Barcelona FC

Football Club Barcelona which is also known as Barcelona not forgetting Barca. This is a professional football club that is based in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. This football club was founded in the year 1899.

A group of English, Swiss and Catalan footballers who were led by a Joan Gamper, Ever since then, Barcelona has become a symbol of Catalan culture and also Catalanism and its no wonder the motto  "Més que un club" (More than a club), was founded.

Barcelona FC’s official anthem is known as the "Més que un club" (More than a club). Barcelona is a unique football club that ids owned and run by supporters. Barcelona doubles up as the second richest club in terms of revenue where it operates an annual turnover of 398 million pounds.

FC Barcelona is a club that holds a long standing rivalry with FC Real Madrid and when the two teams meet on the playing field, the matches are referred to "El Clásico". FC Barcelona are the current Copa del Rey Champions and they have won a record 21 La Liga titles, 26 Copa del Rey, 10 Supercopa de Espana  , 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de la Liga trophies.

Barcelona is the record holder for the latter four competitions and for the international scene, Barcelona has won a record four UEFA Champions league, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, four UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a record two FIFA Club World Cup trophies. 

FC Barcelona doubles up as the only European club that has ever played the continental football every season since the year1955. FC Barcelona is also one of three clubs that have never been relegated from La Liga the rest being Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao.

In the year2009, FC Barcelona became the very first Spanish club to ever win six out of six competitions in a single year! This made the club win a sextuple that compromised of the treble as well as the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Cup as well as FIFA World Cup. 

During the date22nd of October the year1899, a gent by the name Hans Kamper placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a football club; he was bombarded with a positive result which led to a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. 

A record eleven players attended and from then on FC Barcelona had their very successful start in regional as well as national cups, Barcelona started competing in the Campionat de Catalunya and the Copa del Rey.

Back in the year 1902, Barcelona was able to win its first ever trophy, the Copa Macaya, and participated in the first Copa del Rey, losing 1–2 to Bizcaya in the final.In the year 1908,Kamper who was to be known as Joan Gamper became FC Barcelona’s club president. 

And during his 25 years reign as club president, Joan ensured that FC Barcelona go to acquire its very own stadium thus helping the club to start generating a stable income.