In 2010, three players who came through the club's youth academy (Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta, and Xavi) were chosen as the three best players in the world in the FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, an unprecedented feat for players from the same football school. An away kit featuring the red and yellow stripes of the flag of Catalonia has also been used many times. [21], On 14 March 1909, the team moved into the Camp de la Indústria, a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. [122], Barcelona won the treble in the 2014–15 season, winning La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League titles, and became the first European team to have won the treble twice. 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(TV Series 1998–1999)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FC_Barcelona&oldid=984115008, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, First Vice President and Director of the Barça Foundation, Vice President for Economic and Equity and Responsible for 'Espai Barça', Director responsible for the football first team, Board member responsible for the women's team, Barça B and youth football, Palau Blaugrana 2 (Secondary indoor arena of FC Barcelona), This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 07:57. [155] Throughout Europe, Barcelona is the favourite second-choice club. Barça finished the season by beating Manchester United 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, with goals from Eto'o and Messi, to win their third Champions League title, and complete the first ever treble won by a Spanish team. The idea was popular with supporters, and thousands of people paid the fee. They faced off in the round of 16 and Barça won the tie on a 7–1 aggregate score (0–2 in Milan and 5–1 in Barcelona). Long-serving Barcelona deputy coach Carles Rexach was appointed as his replacement, initially on a temporary basis, and managed to at least steer the club to the last Champions League spot on the final day of the season against Valencia via an exceptional performance from Rivaldo, who completed arguably the greatest hat-trick in history with an overhead bicycle kick winner in the final minute to secure qualification. Construction took three years and ended on 24 September 1957 with a final cost of 288 million pesetas, 336% over budget. The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time played for the club. [64], After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, Barcelona signed the English top scorer Gary Lineker, along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta, but the team could not achieve success, as Schuster was excluded from the team. [178], Barça's local rival has always been Espanyol. The elections were held on 13 June, where he got 61.35% (57,088 votes, a record) of total votes. In the process, Guardiola sold Ronaldinho and Deco and started building the Barcelona team around Xavi, Andrés Iniesta and Lionel Messi. FC Barcelona; Sezona 2010./11. Comamala's suggestion became the crest that the club wears today, with some minor variations. Last updated: 29 August 2020Source: FC Barcelona, Last updated: 1 June 2020Source: FC Barcelona, "Barça" redirects here. [212] Eulogio Martínez became Barça's top goalscorer in a cup game, when he scored seven goals against Atlético Madrid in 1957. [161] Among the best supported teams globally, Barcelona has the second highest social media following in the world among sports teams, with over 103 million Facebook fans as of December 2017[update], just behind Real Madrid. Espanyol has the consolation of achieving the largest margin win with a 6–0 in 1951, while Barcelona's biggest win was 5–0 on six occasions (in 1933, 1947, 1964, 1975, 1992 and 2016). Fútbol Club Barcelona u sezoni 2010./11. In 1945, with Josep Samitier as coach and players like César, Ramallets and Velasco, they won La Liga for the first time since 1929. Trailing 1–0 to a ten-man Arsenal and with less than 15 minutes remaining, 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. [113], In the 2011–12 season, Barcelona lost the semi-finals of the Champions League against Chelsea. This led to several expansion projects: the grandstand in 1944, the southern stand in 1946, and finally the northern stand in 1950. [225][226] In January 2018, Barcelona signed Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool for €120 million, the highest transfer fee in club's history. [154], The nickname culé for a Barcelona supporter is derived from the Catalan cul (English: arse), as the spectators at the first stadium, Camp de la Indústria, sat with their culs over the stand. He is also the record goalscorer for Barcelona in European (118 goals) and international club competitions (123 goals), and the record league scorer with 445 goals in La Liga. [74], Like Maradona, Ronaldo only stayed a short time before he left for Inter Milan in another world record transfer. Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The result meant that Barça failed to reach the Champions League final for the fifth time in a row, once advancing to the semi-finals and being eliminated at the quarter-final stage four times. [175][176] In 2002, the European encounter between the clubs was dubbed the "Match of The Century" by Spanish media, and Madrid's win was watched by more than 500 million people. Të gjitha materialet që gjenden në këtë faqë janë të mbrojtura nga. [25], During the same period, the club changed its official language from Castilian to Catalan and gradually evolved into an important symbol of Catalan identity. [227][228] In August 2017, Barcelona player Neymar transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for a world record transfer fee of €222 million. [79], 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. Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fubˈbɔl ˈklub bəɾsəˈlonə] (listen)), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça ([ˈbaɾsə]), is a Spanish professional football club based in Barcelona. Barcelona won La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and Ronaldinho and Eto'o were voted first and third, respectively, in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards.