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[95] In La Liga, Barcelona were in first place for much of the season, but inconsistency in the New Year saw Real Madrid overtake them to become champions.
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[85][86][87] 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-term solution and that summer Van
Gaal returned to the club for a second spell as manager. -
In 1961, they became the first club to beat Real Madrid in a European Cup play-off.
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Long-serving Barcelona deputy coach Carles Rexach was appointed as his replacement, initially on a temporary basis, and managed to at least steer the club to the last Champions
League spot 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 kick winner in the final minute to secure qualification. -
What followed, despite another decent Champions League performance, was one of the worst La Liga campaigns in the club’s history, with the team as low as 15th in February
2003. -
[111] 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 world champions.
-
A historic 2–6 victory against Real Madrid followed three days later and ensured that Barcelona became 2008–09 La Liga champions.
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[63] Already an established player with Ajax, Cruyff quickly won over the Barcelona fans when he told the European press that he chose Barcelona over Real Madrid because he
could not play for a club associated with Francisco Franco. -
[118] The Super Cup victory also saw Guardiola win his 12th trophy out of a possible 15 in his three years at the helm of the club, becoming the all-time record holder of
most titles won as a coach at Barcelona. -
[64] Next to champions like Juan Manuel Asensi, Carles Rexach and Hugo Sotil, he helped the club win the 1973–74 season for the first time since 1960,[38] defeating Real Madrid
5–0 at the Santiago Bernabéu en route. -
[20] Full name: Futbol Club Barcelona; Nickname(s): Barça or Blaugrana (team), Culers or Barcelonistes (supporters), Blaugranes or Azulgranas (supporters); Founded: 29 November
1899; 123 years ago, as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona; Stadium: Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys; Capacity: 99,354[1]; President: Joan Laporta; Head coach: Xavi; League: La Liga, 2022–23, La Liga, 1st of 20 (champions) History 1899–1922: Beginnings
Walter Wild, the club’s first president (1899–1901). -
They took part in the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, but were beaten by a late goal in the final against Brazilian side Internacional.
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Barcelona is one of three founding members of the Primera División that have never been relegated from the top division since its inception in 1929, along with Athletic Bilbao
and Real Madrid. -
In 1901, the club participated in the very first football competition played on the Iberian Peninsula, the Copa Macaya, narrowly losing to Hispania AC, but in the following
year, Barça won the tournament, the club’s first-ever piece of silverware,[24] and then participated in the first Copa del Rey, losing 1–2 to Bizcaya (a combination of players from Athletic Club and Bilbao FC) in the final. -
[36] 1957–1978: Club de Fútbol Barcelona Barcelona line up against Hamburger SV before the 1960–61 European Cup semi-final With Helenio Herrera as coach, a young Luis Suárez,
the European Footballer of the Year 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. -
[28] The stadium is regarded as the main element that helped the club grow in the 1910s and become a dominant team,[29] winning three successive Campionats de Catalunya between
1909 and 1911, three Copa del del Rey in four years between 1910 and 1913, and four successive Pyrenees Cup between the inaugural year in 1910 and 1913, which was one of the earliest international club cups in Europe since it consisted of
the best teams of Languedoc, Midi and Aquitaine (Southern France), the Basque Country and Catalonia; all were former members of the Marca Hispanica region. -
[31] The latter became the club’s first full-time coach in 1917.
-
In 2009, Barcelona became the first Spanish club to win the continental treble consisting of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League, and also became the first
Spanish football club to win six out of six competitions in a single year, by also winning the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup. -
Van Gaal was replaced by Lorenzo Serra Ferrer who, despite an extensive investment in players in the summer of 2000, presided over a mediocre league campaign and a first-round
Champions League exit, and was dismissed late in the season. -
[25] In 1908, Hans Gamper – now known as Joan Gamper – became club president in a desperate attempt to save Barcelona from extinction, finding the club struggling not just
on the pitch, but also financially and socially, after not winning a competition since the Campionat de Catalunya in 1905. -
[17][18][19] By winning their fifth Champions League trophy in 2015 under Luis Enrique, Barcelona became the first European football club in history to achieve the continental
treble twice. -
One of the first graduates, who would later earn international acclaim, was future Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola.
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On 11 July, seven players who came through the academy participated in the final, six of whom were Barcelona players who started the match, with Iniesta scoring the winning
goal against the Netherlands. -
[83] Like Maradona, Ronaldo only stayed a short time before he left for Inter Milan in another world record transfer.
-
[119] Barcelona celebrating their 2011 FIFA Club World Cup win against Santos FC In December, Barcelona won the Club World Cup for a record second time since its establishment,
after defeating 2011 Copa Libertadores holders Santos 4–0 in the final thanks to two goals from Messi and goals from Xavi and Fàbregas. -
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 third Champions League title, and
complete the first ever treble won by a Spanish team. -
The tour led to the financial security of the club but also resulted in half of the team seeking asylum in Mexico and France, making it harder for the remaining team to contest
for trophies. -
[106] 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.
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In 1999, the club celebrated its centenari, winning the Primera División title, and Rivaldo became the fourth Barcelona player to be awarded European Footballer of the Year.
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Cruyff received this prestigious award a third time (the first player to do so) in 1974, while he was still with Barcelona.
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It was Rijkaard’s second victory at the Bernabéu, making him the first Barcelona manager to win there twice.
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The next 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.
