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Barcelona team in 1903 Futbol Club Barcelona is a professional association football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The club was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by Joan Gamper, and played its first friendly match on 8 December 1899. Initially, Barcelona played against other local clubs in various Catalan tournaments, but in 1929 the ...
Barcelona also won the 2015–16 Copa del Rey with a 2–0 win against Sevilla in the final. [113] Barcelona also won the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup, with a 3–0 win against Argentine club, River Plate, in the final. [114] In the UEFA Champions League, Barcelona finished at the top of their group stage, without losing once. [115]
La Liga is contested by 20 teams; the three lowest-placed teams are relegated to the Segunda División and replaced by the top three teams in that division. Of the founding teams in La Liga, only Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona and Real Madrid have not been relegated. [2] The league was cancelled between 1936 and 1939 because of the Spanish Civil ...
Additionally, Barça has won the coveted continental treble, consisting of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League in the aforementioned 2009 and again 2015, becoming the first European club to have won the treble twice. [5] Barcelona has signed several high-profile players, setting the world record in transfer fees on three ...
Barcelona and Real Madrid have faced each other in every La Liga season since its inception in 1929, as inaugural members and two of the only three teams (the other being Athletic Bilbao) to have never been relegated from the Primera División.
The Spanish Primera División was born in 1929, and only Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid have been present ever since. The same year the Italian Serie A became a round-robin tournament, and only Inter Milan has continuously played at the highest level from that moment forward – even doing so since 1909.
This is a list of association football clubs with multiple consecutive promotions or relegations.. For an association football club to achieve three consecutive promotions is somewhat rare, to achieve subsequent further promotions even rarer.
Espanyol has the consolation of achieving the largest margin win with a 6–0 in 1951, while Barcelona's biggest win was 5–0 on seven occasions (in 1933, 1947, 1964, 1975, 1992, 2016 and 2017). Espanyol achieved a 2–1 win against Barça during the 2008–09 season, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble ...