About the Clubs

Football Club Barcelona was founded in 1899 by Joan Gamper. He was born in a Swiss canton, and selected maroon and blue as the official team colors because they were the colors of that canton.

The club's stadium is Camp Nou. It can host the biggest number of spectators out of all stadiums in Europe with 98.800 seats in total.

Besides football (soccer) FC Barcelona operates a number of sports teams such as: roller hockey, handball, basketball and indoor football (futsal). These teams wear the same colors and are subsidised by the football section.

Its recent slogan "more than a club" is inspired by the club's pivotal social and political role in Spain.  

FC Barcelona is one of three clubs never to have been relegated from La Liga having won nineteen La Liga titles, a record twenty-five Spanish Cups, eight Spanish Super Cups, four Eva Duarte Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most succesful clubs in European football having won thirteen official major European trophies in total, including ten UEFA competitions. They have won three UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups (the forerunner to the UEFA Cup) and three UEFA Super Cups.

In 2009, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and UEFA Champions League. The club is also the only European side to have played continental football in every season since its inception in 1955.

RCD Espanyol de Barcelona is one of the most ancient and important Football clubs in Spanish "La Liga" founded in 1900 by Ángel Rodríguez, an engineering student at the University of Barcelona. The club's original home was in the well-off district of Sarria, and was initially known as the Sociedad Española de Football. One year later, the club changed its name to "Club Español de Fútbol."

In 1929, the team won its first Spanish Cup, a title it would win again in 1940, in 2000, during the celebration of its founding, and in 2006. In 1988, and 2007 the club was the UEFA Cup runner-up.

During more than 100 years, Espanyol has had well-known players around the world. Possibly the first and great blue and white idol was the goal-keeper Ricardo Zamora. After him, other players such as the international Alfredo di Stefano, Kubala, N’Kono…joined the club.

In August 2009 the new stadium at Cornellà was finally inaugurated with a capacity of 40.000 spectators.