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".

  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.

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