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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 ...
Youngest player to score for the club in UEFA Champions League: [1] Ansu Fati (17 years and 40 days)(Champions League record). Youngest player to score and assist for the club in UEFA Champions League: [1] Ansu Fati (17 years and 355 days). Most assists provided in all official competitions (World Record): 292 – Lionel Messi, 2004–2021 [1]
The league was cancelled between 1936 and 1939 because of the Spanish Civil War. [3] Real Madrid are the most successful club with 36 titles. Barcelona has won the Spanish version of the double the most times, having won the league and cup in the same year eight times in history, three more than Athletic Bilbao's five. [4]
Real Madrid holds the record for the most titles overall with 26, followed by Milan's 17 titles. [7] [8] Spanish teams hold the record for the most wins in each of the three main UEFA club competitions: Real Madrid, with 15 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles; Sevilla, with 7 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League titles; and Barcelona, with 4 Cup Winners' Cup titles.
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...
Real Madrid hold the record for the most goals conceded by a Champions League-winning team, conceding 23 goals in 17 matches in 1999–2000. Benfica achieved the highest-ever goals conceded-per-game ratio for Champions League-winning in the history of the competition (1.57), the club conceded 11 goals in 7 matches in 1961–62.
FC Barcelona hold the record in the Champions League for 12 consecutive appearances in the last eight of Europe's top club competition. [65] On 15 March, it was announced that Barça would face Manchester United in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. [66] On 17 March, Barça won Real Betis 1-4.
In the Champions League on 7 November 2012, Barcelona would fall 2–1 to Celtic, with Messi grabbing his third Champions League goal of the 2012–13 season in the 90th minute in Glasgow. Barcelona were eliminated from Europe 0–7 on aggregate in the semi-finals against eventual champions Bayern Munich , the worst-ever aggregate loss in any ...