, [ 221 ] and the record league scorekeeper with 474 goals in La Liga. Four other players have managed to score over 100 league goals for Barcelona : César Rodríguez ( 190 ), Luis Suárez ( 147 ), László Kubala ( 131 ) and Samuel Eto’o ( 108 ). Josep Samitier is the club ‘s highest goalscorer in the Copa del Rey, with 65 goals. László Kubala holds the La Liga record for most goals scored in one catch, with seven goals against Sporting Gijón in 1952. [ 222 ] Lionel Messi co-holds the Champions League record with five goals against Bayer Leverkusen in 2012. [ 223 ] Eulogio Martínez became Barça ‘s crown goalscorer in a cup game, when he scored seven goals against Atlético Madrid in 1957. [ 221 ] Barcelona goalkeepers have won a record count of Zamora trophies ( 20 ), with Antoni Ramallets and Víctor Valdés winning a record five each. Valdés had a proportion of 0.832 goals-conceded-per-game, a La Liga criminal record, [ 224 ] and he besides holds the record for long period without conceding a finish ( 896 minutes ) in all competitions for Barcelona. [ 225 ] Claudio Bravo has the record of best unbeaten starting signal in a season in La Liga history, at 754 minutes. [ 226 ] [ 227 ]<br /> Barcelona ‘s longest serve coach is Jack Greenwell, with nine years in two spells ( 1917–1924 ) and ( 1931–1933 ), and Pep Guardiola is the club ‘s most successful coach ( 14 trophies in 4 years ). The most successful Barcelona actor is Lionel Messi with 35 trophies, surpassing Andrés Iniesta, with 32 trophies. [ 228 ] Barcelona ‘s Camp Nou is the largest stadium in Europe. The club ‘s highest home attendance was 120,000 in a european Cup quarter-final against Juventus on 3 March 1986. [ 229 ] The modernization of Camp Nou during the 1990s and the introduction of all-seater stands means the record will not be broken for the foreseeable future as the current capacity of the stadium is 99,354. [ 230 ] <i>El Barça de les Cinc Copes</i> is the first team in spanish football to have won five trophies in a unmarried season ( 1951–1952 ). [ 231 ] [ 232 ] [ 233 ] Barcelona is the only club to have played in every season of european competitions since they started in 1955 counting non- UEFA rival Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. [ 234 ] [ 235 ] On 18 December 2009, aboard being the alone spanish baseball club to achieve a continental treble, Barcelona became the first always European football team to win six trophies in a calendar year ( a sextuple ). [ 236 ] [ 237 ] In January 2018, Barcelona signed Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool for €120 million, the highest remove fee in club ‘s history. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] In August 2017, Barcelona actor Neymar transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for a populace record transfer tip of €222 million. [ 240 ] [ 241 ] In 2016, Barcelona ‘s La Masia was ranked second by the International Centre for Sports Studies ( CIES ) as the most top-level players producing academy in the global. [ 242 ]</p> <h2> Kits and cap</h2> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="110" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Fc_barcelona_1st_badge_1899.png/110px-Fc_barcelona_1st_badge_1899.png" width="110"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="110" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f8/FC_Barcelona_1910_logo.png/105px-FC_Barcelona_1910_logo.png" width="105"/> The first gear peak ( left ) worn by Barça from 1899 to 1910, and second peak ( right ), designed by Carles Comamala in 1910. The cabaret ‘s original crest was a quarter diamond-shaped peak topped by the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James, and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel tree and the other a handle. [ 21 ] The club shared Barcelona ‘s coat of arms, as a demonstration of its identification with the city and a desire to be recognised as one. [ 243 ] In 1910, the club held a rival among its members to design a newfangled cap. The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time played for the club. Comamala ‘s hypnotism became the crest that the club wears today, with some minor variations. The crest consists of the St George Cross in the upper-left corner with the Catalan pin beside it, and the team discolor at the bed. [ 21 ] The gloomy and red color of the shirt were first gear worn in a match against Hispania in 1900. [ 244 ] respective competing theories have been put away for the blue and red invention of the Barcelona shirt. The son of the first president, Arthur Witty, claimed it was the theme of his forefather as the colours were the same as the Merchant Taylor ‘s School team. Another explanation, according to writer Toni Strubell, is that the colours are from Robespierre ‘s First Republic. In Catalonia the common percept is that the colours were chosen by Joan Gamper and are those of his home team, FC Basel. [ 245 ] Since 1998, the club has had a kit deal with Nike. In 2016, the cover was renewed until 2028, for a record € 155 million per year but the contract includes a clause sanctioning penalty or agreement result anytime if Barcelona fail to qualify for the european competitions or is relegated from La Liga. [ 246 ] [ 247 ]</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Kit_left_arm.svg/31px-Kit_left_arm.svg.png" title="Team colours" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Kit_body_darkredhalf.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Kit_body.svg/38px-Kit_body.svg.png" width="38"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Kit_right_arm.svg/31px-Kit_right_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/100px-Kit_shorts.svg.png" width="100"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="40" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/100px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png" width="100"/>[248] The first kit worn by the club in 1899</td> <td> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Kit_left_arm.svg/31px-Kit_left_arm.svg.png" title="Team colours" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Kit_body_fcbarcelona62h.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Kit_body.svg/38px-Kit_body.svg.png" width="38"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Kit_right_arm.svg/31px-Kit_right_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/100px-Kit_shorts.svg.png" width="100"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="40" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/100px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png" width="100"/>[249] traditional Barcelona uniform since the 1920s</td> <td><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Kit_left_arm_fcbarcelona1516h.png" title="Team colours" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Kit_left_arm.svg/31px-Kit_left_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Kit_body_fcbarcelona1516h.