Personnel & Management

Current technical staff

Josep Guardiola, the current manager of FC Barcelona

See also List of FC Barcelona managers

Position	Staff
Manager	Josep Guardiola
Assistant manager	Tito Vilanova
Fitness coach	Lorenzo Buenaventura, Paco Seiruŀlo, Aureli Altimira, Francesc Cos
Goalkeeping coach	Juan Carlos Unzué
Director of football	Andoni Zubizarreta
Academy director	Guillermo Amor
Youth manager	Eusebio Sacristán

Last updated: 6 July 2011
Source: FC Barcelona

See also: List of FC Barcelona presidents

Sandro Rosell, the current President of FC Barcelona

Office	Name
President	Sandro Rosell
Vice president of social area	Jordi Cardoner
Vice president of sports area	Josep Bartomeu
Corporate director general	Antoni Rossich
Board secretary	Antoni Freixa
Treasurer	Susana Monje
Director of social area	Ramon Pont

Last updated: 1 July 2010
Source: FC Barcelona

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Current squad

Main article: List of FC Barcelona players

For a list of all former and current FC Barcelona players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FC Barcelona footballers.

Spanish teams are limited to three players without EU citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.

Further information: 2011–12 FC Barcelona season#Squad information

See also: FC Barcelona B#Current squad

As of 27 January 2012.^{[142][143][144][145]}

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Víctor Valdés (3rd captain) 2 DF Daniel Alves 3 DF Gerard Piqué 4 MF Cesc Fàbregas 5 DF Carles Puyol (captain) 6 MF Xavi Hernández (vice-captain) 7 FW David Villa 8 MF Andrés Iniesta (4th captain) 9 FW Alexis Sánchez 10 FW Lionel Messi 11 MF Thiago Alcântara

No. Position Player 13 GK José Manuel Pinto 14 MF Javier Mascherano 15 MF Seydou Keita 16 MF Sergio Busquets 17 FW Pedro Rodríguez 20 MF Ibrahim Afellay 21 DF Adriano 22 DF Éric Abidal 23 FW Isaac Cuenca 24 DF Andreu Fontàs

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Domestic competitions

• La Liga^[133]

Winners (21): 1928–1929, 1944–45, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1973–74, 1984–85, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11

Runners-up (23): 1929–30, 1945–46, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2011–12

• Copa del Rey^[134]

Winners (25): 1909–10, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1927–28, 1941–42, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2008–09

Runners-up (9): 1918–19, 1931–32, 1935–36, 1953–54, 1973–74, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1995–96, 2010–11

• Supercopa de España^[135]

The European Cup, which Barcelona won in 1992.

Winners (10): 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011

Runners-up (7): 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999

• Copa Eva Duarte (the forerunner to the Supercopa de España)^[136]

Winners (3): 1948, 1952, 1953^[5]

Runners-up (2): 1949, 1951

• Copa de la Liga^[137]

Winners (2): 1982–83, 1985–86

European competitions

• European Cup / UEFA Champions League^[138]

Winners (4): 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11

Runners-up (3): 1960–61, 1985–86, 1993–94

• European Cup Winners' Cup / UEFA Cup Winners' Cup^[139]

The sextuple, which Barcelona won in 2009.

Winners (4): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1996–97

Runners-up (2): 1968–69, 1990–91

• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (the forerunner to the UEFA Europa League, although not organized by UEFA)

Winners (3): 1955–58, 1958–60, 1965–66

Runners-up (1): 1961–62

• European Super Cup / UEFA Super Cup^[140]

Winners (4): 1992, 1997, 2009, 2011

Runners-up (4): 1979, 1982, 1989, 2006

Worldwide competitions

• FIFA Club World Cup^[141]

Winners (2): 2009, 2011

Runners-up (1): 2006

• Intercontinental Cup

Runners-up (1): 1992

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Stadiums

Main articles: Camp de la Indústria, Camp de Les Corts, and Camp Nou

An elevated view of a full Camp Nou

Barcelona initially played in the Camp de la Indústria. The capacity was about 6,000, and club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club with growing membership.^[122]

In 1922, the number of supporters had surpassed 20,000 and by lending money to the club, Barça was able to build the larger Camp de Les Corts, which had an initial capacity of 20,000 spectators. After the Spanish Civil War the club started attracting more members and a larger number of spectators at matches. This led to several expansion projects: the grandstand in 1944, the southern stand in 1946, and finally the northern stand in 1950. After the last expansion, Les Corts could hold 60,000 spectators.^[123]

