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Futbol Club Barcelona was founded in 1899 by Joan Gamper and a group of Swiss, English and Catalan players. The motto més que un club — more than a club — points at the part it has played in Catalan identity ever since.

Barcelona have won 29 La Liga titles and 32 Copa del Rey trophies, more than any other club in the Spanish cup, along with five European Cups, four Cup Winners' Cups and three Club World Cups.

The football has been shaped by the academy. La Masia opened as a residence for young players in 1979, and Johan Cruyff's ideas, first as a player and later as manager, set the style that ran through the sides that followed. The trebles of 2009 and 2015 came out of that, with the 2009 team winning six trophies in a calendar year and Lionel Messi as the defining player of the era.

Camp Nou opened in 1957 and has been the home ground since. Between 2023 and 2025 the club played at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on Montjuïc while the ground was rebuilt as part of the Espai Barça project.

The team returned in November 2025 to a partly reopened stadium. Capacity has risen in stages — 27,000, then 45,401, then 62,652 in March 2026 — and the finished ground is planned for 105,000 seats in September 2027, which would make it the largest stadium in Europe.