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Kit_body.svg/38px-Kit_body.svg.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Kit_right_arm_fcbarcelona1516h.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Kit_right_arm.svg/31px-Kit_right_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Kit_shorts_fcbarcelona1516h.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/100px-Kit_shorts.svg.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="25" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Kit_socks_fcbarcelona1516h.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="40" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/100px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png" width="100"/>[250] The club used horizontal stripes only during the 2015–16 season </td> <td><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Kit_left_arm_fcbarcelona1920h.png" title="Team colours" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Kit_left_arm.svg/31px-Kit_left_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Kit_body_fcbarcelona1920h.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Kit_body.svg/38px-Kit_body.svg.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Kit_right_arm_fcbarcelona1920h.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Kit_right_arm.svg/31px-Kit_right_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/100px-Kit_shorts.svg.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="25" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Kit_socks_barcelona1920h.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="40" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/100px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png" width="100"/>[251] The club used a check blueprint only during the 2019–20 season </td> <td><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Kit_left_arm_fcbarcelona2122h.png" title="Team colours" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Kit_left_arm.svg/31px-Kit_left_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Kit_body_fcbarcelona2122h.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Kit_body.svg/38px-Kit_body.svg.png" width="38"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Kit_right_arm_fcbarcelona2122h.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="59" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Kit_right_arm.svg/31px-Kit_right_arm.svg.png" width="31"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Kit_shorts_fcbarcelona2122h.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="36" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/100px-Kit_shorts.svg.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="40" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Kit_socks_barcelona2122hl.png" width="100"/><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" height="40" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/100px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png" width="100"/>[252] For the 2021–22 season, the clubhouse is using a newfangled blueprint involving halve shorts .</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3></h3> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="164" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Maillots_fc_barcelone.jpg/220px-Maillots_fc_barcelone.jpg" width="220"/> <span><span>Nike is Barcelona’s official kit supplier since 1998</span></span></p> <h2> stadium</h2> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="thumbimage" height="152" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Camp_de_les_corts_1930.jpg/220px-Camp_de_les_corts_1930.jpg" width="220"/> An promote see of the Camp de Les Corts in 1930. It was the home stadium for Barcelona until the baseball club moved to the Camp Nou in 1957. Barcelona initially played in the Camp de la Indústria. The capacity was about 6,000, and club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a clubhouse with growing membership. [ 254 ] In 1922, the numeral of supporters had surpassed 20,000 and by lending money to the club, Barça was able to build the larger Camp de Les Corts, which had an initial capacity of 20,000 spectators. After the spanish Civil War the club started attracting more members and a larger total of spectators at matches. This led to several expansion projects : the grandstand in 1944, the southern stand in 1946, and last the northerly stand in 1950. After the last expansion, Les Corts could hold 60,000 spectators. [ 255 ] After the construction was complete there was no foster room for expansion at Les Corts. Back-to-back La Liga titles in 1948 and 1949 and the sign of László Kubala in June 1950, who would late go on to score 196 goals in 256 matches, drew larger crowd to the games. [ 255 ] [ 256 ] [ 257 ] The cabaret began to make plans for a new stadium. [ 255 ] The build of Camp Nou commenced on 28 March 1954, before a push of 60,000 Barça fans. The first stone of the future stadium was laid in plaza under the auspices of Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga and with the bless of Archbishop of Barcelona Gregorio Modrego. construction took three years and ended on 24 September 1957 with a final examination cost of 288 million pesetas, 336 % over budget. [ 255 ]<br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt= “Més que un club”, meaning ‘More than a club’. One of the Camp Nou stands displays Barcelona ‘s motto, , meaning ‘More than a clubhouse ‘. In 1980, when the stadium was in motivation of redesign to meet UEFA criteria, the baseball club raised money by offering supporters the opportunity to inscribe their mention on the bricks for a little tip. The idea was democratic with supporters, and thousands of people paid the fee. Later this became the center of controversy when media in Madrid picked up reports that one of the stones was inscribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid president and Franco patron Santiago Bernabéu. [ 258 ] [ 259 ] [ 260 ] In cooking for the 1992 Summer Olympics two tiers of seating were installed above the previous roofline. [ 261 ] It has a current capacity of 99,354 making it the largest stadium in Europe. [ 1 ] There are besides early facilities, which include : [ 262 ]

