Real Madrid C.F.
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Real Madrid
Full name Real Madrid Club de Fútbol[1]
Nickname(s) Los Blancos (The Whites)
Los Merengues (The Merengues)
Founded 6 March 1902
(as Madrid Football Club)[2]
Ground Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
(Capacity: 80,354)
Honorary President Alfredo di Stéfano
President Florentino Pérez
Head Coach José Mourinho
League La Liga
2009–10 La Liga, 2nd
Home colours Away colours
Current season
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfutβol] Royal Madrid Football Club), commonly known as Real Madrid (and in Spain, in football circles, simply as el Madrid) is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the most successful team in Spanish football and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record 31 La Liga titles, 17 Spanish "Copa del Rey" Cups, 8 Spanish Supercups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte, a record 9 UEFA Champions Leagues, 2 UEFA Cups, 1 UEFA Supercup, and 3 Intercontinental Cups. Real Madrid was a founding member of FIFA and the now-defunct G–14 group of Europe's leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association. The word "Real" in the club's name is the Spanish term for "royal", and was given by the King in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem – several teams in Spain have got this royal distinction: Real Sociedad, Real Unión de Irún, Real Betis, and Real Zaragoza.
Founded in 1902, Real Madrid has spent its entire history in La Liga, the top league of Spanish football. In the 1940s, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Ciudad Deportiva had to be rebuilt following the Spanish Civil War. The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s. In the 1980s, the club had one of the best teams in Spain and Europe (known as La Quinta del Buitre), winning two UEFA Cups, five consecutive Spanish championships, one Spanish Cup and three Spanish Super Cups.
The team's traditional home colours are all white, although it initially adopted a blue oblique stripe on the shirt. Its crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand it. The current crest is a modified version of the one first adopted in the 1920s. Real Madrid's home ground is the 80,354-seater Santiago Bernabéu football stadium in downtown Madrid, where it has played since 1947.
Real Madrid holds long-standing rivalries with other football clubs, most notably FC Barcelona, with matches between the two teams referred to as "el Clásico". Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception. The club is the world's richest football club (€401m) in terms of revenue and the second most valuable and was worth over €950m in 2008. Santiago Bernabeu Stadium held the final of the UEFA Champions League in 2010 which was won by Internazionale.[3][4]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Crest and colours
3 Stadium
4 Statistics and records
5 Supporters
6 Rivalries
6.1 El Clásico
6.2 El Derbi madrileño
7 Brand
8 Popular culture
9 Players
9.1 Current squad
9.2 Notable players
10 Managerial information
11 Presidents
12 Honours
12.1 Regional Competitions
12.2 Domestic Competitions
12.3 Major European Competitions
12.4 Major Worldwide Competitions
13 References
14 External links
15 Footnotes
History
Main article: History of Real Madrid C.F.
Real Madrid's players celebrate their 2008 Supercopa de España title win.Real Madrid's origins go back to when football was introduced to Madrid by the academics and students of the Institución libre de enseñanza, which included several Oxbridge graduates. They founded Football Club Sky in 1897, playing on Sunday mornings at Moncloa. It split into two clubs in 1900: New Foot-Ball de Madrid and Club Español de Madrid. The latter club split again in 1902, resulting in the formation of Real Madrid Football Club on March 6 in 1902.[2] Three years after its foundation, in 1905, Madrid FC won its first title after defeating Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Cup final. The club became one of the founding sides of the Royal Spanish Football Federation on 4 January 1909, when club president Adolfo Meléndez signed the foundation agreement of the Spanish FA. After moving between grounds the team moved to the Campo de O'Donnell in 1912.[5] In 1920, the club's name was changed to Real Madrid after King Alfonso XIII granted the title of Real (Royal) to the club.[6]
In 1929, the first Spanish football league was founded. Real Madrid led the first edition until the last match, a loss to Athletic Bilbao, meant they finished runners-up to Barcelona.[7] Real Madrid won its first League title in the 1931–32 season. The Whites won the League again the following year, becoming the first side to have won the championship twice.[8]
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste became president of Real Madrid in 1945.[9] Under his presidency, the club, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Ciudad Deportiva were rebuilt following the Spanish Civil War. Beginning in 1953, he embarked upon a strategy of signing world-class players from abroad, the most prominent of them being Alfredo di Stéfano.[10]
In 1955, acting upon the idea proposed by the French sports journalist and editor of L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot, and building upon the Copa Latina (a tournament involving clubs from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy), Bernabéu met in the Ambassador Hotel in Paris with Bedrignan and Gusztáv Sebes and created an exhibition tournament of invited teams from around Europe that would eventually become what today is known as the UEFA Champions League.[11] It was under Bernabéu's guidance that Real Madrid established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football. The club won the European Cup five times in a row between 1956 and 1960, which included the 7–3 Hampden Park final against Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960.[10] Winning the competition five consecutive times saw Real permanently awarded the original cup and earning the right to wear the UEFA badge of honour.[12] The club won the European Cup for a sixth time in 1966 defeating FK Partizan 2–1 in the final with a team composed entirely of nationally born players (known as the Ye-yé team) – a first in the competition.[13] The name "Ye-yé" came from the "Yeah, yeah, yeah" chorus in the Beatles' song "She Loves You" after four members of the team posed for Diario Marca dressed in Beatles wigs. The Ye-yé generation was also European Cup runner-up in 1962 and 1964.[13]
In the 1970s, Real Madrid won 5 league championships and 3 Spanish Cups.[14] The club played its first UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971, being defeated by English side Chelsea 2-1.[15] On 2 July 1978, club president Santiago Bernabéu died while the World Cup was being played in Argentina. In his honour FIFA decreed three days of mourning during the tournament.[16] The following year, the club organized the first edition of the Santiago Bernabéu Trophy in the memory of its former president.
By the early 1980s, Real Madrid had lost its grasp on the La Liga title until a new batch of home-grown stars brought domestic success back to the club.[17] Spanish sport journalist Julio César Iglesias gave to this generation the name La Quinta del Buitre ("Vulture's Cohort"), which was derived from the nickname given to one of its members, Emilio Butragueño. The other four members were Manuel Sanchís, Martín Vázquez, Míchel and Miguel Pardeza.[18] With La Quinta del Buitre (reduced to four members when Pardeza left the club for Zaragoza in 1986) and notable players like goalkeeper Francisco Buyo, right-back Miguel Porlán Chendo and Mexican striker Hugo Sánchez, Real Madrid had one of the best teams in Spain and Europe during the second half of the 1980s, winning two UEFA Cups, five Spanish championships in a row, one Spanish cup and three Spanish Super Cups.[18]
In the early 1990s, La Quinta del Buitre split up after Martín Vázquez, Emilio Butragueño and Míchel left the club. In 1996, President Lorenzo Sanz appointed Fabio Capello as coach. Although his tenure lasted only one season, Real Madrid was proclaimed league champion and players like Roberto Carlos, Predrag Mijatović, Davor Šuker and Clarence Seedorf arrived at the club to strengthen a squad that already boasted the likes of Raúl, Fernando Hierro, Iván Zamorano, and Fernando Redondo. As a result, Real Madrid (with the addition of Fernando Morientes in 1997) finally ended its 32-year wait for its seventh European Cup. In 1998, under manager Jupp Heynckes, The Whites defeated Juventus 1–0 in the final thanks to a goal from Predrag Mijatović.[19]
In July 2000, Florentino Pérez was elected club president.[20] His campaign vowed to erase the club's debt and modernize the club's facilities. However, the primary electoral promise that propelled Pérez to victory was the signing of Luís Figo.[21] The following year, the club controversially got its training ground rezoned and used the money to begin assembling the famous Galáctico side including players such as Zinédine Zidane, Ronaldo, Luís Figo, Roberto Carlos, Raúl and David Beckham. It is debatable whether the gamble paid off, as despite a European Cup win in 2002, followed by the League in 2003, the club failed to win a major trophy for the next three seasons.[22]
Ramón Calderón was elected as club president on 2 July 2006 and subsequently appointed Fabio Capello as the new coach and Predrag Mijatović as the new sporting director. Real Madrid won the La Liga title in 2007 for the first time in four years but Capello was sacked.[23] In the 2007–08 season, The Whites won the domestic league for the 31st time, achieving their first consecutive league title in eighteen years.[24] On 1 June 2009, Florentino Pérez regained Real Madrid's presidency.[25][26] Pérez continued with the Galácticos policy pursued in his first term, buying Kaká from A.C. Milan[27] then purchasing Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United for a record breaking £80 million.
Crest and colours
The progression of Real Madrid's crest since the Club's formation in 1902.The first crest had a simple design consisting of a decorative interlacing of the three initials of the club, "MCF" for Madrid Club de Fútbol, in dark blue on a white shirt. The first change in the crest occurred in 1908 when the letters adopted a more streamlined form and appeared inside a circle.[28] The next change in the configuration of the crest did not occur until the presidency of Pedro Parages in 1920. At that time, King Alfonso XIII granted the club his royal patronage which came in the form of the title "Real madrid ", roughly translated as "Royal".[29] Thus, Alfonso's crown was added to the crest and the club styled itself Real Madrid Club de Fútbol.[28] With the dissolution of the monarchy in 1931, all the royal symbols (the crown on the crest and the title of Real) were eliminated. The crown was replaced by the dark mulberry band of the Region of Castile.[8] In 1941, two years after the end of the Civil War, the crest's "Real Corona", or "Royal Crown", was restored while the mulberry stripe of Castile was retained as well.[9] In addition, the whole crest was made full color, with gold being the most prominent, and the club was again called Real Madrid Club de Fútbol.[28] The most recent modification to the crest occurred in 2001 when the club wanted to better situate itself for the twenty-first century and further standardize its crest. One of the modifications made was changing the mulberry stripe to a more bluish shade.[28]
Real Madrid's original kit
Real Madrid's traditional home colours are all white, although it initially adopted a blue oblique stripe on the shirt (the design was kept in the club crest); but unlike today, dark blue socks were worn.[7][30] The striped shirt was replaced by an all-white version, modeled after the shirt worn by Corinthian F.C., in 1902.[31] In the same year, the blue socks were replaced by black ones. By the early 1940s the manager changed the kit again by adding buttons to the shirt and the club's crest on the left breast (which have remained ever since). On 23 November 1947, in a game against Atlético Madrid at the Metropolitano Stadium, Real Madrid became the first Spanish team to wear numbered shirts.[9]
Real's traditional away colours are all black or all purple. The club's kit is currently manufactured by Adidas whose contract extends from 1998.[32][33] Real Madrid's first shirt sponsor, Zanussi, agreed for the 1982–83, 1983–84 and 1984–85 seasons. Following that, the club was sponsored by Parmalat and Otaysa before a long-term deal was signed with Teka in 1992.[34][35] In 2001, Real Madrid ended their contract with Teka and for one season used the Realmadrid.com logo to promote the club's website. Then, in 2002, a deal was signed with Siemens Mobile and in 2006, the BenQ Siemens logo appeared on the club's shirt.[36] Real Madrid's current shirt sponsor is bwin.com following the economic problems of BenQ Siemens.[37][38]
Stadium
Main articles: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium, and Estadio Chamartín
Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu during a 2007 match with Real Betis
Ciudad Real Madrid represents the team training facilities since 2005.After moving between grounds the team moved to the "Campo de O'Donnell" in 1912, which remained its home ground for eleven years.[5] After this period, the club moved for one year to the Campo de Ciudad Lineal, a small ground with a capacity of 8,000 spectators. After that, Real Madrid moved its home matches to Estadio Chamartín which was inaugurated on 17 May 1923 with a match against Newcastle United. In this stadium, which hosted 22,500 spectators, Real Madrid celebrated its first Spanish league title.[7] After some successes, the 1943 elected president Santiago Bernabéu decided that the Estadio Chamartín was not big enough for the ambitions of the club. A new stadium was built and was inaugurated on 14 December 1947.[9][39] This was the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as it is known today, although it did not acquire this name until 1955.[10] The first match held on Bernabéu was played between Real Madrid and the Portuguese club Belenenses and won by The Whites with 3–1, the first goal being scored by Sabino Barinaga.[9]
The capacity has changed frequently, peaking at 120,000 after a 1953 expansion.[40][41] Since then, there have been a number of reductions due to modernizations (the last standing places went away in 1998–99 in response to UEFA regulations which forbids standing at matches in the UEFA competition), countered to some extent by expansions.[40] The last change was an increase of about five thousand to a capacity of 80,354, effected in 2003. A plan to add a retractable roof has been announced.[42]
The Bernabéu has hosted the 1964 European Championship final, the 1982 FIFA World Cup final, the 1957, 1969 and 1980 European Cup finals and the 2010 Champions League Final.[43] The stadium has its own Madrid Metro station along the 10 line called Santiago Bernabéu.[44] On 14 November 2007, the Bernabéu has been upgraded to Elite Football Stadium status by UEFA.[45]
On 9 May 2006, the Alfredo di Stéfano Stadium was inaugurated at the City of Madrid where Real Madrid usually trains. The inaugural match was played between Real Madrid and Stade Reims, a rematch of the 1956 European Cup final. Real Madrid won the match 6–1 with goals from Sergio Ramos, Cassano (2), Soldado (2), and Jurado. The venue is now part of the Ciudad Real Madrid, the club's new training facilities located outside Madrid in Valdebebas. The stadium holds 5,000 people and is Real Madrid Castilla's home ground. It is named after former Real footballer Alfredo di Stéfano.[46]
Statistics and records
Main article: List of Real Madrid C.F. records and statistics
Raúl is Real Madrid's all-time top goalscorer and top appearance.Raúl holds the record for most Real Madrid appearances, having played 741 first-team matches from 1994 to 2010. Manuel Sanchis, Jr. comes second, having played 711 times.[47] The record for a goalkeeper is held by Iker Casillas, with 518 appearances. With 127 caps (47 while at the club), Luís Figo of Portugal is Real's most capped international player.[48]
Raúl is Real's all-time top goalscorer, with 323 goals in 741 games (1994–2010).[49] Four other players have also scored over 200 goals for Real: Alfredo di Stefano (1953–64), Santillana (1971–88), Ferenc Puskás (1958–66) and Hugo Sánchez (1985–92). Sánchez holds the record for the most league goals scored in one season (38 in 1989–90). Di Stéfano's 49 goals in 58 matches was for decades the all-time highest tally in the European Cup, until it was surpassed by Raúl in 2005. The fastest goal in the history of the club (15 seconds) was scored by Brazilian Ronaldo on 3 December 2003 during a league match against Atlético Madrid.[50]
Officially, Real Madrid's highest home attendance is 83,329 for a Copa del Rey match in 2006. The current legal capacity of Estadio Santiago Bernabeu is 80,354.[51] The club's average attendance in 2007–08 season was 76,234, the highest in European Leagues.[52] Real have also set records in Spanish football, most notably the most domestic titles (31 as of 2007–08) and the most seasons won in a row (5, during 1960–65 and 1985–90).[53] With 121 matches (from 17 February 1957 to 7 March 1965), the club holds the record for longest unbeaten run at home in La Liga.[54]
The "Whites" also hold the record for winning the UEFA Champions League nine times and for the most semi-final appearances (21).[55] Raúl González is the all-time UEFA Champions League top scorer, with 66 goals. The team has the record number of consecutive participation in the European Cup with 15, from 1955–56 to 1969–70.
