FC Barcelona - also known as Barça, is a sports club in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain which has clubs in several branches of sport, but most notably football.
FC Barcelona was founded in 1899 by 12 football players from Switzerland, Britain, and Spain under the leadership of Joan Gasper. FC Barcelona has the motto "Barca is not just a club" (El Barça, es mes que un club) and has a hymn, entitled "El Cannot del Barca"created by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Unlike club soccer in general, FC Barcelona is really owned and operated by its supporters. The main stadium at Camp Nou, Barcelona.
FC Club Barcelonaini entered into participants Primera División (Primary Division) since 1928, and together with Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao to be a team that was never relegated to the Segunda División (Second Division). The club was also a club that won the Spanish league first. By offering 20 Spanish League titles, 25 Copa del Rey titles, 7 Spanish Super Cup, 3 European Champions League titles, 4 UEFA Cup, 2 European Super Cup, FC Barcelona became one of the most successful team in Spain, Europe, and the world . The most obvious evidence in 2009 when FC Barcelona managed to become the first Spanish club won the title TREBLE (champions of La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League). Followed by Raihan Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup to complete his title became SEXTUPLE achievement. FC Barcelona is the first football club in the world has ever done this achievement. Barca fans are also often called Cules.
FC Barcelona is the second most successful club in Spanish football in terms of overall trophies, having won twenty-one La Liga titles, a record twenty-five Spanish Cups, nine Spanish Super Cups, and two League Cups. It is also one of most successful clubs in European football, having won ten UEFA competitions.[2] It is the only European club to have played continental football every season since 1955. In 2009, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the treble consisting of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. That same year, it also became the first football club ever to win six out of six competitions in a single year, thus completing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
