FC Barcelona

Teams Existing in Barcelona

The club also operates a reserve team, FC Barcelona Atlètic, and four other professional sports teams, AXA FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona Futsal and FC Barcelona Sorli Discau. These teams compete in games like 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-Institute Guttman. Other amateur teams represent the club at ice hockey, athletics, baseball, cycling, field hockey, figure skating, and volleyball.

Third Richest Club in the World

During the 2006-07 season, FC Barcelona was the third richest club in the world generating a revenue of €291.1 million. On 22 October 1899, Joan Gamper placed an advert in Los Deportes to form a football club. A positive response resulted in a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on November 29. Many players came to attend the meeting. As a result, the Foot-Ball Club Barcelona came into being. Several other Spanish football clubs, most notably Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, also had British founders, and as a result they initially adopted English-style names.

Spain has privileged to have nine clubs that have been crowned as football champions, Madrid and Barcelona being prominent amongst the clubs. The 1990’s have been considered as the lucky, where both the afore mentioned team had won a number of champion titles. FC Barcelona happens to be one of the most successful teams in European competition history. It also is a club which has won 5 or more international trophies and is also part of the top ten most successful clubs in European football in terms of European trophies.

FC Barcelona is one of the founding members of La Liga in 1928, and, together with Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, they have never been demoted from the top division. In fact, the football club happens to have won nearly every championship that came its way. During the mid 90’s it was FC Barcelona who won the very first Liga and following Barcelona, it was Madrid itself who had won their first title.

In Spain, nearly quarter percent of the popultion are said to be Barça or Barcelonan supporters. The year 2007, brought in more clubs and further continues to stay alive to cater to the sports world. The club made also has the privilege to have a reserve team who could be utilized. It was between the years of 2006-2007 that, FC Barcelona gained world wide fame and being rated as the thridh richest club with having enormous revenue up its sleeves. With the revenues going up, FC Barcelona soon emerged as one of the leading clubs of Espania. Not just the revenue alone, but it was the hard earned effort of the Barcelona club members that luck and fame had always been together. The FC Barcelona team includes basket ball, handball, and rink hockey respectively. Apart from the mentioned games there are other prominent amateur games like rugby, women’s football and wheel chair basketball. Also ice-hockey, athletics, cycling, field hockey, figure skating and volley ball are amateur games that represent their respective clubs.

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Peter Cohen calls Boston home and graduated from Brandeis University. He considers travel to be the love of his life and has already traveled to 5 different continents. He also has a passion for languages and has studied Arabic, German and Russian. While devoting his working life to writing for lifestyle magazines, he also takes out time for occasional event reviews.