FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça ([ˈbaɾsə]), is a professional <a href="/facts/Football_club_(association_football)/9BW2g84E">football club</a> based in <a href="/facts/Barcelona/8PWLdRbW">Barcelona</a>, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in <a href="/facts/La_Liga/IGK1ayKP">La Liga</a>, the top flight of <a href="/facts/Spanish_football_league_system/QtCX1bE5">Spanish football</a>.
Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by <a href="/facts/Joan_Gamper/hBR3CwEA">Joan Gamper</a>, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and <a href="/facts/Catalanism/LRk0kuW6">Catalanism</a>, hence the motto "Més que un club" ("More than a club"). Unlike many other football clubs, <a href="/facts/Supporters_of_FC_Barcelona/dBNINc24">the supporters</a> own and operate Barcelona. It is the third-most valuable football club in the world, worth $5.6 billion, and the <a href="/facts/Deloitte_Football_Money_League/3eP3KRe3">world's fourth richest</a> football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €800.1 million. The official Barcelona anthem is the "<a href="/facts/Cant_del_Bar%25C3%25A7a/r6MUmQT2">Cant del Barça</a>", written by Jaume Picas and <a href="/facts/Josep_Maria_Espin%25C3%25A0s/YVJkUICq">Josep Maria Espinàs</a>. Barcelona traditionally play in dark shades of blue and <a href="/facts/Shades_of_red/vfSHPkAb">garnet</a> stripes, hence nicknamed Blaugrana.
Barcelona are one of the <a href="/facts/List_of_football_clubs_by_competitive_honours_won/Sy5UPdHu">world's most decorated clubs</a>. Domestically, Barcelona has won a record 80 trophies: 28 <a href="/facts/La_Liga/IGK1ayKP">La Liga</a>, 32 <a href="/facts/Copa_del_Rey/qA9ho6uV">Copa del Rey</a>, 2 <a href="/facts/Copa_de_la_Liga/4ydwA9fd">Copa de la Liga</a>, 15 <a href="/facts/Supercopa_de_Espa%25C3%25B1a/FX6CUNxC">Supercopa de España</a> and 3 <a href="/facts/Copa_Eva_Duarte/yHfcnxER">Copa Eva Duarte</a> titles, as well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions. In <a href="/facts/FC_Barcelona_in_international_football/I1tIvBz9">international club football</a>, Barça has won 22 European and worldwide titles: five <a href="/facts/UEFA_Champions_League/h1ao7NDp">UEFA Champions League</a> titles, a record four <a href="/facts/UEFA_Cup_Winners%2527_Cup/7rnj3yIk">UEFA Cup Winners' Cups</a>, a record three <a href="/facts/Inter-Cities_Fairs_Cup/VNMcp8x3">Inter-Cities Fairs Cups</a>, five <a href="/facts/UEFA_Super_Cup/QbIDwojw">UEFA Super Cups</a>, a joint record two <a href="/facts/Latin_Cup/hzr6U6xX">Latin Cups</a> and three <a href="/facts/FIFA_Club_World_Cup/YF82Ivbb">FIFA Club World Cups</a>. Barcelona was ranked first in the <a href="/facts/International_Federation_of_Football_History_%2526_Statistics/YaSbtAQg">International Federation of Football History & Statistics</a> Club World Ranking for 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015, and occupies the ninth position on the <a href="/facts/UEFA_coefficient/bCKsBNmH">UEFA club rankings</a> as of May 2023. The club has a long-standing rivalry with <a href="/facts/Real_Madrid_CF/1xVKbM0V">Real Madrid</a>, and matches between the two teams are referred to as <a href="/facts/El_Cl%25C3%25A1sico/25YS5YEa">El Clásico</a>.
Barcelona is one of the most widely supported teams in the world, and the club has one of the largest social media followings in the world among sports teams. <a href="/facts/List_of_FC_Barcelona_players/upg1wA91">Barcelona players</a> have won a joint record twelve <a href="/facts/Ballon_d%2527Or/8cGx60os">Ballon d'Or</a> awards, with recipients including <a href="/facts/Johan_Cruyff/vNekPLfL">Johan Cruyff</a>, as well as a record six <a href="/facts/FIFA_World_Player_of_the_Year/eAexqqjw">FIFA World Player of the Year</a> awards, with winners including <a href="/facts/Rom%25C3%25A1rio/ePkckfdm">Romário</a>, <a href="/facts/Ronaldo_(Brazilian_footballer)/AEmxjPQe">Ronaldo</a>, <a href="/facts/Rivaldo/RDnFTtS8">Rivaldo</a>, <a href="/facts/Ronaldinho/uglt5RmV">Ronaldinho</a> and <a href="/facts/Lionel_Messi/6nXmXIUH">Lionel Messi</a>. In <a href="/facts/2010_FIFA_Ballon_d%2527Or/NJHH8oKt">2010</a>, three players who came through the <a href="/facts/La_Masia/kFAsyG0A">club's youth academy</a>—Lionel Messi, <a href="/facts/Andr%25C3%25A9s_Iniesta/N6Hz3bnq">Andrés Iniesta</a> and <a href="/facts/Xavi_(footballer%2c_born_1980)/0hG9Gyo8">Xavi</a>—were chosen as the three best players in the world in the Ballon d'Or ranking, an unprecedented feat for players from the same football academy. Additionally, players representing the club have won a record eight <a href="/facts/European_Golden_Shoe/1LmKSTru">European Golden Shoe</a> awards.
Barcelona is one of three founding members of the <a href="/facts/La_Liga/IGK1ayKP">Primera División</a> that have <a href="/facts/List_of_unrelegated_association_football_clubs/7ScbTYMb">never been relegated</a> from the top division since its inception in <a href="/facts/1929_La_Liga/KXuuNDoo">1929</a>, along with <a href="/facts/Athletic_Bilbao/vPFHB0Hn">Athletic Bilbao</a> and <a href="/facts/Real_Madrid_CF/1xVKbM0V">Real Madrid</a>. In 2009, Barcelona became the first Spanish club to win the <a href="/facts/Treble_(association_football)/G4329E88">continental treble</a> consisting of <a href="/facts/2008%25E2%2580%259309_La_Liga/pjt8r1ev">La Liga</a>, <a href="/facts/2008%25E2%2580%259309_Copa_del_Rey/tIeVXKkc">Copa del Rey</a> and <a href="/facts/2008%25E2%2580%259309_UEFA_Champions_League/GVeBCHeE">UEFA Champions League</a> titles, and also became the first European football club to win six competitions in a single year, by also triumphing in the <a href="/facts/2009_Supercopa_de_Espa%25C3%25B1a/1yVb2AMt">Spanish Super Cup</a>, <a href="/facts/2009_UEFA_Super_Cup/EJHel8GP">UEFA Super Cup</a> and <a href="/facts/2009_FIFA_Club_World_Cup/VB7DY6tV">FIFA Club World Cup</a>. In 2011, the club became European champions again, winning five trophies. This Barcelona team, which won fourteen trophies in just four years under <a href="/facts/Pep_Guardiola/4Y580bM8">Pep Guardiola</a>, is considered by some in the sport to be the greatest of all time. By winning their fifth Champions League trophy in <a href="/facts/2015_UEFA_Champions_League_Final/yBvdnjaK">2015</a> under <a href="/facts/Luis_Enrique/Jb0fM5vR">Luis Enrique</a>, Barcelona became the first European football club in history to achieve the continental treble twice.

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