Futbol Club Barcelona Atlètic, commonly referred to as Barça Atlètic or Barça B, is a football team based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in Primera Federación – Group 1, the third tier of the Spanish league system. Founded in 1970, it is the reserve team of Barcelona and it plays its home fixtures at Johan Cruyff Stadium.
Reserve teams in Spain play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. They must play at least one level below their main side, and they are not eligible to play in the Copa del Rey.
Founded on 1 August 1934 as Societat Esportiva Industrial Espanya, the club was originally the sports team of the factory with the same name, and its shirt featured blue and white vertical stripes. The company was owned by the family of Josep Antoni de Albert, who was briefly president of Barcelona in 1943; during Albert's presidency the club, now known as Club Deportivo Espanya Industrial, became Barcelona's reserve team and began to play home games at Camp de Les Corts.
Initially, Industrial played in the local regional leagues but, in 1950, it was promoted to Tercera División, reaching Segunda División two years later. In 1953 the club finished as runners-up in both the league and the promotion play-off but, being a nursery club of Barcelona, it was unable to move up a division.
After winning another promotion play-off in 1956, Espanya Industrial became independent of Barcelona and was renamed Club Deportivo Condal. The club wore blue shirts with two white diagonals stripes.
Condal competed once in La Liga, in the 1956–57 season, being relegated as 16th and last. In 1968, the club rejoined the Barcelona family as its reserve team, and adopted the blaugrana colours.
In 1970, Barcelona president Agustí Montal decided to merge Condal with another junior club, Atlètic Catalunya, and formed Barcelona Atlètic. Atlètic was founded in 1965 as a result of the merger of two other teams: Catalunya de Les Corts (founded in 1918 as Catalunya Sporting Club) and Fabra Coats (1926).
Under the new denomination the B-team played a total of ten seasons in the second level. At the end of 1988–89 the side returned to Segunda División B – the new third level created in 1977 – after ranking 17th.
In 1990, the team was renamed Barcelona B, but club president Joan Laporta changed the name back to Barcelona Atlètic in 2008. Two years later, his successor Sandro Rosell returned to the previous denomination,[1] until Laporta changed again the name back to Barcelona Atlètic during his second presidential term in 2022.[2]
Former club player Luis Enrique succeeded Pep Guardiola as team manager in the summer of 2008, as the latter was appointed main squad coach.[3] In 2009–10 the club finished second in Group III and returned to division two after an absence of 11 years; this was followed by a third-place in the following campaign, but the team was not eligible for promotion.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Last updated: 21 July 2024
Source: FC Barcelona B
On 23 September 1982 the Mini Estadi was inaugurated by Barcelona president Josep Lluís Núñez. Next to the ground there are two training pitches, pitch 3 and 4, which have artificial turf – the latter has a regulation size of 100 x 70 metres and has seating for 1,000 spectators.
Mini Estadi has also hosted games for the Andorra national football team, and the Barcelona Dragons of American football.
As a part of the Espai Barça project, the Mini Estadi was demolished and the Estadi Johan Cruyff was opened to take its place starting in the 2019–20 season. Also, as part of this project the Camp Nou underwent renovation.[10]
Inaugurated on 26 September 1966, La Masia is the name given to Barcelona's training facilities located near the Camp Nou in the Les Corts district of Barcelona. It is an ancient country residence built in 1702 and once Camp Nou was inaugurated in 1957, the building was remodelled and extended for use as the club's social headquarters.
In 1979, La Masia became the residence of young players from outside of the city. In the following decades the academy forged several players that would later appear for both the main squad and the Spain national team, Guillermo Amor, Albert Ferrer, Iván de la Peña, Josep Guardiola, Carles Puyol, Gerard López, Xavi, Víctor Valdés, and Andrés Iniesta being amongst the most prominent. Lionel Messi is also an alumnus of La Masia and is one of the most famous players to play for Barcelona as well as the Argentina national football team.[11][12][13]
Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have reached international status.
Iván Balliu Rey Manaj
Marc Bernaus
Sergio Araujo José Raúl Iglesias Lionel Messi
Srđan Pecelj
Marlon Rafinha
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Ballou Tabla
Merveil Ndockyt
Alen Halilović Goran Vučević
Urko Pardo
Diego Almeida
Alasana Manneh
Ilaix Moriba
Edgar Ié
Anthony Lozano
Ottó Vincze
Gai Assulin
Thiago Motta
Hiroki Abe
Tha'er Bawab
Giovani dos Santos Jonathan dos Santos Santiago Fernández
Lazar Carević
Munir El Haddadi Moha El Yaagoubi Abde Ezzalzouli
Jordi Cruyff
Haruna Babangida Ezekiel Bassey Samuel Okunowo
David Babunski
Antonio Sanabria
Igor Korneev
Steve Archibald
Diawandou Diagne Moussa Wagué
Goran Drulić
Alfi Conteh-Lacalle
Lee Seung-woo Paik Seung-ho
Damià Abella José Joaquín Albaladejo Luis Alberto Albert Albesa Thiago Alcântara Carles Aleñá Quique Álvarez Guillermo Amor Francesc Arnau Óscar Arpón Esteban Areta Mikel Arteta Alejandro Balde Sergi Barjuán Marc Bartra Alberto Botía Sergio Busquets Ramón Calderé Lobo Carrasco Lluís Carreras Albert Celades Luis Cembranos Thomas Christiansen Paco Clos Miquel Corominas Marc Cucurella Iván de la Peña Gerard Deulofeu Martín Domínguez Juan José Estella Kiko Femenía Albert Ferrer Chico Flores Andreu Fontàs Paco Fortes Esteve Fradera Sergio García Gabri García Óscar García Roger García Luis García Salva García Sergio García Gavi Delfí Geli José Gil Jordi Gómez Sergi Gómez Álex Grimaldo Pep Guardiola Dani Güiza Gerard Gumbau Xavi Hernández Sebastián Herrera Alejo Indias Andrés Iniesta Juan Luis Irazusta Bojan Krkić Gerard López David Lombán Miguel Ángel Lozano Manolo Quique Martín Nacho Martín Rubén Martínez Paco Martínez Josep Martínez Jordi Masip Luis Milla Mingo Óscar Mingueza Juan Miranda Martín Montoya Josep Moratalla Pepe Moré Javi Moreno Carlos Muñoz Fernando Navarro Nayim Nolito Antonio Olmo Cristóbal Parralo Patric Ángel Pedraza Pedro Carles Pérez Antonio Pinilla Oleguer Presas Carles Puyol Sandro Ramírez Pepe Reina Oriol Riera Sergi Roberto Rubén Rochina Juan Carlos Rojo Oriol Romeu Mikel Roteta Francisco Rufete Abel Ruiz Ilie Sánchez Tente Sánchez Onésimo Sánchez Víctor Sánchez Pepe Serer Adjutori Serrat Jonathan Soriano Denis Suárez Cristian Tello Xavi Torres Adama Traoré Roberto Trashorras Víctor Valdés Toni Velamazán Joan Verdú Paqui Veza Javier Villena Jordi Vinyals Lamine Yamal
Konrad de la Fuente
Ronald Araújo
Alejandro Marqués Jeffrén Suárez