Honours

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In 2015, Barcelona received the Nine Values Cup, an award of the international children ‘s social program Football for Friendship. [ 263 ]

Players

For a tilt of all former and current FC Barcelona players with a Wikipedia article, see class : FC Barcelona players spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The police squad list includes only the chief nationality of each actor ; several non-European players on the squad have double citizenship with an EU country. besides, players from the ACP countries that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak rule .

stream police squad

As of 15 December 2021[264]

bill : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Barcelona B and Youth Academy

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

other players under contract

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Out on lend

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Personnel

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last updated : 10 November 2021
Source : [ 1 ]

last updated : 17 November 2021
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management

Board of Directors

Office Name
President SpainJoan Laporta
First Vice President
Director Responsible for Sporting Area
Director of the Barça Foundation 		Spain
Vice President
Director Responsible for Economic Area 		Spain
Institutional Vice President Spain
Vice President
Director Responsible for Social Area 		Spain
Vice President
Director Responsible for Marketing Area 		Spain
Treasurer Spain
Secretary
Director Responsible for Basketball 		Spain
Director Assistant to the Delegate Counsellor Spain
Director Responsible for Rink Hockey Spain
Director Responsible for Security Spain
Director Responsible for ‘Espai Barça’ Spain
Director Responsible for Social Area Spain
Director Responsible for Futsal Spain
Director Responsible for Women’s Football Spain
Director Responsible for Handball Spain
Director Responsible for Youth Football Spain
Board members Spain
Spain

last updated : 19 March 2021
Source : FC Barcelona

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Filmography

Year Title Direction
1974 Barça, 75 años de historia del Fútbol Club Barcelona Jordi Feliú
1998–1999 Aquest any, cent![265] Antoni Bassas
2014 Història del FC Barcelona[266] Santiago Gargallo
2018 Gamper, l’inventor del Barça[267] Jordi Ferrerons
2019 La Sagi, una pionera del Barça[268] Francesc Escribano i Josep Serra Mateu

See besides

References

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