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Apr 9, 2021 · A last-gasp win over Real Valladolid ensured Barcelona is the only team in Europe’s top five leagues to remain unbeaten domestically in 2021 – and yet this is still a club tarred by the...
- Axel Metz
May 15, 2023 · On Monday evening, they will take a bus through the city alongside their all-conquering women’s team. Back in August 2019, Messi expressed his hope that one day people would realise how hard it ...
- Ten Interesting Facts About FC Barcelona
- Mes Que Un Club
- Barcelona's Camp Nou Is The Largest Football Stadium in Europe
- Barcelona Are The Richest Football Club in The World
- Barcelona Are The Second-Most Supported Football Team in The World
- Barcelona Are The First Team to Win The Continental Treble on Multiple Occasions
- Barcelona Have The Most Ballon d'Or Wins Than Any Other Club
- Barcelona Have Never Been Relegated from The La Liga
- Barcelona Are The only Club to Win Six Trophies in A Calendar Year
The club, founded in 1899, has often been seen as a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, especially during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, which explains the motto of Barcelona: mes que un club(more than just a club). Some of the best players of the world like Johan Cryuff, Diego Maradona, Ronaldo Nazario, Luis Figo, Ronaldinho, Lionel M...
True to their motto, Barcelona have been more than a club in ways more than one. Barcelona, one of the last clubs from the top five leagues to don a sponsor's name on their jersey, have a long-standing association with UNICEF, the United Nations agency responsible for the health and development of children worldwide. The La Liga giants, through the...
Barcelona's imposing Camp Nou amphitheatre, opened in 1957, is one of the largest sports stadiums in the world. Designed by architects Francesc Mitjans Miro and Josep Soteras Mauri, the Camp Nou, which translates to new ground, was a significant upgrade on Barcelona's old Les Corts ground that could house only48,000 spectators. Originally intended ...
In 2019-20, Barcelona became the first football club to breach the £700 million ($900 million/€800 million) threshold as they overtook arch-rivals Real Madrid to become the richest football team in the world. With Los Blancos raking in $864 million in revenue during the same period, Barcelona's revenue earnings of $959.3 million (£741 million) repr...
With the arrival of Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho in the early 2000s, Barcelona experienced a surge in their global fan base. The arrival of a certain Lionel Messi coincided with the club's most prolific period in their illustrious history. Under the tutelage of former player Pep Guardiola, Barcelona became the first Spanish team to win the contin...
Six years after becoming the first Spanish team to win the continental treble in 2008-09, Barcelona won their third Champions League title in six years to become the first team in history to win the coveted treble on multiple occasions. Five years later, in a COVID-19-ravaged season, Bavarian giants Bayern Munichwon the continental treble for the s...
Breaking a tie with Cristiano Ronaldo, last year Lionel Messi won a record sixth Ballon d'or award to cap off a wonderful season for Barcelona. In the process, Barcelona overtook Real Madrid as the club with the most Ballon d'Or wins. The Catalan club now have 12 Ballon d'Or wins, with Lionel Messi alone accounting for half of that tally and five d...
Along with Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona are the only other club never to have been relegated from the La Liga during the competition's nine-decade long existence. Not surprisingly, the 26-time La Liga winners have a slew of records in the competition. One of only two clubs to have breached the 100-point mark in a La Liga season, Barce...
In a year when Barcelona became the first Spanish team in history to win the continental treble, the Blaugrana started the 2009-10 season by winning the UEFA Super Cup and the Supercopa de Espana to make it five wins in as many competitions in the year. The year was to get better still for Pep Guardiola's men, though. Barcelona entered the Club Wor...
Dec 8, 2010 · In the past two and a half years, it's been total football -- and total dominance -- for Barcelona FC. For this reason, Graham Hunter believes the team is the best club of all time.
Sep 3, 2021 · True to the book’s real star, Kuper has done so. Barca. The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club, by Simon Kuper, Octopus £20, 360 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook ...
Jul 14, 2017 · FC Barcelona are more than a club – they represent the whole of Catalonia. When you think of the biggest clubs in the world of football, FC Barcelona are undoubtedly one of the first names that ...
Jun 11, 2018 · The club only operates with the money it earns through games, merchandise, television rights, etc. and were recently ranked the fourth richest football team in the world. It has one of the largest social media followings of any sports team in the world and is the most popular ‘second favorite team’ in Europe.
