FC Barcelona
Futbol Club
Barcelona (FCB) , commonly known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is
a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Founded in 1899 by a group
of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan
Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan
culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més
que un club" (English: "More than a club"). Unlike many other
football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the second most valuable
sports team in the world, worth $3.56 billion, and the world's second richest
football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of
€560.8 million. The official Barcelona anthem is the "Cant
del Barça", written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs.
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Luis Suárez became the club's most
expensive signing in 2014,
costing
between €81 and €94 million.
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Domestically, Barcelona has
won 24 La
Liga, 29 Copa
del Rey, 12 Supercopa
de España, 3 Copa
Eva Duarte and 2 Copa
de la Liga trophies, as well as being the record holder for the
latter four competitions. In international
club football, Barcelona has won five UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA
Cup Winners' Cup, a shared record five UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities
Fairs Cup and a record three FIFA
Club World Cup. Barcelona was ranked first in the IFFHS Club World Ranking for 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015 and currently occupies the third
position on the UEFA
club rankings. The club has a long-standing
rivalry with Real
Madrid; matches between the two teams are referred
to as El Clásico.
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| FC Barcelona: Starting XI for 2016-17 |
Barcelona is one of the
most supported teams in the world, and has the largest social media following
in the world among sports teams. Barcelona's
players have won a record number of Ballon d'Or awards
(11), as well as a record number of FIFA
World Player of the Year awards
(7). 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 school.
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| FC Barcelona: Camp Nou |
Barcelona is one of three
founding members of the Primera División that have never
been relegated from the top division, along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. 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
football club to win six out of six competitions in a single year, completing the sextuple in also winning the Spanish
Super Cup, UEFA
Super Cup and FIFA
Club World Cup. In 2011, the club became
European champions again and won five trophies. This Barcelona team, which
reached a record six consecutive Champions League semi-finals and won 14
trophies in just 4 years under Pep
Guardiola, is considered by some in the sport to be
the greatest team of all time. By
winning their fifth Champions League trophy on 6 June 2015, Barcelona became the first European club in history to
achieve the continental treble twice.
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⭕ - Knocked out
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🥈 - 2nd in a Championship
⭕ - Knocked out
✅ - Qualified
❗❗❗ - Hat-trick
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