In June 2009, the club broke its own record for the highest transfer fee ever paid in the history of football by agreeing to pay Manchester United €96 million ($131.5 million, £80 million) for the services of Cristiano Ronaldo.[56] The fee of €76 million (over $100 million, £45.8 million) for Zinedine Zidane's transfer from Juventus to Real Madrid in 2001 was the previous highest transfer fee ever paid. In June 2009, Real Madrid also agreed to buy Kaká from AC Milan for a fee that broke the previous record in pounds sterling. The club's record sale came on 1 September 2008, when they sold Robinho to Manchester City for €42 million (£32.5 million).[57]
Supporters
During most home matches the majority of the seats in the stadium are occupied by season ticket holders, of which there are average of 68,670.[1] To become a season ticket holder one must first be a socio, or club member. Not all members are able to get a season ticket. In addition to members, the club has more than 1,800 peñas (official, club-affiliated supporters' groups) in Spain and around the world. Real Madrid has the highest average all-time attendance in Spanish football and regularly attracts over 65,000 fans to Santiago Bernabéu; it was the second best-supported La Liga team in the 2004–05 season, with an average gate of 71,900.[58]
The club has a large fanbase, who hold some long-standing rivalries with other clubs; It semiannually contests the El Clásico with FC Barcelona, its most notable rival.[59] Real Madrid's hardcore supporters are the so-called Ultras Sur supporters. They are known for their extreme right-wing politics. The Ultras Sur have developed an alliance with other right wing groups, most notably S.S. Lazio Irriducibili fans. On several occasions they have racially abused opposing players, and have been investigated by UEFA for doing so.[60][61]
Rivalries
El Clásico
Main article: El Clásico
The rivalry with Barcelona projects what some regard as the political tensions felt between Castilians and Catalans. From the early days of football in Spain the two clubs were seen as representatives of the Spanish State and Catalonia, as well as the two cities themselves which have moved in different directions culturally speaking. Though Spain's first socialist party was founded in Madrid, almost all the ideas that have shaped country's modern history - republicanism, federalism, anarchism, syndicalism and communism - have tended to be associated with Barcelona. On the other hand, Madrid is the seat of the government and of the royal family. Especially during the Francoist era, it came to represent the fascist, conservative, centripetal forces.[62][63]
During the 1950s, the rivalry was intensified further when the clubs disputed the signing of Alfredo di Stéfano, who finally played for Real Madrid and was key in the subsequent success achieved by the club.[64] The 1960s saw the rivalry reach the European stage when they met twice at the European Cup, Real Madrid winning in 1960 and Barça winning in 1961. In 2000, the rivalry was reinforced following the controversial decision by Luís Figo to leave Barça and sign for Real Madrid.[65] The two teams met again in the 2002 UEFA Champions League semi-final. Real Madrid, the eventual champion, won the clash dubbed by Spanish media as the Match of the Century. As the two biggest and most successful clubs in the Spanish league, the rivalry is renewed on an annual basis with both teams often challenging each other for the league championship. The rivarly was amplified to unprecedented heights in August 2009 as Real Madrid, in response to FC Barcelona caputuring the treble of League, Cup and Champions League, ushered in a new era of Galacticos with the acquisition of back to back FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'or winners Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as Karim Benzema and Xabi Alonso among other stars, with expenditure totalling €300 million, while Barcelona also signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic to add to their already all star cast, thereby creating an arrayed star studded face off.
El Derbi madrileño
Main article: El Derbi madrileño
Real Madrid supporters during the 2006 El Derbi madrileño match held on BernabéuThe club's nearest neighbour is Atlético Madrid, a rivalry is shared between fans of both football teams. Although Atlético was originally founded by three Basque students in 1903, it was joined in 1904 by dissident members of Madrid FC. Further tensions came because initially Real supporters came from the middle class while the Atlético supporters were drawn from the working class. Today these distinctions are largely blurred. They met for the first time on 21 February 1929 in matchday three of the first League Championship at the former Chamartín. It was the first official derby of the new tournament, and Real won 2–1.[7] The rivalry first gained international attention in 1959 during the European Cup when the two clubs met in the semi-final. Real won the first leg 2–1 at the Bernabéu while Atlético won 1–0 at the Metropolitano. The tie went to a replay and The Whites won 2–1. Atlético, however, gained some revenge when, led by former Real Madrid coach José Villalonga, it defeated The Whites in two successive Copa del Generalísimo finals in 1960 and 1961.[66]
Between 1961 and 1989, when Real dominated La Liga, only Atlético offered it any serious challenge, winning Liga titles in 1966, 1970, 1973 and 1977. In 1965, Atlético became the first team to beat Real at the Bernabéu in eight years. Real Madrid's record against Atlético in more recent times is very favorable.[67] A high point coming in the 2002–03 season, when The Whites clinched the La Liga title after an impressive victory at Atlético 0-4 at the Vicente Calderón Stadium.[68]
Brand
It was under Florentino Pérez's first presidency (2000–2006) that Real Madrid started its ambition of becoming the world's richest professional football club.[69] The club ceded part of its training grounds to the city of Madrid in 2001, and sold the rest to four corporations: Repsol YPF, Mutua Automovilística de Madrid, Sacyr Vallehermoso and OHL. The sale eradicated the club's debts, paving the way for it to buy the world's most expensive players such as Zinédine Zidane, Luís Figo, Ronaldo and David Beckham. The city had previously rezoned the training grounds for development, a move which in turn increased their value, and then bought the site.[22] The EU-commission started an investigation into whether the city overpaid for the property, to be considered a form of state subsidy.[70]
The sale of the training ground for office buildings cleared Real Madrid's debts of €270m and enabled the club to embark upon an unprecedented spending spree which brought big-name players to the club. In addition, profit from the sale was spent on a state-of-the-art training complex on the city's outskirts.[71]
Although Pérez's policy resulted in increased financial success from the exploitation of the club's high marketing potential around the world, especially in Asia, it came under increasing criticism for being too focused on marketing the Real Madrid brand, and not enough on the performances of the team.
By September 2007, Real Madrid was considered the most valuable football brand in Europe by BBDO.[72] In 2008, it was ranked the second most valuable club in football, with a value of €951 mil (£640 million / $1.285 billion),[73] only beaten by Manchester United, which was valued at €1.333 billion (£900 million).[74] In 2010, Real Madrid had the highest turnover in football worldwide.[75]
In September 2009, Real Madrid's management announced plans to open its own dedicated theme park by 2013.[76]
A study at Harvard University concluded that Real Madrid "is one of the 20 most important brand names and the only one in which its executives, the players, are well-known. We have some spectacular figures in regard to worldwide support of the club. There are an estimated 287 million people worldwide who follow Real Madrid." [77]
Popular culture
Real Madrid was the featured club in the second edition of the Goal! football movie trilogy, Goal! 2: Living the Dream... (2007). The film follows former Newcastle United star Santiago Muñez as he is first scouted, and then signed by Real Madrid for the 2005-06 season. The film's creators wanted to put emphasis on the changes in Muñez's life after his move to Madrid. Production was done with the full support of UEFA, allowing the film crew to use many real life players in cameo roles.
Real Madrid squad members featured in the film included Iker Casillas, Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Raúl, Sergio Ramos, Robinho, Thomas Gravesen, Michael Owen, Míchel Salgado, Júlio Baptista, Steve McManaman, Jonathan Woodgate, and Iván Helguera. Non-Real Madrid players to make cameo appearances included Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto'o, Andrés Iniesta, Pablo Aimar, Fredrik Ljungberg, Cesc Fàbregas, Santiago Cañizares and others. In the film, both Florentino Pérez and Alfredo di Stéfano presented the fictional player Muñez to the club after his signing.[78]
Real, The Movie is a 2005 part feature, part documentary film that showcases the world-wide passion for Real Madrid C.F. Produced by the club and directed by Borja Manso, it follows five sub-stories of fans from around the world and their love for Real Madrid. Along with the fictional portion of the film, it also contains real footage of the squad, during training at Ciudad Real Madrid, matches, and interviews. Although the film mentions all of the squad, it mainly focuses on Los Galácticos such as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, Raúl, Luís Figo, Ronaldo, Iker Casillas, and Roberto Carlos, among others. The film was originally produced in Spanish, but has been dubbed for their world-wide fanbase.
The book White Storm: 100 years of Real Madrid by Phil Ball was the first English-language history of Real Madrid. Published in 2002, it talks about the most successful moments of the club during its first centenary, having been translated into various languages.
Players
Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling. Real Madrid has established a reputation of signing some of the world's best players[citation needed], a throw back to President Santiago Bernabéu Yeste's 1950s policy that brought the likes of Alfredo di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, Francisco Gento and Raymond Kopa. In recent times the likes of Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo and Beckham simultaneously donned the prestigious white shirt, giving birth to the name Los Galácticos. The second tenure of Florentino Pérez is typical as seen with the arrival of the much famed pair of Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo.[citation needed]
Current squad
See Real Madrid squad 2010–11
As of the 27th July 2010.[79][80] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player
1 GK Iker Casillas (captain)
3 DF Pepe
4 DF Sergio Ramos (vice-captain)
5 MF Fernando Gago
6 MF Mahamadou Diarra
7 FW Cristiano Ronaldo
8 MF Kaká
9 FW Karim Benzema
10 MF Lassana Diarra
11 MF Ángel di María
12 DF Marcelo
13 GK Jerzy Dudek
No. Position Player
14 MF Xabi Alonso
15 DF Royston Drenthe
16 MF Sami Khedira
17 DF Álvaro Arbeloa
18 DF Raúl Albiol
19 DF Ezequiel Garay
20 FW Gonzalo Higuaín
21 MF Pedro León
22 MF Sergio Canales
23 MF Rafael van der Vaart
24 MF Esteban Granero
26 GK Antonio Adán
Notable players
Main article: List of Real Madrid C.F. players
Managerial information
For a full list of Real Madrid managers, see List of Real Madrid C.F. managers.
There have been 44 managers of Real Madrid since the appointment of the club's first professional manager, Arthur Johnson in 1910. The longest-running manager in terms of time and games is Miguel Muñoz (1960–1974) with 604 matches. Chilean Manuel Pellegrini is Real's most successful permanent manager in terms of total percentage of wins, with 75% in 48 games. Luis Carniglia, with 70.59%, is the most successful long-term manager. Jacinto Quincoces is team's least successful (38.89%).
