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Club Barcelona, known as Barça, is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). On November 29, 1899, Hans Gamper founded Futbol Club Barcelona, along with eleven other enthusiasts of 'football: Gualteri Wild, Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Josep Llobet, John Parsons, and William Parsons and the mother fucking cunts.



 

The club

The club has never been relegated from the Primera División. The club were also the first La Liga champions, winning a total of 18 La Liga, 24 Copa del Rey, 7 Supercopa de España, 32 Joan Gamper Trophy, 2 UEFA Champions League, 4 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, 3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and 2 European Super Cup trophies.

During the 2006-07 season, FC Barcelona was the second richest club in the world with estimated revenue of €290.1 million. FC Barcelona quickly emerged as one of the leading clubs of both Catalonia and Spain.


 

The Nou Camp

 
 
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Barcelona's stadium, built in 1957, is known as the Nou Camp in both Spanish and English. It is able to hold 98,772 people, making it the largest stadium in Europe.


 

History

In 1901, the club won its first trophy, the Copa Macaya, and in 1902 played in the first Copa del Rey final, losing 2-1 to Club Vizcaya. From the 1920s to 1957, the club went through contrasting periods. Its membership reached 10,000 for the first time. But due to material difficulties and political troubles of the Spanish Civil War and post-war period, the club was forced to overcome several adverse circumstances.

During the 1960’s and 70’s, Barça suffered mediocre results but was consolidated as an entity, with a constantly increasing membership and a slow but steady recovery. The 1973/74 season saw the arrival, as player, of a new Barça legend – Johan Cruyff. He helped the club win La Liga for the first time since 1960, along the way defeating Real Madrid 5-0 at the Bernabéu. He was also crowned European Footballer of the Year in his first year at the club.

 
 
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In 1979 and 1982 the club won two of four European Cup Winners' Cups in the Núñez era. At the start of the 1984/85 season, the club won La Liga with stellar displays by German midfielder Bernd Schuster. After the 1986 World Cup, English top scorer Gary Lineker was signed along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta but the team could not achieve success while Schuster was excluded from the team.


 

Cruyff returned

In 1988 Johan Cruyff returned to the club as manager and assembled the so-called Dream Team, named after the US basketball team that played at the 1992 Summer Olympics hosted by Barcelona. He introduced players like Josep Guardiola, José Mari Bakero, Txiki Beguiristáin, Jon Andoni Goikoetxea, Gheorghe Hagi, Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romário and Hristo Stoichkov. Under Cruyff's guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. They defeated 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. However, in his final two seasons, he failed to win any trophies (not to mention the disastrous 4-0 defeat in the Champion's League 1994 final against AC Milan) and fell out with president Núñez, resulting in Cruyff's departure.

 
 
Koeman Goal vs Sampdria
 
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'Centenari'

In 1999 the club celebrated its 'centenari' by winning the La Liga title, and by having its star Rivaldo become the fourth Barça player to be awarded European Footballer of the Year. Despite this domestic success, the failure to emulate Real Madrid's success in the UEFA Champions League led to van Gaal and Núñez's resignation in 2000.
The next 3 years saw the club in decline and managers came and went.


 

2004-05

"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">In the 2004/05 season, Barça were crowned champions of La Liga, and stars Ronaldinho and Eto'o were voted first and third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. Barça also won the Supercopa de España, with a victory over Real Betis. In the UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Barça were eliminated by Chelsea F.C. 5-4 on aggregate.

In November 2005, Barça beat Real Madrid 3-0 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in a match where Ronaldinho was so impressive that after his second, and Barça's third goal, the Real Madrid fans were compelled to applaud him. Barcelona went on to win the championship of La Liga with ease, as well as the Supercopa de España with a victory over city rivals Espanyol.

IN 2206, Barcelona beat Arsenal 2:1 to win the Champions League. At that time, Barcelona was without a doubt the best team in Europe.


 

Honours


Domestic competitions
• La Liga Champions: 18
o 1929, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1974, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006,2009,2010

• Copa del Rey: 24 (record)
o 1910, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997, 1998

• Supercopa de España: 7
o 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006

• Copa de la Liga: 2 (record)
o 1982, 1986


 

International competitions



• UEFA Champions League:4
o 1992, 2006, 2008,2010
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 6(record)
o 1979, 1982, 1989, 1997
• European Super Cup: 2
o 1992, 1997
• Copa Latina: 2
o 1949, 1952
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 3 (record)
o 1958, 1960, 1966
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off: 1
o 1971


 


 

International competitions

 UEFA Champions League 4:
1992,2006,2009,2010


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