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Barcelona (Catalan: Futbol Club Barcelona) is a football club from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It plays in La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system. Barcelona Full name Futbol Club Barcelona Nickname Barça (Barça), Blaugranes (blue and garnet) Founded 29 November 1899 Location Barcelona, Spain Spain Stadium Estadio Olímpico Luis Campanha (temporary) Capacity 54,367 President Spain Juan Laporta Head coach Germany Hans-Dieter Flick League La Liga 2024/25 1st place Website Official website https://www.fcbarcelona.es/es/ Founded on 29 November 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German and English footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club" ("More than a club"). Unlike many other football clubs, Barcelona's fans own and manage the club. It is the third most valuable sports team in the world, valued at $5.51 billion, and the fourth richest football club in the world by revenue, with an annual turnover of €582.1 million. Barcelona's official anthem is "Cant del Barça". Barcelona traditionally plays in dark shades of blue and garnet, hence the nickname Blaugrana. At the domestic level, Barcelona has won a record 77 trophies: 27 La Liga titles, 31 Copa del Rey titles, 14 Supercopas de España, 3 Copas Eva Duarte and 2 Copas de la Liga, and is the record holder in the last four competitions. In international club football, the club has won 22 European and world titles: 5 UEFA Champions League titles, a record 4 UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, a joint record 5 UEFA Super Cups, a record 3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, a joint record 2 Latin Cups and 3 Club World Cups. Barcelona was ranked first in the IFFHS club rankings in 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015, and as of September 2023, they are fourteenth in the UEFA club coefficient table. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, with matches between the two teams being known as El Clásico. Barcelona is one of the most supported teams in the world. Barcelona players have won a record twelve Ballon d'Or awards (including Johan Cruyff), as well as seven FIFA World Player of the Year awards, including Romário, Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho. In 2010, three players who have come through the club's youth academy (Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández) were named among the top three players in the world in the FIFA Ballon d'Or award, an unprecedented achievement for players from a single football academy. In addition, players representing the club have won a record eight Golden Boot awards. Barcelona is one of the three founding clubs of the Primera Division that have never been relegated from the top division since its inception in 1929, along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. In 2009, Barcelona became the first Spanish club to win the continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League, and also became the first Spanish football club to win six out of six competitions in a single year, also winning the Spanish Super Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup. In 2011, the club again won five trophies. The Barcelona team, which won fourteen trophies in just four years under the management of Josep Guardiola, is considered by some to be the greatest team in football of all time. By winning their fifth Champions League trophy in 2015 under the guidance of Luis Enrique, Barcelona became the first European football club in history to achieve the continental treble twice.