FC Barcelona

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Title: FC Barcelona Category: Top 10+ European Football Teams Origin: Spain Listing added: Mar 31, 2009 Comments: 0 PageRank: 7/10

FC Barcelona is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is best known for its football team, which was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalonian men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto "Més que un club".
FC Barcelona is one of the only three clubs that have never been relegated from La Liga and the second most successful club in Spanish football having won eighteen La Liga titles, a record twenty-four Spanish Cups, seven Spanish Super Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most successful clubs in European football having won two European Cups, four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups and two UEFA Super Cups.
The club's stadium is the Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe. Barcelona enjoys a high rate of popularity; about 25.7% of Spanish population support the club, while according to a recent survey Barcelona is the most popular football club in Europe with around 44.2 million fans.

Origin:	Spain
Web page:	www.fcbarcelona.com
Extra link:	www.allaboutfcbarcelona.com
Extra link:	www.fcbes.com
Extra link:	www.simplybarcelonatickets.com
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