Only managers who have won at least one trophy are mentioned.[81][82]
Name Period Trophies Total
Domestic International
LC SC SS LC CL UCWC UC USC IC
Arthur Johnson 1910–20 - 5 - - - - - - - 5
Lippo Hertzka 1930–32 1 - - - - - - - - 1
Robert Firth 1932–34 1 - - - - - - - - 1
Francisco Bru 1934–36, 1939–41 - 1 - - - - - - - 1
Jacinto Quincoces 1945–46, 1947–48 - 1 1 - - - - - - 2
Baltasar Albéniz 1946–47, 1950–51 - 1 - - - - - - - 1
Enrique Fernández 1953–54 1 - - - - - - - - 1
José Villalonga 1954–57 2 - - - 2 - - - - 4
Luis Carniglia 1957–59, 1959 1 - - - 2 - - - - 3
Miguel Muñoz 1959, 1960–74 9 2 - - 2 - - - 1 14
Miljan Miljanić 1974–77 2 1 - - - - - - - 3
Vujadin Boškov 1979–82 1 1 - - - - - - - 2
Alfredo Di Stéfano 1982–1984, 1990–91 - - 1 - - - - - - 1
Luis Molowny 1974, 1977–79, 1982, 1985–86 3 3 - 1 - - 2 - - 9
Leo Beenhakker 1986–89, 1992 3 1 1 - - - - - - 5
John Toshack 1989–90, 1999 1 - - - - - - - - 1
Radomir Antić 1991–92 - - 1 - - - - - - 1
Benito Floro Sanz 1992–94 - 1 1 - - - - - - 2
Jorge Valdano 1994–96 1 - - - - - - - - 1
Fabio Capello 1996–97, 2006–07 2 - - - - - - - - 2
Jupp Heynckes 1997–98 - - 1 - 1 - - - - 2
Guus Hiddink 1998–99 - - - - - - - - 1 1
Vicente Del Bosque 1994, 1996, 1999–03 2 - 1 - 2 - - 1 1 7
Carlos Queiroz 2003–04 - - 1 - - - - - - 1
Bernd Schuster 2007–08 1 - 1 - - - - - - 2
Presidents
Since its foundation, Real Madrid has been owned and operated only by its members (all Spanish) called socios, unlike most European football clubs. Santiago Bernabéu Yeste remains the longest-running president of The Whites (35 years, from 1943 to 1978). On July 2000, former Real player Alfredo di Stéfano was appointed Honorary President of the Club.[83]
As of 1 June 2009.[84]
Businessman Florentino Pérez is the current president of the club.Name From To
Julián Palacios 1900 6 March 1902
Juan Padrós 6 March 1902 January 1904
Carlos Padrós January 1904 1908
Adolfo Meléndez 1908 July 1916
Pedro Parages July 1916 16 May 1926
Luis de Urquijo 16 May 1926 1930
Luis Usera 1930 31 May 1935
Rafael Sánchez Guerra 31 May 1935 4 August 1936
Adolfo Meléndez 4 August 1936 1940
Antonio Santos Peralba 1940 11 September 1943
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste 11 September 1943 2 June 1978
Luis de Carlos September 1978 24 May 1985
Ramón Mendoza 24 May 1985 26 November 1995
Lorenzo Sanz 26 November 1995 16 July 2000
Florentino Pérez 16 July 2000 27 February 2006
Fernando Martín Álvarez 27 February 2006 26 April 2006
Luis Gómez-Montejano 26 April 2006 2 July 2006
Ramón Calderón 2 July 2006 16 January 2009
Vicente Boluda 16 January 2009 31 May 2009
Florentino Pérez 1 June 2009 present
Honours
Historically, Real Madrid is Spain's most successful team, having won 58 domestic trophies, and one of the most recognized football clubs in the world, having won 15 international trophies, making them the second most successful team in Europe and third in the world for official international competition won, all recognized by UEFA and FIFA; it also has the record in La Liga titles (with 31), Supercopa de España titles (with 8) and European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles (with 9). The club was placed first in the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century's selection on 23 December 2000.[85] It also received the FIFA Order of Merit in 2004.[86] Added to this, Real is allowed to wear a multiple-winner badge on their shirt during UEFA Champions League matches as they have won more than five European Cups.[12]
Regional Competitions
Campeonato Centro/Trofeos Mancomunados[14]
Winners (24): 1902-03, 1904-05, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1907-08, 1909-10, 1912-13, 1915-16, 1916-17, 1917-18, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36
Domestic Competitions
La Liga (Record)[14]
Winners (31): 1931–32, 1932–33, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08
Copa del Rey[14]
Winners (17): 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1917, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1961–62, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1992–93
Supercopa de España[1]
Winners (8): 1988, 1989*, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2008
(* Won Copa del Rey and La Liga)
Copa Eva Duarte
Winners (1): 1947
Copa de la Liga[87]
Winners (1): 1984–85
Major European Competitions
European Cup/ UEFA Champions League[14]
Winners (9): 1955–56*, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1965–66, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02
(* First ever winners)
UEFA Cup/ UEFA Europa League[14]
Winners (2): 1984–85, 1985–86
UEFA Super Cup[14]
Winners (1): 2002
Latin Cup[14]
Winners (2): 1955, 1957
Copa Iberoamericana[14]
Winners (1): 1994
Major Worldwide Competitions
Intercontinental Cup/ FIFA Club World Cup[14]
Winners (3): 1960, 1998, 2002
References
Dénes, Tamás & Rochy, Zoltán (2002). Real Madrid. Aréna 2000. ISBN 963-86167-5-X.
Ball, Phil (2003 New edition). Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football. WSC Books Limited. ISBN 0-954-01346-8.
Ball, Phil (2003). White Storm: The Story of Real Madrid. Mainstream. ISBN 1-84018-763-8.
McManaman, Steve & Edworthy, Sarah (2003). El Macca: Four Years with Real Madrid. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-48920-9.
Luis Miguel González, Luis González López, Fundación Real Madrid (2002). Real Madrid: Cien años de leyenda, 1902-2002. Everest. ISBN 84-241-9215-X.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Real Madrid
Wikinews has news related to:
Real Madrid
News sites
Real Madrid news from Marca (Spanish)
Real Madrid news from AS (Spanish)
Real Madrid news from Sky Sports
Official websites
Realmadrid.com Official club website (Spanish) / (English) / (Japanese)
Real Madrid, Canal Oficial YouTube's official Real Madrid channel
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol at the Liga de Fútbol Profesional official website (Spanish)
Real Madrid CF at the UEFA official website
2009/2010 Real Madrid Statistical Websites
Real Madrid comprehensive statistics
ESPN Real Madrid page
Footnotes
1.^ a b c "Real Madrid Club de Fútbol" (in Spanish). Liga de Fútbol Profesional. http://www.lfp.es/Default.aspx?tabid=78&IDParam=15. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
2.^ a b Luís Miguel González. "Pre-history and first official title (1900-1910)". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730681095/noticia/Noticia/Real_Madrid_turns_106_(I).htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
3.^ "United rise but Real Madrid stays top". Deloitte UK. 2008-02-14. http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/press_release/0,1014,sid%253D2834%2526cid%253D191865,00.html. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
4.^ "Soccer Team Valuations". forbes.com. 2008-04-30. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/34/biz_soccer08_Soccer-Team-Valuations_Revenue.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
5.^ a b "History — Chapter 1 - From the Estrada Lot to the nice, little O’Donnel pitch". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/Santiago_Bernabeu/1193041512791/Historia/History.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
6.^ Luís Miguel González. "Bernabéu's debut to the title of Real (1911-1920)". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730681252/noticia/Noticia/Real_Madrid_turns_106_(II).htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
7.^ a b c d Luís Miguel González (2007-02-28). "A spectacular leap towards the future (1921-1930)". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730681768/noticia/Noticia/Real_Madrid_turns_106_(III).htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
8.^ a b Luís Miguel González. "The first two-time champion of the League (1931-1940)". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730681729/noticia/Noticia/Real_Madrid_turns_106_(IV).htm. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
9.^ a b c d e Luís Miguel González. "Bernabéu begins his office as President building the new Chamartín Stadium (1941-1950)". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730681924/noticia/Noticia/Real_Madrid_turns_106_(V).htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
10.^ a b c Luís Miguel González. "An exceptional decade (1951-1960)". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730565386/noticia/Noticia/Real_Madrid_turns_106_(VI).htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
11.^ Matthew Spiro (2006-05-12). "Hats off to Hanot". uefa.com. http://www.uefa.com/magazine/news/Kind=512/newsId=419682.html. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
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25.^ First measures adopted by the Real Madrid Board of DirectorsANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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31.^ Real Madrid home kit in 1905 was all-white, so the supporters start calling the players as Los Blancos
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36.^ "BenQ Mobile Scores As Real Madrid’s New Major Sponsor". Realmadrid.com. 2005-11-08. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202735411099/noticia/Noticia/BenQ_Mobile_Scores_As_Real_Madrid&%238217,s_New_Major_Sponsor.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
37.^ Juan José López Soto (2008-06-11). "Real Madrid and Bwin sign sponsorship agreement". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202730193846/noticia/Noticia/Three_year_deal.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
38.^ "Our Sponsors — bwin.com". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1193042218494/contenido/Patrocinador/bwin.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
39.^ "History — Chapter 3 - The New Chamartin, an exemplary stadium". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/Santiago_Bernabeu/1193041512791/Historia/History.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
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41.^ "History — Chapter 4". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/Santiago_Bernabeu/1193041512791/Historia/History.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
42.^ "History — Chapter 10 - The future". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/Santiago_Bernabeu/1193041512791/Historia/History.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
43.^ Alvaro Velasco (2008-03-28). "Final at the Bernabéu". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202729990178/noticia/Noticia/Final_at_the_Bernabeu.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
44.^ "Santiago Bernabéu station" (in Spanish). Metromadrid.es. http://www.metromadrid.es. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
45.^ Javier Palomino (2007-11-14). "The Bernabéu is now Elite". Realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202729454004/noticia/Noticia/The_Bernabeu_is_now_Elite.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
46.^ "This one's for you, Alfredo!". Realmadrid.com. 2006-05-10. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202733192447/noticia/Noticia/This_one_s_for_you,_Alfredo!.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
47.^ "Legends — Manolo Sanchís Hontiyuela". realmadrid.com. http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1193041516860/1202817389172/jugador/JugadorLegendario/Sanchis.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
48.^ "FIFA Century Club" (PDF). fifa.com. http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/centclub/centuryclub%5f56649.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
49.^ "Conor Brown Equals di Stéfano's Real Madrid Record". http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1771/yahoo/2009/02/01/1087643/raul-equals-di-stefanos-real-madrid-record. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
50.^ "Quickfire Ronaldo proves Real hero". CNN.com. 2003-12-03. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SPORT/football/12/03/spain.real/. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
51.^ "Attendances Spain average — Primera Division 2007-2008". European Football Statistics. http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/current/aveesp.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
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54.^ "Unbeaten at Home in the League". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/unbeaten.html#home. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
55.^ "History". Uefa.com. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/history/index.html. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
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58.^ On the first place was Barcelona with an average gate of 76,000.
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66.^ Real have won El Derbi madrileño 75 times.
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FC Barcelona
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Barcelona
Full name Futbol Club Barcelona
Nickname(s) L'equip blaugrana (team)
Culers or Culés (supporters)
Blaugranes or Azulgranas (supporters).
Founded 29 November 1899
(as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona)
Ground Camp Nou, Barcelona
(Capacity: 98,772)
President Sandro Rosell
Head Coach Josep Guardiola
League La Liga
2009–10 La Liga, 1st
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season
Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fudˈbɔɫ ˌklup bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish: [ˈfuðβol kluβ βarθeˈlona]), also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça (Catalan: [ˈbaɾsə], Spanish: [ˈbarsa]), is a football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The team was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Spanish men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club). The official Barça anthem is El Cant del Barça by Josep Maria Espinàs.
FC Barcelona is one of only three clubs never to have been relegated from La Liga and is the most successful club in Spanish football along with Real Madrid, having won twenty La Liga titles, a record twenty-five Spanish Cups, eight Spanish Super Cups, four Eva Duarte Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most successful clubs in European football having won fourteen official major trophies in total, including ten UEFA competitions.[1] They have won three UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups (the forerunner to the UEFA Europa League), three UEFA Super Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club is also the only European side to have played continental football in every season since its inception in 1955.
In 2009, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League. FC Barcelona also became the first football team ever to win six out of six competitions in a single year thus completing the sextuple, comprising the 2008–09 La Liga, 2008–09 Copa del Rey, 2009 Supercopa de España, 2008–09 UEFA Champions League, 2009 UEFA Super Cup and 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.
Barcelona holds a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, with matches between the two teams referred to as "El Clásico". Unlike many other football clubs, the fans of FC Barcelona own and operate the club. The club is the world's second richest football club (€365m) in terms of revenue, only surpassed by Real Madrid.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
1.2 Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
1.3 Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1974)
1.4 Núñez and the stabilization years (1978–2000)
1.5 Exit Núñez, enter Laporta (2000–2010)
1.5.1 Sextuple winning year (2009)
2 Support
2.1 El Clásico
2.2 El Derbi Barceloní
3 Finances and ownership
4 Records
5 Crest and shirt
6 Stadia
7 Honours
7.1 Domestic competitions
7.2 Major European competitions
7.3 Major worldwide competitions
8 Players
8.1 Current squad
8.2 Out on loan
8.3 Notable players
9 Personnel
9.1 Current technical staff
10 Management
11 Affiliated content
12 Sources
13 References
14 External links
History
Main article: History of FC Barcelona
Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
FC Barcelona in 1903
Barcelona founder Joan GamperOn 22 October 1899, Joan Gamper placed an advert 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 where eleven players attended: Walter Wild, later to become the first director of the club, Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Pujol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons and William Parsons. As a result Foot-Ball Club Barcelona was born.[2]
Sports Notice: Our friend and companion Hans Gamper... former Swiss [football] champion, being keen on organising some football games in the city asks anyone who feels enthusiastic enough about the sport to present themselves at the office of this newspaper any Tuesday or Friday evening between the hours of 9 and 11pm.