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This was the game that first formed the identification of Madrid as the team of the dictatorship and Barcelona as its victims.
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[39] This coincided with the transition to professional football, and, in 1926, the directors of Barcelona publicly claimed, for the first time, to operate a professional
football club. -
[35] Team of FC Barcelona, published on El Gráfico, 1926 On 3 July 1927, the club held a second testimonial match for Paulino Alcántara, against the Spanish national team.
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He was crowned European Footballer of the Year in 1973 during his first season with Barcelona (his second Ballon d’Or win; he won his first while playing for Ajax in 1971).
-
[121][122] Considered by some in the sport to be the greatest team of all time, with Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson stating, ”They mesmerise you with their passing”,[18]
their five trophies in 2011 saw them receive the Laureus World Sports Award for Team of the Year. -
Trailing 1–0 to a ten-man Arsenal and with less than 15 minutes remaining, they came back to win 2–1, with substitute Henrik Larsson, in his final appearance for the club,
setting up goals for Samuel Eto’o and fellow substitute Juliano Belletti, for the club’s first European Cup victory in 14 years. -
Despite this domestic success, the failure to emulate Real Madrid in the Champions League led to van Gaal and Núñez resigning in 2000.
-
[8][9][10] The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, and matches between the two teams are referred to as El Clásico.
-
[100] Lionel Messi in action during the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final victory against Manchester United Barça beat Athletic Bilbao 4–1 in the 2009 Copa del Rey Final, winning
the competition for a record-breaking 25th time. -
Barcelona is one of the most widely supported teams in the world, and the club has one of the largest social media following in the world among sports teams.
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In 1912, Gamper recruited Paulino Alcántara, the club’s seventh all-time top-scorer, and in 1917, Gamper also recruited Jack Greenwell as the first full-time manager in Barcelona’s
history. -
[16] This Barcelona team, which won fourteen trophies in just four years under Pep Guardiola, is considered by some in the sport to be the greatest team of all time.
-
At the ceremony for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d’Or in December, Barcelona’s La Masia became the first youth academy ever 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. -
[115] 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. -
At the end of the season, Antić’s short-term contract was not renewed, and club president Joan Gaspart resigned, his position having been made completely untenable by such
a disastrous season on top of the club’s overall decline in fortunes since he became president three years prior. -
[77] Cruyff’s fortune was to change, and, in his final two seasons, he failed to win any trophies and fell out with president Josep Lluís Núñez, resulting in his departure.
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[5][6][7] 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 ninth position on the UEFA club rankings as of May 2023. -
The pinnacle of the league season arrived at the Santiago Bernabéu in a 3–0 win over Real Madrid.
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In 1945, with Josep Samitier as coach and players like César, Ramallets and Velasco, they won La Liga for the first time since 1929.
-
In December 2009, Barcelona won the 2009 Club World Cup.
-
In 1988, Johan Cruyff returned to the club, this time as manager and he assembled what would later be dubbed the “Dream Team”.
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Maradona’s time with Barcelona, however, was short-lived and he soon left for Napoli.
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[73] 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. -
Ronaldinho’s performance was so impressive that after his second goal, which was Barcelona’s third, some Real Madrid fans gave him a standing ovation.
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“[22] On 22 October 1899, Swiss Hans Gamper placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a football club; a positive response resulted in a meeting at
the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. -
The new president’s main objective was to develop Barcelona into a world-class club by giving it stability both on and off the pitch.
-
[82] Despite his success, Robson was only ever seen as a short-term solution while the club waited for Louis van Gaal to become available.
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[42] Although the team won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, and 1938,[38] success at a national level (with the exception of the 1937 disputed title)
evaded them. -
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. -
This led to Van Gaal’s resignation and replacement for the rest of the campaign by Radomir Antić, though a sixth-place finish was the best that he could manage.
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With the end of Franco’s dictatorship in 1974, the club changed its official name back to Futbol Club Barcelona and reverted the crest to its original design, including the
original letters once again. -
In 2010, three players who came through the club’s youth academy (Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi) were chosen as the three best players in the world in the FIFA Ballon
d’Or awards, an unprecedented feat for players from the same football academy. -
[55] In June 1950, Barcelona signed László Kubala, who was to be an important figure at the club.
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A pre-season US tour was later blamed for a string of injuries to key players, including leading scorer Eto’o and rising star Lionel Messi.
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[116] In August 2011, La Masia graduate Cesc Fàbregas was bought from Arsenal and he would help Barcelona defend the Spanish Supercup against Real Madrid.
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The day after a 4–1 defeat to Real Madrid, Joan Laporta announced that Barcelona B coach Pep Guardiola would take over Frank Rijkaard’s duties on 30 June 2008.
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[51] 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.
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[89][90] After the disappointment of the Gaspart era, the combination of a new young president, Joan Laporta, and a young new manager, former Dutch and AC Milan star Frank
Rijkaard, saw the club bounce back. -
Barcelona won La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and Ronaldinho and Eto’o were voted first and third, respectively, in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards.
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[59][60] Luis Suárez, the first Barcelona player to win the Ballon d’Or The 1960s were less successful for the club, with Real Madrid monopolising La Liga.
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[93] Despite being the favourites and starting strongly, Barcelona finished the 2006–07 season without trophies.
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[68][69] On 16 May 1979, the club won its first European Cup Winners’ Cup by beating Fortuna Düsseldorf 4–3 in Basel in a final watched by more than 30,000 travelling blaugrana
fans.
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