FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona, known familiarly as Barça (pronounced [barsa]), is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It is best known for its football team. It was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English, and Catalan men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto Mes que un club (More than a club).

They were founding members of La Liga in 1928, and, together with Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, they have never been relegated from the Primera División. The club were also the first La Liga champions, winning a total of 18 La Liga, 24 Copa del Rey, 7 Supercopa de España, 32 Joan Gamper Trophy, 2 UEFA Champions League, 4 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, 3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and 2 European Super Cup trophies.

The club's main stadium is the Camp Nou and the fans of FC Barcelona are known as culers or culés. In June 2007, the number of socis (club members/owners) reached 156,366, while in June 2006 the number of penyes (officially-registered supporter clubs) reached 1782 worldwide.

The club also operates a reserve team, FC Barcelona B, and four other professional sports teams, AXA FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona Futsal and FC Barcelona Sorli Discau that compete at basketball, handball, futsal and rink hockey respectively. Until 2007 there was also a youth team, FC Barcelona C. There are also a number of prominent amateur sports teams that compete at rugby union, women's football and wheelchair basketball. These include FCB Rugby and FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman. Other amateur teams represent the club at ice hockey, athletics, baseball, cycling, field hockey, figure skating, and volleyball.

During the 2006-07 season, FC Barcelona was the second richest club in the world with an estimated revenue of €290.1 million. FC Barcelona attitude to shirt sponsorship is unique. Selectively without a commercial message in its shirts, on 14 July 2006 the club announced a five year agreement with UNICEF, which includes having the UNICEF logo on their shirts. The agreement will see FC Barcelona donating US$1.9 million per year to UNICEF (0.7 per cent of its ordinary income) to the FC Barcelona Foundation, and rejecting significant money offers to be the first shirt sponsor of the football team. The club has done this in order to set up international cooperation programmes for development, supports the UN Millennium Development Goals and has made a commitment to UNICEF’s humanitarian aid programs through the donation of one and a half million euros for the next five years.

Spanish competitions

La Liga Champions: 18
1929, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1974, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006

Copa del Rey: 24 (record)
1910, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997, 1998

Supercopa de España: 7
1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006

Copa de la Liga: 2 (record)
1982, 1986

International competitions

UEFA Champions League: 2
1992, 2006

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 4 (record)
1979, 1982, 1989, 1997

European Super Cup: 2
1992, 1997

Copa Latina: 2
1949, 1952

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 3 (record)
1958, 1960, 1966

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off: 1
1971

Nou Camp Stadium Map

Estadio Nou Camp
Carrer d'Arístides Maillol
08028, Barcelona

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  Telephone:   902 1899 00 o +34 93 496 36 00 (only from outside Spain)

  FC Barcelona General Ticket Office (access 14):

Monday to Thursday, from 9.00 to 13.30 and 15.30 to 18.00
Friday, from 9.00 to 14.30
Saturday from 9.00 to 13.30 on weekends of matches played at the Camp Nou

  FC Barcelona Boulevard Ticket Office (access 7/9):

Monday to Thursday from 10.00 to 18.00
Sundays from 10.00 to 14.15

  FC Barcelona Gol Nord and Gol Sud Ticket Offices:

on Match days: from 11.00 until kick off booths Gol Nord (North Goal) and Gol Sud (South Goal).