– Gampers ad in Los Deportes[2]
FC Barcelona quickly emerged as one of the leading clubs in Spain, competing in the Campeonato de Cataluña and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the club won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and also played in the first Copa del Rey final, losing 2–1 to Bizcaya.[3]
In 1908, Joan Gamper became club president for the first time as he took over the presidency in order to save the club from folding.[4] The club had not won anything since the Campeonato de Cataluña in 1905 and as a result got into financial trouble. Gamper was subsequently club president on five separate occasions between 1908 and 1925 and spent 25 years at the helm. One of his main achievements was to help Barça acquire its own stadium and thus achieve a means of generating stable income.[5]
On 14 March 1909, the team moved into the Camp de la Indústria, a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. From 1910 to 1914 Barcelona participated in the Pyrenees Cup, which consisted of the best teams of Languedoc, Midi and Aquitaine (Southern France), the Basque Country and Catalonia.[6] It was considered the finest competition open for participation in that time.[7]
Gamper simultaneously launched a campaign to recruit more club members and by 1922, the club had over 20,000 who helped finance a new stadium. This led to the club to move to the new Las Cortes, which they inaugurated the same year.[8] Las Cortes had an initial capacity of 22,000, which was later expanded to 60,000.[9]
Gamper recruited Jack Greenwell as the first full-time manager in Barcelona's history. This saw the club's fortunes begin to improve on the field. During the Gamper era FC Barcelona won eleven Campeonato de Cataluña, six Copa del Rey and four Pyrenees Cups and enjoyed its first "golden age".[3]
Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
On 14 June 1925 in a spontaneous reaction against Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, the crowd in the stadium jeered the Royal March. As a reprisal, the ground was closed for six months and Gamper was forced to relinquish the presidency of the club.[10] This also coincided with the transition to professional football, and in 1926 the directors of Barcelona for the first time publicly claimed to operate a professional football club.[8] In 1928, victory in the Spanish Cup was celebrated with a poem titled "Oda a Platko", which was written by a member of the Generation of '27, Rafael Alberti, inspired by the heroic performance of the Barcelona keeper.[11] On 30 July 1930, Gamper committed suicide after a period of depression brought on by personal and financial problems.[5]
Although they continued to have players of the standing of Josep Escolà, the club now entered a period of decline, in which political conflict overshadowed sport throughout society. Barça faced a crisis on three fronts: financially, politically and in sporting terms.[9] Although the team won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936 and 1938,[3] success at a national level (with the exception of the 1937 disputed title) evaded them.
A month after the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, several players from Barcelona enlisted, along with players from Athletic Bilbao, in the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising.[12] In the same year, club president Josep Sunyol was murdered by rebel soldiers near Guadarrama. In the summer of 1937, the squad was on tour in Mexico and the United States, where it was received as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. That tour led to the financial security of the club, but also resulted in half the team seeking asylum in Mexico and France. On 16 March 1938, the fascists dropped a bomb on the club's offices which caused significant damage. A few months later, Barcelona was under fascist occupation and as a symbol of the 'undisciplined' Catalanism, the club, now down to just 3,486 members, faced a number of serious problems.[9]
After the Civil War, the Catalan flag was banned and football clubs were prohibited from using non-Spanish names. These measures led to the club having its name forcibly changed to Club de Fútbol Barcelona and the removal of the Catalan flag from the club shield.[9]
In 1943, Barcelona faced rivals Real Madrid in the semi-finals of Copa del Generalísimo. The first match at Les Corts was won by Barcelona 3–0. Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from Franco's director of state security. He 'reminded' them that they were only playing due to the 'generosity of the regime'. Real Madrid dominated the match, thrashing Barça 11–1.[13]
Despite the difficult political situation, CF Barcelona 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 time since 1929. They added two more titles in 1948 and 1949. In 1949, they also won the first Copa Latina. In June 1950, Barcelona signed Ladislao Kubala, who was to be an influential figure at the club.
On a rainy Sunday of 1951, the crowd left Les Corts stadium after a 2–1 win against Santander by foot, refusing to catch any trams and surprising the Francoist authorities. The reason was simple: at the same time a tram strike was taking place in Barcelona, receiving the support of blaugrana fans. Events such as this made FC Barcelona represent much more than just Catalonia and many progressive Spaniards see the club as a staunch defender of rights and freedoms.[14]
Coach Fernando Daucik and Ladislao Kubala, regarded by many as the club's best ever player, inspired 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, they helped the club win La Liga and the Copa del Generalísimo again.[9]
Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1974)
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. In 1961, they became the first club to beat Real Madrid in a European Cup play-off.[15] However, they lost 3–2 to Benfica in the final.
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 club had little money to spend on new players.[15] On the upside, the 60s saw the emergence of Josep Fusté and Carles Rexach and the club won the Copa del Generalísimo in 1963 and the Fairs Cup in 1966. Barça restored some pride by beating Real Madrid 1–0 in the 1968 Copa del Generalísimo final at the Bernabéu in front of Franco, with Salvador Artigas, a former republican pilot in the civil war, as coach. 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, again including the Catalan flag.[16][17]
The 1973–74 season saw the arrival of a new Barça legend Johan Cruyff. Already an established player with Ajax, Cruyff quickly won over the Barça fans when he told the European press he chose Barça over Real Madrid because he could not play for a club associated with Francisco Franco.[18][19] He further endeared himself when he chose a Catalan name, Jordi, for his son. Next to players of quality like Juan Manuel Asensi, Carles Rexach and the talented Hugo Sotil, he helped the club win the 1973–74 season for the first time since 1960,[3] defeating Real Madrid 5–0 at the Bernabéu along the way. He was crowned European Footballer of the Year in 1973 during his first season with Barcelona (his second Ballon d'or win: his first win was with Ajax Amsterdam in 1971). Cruyff received this prestigious award a third time (the first player ever to do so) in 1974 while he was still with Barcelona.[20]
Núñez and the stabilization years (1978–2000)
Zubizarreta (C)Juan CarlosKoemanNandoFerrerBakeroEusebioGuardiolaLaudrupSalinasStoichkov
1992 European Cup Final starting lineup
In 1978 Josep Lluís Núñez became the first elected president of FC Barcelona, and since then the members of Barcelona have elected the club president. The process of electing a president of FC Barcelona was closely tied to Spain's transition to democracy in 1974 and the end of Franco's dictatorship. Núñez main objective was to develop Barça into a world-class club by giving to it stability both on and off the pitch. His presidency was to last for 22 years and it deeply affected the image of Barcelona, as Núñez held to a strict policy regarding wages and discipline, letting players such as Maradona, Romario and Ronaldo go rather than meeting their demands.[21][22]
On 16 May 1979, the club won its first Cup Winners Cup by beating Fortuna Düsseldorf 4–3 in Basel in a final was watched by more than 30,000 travelling blaugrana fans. In June 1982, Diego Maradona was signed for a then world record fee of £3 million (€3.4 million) from Boca Juniors.[23] In the following season, under coach Menotti, Barcelona won the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid. However, Maradona's time with Barça was short-lived and he soon left for Napoli. At the start of the 1984–85 season, Terry Venables was hired as manager and he won La Liga with stellar displays by German midfielder Bernd Schuster. The next season, he took the team to their second European Cup final, only to lose on penalties to Steaua Bucureşti during a dramatic evening in Seville.[22]
After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, the English top-scorer Gary Lineker was signed 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 beginning of the 1987–88 season and replaced with Luis Aragonés. The season finished with the players rebelling against president Núñez, this event being known as the Hesperia mutiny, and a 1–0 victory at the Copa del Rey final against Real Sociedad.[22]
The first UEFA Champions League trophy was won by FC Barcelona in 1992 against U.C. Sampdoria.In 1988, Johan Cruyff returned to the club as manager and he assembled the so-called Dream Team. He used a mix of Spanish players like Josep Guardiola, José Mari Bakero and Txiki Begiristain while signing international stars such as Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romário and Hristo Stoichkov.[24]
Under Cruyff's guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. They beat Sampdoria in both the 1989 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final and the 1992 European Cup final at Wembley with a legendary free kick goal from Dutch international Ronald Koeman. They also won a Copa del Rey in 1990, the European Super Cup in 1992 and three Supercopa de España. With 11 trophies, Cruyff became the club's most successful manager to date. He also became the club's longest consecutive serving manager, serving 8 years.[25] Cruyff's fortune was to change and in his final two seasons, he failed to win any trophies and fell out with president Núñez, resulting in his departure.[22]
Cruyff was briefly replaced by Bobby Robson, who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. He recruited Ronaldo from his previous club, PSV and delivered a cup treble winning the Copa del Rey, UEFA Cup Winners Cup and the Supercopa de España. Despite his success, Robson was only ever seen as a short-term solution, while the club waited for Louis van Gaal to become available.[26]
Like Maradona, Ronaldo only stayed a short time as he left for Internazionale. However, new heroes such as Luís Figo, Patrick Kluivert, Luis Enrique and Rivaldo emerged and the team won a Copa del Rey and La Liga double in 1998. In 1999, the club celebrated its 'centenari', winning the Primera División title and Rivaldo became the fourth Barça player to be awarded European Footballer of the Year. Despite this domestic success, the failure to emulate Real Madrid in the Champions League led to van Gaal and Núñez resigning in 2000.[26]
Exit Núñez, enter Laporta (2000–2010)
The departures of Núñez and van Gaal were as nothing compared to that of Luís Figo. As well as club vice-captain, Figo had become a cult hero and was considered by Catalans to be one of their own. However, Barça fans 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, including one occasion, when a piglet's head was thrown at him from the crowd. The next three years saw the club in decline and managers came and went, including a short second spell by Louis van Gaal. President Gaspart did not inspire confidence off the field either and in 2003, he and van Gaal resigned.
ValdésOleguerMárquezPuyol (C)GioDecoEdmílsonvan BommelRonaldinhoGiulyEto'o
2006 UEFA Champions League Final starting lineup
After the disappointment of the Gaspart era, the combination of a new young president Joan Laporta and a young new manager, former Dutch and Milan star Frank Rijkaard, saw the club bounce back. On the field, an influx of international players, including Ronaldinho, Deco, Henrik Larsson, Ludovic Giuly, Samuel Eto'o, and Rafael Márquez, combined with home grown Spanish players, such as Carles Puyol, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández and Víctor Valdés, led to the club's return to success. Barça won La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and stars Ronaldinho and Eto'o were voted first and third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards.
In the 2005–06 season, Barcelona repeated their league and Supercup successes. The pinnacle of the league season arrived at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in a 3–0 win over Real Madrid, Frank Rijkaard's second victory at the Bernabéu, making him the first Barça manager to win there twice. Ronaldinho's performance was so impressive that after his second, which was Barça's third, goal some Real Madrid fans felt compelled to applaud him. In the Champions League, Barça beat English club Arsenal 2–1 in the final. Trailing 1–0 to a 10-man Arsenal and with less than 15 minutes left 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 being the favourites and starting strongly, Barcelona finished the 2006–07 season without trophies. 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. There was open feuding as Eto'o publicly criticized coach Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho also admitted that lack of fitness affected his form.[27] In La Liga, Barça were in first place for much of the season, but inconsistency in the New Year saw Real Madrid overtake them to become champions. Barça advanced to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, winning the first leg against Getafe 5–2, with a goal from Messi, bringing comparison to Diego Maradona, but then lost the second leg 4–0. They took part in the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, but were beaten by a late goal in the final against Brazilian sides Internacional. In the Champions League, Barça were knocked out of the competition in the last 16 by eventual runners-up Liverpool on away goals.
Barcelona finished 2007–08 season third 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 defeat to Real Madrid, Joan Laporta announced that Barça B coach Josep Guardiola would take over Frank Rijkaard's duties after 30 June.[28]
Sextuple winning year (2009)
ValdésPuyol (C)TouréPiquéSylvinhoXaviBusquetsIniestaHenryMessiEto'o
2009 UEFA Champions League Final starting lineup
In the pre-season of 2008–09, a motion of no confidence was raised against club president Joan Laporta. This motion received 60% support, just short of the 66% required to oust him, prompting eight of the directors to resign.
As well as appointing Guardiola, Laporta also made major changes to the playing staff, selling Gianluca Zambrotta, Deco, Edmílson and Ronaldinho. Nearly €90 million was spent rebuilding the squad, with Begiristain and Laporta purchasing Seydou Keita, Piqué, Martín Cáceres, Daniel Alves and Hleb. Despite this, the club retained its home-grown nucleus of players, such as captain Puyol, Messi, Xavi Hernández, Víctor Valdés and Iniesta.
