Wednesday, December 16, 2009

FC Barcelona 2010

FC Barcelona is one of three clubs never to have been removed from La Liga and the most successful clubs in Spanish football after Real Madrid, having won the La Liga title nineteen, twenty-five Spanish Cup record, eight Spanish Super Cup, four-Eva Duarte Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most successful clubs in European football after winning the official thirteen major European trophies in total, including ten UEFA competitions. [1] They have won three UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, three note the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (predecessor to the UEFA Europa League) and three UEFA Super Cup. In the year 2009, Barcelona became the first club to win the treble Spanish La Liga, Copa del Rey and UEFA Champions League. Club is also the only continental European parties have played football in every season since its inception in 1955.
The club's stadium is the Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe with a capacity of 98,772 seats. Barcelona enjoys a high rate of popularity; about 25.7% of Spanish population support the club,[2] while according to a recent survey Barcelona is the most popular football club in Europe with around 44.2 million fans.[3] With 170,000 socis (members) in September 2009,[4] the Catalan club is also placed among the top football clubs in the world with the most registered members, and the number of penyes, the officially-registered supporter clubs, reached the number of 1,888 worldwide in August 2009. The fans of FC Barcelona are known as culés. The club shares a great rivalry with Real Madrid and contest in one of the most famous football matches worldwide, known as El Clásico.

During the 2007–08 season, FC Barcelona was the third richest club in the world with a revenue of €308.8 million. It was also one of the founding members of the now-defunct G-14 group of the leading European football clubs and its modern replacement, the European Club Association. The club also operates a reserve team, FC Barcelona Atlètic, while there was a youth team until 2007, FC Barcelona

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