Original Nike FC Barcelona fan shirt

FC Barcelona is a football club from Barcelona, ​​Catalonia (Spain). The club belongs to the European and world top and with its 95 trophies is the most successful football club in Spain. The club colors are purple (or garnet red) -blue (blaugrana) and the FC Barcelona stadium is Camp Nou or Nou Camp, which literally means 'new field'. FC Barcelona's arch rival is Real Madrid. Matches between both clubs are known as El Clásico. Another important rival is neighbor RCD Espanyol; the mutual duels bear the name Derbi de Barcelona. FC Barcelona was voted the best team for the period 1991-2009 by the IFFHS in early 2010.

For the Catalan people, during the years of the strict regime of Franco, the club became the absolute symbol of their own identity and drive for independence. He has remained that to this day.

Bernd Schuster, Diego Maradona, Hristo Stoichkov, Gheorge Hagi, Ladislao Kubala, Michael Laudrup, Romario, Ronaldo, Luís Figo, Patrick Kluivert, Ronald Koeman, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi, Xavi, Carles Puyol and Andrés played for the club. Iniesta. Johan Cruijff achieved great success with the club. As a player, Cruijff won few tangible prizes, only one championship in 1974 and once the Spanish Cup (the Copa del Rey - in the time of dictator Franco still called Copa del Generalisimo), but his game is forever etched in the memory of the supporters . Later, when Cruijff was a coach, he formed a team that came to be known as the Dream Team. The highlight of this team was winning the European Cup I in 1992, now called the Champions League.

Frank Rijkaard, appointed as coach in 2003, managed to create a team that rivaled Cruijff's team by winning the 2006 UEFA Champions League in addition to the 2005 and 2006 national championships. The team led by Pep Guardiola was also often compared to the Dream Team. In the last seven years, Barcelona has won the Champions League five times in the Primera División and in 2009, 2011 and 2015. In 2009 it was the only Spanish club ever to win the treble (national championship, national cup and Champions League), a feat that was repeated in 2015 and that was achieved twice together with Bayern Munich. FC Barcelona is the only club in Europe to participate in one of the tournaments every year since the establishment of European football in 1955.