On 17 January 2009, Barça set the record for the most points obtained in the first half of a La Liga season (50) after winning 16, drawing two and losing just one of their first 19 league games. The club also reached the Copa del Rey final for the first time since 1998 after defeating Mallorca in the semi-finals. Six days later, on 23 January, the International organisation IFFHS ranked Barça first in their list of the greatest football clubs of the last 18 years. The All-time Club World Ranking was determined by taking into account all the results of the national championships, the national cup competitions, the club competitions of the six continental confederations and the FIFA.
The Treble trophies – the Spanish Cup, Champions League and La Liga (left to right)For the second time that season, Barça played Real Madrid in El Clásico, this time at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Barça won the historic match 2–6, which amounted to the most goals ever scored in El Clásico by Barcelona and the biggest margin of victory for Barça at the Bernabéu since the 1970s, when Johan Cruyff led Barça to win 0–5. On 6 May 2009, just days after the comprehensive victory over their biggest rivals, Barcelona played against Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals. Following a goalless first leg, Chelsea led the second leg at Stamford Bridge 1–0 from the eighth minute, until injury time, when Andrés Iniesta scored a dramatic equaliser in the 93rd minute from the edge of the penalty area, sending Barcelona through to the final on away goals.
On 13 May, Barça beat Athletic Bilbao 4–1 at the Mestalla to win the Copa del Rey for a record 25th time. Just days later, as Real Madrid lost to Villarreal, the domestic double was confirmed for Barcelona and the club was crowned La Liga champions for the 2008–09 season.
With a largely homegrown squad in which seven players of the starting 11 were products of their youth system, Barça defeated the defending champions Manchester United 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 27 May 2009, to earn their third UEFA Champions League title and achieve the treble, having already won the La Liga and Copa del Rey in that season.[29][30] This was the first time a Spanish team ever completed the treble.[31]
After signing Zlatan Ibrahimović for a club record fee of €69 million,[32] Barça went on to win the 2009 Supercopa de España against Athletic Bilbao (5–1 on aggregate)[33] and the 2009 UEFA Super Cup against Shakhtar Donetsk (1–0),[34] becoming the first European club to win both domestic and European Super Cups following a treble. In December 2009, Barça won the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates,[35] thus become the first team ever to accomplish the sextuple.[36][37] In May 2010, Barcelona won La Liga for the second time in a row with a record Spanish league tally of 99 points out of 114.
On 11 July 2010, Spain won the World Cup final with six players from La Masia in the starting line-up.[38]
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Culés watching a game at the old Carrer Indústria
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This file has an uncertain copyright status and may be deleted. You can comment on its removal.The origin of the nickname culés (English: arse), for the supporters of Barcelona, came from the design of the top stand of Carrer Indústria.
El Clásico
Main article: El Clásico
There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between Barça and Real Madrid is known as El Clásico. From the start, the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain: Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves. The rivalry projects what many regard as the political and other tensions felt between Catalans and the Castilians, by one author seen as the re-enactment of the Spanish Civil War.[39]
During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and (especially) of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), all regional cultures were openly suppressed, for instance all of the languages spoken in Spanish territory, except Spanish (Castilian) itself, were officially banned.[40][41] Symbolising the Catalan people's desire for freedom, Barça became 'more than a club' (Més que un Club) for the Catalans. According to Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, the best way for the Catalans' to demonstrate their identity was by joining Barça. It was less risky than joining a clandestine anti-Franco movement and allowed them to express their dissidence.
On the contrary, Real Madrid was widely seen as the embodiment of the sovereign oppressive centralism and the fascist regime at management level and beyond (Santiago Bernabeu, the former club president for whom the Merengues' stadium is named, fought with the los nacionales).[42][43] However, during the Spanish Civil War itself, members of both clubs like Josep Sunyol and Rafael Sánchez Guerra suffered at the hands of Franco supporters.
During the 1950s, the rivalry was exacerbated further when the clubs disputed the signing of Alfredo di Stéfano, who finally played for Real Madrid and was key in the subsequent success achieved by the club.[44] The 1960s saw the rivalry reach the European stage when they met twice at the knock-out stages of the European Cup.
El Derbi Barceloní
Main article: El derbi barceloní
Barça's local rival has always been Espanyol. Blanc-i-blaus, being one of the clubs granted royal patronage, were founded exclusively by Spanish football fans, unlike the multinational nature of Barça's primary board. The founding message of the club was clearly anti-Barcelona, as they disapprovingly saw FC Barcelona as a team of foreigners.[45] and the division was strengthened by what Catalunians saw as a provocative representative of Madrid.[46] Their original ground was in the well-off district of Sarrià.[47][48]
Traditionally, especially during the Franco regime, Espanyol was seen by the vast majority of Barcelona's citizens as a club which cultivated a kind of compliance to the central authority, in stark contrast to Barça's revolutionary spirit.[49] In 1918 Espanyol started a counter-petition against autonomy, which at that time had become a pertinent issue.[50] Later on, an Espanyol supporter group would join the Falangists in the Spanish civil war, siding with the fascists.[50] Despite these differences in ideology, the derbi has always been more relevant to Espanyol supporters than Barcelona ones due to the difference in objectives. In recent years, the rivalry has become less political, as Espanyol translated its official name and anthem from Spanish to Catalan.[51]
Though it is the most played local derby in the history of La Liga, it is also the least balanced of them all, with Barcelona being overwhelmingly dominating. In the league table, Espanyol have only managed to end above Barça on three occasions in almost 70 years and the only all-Catalan Copa del Rey Final in 1957 was won by Barça. Espanyol has, however, the consolation of achieving the largest margin win with a 6–0 in 1951. Espanyol achieved a shock 2–1 win against Barça during the 2008–09 season, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble-winning season.[52]
Finances and ownership
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In 2010, Forbes evaluated Barcelonas worth to be around $1,000 million, ranking them fourth after Manchester United, Real Madrid and Arsenal, based on figures from the 2008–09 season.[53][54] In the same period, they had a recorded revenue of €366 million according to Deloitte, ranking second to Real Madrid, who generated €401 million in revenue.[55]
Records
For more details on this topic, see List of FC Barcelona records and statistics.
Migueli presently holds both records for number of total and Liga appearances for Barcelona with a total of 548 games played in total, and 391 in La Liga. This record could be broken by the player with most international caps, Xavi, who as of 9 May 2010 has played 352 league games and 527 games in all competitions.[56]
FC Barcelona's all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions (including friendlies) is Paulino Alcántara with 357 goals.[56] The record league scorer is Cesár Rodriguez, who scored 195 goals in La Liga between 1942 and 1955, a record not likely to be broken anytime soon, as the current leading league scorer Lionel Messi has scored 88 times in La Liga.[57] Only three people has managed to score over 100 league goals at Barcelona: Cesár Rodriguez (195), Ladislao Kubala (131) and recently departed Samuel Eto'o (108).
On 2 February 2009, Barcelona reached a total of 5,000 La Liga goals. The goal was converted by Lionel Messi in a game against Racing Santander, which Barça won 2–1.[58] Later that year, on 18 December 2009, Barcelona beat Estudiantes 2–1 to win their sixth title in a year and became the first ever football team to complete the sextuple.[59] Of other title records Barcelona holds the record for most Copa del Rey titles (25) and a joint record with Real Madrid for the most Spanish Supercups with 8 titles.
Barcelona's highest home attendance is 120,000 for a European Cup quarter-final against Juventus on 3 March 1986.[60] The modernisation of Camp Nou during the 1990s and the introduction of all-seater stands mean that the record will not be broken for the foreseeable future as the current legal capacity of Camp Nou is 98,772.[61]
Crest and shirt
The first crest worn by BarcelonaThe club crest is derived from the St George's Cross, the Catalan flag and the colours of Barcelona.[62] Since the foundation the club has played with a crest, the first being diamond shape divided into four quarters, with the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James on top and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel tree and the other a palm.[63] In 1910 the club held a competition for it's members in order to find a new crest. The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time played for the club. Comamala's suggestion became the crest that the club wears today, with some minor variations.[63] The crest consist of the St George Cross in the upper-left corner, the Catalan flag beside it with the colours of Barcelona in the bottom.
The blue and red colours of the shirt were first worn in a match against Hispania in 1900.[64] Several competing theories have been put forth for the blue and red design of the Barcelona shirt. The son of the first president, Arthur Witty, claimed it is the idea of Arthur Witty as the colours were the same as the Merchant Taylor's school team. Another explanation, according to author Toni Strubell, is that the colours are from Robespierre's First Republic. However in Catalunia the common perception is that the colours were chosen by Joan Gamper and are those of his hometeam FC Basel.[65]
Since its founding, Barcelona has never worn corporate advertisements on their shirt. On 14 July 2006, the club announced a five year agreement with UNICEF, which includes having the UNICEF logo on their shirts. The agreement has the club donate €1.5 million per year to UNICEF (0.7 percent of its ordinary income, equal to the UN International Aid Target, cf. ODA) via the FC Barcelona Foundation.[66] The Barcelona Foundation is an entity set up in 1994, on a suggestion by then-chairman of the Economical-Statutory Committee, Jaime Gil-Aluja. He suggested to set up a foundation that could attract financial sponsorship to support a non-profit sport company.[67] In 2004 a company could become "Honorary member", of which there are 25 available, by contributing between £40,000–60,000 (£45,800-68,700)[68] per year. In addition there exist 48 associate memberships, for an annual fee of £14,000 (£16,000)[68] and a unlimited number of "patronages" for the cost of £4,000 per year (£4,600)[68]. It is unclear whether the honorary members has any formal say in club policy, but according to Anthony King, it is "unlikely that Honorary Membership would not involve at least some informal influence over the club".[69]
Period Kit manufacturer Shirt partner
1982–1992 Meyba None
1992–1998 Kappa
1998–Present Nike
2006–Present UNICEF
Stadia
The exterior of the Camp Nou
An elevated view of the interior of the Camp Nou
One of the stands displaying Barcelona's motto, "Més que un club", meaning "More than a club".Main articles: Carrer Indústria, Camp de Les Corts, and Camp Nou
Barcelona initially played on the Carrer Indústria, which lay name to the nickname of Barcelona supporters, cules, due to the design of the top platform. The capacity was about 10,000 but club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club with growing membership and aspirations of a greater stream of revenue.
In 1922 the number of supporters had surpassed 20,000 and by lending money to the club, Barca 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 subsequent larger number of spectators at matches. This lead to several expansion projects; first of the grandstand in 1944, then the Southern stand in 1946 and finally the Northern stand in 1950.[70] After the last expansion, Les Corts could hold 60,000 spectators.
After the final expansion there was no further room for expansion of the facilities and after two back-to-back La Liga titles in 1948 and 1949, the club began to make plans for a new stadium, the Camp Nou.[70] Another version is that the signing of László Kubala in June 1950, who would later go on to score 196 goals in 256 matches, necessitated the construction of a larger stadium due to his highly attractive play.[71][72][70]
The building of Camp Nou commenced on 28 March 1954, before a crowd of 60,000 Barça fans. The first stone of the future Camp Nou was laid in place under the presidency of Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga and with the blessing of the Archbishop of Barcelona, Gregorio Modrego. The construction took three years and ended 24 September 1957, going 336% over budget with a final cost of 288 million pesetas.[70]
In 1980, when the stadium was in need of redesign to meet UEFA criteria, the club raised money by offering supporters to inscribe their name on the bricks for a small fee. The idea went well with the supporters, and thousands of people paid the fee. Later, this became the centre of controversy when media in Madrid picked up reports that one of the stones had inscribed the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Franco-supporter, Santiago Bernabéu.[73][74][75] In preparation for 1992 Summer Games two tiers of seating was installed above the previous roofline.[76]
Other Facilities:[77]
Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper (FC Barcelona's training ground)
La Masia (Residence of young players)
Mini Estadi (Home of the reserve team)
Palau Blaugrana (FC Barcelona indoor sports arena)
Palau Blaugrana 2 (Secondary indoor arena of FC Barcelona)
Palau de Gel
Barça Parc
Honours
Main article: FC Barcelona honours
Domestic competitions
La Liga[78]
Winners (20): 1928–1929, 1944–1945, 1947–1948, 1948–1949, 1951–1952, 1952–1953, 1958–1959, 1959–1960, 1973–1974, 1984–1985, 1990–1991, 1991–1992, 1992–1993, 1993–1994, 1997–1998, 1998–1999, 2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2008–2009, 2009–2010.
Runner-up (22):1929–30, 1945–46, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1999–2000, 2003–04, 2006–07
Copa del Rey (Record)[79]
Winners (25): 1909–1910, 1911–1912, 1912–1913, 1919–1920, 1921–1922, 1924–1925, 1925–1926, 1927–1928, 1941–1942, 1950–1951, 1951–1952, 1952–1953, 1956–1957, 1958–1959, 1962–1963, 1967–1968, 1970–1971, 1977–1978, 1980–1981, 1982–1983, 1987–1988, 1989–1990, 1996–1997, 1997–1998, 2008–2009.
