FC Barcelona profile

FC Barcelona profile

Club Details:
Full name: Futbol Club Barcelona
Nickname(s): Barça, Barcelonistes, Blaugrana, Culés
Founded: 1899
Ground: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Capacity: 98,787
President:Joan Laporta
Head Coach: Josep Guardiola
La Liga Champions:
1929, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1974, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006
Copa Del Rey Winners:
1910, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997, 1998
European Cup Winners:
1992, 2006
European Cup Winners Cup Winners:
1979, 1982, 1989, 1997
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Winners:
1958, 1960, 1966
Other Honours:
European Super Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off, Copa Latina, Supercopa de España, La Liga del Mediterráneo, Copa Macaya/Catalan Champions, Copa Catalunya, Copa de la Liga
About FC Barcelona:
FC Barcelona is one of the world’s most well known football clubs and was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. To this day the club is owned and presidents elected by the socis (club members) who numbered over 150, 000 in 2006 with 1782 penyes (officially-registered supporters clubs) also established.

As well as the football team which the club is based around they also fund other sports including basketball (Winterthur FCB), handball (FC Barcelona-Cifec) and ice hockey (FC Barcelona Sorli Discau) but it’s the football team FC Barcelona that is most instantly recognized around the world.

Founder members of La Liga in 1928, Barcelona have never been relegated from the Primer Division and are also the inaugural winners of the La Liga title. In 2005/2006 they completed the double of La Liga champions and European Cup champions making them champions of both Spain and Europe.

Barcelona have long held onto their tradition of not allowing sponsors’ logos on their famous shirts but in the summer of 2006 they announced a five year deal with the charity Unicef to wear their logo prominently displayed on the team jerseys, as well as FC Barcelona donating a reputed $2m a year to the Unicef cause.