After the construction was complete there was no further room for expansion at Les Corts. Back-to-back La Liga titles in 1948 and 1949 and the signing of in June 1950 of László Kubala, who would later go on to score 196 goals in 256 matches, drew larger crowds to the games.^{[123][124][125]} The club began to make plans for a new stadium.^[123] The building of Camp Nou commenced on 28 March 1954, before a crowd of 60,000 Barça fans. The first stone of the future stadium was laid in place under the auspices of Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga and with the blessing of Archbishop of Barcelona Gregorio Modrego. Construction took three years and ended on 24 September 1957 with a final cost of 288 million pesetas, 336% over budget.^[123]

One of the stands displaying Barcelona's motto, "Més que un club", meaning 'More than a club'

In 1980, when the stadium was in need of redesign to meet UEFA criteria, the club raised money by offering supporters the opportunity to inscribe their name on the bricks for a small fee. The idea was popular with supporters, and thousands of people paid the fee. Later this became the centre of controversy when media in Madrid picked up reports that one of the stones was inscribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Francosupporter Santiago Bernabéu.^{[126][127][128]} In preparation for the 1992 Summer Games two tiers of seating were installed above the previous roofline.^[129]It has a current capacity of 96,366 making it the largest stadium in Europe.

There are also other facilities, which include:^[130]

• Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper (FC Barcelona's training ground)
• Masia-Centre de Formació Oriol Tort (Residence of young players)
• Mini Estadi (Home of the reserve team)
• Palau Blaugrana (FC Barcelona indoor sports arena)
• Palau Blaugrana 2 (Secondary indoor arena of FC Barcelona)
• Pista de Gel (FC Barcelona ice rink)

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Crest and shirt

The first crest worn by Barcelona

Since its foundation the club has played with a crest. The club's original crest was a quartered diamond-shaped crest topped by the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James, and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel tree and the other a palm.^[114] In 1910 the club held a competition among its members to design a new crest. The winner was Carles Comamala, who at the time played for the club. Comamala's suggestion became the crest that the club wears today, with some minor variations. The crest consists of the St George Cross in the upper-left corner with the Catalan flag beside it, and the team colours at the bottom.^[114]

The blue and red colours of the shirt were first worn in a match against Hispania in 1900.^[115] Several competing theories have been put forth for the blue and red design of the Barcelona shirt. The son of the first president, Arthur Witty, claimed it was the idea of his father as the colours were the same as theMerchant Taylor's School team. Another explanation, according to author Toni Strubell, is that the colours are from Robespierre's First Republic. In Catalonia the common perception is that the colours were chosen by Joan Gamper and are those of his home team, FC Basel.^[116]

Since its founding, Barcelona has never worn corporate advertisements on their shirt. On 14 July 2006, the club announced a five year agreement withUNICEF, which includes having the UNICEF logo on their shirts. The agreement has the club donate €1.5 million per year to UNICEF (0.7 percent of its ordinary income, equal to the UN International Aid Target, cf. ODA) via the FC Barcelona Foundation.^[117] The FC Barcelona Foundation is an entity set up in 1994 on the suggestion of then-chairman of the Economical-Statutory Committee, Jaime Gil-Aluja. The idea was to set up a foundation that could attract financial sponsorships to support a non-profit sport company.^[118] In 2004, a company could become one of 25 "Honorary members" by contributing between £40,000–60,000 (£45,800–68,700)^[119]per year. There are also 48 associate memberships available for an annual fee of £14,000 (£16,000)^[119] and an unlimited number of "patronages" for the cost of £4,000 per year (£4,600).^[119] It is unclear whether the honorary members have any formal say in club policy, but according to the author Anthony King, it is "unlikely that Honorary Membership would not involve at least some informal influence over the club".^[120]

Barcelona ended their refusal of corporate sponsorship prior to the commencement of the 2011–12 season, signing a five-year €150m deal with the Qatar Foundation.^[121]

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt partner
1982–1992	Meyba	None
1992–1998	Kappa
1998–2006	Nike
2006–2011		UNICEF
2011–		Qatar Foundation, UNICEF

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