Runner-up (9): 1902, 1919, 1932, 1936, 1954, 1974, 1984, 1986, 1996
Copa de la Liga (Record)[80]
Winners (2): 1982–1983, 1985–1986.
Supercopa de España (Record)[81]
Winners (8): 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009.
Runner-up (7): 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999
Major European competitions
Barcelona players celebrating victory in the Champions League 2008–09UEFA Champions League[82]
Winners (3): 1991–1992, 2005–2006, 2008–2009.
Runner-up (3): 1961, 1986, 1994
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (Record)[83]
Winners (4): 1978–1979, 1981–1982, 1988–1989, 1996–1997.
Runner-up (2): 1969, 1991
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Record)[84]
Winners (3): 1955–1958, 1958–1960, 1965–1966.
Runner-up (1): 1962
UEFA Super Cup[85]
Winners (3): 1992, 1997, 2009.
Runner-up (4): 1979, 1982, 1989, 2006
Major worldwide competitions
FIFA Club World Cup (Record)[86]
Winners (1): 2009.
Runner-up (1): 2006
Se also: "Honours". FC Barcelona. http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/futbol/palmares/palmares.html.
Players
Main article: List of FC Barcelona players
For a list of all former and current FC Barcelona players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FC Barcelona footballers.
Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.
Current squad
See Barcelona squad 2010–11
As of 20 May 2010.[87] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player
1 GK Víctor Valdés (vice-captain)
2 DF Daniel Alves
3 DF Gerard Piqué
5 DF Carles Puyol (captain)
6 MF Xavi Hernández (vice-captain)
7 FW David Villa
8 MF Andrés Iniesta (vice-captain)
9 FW Zlatan Ibrahimović
10 FW Lionel Messi
11 FW Bojan Krkić
13 GK José Manuel Pinto
No. Position Player
15 MF Seydou Keita
16 MF Sergio Busquets
17 FW Pedro Rodríguez
18 DF Gabriel Milito
19 DF Maxwell
20 FW Jeffrén Suárez
21 DF Adriano
22 DF Éric Abidal
— DF Martín Cáceres
— MF Víctor Sánchez
— MF Alyaksandr Hleb
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player
— DF Henrique (to Racing Santander)
— FW Keirrison (to Santos)
Notable players
Main article: List of FC Barcelona legends
Personnel
Current technical staff
Josep Guardiola is the current manager of the club.See also List of FC Barcelona managers
Position Staff
Head Coach First Team Josep Guardiola
Assistant Coach Tito Vilanova
Goalkeeping Coach Carles Busquets
Physical fitness coach Lorenzo Buenaventura
Director of Football Andoni Zubizarreta
Academy Director Guillermo Amor
Head Coach Reserve Team Luis Enrique
Last updated: 17 July 2009
Source: FC Barcelona Official Website
Management
See also: List of FC Barcelona presidents
Sandro Rosell, current President.Office Name
President Sandro Rosell
Vice-president of social area Jordi Cardoner
Vice president of Sports Area Josep Bartomeu
Corporate Director General Antoni Rossich
Board Secretary Toni Freixa
Treasurer Susana Monje
Director of social area Ramon Pont
Last updated: 1 July 2010
Source: FC Barcelona Official Website
Affiliated content
Sports
FC Barcelona Bàsquet
FC Barcelona Futsal
FC Barcelona Handbol
FC Barcelona Ice Hockey
FC Barcelona Hoquei
FC Barcelona Rugby
FC Barcelona Rugby League
Other
List of fan-owned sports teams
Supporters of FC Barcelona
Richest football clubs
European football records
List of UEFA club competition winners
Sources
Books
Arnaud, Pierre; Riordan, James (1998). Sport and international politics. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780419214403.
Ball, Phill (2003). Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football. WSC Books Limited. ISBN 0954013468.
Burns, Jimmy (1998). Barça: A People's Passion. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-4554-5.
Desbordes, Michael (2007). Marketing and football: an international perspective. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0750682043.
Eaude, Michael (2008). Catalonia: a cultural history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195327977.
Farred, Grant (2008). Long distance love: a passion for football. Temple University Press. ISBN 1592133746.
King, Anthony (2003). The European ritual: football in the new Europe. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 0754636526.
Murray, Bill; Murray, William J. (1998). The world's game: a history of soccer. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252067185.
Shubert, Adrian (1990). A social history of modern Spain. Routledge. ISBN 0415090830.
Snyder, John (2001). Soccer's most wanted: the top 10 book of clumsy keepers, clever crosses, and outlandish oddities. Brassey's. ISBN 1574883658.
Bibliographies
(Spanish) Several authors, Barça de las 6 Copas, Sport, Barcelona, 2009.
(English) (Spanish) (Catalan) Several authors, Joan Gamper 1877–1930. L'home, el club, el pais, edited by the FC Barcelona, 2002.
(Spanish) Josep Maria Casanovas, La Catedral del Barça, DVD included, ediciones Sport, Barcelona, 2007.
(Catalan) Jaume Sobrequés, Historia del FC Barcelona: el Barça, un club, una ciutat, un pais, Editorial Labor, 1993.
(Catalan) Jaume Sobrequés, FC Barcelona: cent anys d'historia.
(Spanish) David Salinas, El Barça en Europa (1955–2005), Meteora, 2005.
(Spanish) Several authors, Libro oficial del Centenario del FC Barcelona, Lunwerg editores, 1999.
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Barcelona
Full name Futbol Club Barcelona
Nickname(s) L'equip blaugrana (team)
Culers or Culés (supporters)
Blaugranes or Azulgranas (supporters).
Founded 29 November 1899
(as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona)
Ground Camp Nou, Barcelona
(Capacity: 98,772)
President Sandro Rosell
Head Coach Josep Guardiola
League La Liga
2009–10 La Liga, 1st
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season
Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fudˈbɔɫ ˌklup bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish: [ˈfuðβol kluβ βarθeˈlona]), also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça (Catalan: [ˈbaɾsə], Spanish: [ˈbarsa]), is a football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The team was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Spanish men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club). The official Barça anthem is El Cant del Barça by Josep Maria Espinàs.
FC Barcelona is one of only three clubs never to have been relegated from La Liga and is the most successful club in Spanish football along with Real Madrid, having won twenty La Liga titles, a record twenty-five Spanish Cups, eight Spanish Super Cups, four Eva Duarte Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most successful clubs in European football having won fourteen official major trophies in total, including ten UEFA competitions.[1] They have won three UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups (the forerunner to the UEFA Europa League), three UEFA Super Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club is also the only European side to have played continental football in every season since its inception in 1955.
In 2009, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League. FC Barcelona also became the first football team ever to win six out of six competitions in a single year thus completing the sextuple, comprising the 2008–09 La Liga, 2008–09 Copa del Rey, 2009 Supercopa de España, 2008–09 UEFA Champions League, 2009 UEFA Super Cup and 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.
Barcelona holds a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, with matches between the two teams referred to as "El Clásico". Unlike many other football clubs, the fans of FC Barcelona own and operate the club. The club is the world's second richest football club (€365m) in terms of revenue, only surpassed by Real Madrid.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
1.2 Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
1.3 Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1974)
1.4 Núñez and the stabilization years (1978–2000)
1.5 Exit Núñez, enter Laporta (2000–2010)
1.5.1 Sextuple winning year (2009)
2 Support
2.1 El Clásico
2.2 El Derbi Barceloní
3 Finances and ownership
4 Records
5 Crest and shirt
6 Stadia
7 Honours
7.1 Domestic competitions
7.2 Major European competitions
7.3 Major worldwide competitions
8 Players
8.1 Current squad
8.2 Out on loan
8.3 Notable players
9 Personnel
9.1 Current technical staff
10 Management
11 Affiliated content
12 Sources
13 References
14 External links
History
Main article: History of FC Barcelona
Birth of FC Barcelona (1899–1922)
FC Barcelona in 1903
Barcelona founder Joan GamperOn 22 October 1899, Joan Gamper placed an advert 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 where eleven players attended: Walter Wild, later to become the first director of the club, Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Pujol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons and William Parsons. As a result Foot-Ball Club Barcelona was born.[2]
Sports Notice: Our friend and companion Hans Gamper... former Swiss [football] champion, being keen on organising some football games in the city asks anyone who feels enthusiastic enough about the sport to present themselves at the office of this newspaper any Tuesday or Friday evening between the hours of 9 and 11pm.
– Gampers ad in Los Deportes[2]
FC Barcelona quickly emerged as one of the leading clubs in Spain, competing in the Campeonato de Cataluña and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the club won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and also played in the first Copa del Rey final, losing 2–1 to Bizcaya.[3]
In 1908, Joan Gamper became club president for the first time as he took over the presidency in order to save the club from folding.[4] The club had not won anything since the Campeonato de Cataluña in 1905 and as a result got into financial trouble. Gamper was subsequently club president on five separate occasions between 1908 and 1925 and spent 25 years at the helm. One of his main achievements was to help Barça acquire its own stadium and thus achieve a means of generating stable income.[5]
On 14 March 1909, the team moved into the Camp de la Indústria, a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. From 1910 to 1914 Barcelona participated in the Pyrenees Cup, which consisted of the best teams of Languedoc, Midi and Aquitaine (Southern France), the Basque Country and Catalonia.[6] It was considered the finest competition open for participation in that time.[7]
Gamper simultaneously launched a campaign to recruit more club members and by 1922, the club had over 20,000 who helped finance a new stadium. This led to the club to move to the new Las Cortes, which they inaugurated the same year.[8] Las Cortes had an initial capacity of 22,000, which was later expanded to 60,000.[9]
Gamper recruited Jack Greenwell as the first full-time manager in Barcelona's history. This saw the club's fortunes begin to improve on the field. During the Gamper era FC Barcelona won eleven Campeonato de Cataluña, six Copa del Rey and four Pyrenees Cups and enjoyed its first "golden age".[3]
Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)
On 14 June 1925 in a spontaneous reaction against Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, the crowd in the stadium jeered the Royal March. As a reprisal, the ground was closed for six months and Gamper was forced to relinquish the presidency of the club.[10] This also coincided with the transition to professional football, and in 1926 the directors of Barcelona for the first time publicly claimed to operate a professional football club.[8] In 1928, victory in the Spanish Cup was celebrated with a poem titled "Oda a Platko", which was written by a member of the Generation of '27, Rafael Alberti, inspired by the heroic performance of the Barcelona keeper.[11] On 30 July 1930, Gamper committed suicide after a period of depression brought on by personal and financial problems.[5]
Although they continued to have players of the standing of Josep Escolà, the club now entered a period of decline, in which political conflict overshadowed sport throughout society. Barça faced a crisis on three fronts: financially, politically and in sporting terms.[9] Although the team won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936 and 1938,[3] success at a national level (with the exception of the 1937 disputed title) evaded them.
A month after the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, several players from Barcelona enlisted, along with players from Athletic Bilbao, in the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising.[12] In the same year, club president Josep Sunyol was murdered by rebel soldiers near Guadarrama. In the summer of 1937, the squad was on tour in Mexico and the United States, where it was received as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. That tour led to the financial security of the club, but also resulted in half the team seeking asylum in Mexico and France. On 16 March 1938, the fascists dropped a bomb on the club's offices which caused significant damage. A few months later, Barcelona was under fascist occupation and as a symbol of the 'undisciplined' Catalanism, the club, now down to just 3,486 members, faced a number of serious problems.[9]
After the Civil War, the Catalan flag was banned and football clubs were prohibited from using non-Spanish names. These measures led to the club having its name forcibly changed to Club de Fútbol Barcelona and the removal of the Catalan flag from the club shield.[9]
In 1943, Barcelona faced rivals Real Madrid in the semi-finals of Copa del Generalísimo. The first match at Les Corts was won by Barcelona 3–0. Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from Franco's director of state security. He 'reminded' them that they were only playing due to the 'generosity of the regime'. Real Madrid dominated the match, thrashing Barça 11–1.[13]
Despite the difficult political situation, CF Barcelona 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 time since 1929. They added two more titles in 1948 and 1949. In 1949, they also won the first Copa Latina. In June 1950, Barcelona signed Ladislao Kubala, who was to be an influential figure at the club.
On a rainy Sunday of 1951, the crowd left Les Corts stadium after a 2–1 win against Santander by foot, refusing to catch any trams and surprising the Francoist authorities. The reason was simple: at the same time a tram strike was taking place in Barcelona, receiving the support of blaugrana fans. Events such as this made FC Barcelona represent much more than just Catalonia and many progressive Spaniards see the club as a staunch defender of rights and freedoms.[14]
Coach Fernando Daucik and Ladislao Kubala, regarded by many as the club's best ever player, inspired 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, they helped the club win La Liga and the Copa del Generalísimo again.[9]
Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1974)
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. In 1961, they became the first club to beat Real Madrid in a European Cup play-off.[15] However, they lost 3–2 to Benfica in the final.
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 club had little money to spend on new players.[15] On the upside, the 60s saw the emergence of Josep Fusté and Carles Rexach and the club won the Copa del Generalísimo in 1963 and the Fairs Cup in 1966. Barça restored some pride by beating Real Madrid 1–0 in the 1968 Copa del Generalísimo final at the Bernabéu in front of Franco, with Salvador Artigas, a former republican pilot in the civil war, as coach. 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, again including the Catalan flag.[16][17]
The 1973–74 season saw the arrival of a new Barça legend Johan Cruyff. Already an established player with Ajax, Cruyff quickly won over the Barça fans when he told the European press he chose Barça over Real Madrid because he could not play for a club associated with Francisco Franco.[18][19] He further endeared himself when he chose a Catalan name, Jordi, for his son. Next to players of quality like Juan Manuel Asensi, Carles Rexach and the talented Hugo Sotil, he helped the club win the 1973–74 season for the first time since 1960,[3] defeating Real Madrid 5–0 at the Bernabéu along the way. He was crowned European Footballer of the Year in 1973 during his first season with Barcelona (his second Ballon d'or win: his first win was with Ajax Amsterdam in 1971). Cruyff received this prestigious award a third time (the first player ever to do so) in 1974 while he was still with Barcelona.[20]
Núñez and the stabilization years (1978–2000)
Zubizarreta (C)Juan CarlosKoemanNandoFerrerBakeroEusebioGuardiolaLaudrupSalinasStoichkov
1992 European Cup Final starting lineup
In 1978 Josep Lluís Núñez became the first elected president of FC Barcelona, and since then the members of Barcelona have elected the club president. The process of electing a president of FC Barcelona was closely tied to Spain's transition to democracy in 1974 and the end of Franco's dictatorship. Núñez main objective was to develop Barça into a world-class club by giving to it stability both on and off the pitch. His presidency was to last for 22 years and it deeply affected the image of Barcelona, as Núñez held to a strict policy regarding wages and discipline, letting players such as Maradona, Romario and Ronaldo go rather than meeting their demands.[21][22]
On 16 May 1979, the club won its first Cup Winners Cup by beating Fortuna Düsseldorf 4–3 in Basel in a final was watched by more than 30,000 travelling blaugrana fans. In June 1982, Diego Maradona was signed for a then world record fee of £3 million (€3.4 million) from Boca Juniors.[23] In the following season, under coach Menotti, Barcelona won the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid. However, Maradona's time with Barça was short-lived and he soon left for Napoli. At the start of the 1984–85 season, Terry Venables was hired as manager and he won La Liga with stellar displays by German midfielder Bernd Schuster. The next season, he took the team to their second European Cup final, only to lose on penalties to Steaua Bucureşti during a dramatic evening in Seville.[22]
After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, the English top-scorer Gary Lineker was signed 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 beginning of the 1987–88 season and replaced with Luis Aragonés. The season finished with the players rebelling against president Núñez, this event being known as the Hesperia mutiny, and a 1–0 victory at the Copa del Rey final against Real Sociedad.[22]
The first UEFA Champions League trophy was won by FC Barcelona in 1992 against U.C. Sampdoria.In 1988, Johan Cruyff returned to the club as manager and he assembled the so-called Dream Team. He used a mix of Spanish players like Josep Guardiola, José Mari Bakero and Txiki Begiristain while signing international stars such as Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romário and Hristo Stoichkov.[24]
Under Cruyff's guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. They beat Sampdoria in both the 1989 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final and the 1992 European Cup final at Wembley with a legendary free kick goal from Dutch international Ronald Koeman. They also won a Copa del Rey in 1990, the European Super Cup in 1992 and three Supercopa de España. With 11 trophies, Cruyff became the club's most successful manager to date. He also became the club's longest consecutive serving manager, serving 8 years.[25] Cruyff's fortune was to change and in his final two seasons, he failed to win any trophies and fell out with president Núñez, resulting in his departure.[22]
Cruyff was briefly replaced by Bobby Robson, who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. He recruited Ronaldo from his previous club, PSV and delivered a cup treble winning the Copa del Rey, UEFA Cup Winners Cup and the Supercopa de España. Despite his success, Robson was only ever seen as a short-term solution, while the club waited for Louis van Gaal to become available.[26]
Like Maradona, Ronaldo only stayed a short time as he left for Internazionale. However, new heroes such as Luís Figo, Patrick Kluivert, Luis Enrique and Rivaldo emerged and the team won a Copa del Rey and La Liga double in 1998. In 1999, the club celebrated its 'centenari', winning the Primera División title and Rivaldo became the fourth Barça player to be awarded European Footballer of the Year. Despite this domestic success, the failure to emulate Real Madrid in the Champions League led to van Gaal and Núñez resigning in 2000.[26]
Exit Núñez, enter Laporta (2000–2010)
The departures of Núñez and van Gaal were as nothing compared to that of Luís Figo. As well as club vice-captain, Figo had become a cult hero and was considered by Catalans to be one of their own. However, Barça fans 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, including one occasion, when a piglet's head was thrown at him from the crowd. The next three years saw the club in decline and managers came and went, including a short second spell by Louis van Gaal. President Gaspart did not inspire confidence off the field either and in 2003, he and van Gaal resigned.
ValdésOleguerMárquezPuyol (C)GioDecoEdmílsonvan BommelRonaldinhoGiulyEto'o
2006 UEFA Champions League Final starting lineup
After the disappointment of the Gaspart era, the combination of a new young president Joan Laporta and a young new manager, former Dutch and Milan star Frank Rijkaard, saw the club bounce back. On the field, an influx of international players, including Ronaldinho, Deco, Henrik Larsson, Ludovic Giuly, Samuel Eto'o, and Rafael Márquez, combined with home grown Spanish players, such as Carles Puyol, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández and Víctor Valdés, led to the club's return to success. Barça won La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and stars Ronaldinho and Eto'o were voted first and third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards.
In the 2005–06 season, Barcelona repeated their league and Supercup successes. The pinnacle of the league season arrived at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in a 3–0 win over Real Madrid, Frank Rijkaard's second victory at the Bernabéu, making him the first Barça manager to win there twice. Ronaldinho's performance was so impressive that after his second, which was Barça's third, goal some Real Madrid fans felt compelled to applaud him. In the Champions League, Barça beat English club Arsenal 2–1 in the final. Trailing 1–0 to a 10-man Arsenal and with less than 15 minutes left 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 being the favourites and starting strongly, Barcelona finished the 2006–07 season without trophies. 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. There was open feuding as Eto'o publicly criticized coach Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho also admitted that lack of fitness affected his form.[27] In La Liga, Barça were in first place for much of the season, but inconsistency in the New Year saw Real Madrid overtake them to become champions. Barça advanced to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, winning the first leg against Getafe 5–2, with a goal from Messi, bringing comparison to Diego Maradona, but then lost the second leg 4–0. They took part in the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, but were beaten by a late goal in the final against Brazilian sides Internacional. In the Champions League, Barça were knocked out of the competition in the last 16 by eventual runners-up Liverpool on away goals.
Barcelona finished 2007–08 season third 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 defeat to Real Madrid, Joan Laporta announced that Barça B coach Josep Guardiola would take over Frank Rijkaard's duties after 30 June.[28]
Sextuple winning year (2009)
ValdésPuyol (C)TouréPiquéSylvinhoXaviBusquetsIniestaHenryMessiEto'o
2009 UEFA Champions League Final starting lineup
In the pre-season of 2008–09, a motion of no confidence was raised against club president Joan Laporta. This motion received 60% support, just short of the 66% required to oust him, prompting eight of the directors to resign.
As well as appointing Guardiola, Laporta also made major changes to the playing staff, selling Gianluca Zambrotta, Deco, Edmílson and Ronaldinho. Nearly €90 million was spent rebuilding the squad, with Begiristain and Laporta purchasing Seydou Keita, Piqué, Martín Cáceres, Daniel Alves and Hleb. Despite this, the club retained its home-grown nucleus of players, such as captain Puyol, Messi, Xavi Hernández, Víctor Valdés and Iniesta.
On 17 January 2009, Barça set the record for the most points obtained in the first half of a La Liga season (50) after winning 16, drawing two and losing just one of their first 19 league games. The club also reached the Copa del Rey final for the first time since 1998 after defeating Mallorca in the semi-finals. Six days later, on 23 January, the International organisation IFFHS ranked Barça first in their list of the greatest football clubs of the last 18 years. The All-time Club World Ranking was determined by taking into account all the results of the national championships, the national cup competitions, the club competitions of the six continental confederations and the FIFA.
The Treble trophies – the Spanish Cup, Champions League and La Liga (left to right)For the second time that season, Barça played Real Madrid in El Clásico, this time at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Barça won the historic match 2–6, which amounted to the most goals ever scored in El Clásico by Barcelona and the biggest margin of victory for Barça at the Bernabéu since the 1970s, when Johan Cruyff led Barça to win 0–5. On 6 May 2009, just days after the comprehensive victory over their biggest rivals, Barcelona played against Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals. Following a goalless first leg, Chelsea led the second leg at Stamford Bridge 1–0 from the eighth minute, until injury time, when Andrés Iniesta scored a dramatic equaliser in the 93rd minute from the edge of the penalty area, sending Barcelona through to the final on away goals.
On 13 May, Barça beat Athletic Bilbao 4–1 at the Mestalla to win the Copa del Rey for a record 25th time. Just days later, as Real Madrid lost to Villarreal, the domestic double was confirmed for Barcelona and the club was crowned La Liga champions for the 2008–09 season.
With a largely homegrown squad in which seven players of the starting 11 were products of their youth system, Barça defeated the defending champions Manchester United 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 27 May 2009, to earn their third UEFA Champions League title and achieve the treble, having already won the La Liga and Copa del Rey in that season.[29][30] This was the first time a Spanish team ever completed the treble.[31]
After signing Zlatan Ibrahimović for a club record fee of €69 million,[32] Barça went on to win the 2009 Supercopa de España against Athletic Bilbao (5–1 on aggregate)[33] and the 2009 UEFA Super Cup against Shakhtar Donetsk (1–0),[34] becoming the first European club to win both domestic and European Super Cups following a treble. In December 2009, Barça won the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates,[35] thus become the first team ever to accomplish the sextuple.[36][37] In May 2010, Barcelona won La Liga for the second time in a row with a record Spanish league tally of 99 points out of 114.
On 11 July 2010, Spain won the World Cup final with six players from La Masia in the starting line-up.[38]
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Culés watching a game at the old Carrer Indústria
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This file has an uncertain copyright status and may be deleted. You can comment on its removal.The origin of the nickname culés (English: arse), for the supporters of Barcelona, came from the design of the top stand of Carrer Indústria.
El Clásico
Main article: El Clásico
There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between Barça and Real Madrid is known as El Clásico. From the start, the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain: Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves. The rivalry projects what many regard as the political and other tensions felt between Catalans and the Castilians, by one author seen as the re-enactment of the Spanish Civil War.[39]
During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and (especially) of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), all regional cultures were openly suppressed, for instance all of the languages spoken in Spanish territory, except Spanish (Castilian) itself, were officially banned.[40][41] Symbolising the Catalan people's desire for freedom, Barça became 'more than a club' (Més que un Club) for the Catalans. According to Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, the best way for the Catalans' to demonstrate their identity was by joining Barça. It was less risky than joining a clandestine anti-Franco movement and allowed them to express their dissidence.
On the contrary, Real Madrid was widely seen as the embodiment of the sovereign oppressive centralism and the fascist regime at management level and beyond (Santiago Bernabeu, the former club president for whom the Merengues' stadium is named, fought with the los nacionales).[42][43] However, during the Spanish Civil War itself, members of both clubs like Josep Sunyol and Rafael Sánchez Guerra suffered at the hands of Franco supporters.
During the 1950s, the rivalry was exacerbated further when the clubs disputed the signing of Alfredo di Stéfano, who finally played for Real Madrid and was key in the subsequent success achieved by the club.[44] The 1960s saw the rivalry reach the European stage when they met twice at the knock-out stages of the European Cup.
El Derbi Barceloní
Main article: El derbi barceloní
Barça's local rival has always been Espanyol. Blanc-i-blaus, being one of the clubs granted royal patronage, were founded exclusively by Spanish football fans, unlike the multinational nature of Barça's primary board. The founding message of the club was clearly anti-Barcelona, as they disapprovingly saw FC Barcelona as a team of foreigners.[45] and the division was strengthened by what Catalunians saw as a provocative representative of Madrid.[46] Their original ground was in the well-off district of Sarrià.[47][48]
Traditionally, especially during the Franco regime, Espanyol was seen by the vast majority of Barcelona's citizens as a club which cultivated a kind of compliance to the central authority, in stark contrast to Barça's revolutionary spirit.[49] In 1918 Espanyol started a counter-petition against autonomy, which at that time had become a pertinent issue.[50] Later on, an Espanyol supporter group would join the Falangists in the Spanish civil war, siding with the fascists.[50] Despite these differences in ideology, the derbi has always been more relevant to Espanyol supporters than Barcelona ones due to the difference in objectives. In recent years, the rivalry has become less political, as Espanyol translated its official name and anthem from Spanish to Catalan.[51]
Though it is the most played local derby in the history of La Liga, it is also the least balanced of them all, with Barcelona being overwhelmingly dominating. In the league table, Espanyol have only managed to end above Barça on three occasions in almost 70 years and the only all-Catalan Copa del Rey Final in 1957 was won by Barça. Espanyol has, however, the consolation of achieving the largest margin win with a 6–0 in 1951. Espanyol achieved a shock 2–1 win against Barça during the 2008–09 season, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble-winning season.[52]
Finances and ownership
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In 2010, Forbes evaluated Barcelonas worth to be around $1,000 million, ranking them fourth after Manchester United, Real Madrid and Arsenal, based on figures from the 2008–09 season.[53][54] In the same period, they had a recorded revenue of €366 million according to Deloitte, ranking second to Real Madrid, who generated €401 million in revenue.[55]
Records
For more details on this topic, see List of FC Barcelona records and statistics.
Migueli presently holds both records for number of total and Liga appearances for Barcelona with a total of 548 games played in total, and 391 in La Liga. This record could be broken by the player with most international caps, Xavi, who as of 9 May 2010 has played 352 league games and 527 games in all competitions.[56]
FC Barcelona's all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions (including friendlies) is Paulino Alcántara with 357 goals.[56] The record league scorer is Cesár Rodriguez, who scored 195 goals in La Liga between 1942 and 1955, a record not likely to be broken anytime soon, as the current leading league scorer Lionel Messi has scored 88 times in La Liga.[57] Only three people has managed to score over 100 league goals at Barcelona: Cesár Rodriguez (195), Ladislao Kubala (131) and recently departed Samuel Eto'o (108).
On 2 February 2009, Barcelona reached a total of 5,000 La Liga goals. The goal was converted by Lionel Messi in a game against Racing Santander, which Barça won 2–1.[58] Later that year, on 18 December 2009, Barcelona beat Estudiantes 2–1 to win their sixth title in a year and became the first ever football team to complete the sextuple.[59] Of other title records Barcelona holds the record for most Copa del Rey titles (25) and a joint record with Real Madrid for the most Spanish Supercups with 8 titles.
Barcelona's highest home attendance is 120,000 for a European Cup quarter-final against Juventus on 3 March 1986.[60] The modernisation of Camp Nou during the 1990s and the introduction of all-seater stands mean that the record will not be broken for the foreseeable future as the current legal capacity of Camp Nou is 98,772.[61]
Crest and shirt
The first crest worn by BarcelonaThe club crest is derived from the St George's Cross, the Catalan flag and the colours of Barcelona.[62] Since the foundation the club has played with a crest, the first being diamond shape divided into four quarters, with the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James on top and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel tree and the other a palm.[63] In 1910 the club held a competition for it's members in order to find a new crest. The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time played for the club. Comamala's suggestion became the crest that the club wears today, with some minor variations.[63] The crest consist of the St George Cross in the upper-left corner, the Catalan flag beside it with the colours of Barcelona in the bottom.
The blue and red colours of the shirt were first worn in a match against Hispania in 1900.[64] Several competing theories have been put forth for the blue and red design of the Barcelona shirt. The son of the first president, Arthur Witty, claimed it is the idea of Arthur Witty as the colours were the same as the Merchant Taylor's school team. Another explanation, according to author Toni Strubell, is that the colours are from Robespierre's First Republic. However in Catalunia the common perception is that the colours were chosen by Joan Gamper and are those of his hometeam FC Basel.[65]
Since its founding, Barcelona has never worn corporate advertisements on their shirt. On 14 July 2006, the club announced a five year agreement with UNICEF, which includes having the UNICEF logo on their shirts. The agreement has the club donate €1.5 million per year to UNICEF (0.7 percent of its ordinary income, equal to the UN International Aid Target, cf. ODA) via the FC Barcelona Foundation.[66] The Barcelona Foundation is an entity set up in 1994, on a suggestion by then-chairman of the Economical-Statutory Committee, Jaime Gil-Aluja. He suggested to set up a foundation that could attract financial sponsorship to support a non-profit sport company.[67] In 2004 a company could become "Honorary member", of which there are 25 available, by contributing between £40,000–60,000 (£45,800-68,700)[68] per year. In addition there exist 48 associate memberships, for an annual fee of £14,000 (£16,000)[68] and a unlimited number of "patronages" for the cost of £4,000 per year (£4,600)[68]. It is unclear whether the honorary members has any formal say in club policy, but according to Anthony King, it is "unlikely that Honorary Membership would not involve at least some informal influence over the club".[69]
Period Kit manufacturer Shirt partner
1982–1992 Meyba None
1992–1998 Kappa
1998–Present Nike
2006–Present UNICEF
Stadia
The exterior of the Camp Nou
An elevated view of the interior of the Camp Nou
One of the stands displaying Barcelona's motto, "Més que un club", meaning "More than a club".Main articles: Carrer Indústria, Camp de Les Corts, and Camp Nou
Barcelona initially played on the Carrer Indústria, which lay name to the nickname of Barcelona supporters, cules, due to the design of the top platform. The capacity was about 10,000 but club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club with growing membership and aspirations of a greater stream of revenue.
In 1922 the number of supporters had surpassed 20,000 and by lending money to the club, Barca 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 subsequent larger number of spectators at matches. This lead to several expansion projects; first of the grandstand in 1944, then the Southern stand in 1946 and finally the Northern stand in 1950.[70] After the last expansion, Les Corts could hold 60,000 spectators.
After the final expansion there was no further room for expansion of the facilities and after two back-to-back La Liga titles in 1948 and 1949, the club began to make plans for a new stadium, the Camp Nou.[70] Another version is that the signing of László Kubala in June 1950, who would later go on to score 196 goals in 256 matches, necessitated the construction of a larger stadium due to his highly attractive play.[71][72][70]
The building of Camp Nou commenced on 28 March 1954, before a crowd of 60,000 Barça fans. The first stone of the future Camp Nou was laid in place under the presidency of Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga and with the blessing of the Archbishop of Barcelona, Gregorio Modrego. The construction took three years and ended 24 September 1957, going 336% over budget with a final cost of 288 million pesetas.[70]
In 1980, when the stadium was in need of redesign to meet UEFA criteria, the club raised money by offering supporters to inscribe their name on the bricks for a small fee. The idea went well with the supporters, and thousands of people paid the fee. Later, this became the centre of controversy when media in Madrid picked up reports that one of the stones had inscribed the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Franco-supporter, Santiago Bernabéu.[73][74][75] In preparation for 1992 Summer Games two tiers of seating was installed above the previous roofline.[76]
Other Facilities:[77]
Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper (FC Barcelona's training ground)
La Masia (Residence of young players)
Mini Estadi (Home of the reserve team)
Palau Blaugrana (FC Barcelona indoor sports arena)
Palau Blaugrana 2 (Secondary indoor arena of FC Barcelona)
Palau de Gel
Barça Parc
Honours
Main article: FC Barcelona honours
Domestic competitions
La Liga[78]
Winners (20): 1928–1929, 1944–1945, 1947–1948, 1948–1949, 1951–1952, 1952–1953, 1958–1959, 1959–1960, 1973–1974, 1984–1985, 1990–1991, 1991–1992, 1992–1993, 1993–1994, 1997–1998, 1998–1999, 2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2008–2009, 2009–2010.
Runner-up (22):1929–30, 1945–46, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1999–2000, 2003–04, 2006–07
Copa del Rey (Record)[79]
Winners (25): 1909–1910, 1911–1912, 1912–1913, 1919–1920, 1921–1922, 1924–1925, 1925–1926, 1927–1928, 1941–1942, 1950–1951, 1951–1952, 1952–1953, 1956–1957, 1958–1959, 1962–1963, 1967–1968, 1970–1971, 1977–1978, 1980–1981, 1982–1983, 1987–1988, 1989–1990, 1996–1997, 1997–1998, 2008–2009.
Runner-up (9): 1902, 1919, 1932, 1936, 1954, 1974, 1984, 1986, 1996
Copa de la Liga (Record)[80]
Winners (2): 1982–1983, 1985–1986.
Supercopa de España (Record)[81]
Winners (8): 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009.
Runner-up (7): 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999
Major European competitions
Barcelona players celebrating victory in the Champions League 2008–09UEFA Champions League[82]
Winners (3): 1991–1992, 2005–2006, 2008–2009.
Runner-up (3): 1961, 1986, 1994
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (Record)[83]
Winners (4): 1978–1979, 1981–1982, 1988–1989, 1996–1997.
Runner-up (2): 1969, 1991
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Record)[84]
Winners (3): 1955–1958, 1958–1960, 1965–1966.
Runner-up (1): 1962
UEFA Super Cup[85]
Winners (3): 1992, 1997, 2009.
Runner-up (4): 1979, 1982, 1989, 2006
Major worldwide competitions
FIFA Club World Cup (Record)[86]
Winners (1): 2009.
Runner-up (1): 2006
Se also: "Honours". FC Barcelona. http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/futbol/palmares/palmares.html.
Players
Main article: List of FC Barcelona players
For a list of all former and current FC Barcelona players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FC Barcelona footballers.
Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.
Current squad
See Barcelona squad 2010–11
As of 20 May 2010.[87] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player
1 GK Víctor Valdés (vice-captain)
2 DF Daniel Alves
3 DF Gerard Piqué
5 DF Carles Puyol (captain)
6 MF Xavi Hernández (vice-captain)
7 FW David Villa
8 MF Andrés Iniesta (vice-captain)
9 FW Zlatan Ibrahimović
10 FW Lionel Messi
11 FW Bojan Krkić
13 GK José Manuel Pinto
No. Position Player
15 MF Seydou Keita
16 MF Sergio Busquets
17 FW Pedro Rodríguez
18 DF Gabriel Milito
19 DF Maxwell
20 FW Jeffrén Suárez
21 DF Adriano
22 DF Éric Abidal
— DF Martín Cáceres
— MF Víctor Sánchez
— MF Alyaksandr Hleb
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player
— DF Henrique (to Racing Santander)
— FW Keirrison (to Santos)
Notable players
Main article: List of FC Barcelona legends
Personnel
Current technical staff
Josep Guardiola is the current manager of the club.See also List of FC Barcelona managers
Position Staff
Head Coach First Team Josep Guardiola
Assistant Coach Tito Vilanova
Goalkeeping Coach Carles Busquets
Physical fitness coach Lorenzo Buenaventura
Director of Football Andoni Zubizarreta
Academy Director Guillermo Amor
Head Coach Reserve Team Luis Enrique
Last updated: 17 July 2009
Source: FC Barcelona Official Website
Management
See also: List of FC Barcelona presidents
Sandro Rosell, current President.Office Name
President Sandro Rosell
Vice-president of social area Jordi Cardoner
Vice president of Sports Area Josep Bartomeu
Corporate Director General Antoni Rossich
Board Secretary Toni Freixa
Treasurer Susana Monje
Director of social area Ramon Pont
Last updated: 1 July 2010
Source: FC Barcelona Official Website
Affiliated content
Sports
FC Barcelona Bàsquet
FC Barcelona Futsal
FC Barcelona Handbol
FC Barcelona Ice Hockey
FC Barcelona Hoquei
FC Barcelona Rugby
FC Barcelona Rugby League
Other
List of fan-owned sports teams
Supporters of FC Barcelona
Richest football clubs
European football records
List of UEFA club competition winners
Sources
Books
Arnaud, Pierre; Riordan, James (1998). Sport and international politics. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780419214403.
Ball, Phill (2003). Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football. WSC Books Limited. ISBN 0954013468.
Burns, Jimmy (1998). Barça: A People's Passion. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-4554-5.
Desbordes, Michael (2007). Marketing and football: an international perspective. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0750682043.
Eaude, Michael (2008). Catalonia: a cultural history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195327977.
Farred, Grant (2008). Long distance love: a passion for football. Temple University Press. ISBN 1592133746.
King, Anthony (2003). The European ritual: football in the new Europe. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 0754636526.
Murray, Bill; Murray, William J. (1998). The world's game: a history of soccer. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252067185.
Shubert, Adrian (1990). A social history of modern Spain. Routledge. ISBN 0415090830.
Snyder, John (2001). Soccer's most wanted: the top 10 book of clumsy keepers, clever crosses, and outlandish oddities. Brassey's. ISBN 1574883658.
Bibliographies
(Spanish) Several authors, Barça de las 6 Copas, Sport, Barcelona, 2009.
(English) (Spanish) (Catalan) Several authors, Joan Gamper 1877–1930. L'home, el club, el pais, edited by the FC Barcelona, 2002.
(Spanish) Josep Maria Casanovas, La Catedral del Barça, DVD included, ediciones Sport, Barcelona, 2007.
(Catalan) Jaume Sobrequés, Historia del FC Barcelona: el Barça, un club, una ciutat, un pais, Editorial Labor, 1993.
(Catalan) Jaume Sobrequés, FC Barcelona: cent anys d'historia.
(Spanish) David Salinas, El Barça en Europa (1955–2005), Meteora, 2005.
(Spanish) Several authors, Libro oficial del Centenario del FC Barcelona, Lunwerg editores, 1999.
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