Domestically, Barcelona has won a record 77 trophies: 27 La Liga, 31 Copa 
del Rey, 14 Supercopa de Espaa, three Copa Eva Duarte, and two Copa de la 
Liga titles, as well as being the record holder for the latter four 
competitions. In international club football, the club has won 22 European 
and worldwide titles: five UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA 
Cup Winners' Cups, a joint record five UEFA Super Cups, a record three 
Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, a joint record two Latin Cups, and three FIFA Club 
World Cups.[6][7][8] Barcelona was ranked first in the International 
Federation of Football History & Statistics Club World Ranking for 1997, 
2009, 2011, 2012, and 2015, and occupies the ninth position on the UEFA 
club rankings as of May 2023[update].[9][10][11] The club has a 
long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, and matches between the two teams 
are referred to as *El Clsico*.
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Barcelona is one of three founding members of the Primera Divisin that have 
never been relegated from the top division since its inception in 1929, 
along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid.[17][18] In 2009, Barcelona 
became the first Spanish club to win the continental treble consisting of 
La Liga, Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League, and also became the 
first European football club to win six out of six competitions in a single 
year, by also winning the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club 
World Cup.[19] In 2011, the club became European champions again, winning 
five trophies.[20] This Barcelona team, which won fourteen trophies in just 
four years under Pep Guardiola, is considered by some in the sport to be 
the greatest team of all time.[21][22][23] By winning their fifth Champions 
League trophy in 2015 under Luis Enrique, Barcelona became the first 
European football club in history to achieve the continental treble 
twice.[24]

The stadium is regarded as the main element that helped the club grow in 
the 1910s and become a dominant team,[33] winning three successive 
Campionats de Catalunya between 1909 and 1911, three Copa del del Rey in 
four years between 1910 and 1913, and four successive Pyrenees Cup between 
the inaugural year in 1910 and 1913, which was one of the earliest 
international club cups in Europe since it consisted of the best teams of 
Languedoc, Midi and Aquitaine (Southern France), the Basque Country and 
Catalonia; all were former members of the Marca Hispanica region. The 
contest was the most prestigious in that era.[34] Notable figures of Bara's 
first great team include Carles Comamala, Alfredo Massana, Amechazurra, 
Paco Bru, and Jack Greenwell.[35] The latter became the club's first 
full-time coach in 1917.[36]

Gamper simultaneously launched a campaign to recruit more club members, and 
by 1922, the club had more than 20,000, who helped finance a new stadium. 
The club then moved to the new Les Cortes, which they inaugurated the same 
year.[39] Les Cortes had an initial capacity of 30,000, and in the 1940s it 
was expanded to 60,000.[40]

In 1912, Gamper recruited Paulino Alcntara, the club's seventh all-time 
top-scorer, and in 1917, Gamper also recruited Jack Greenwell as the first 
full-time manager in Barcelona's history. After this hiring, the club's 
fortunes began to improve on the field and soon enjoyed its first "golden 
age". Along with Alcntara, the Bara team under Greenwell also included 
Sagibarba, Ricardo Zamora, Josep Samitier, Flix Sesmaga, and Franz 
Platko.[41] This team won 9 out of 10 Campionats de Catalunya between 1919 
and 1928 and two Copa del Rey titles in 1920 and 1922. In total, during the 
Gamper-led era, Barcelona won eleven Campionats de Catalunya, six Copa del 
Rey and four Pyrenees Cups.[42][31]

On 14 June 1925, in a spontaneous reaction against Primo de Rivera's 
dictatorship, the crowd in the stadium jeered the Royal March. As a 
reprisal, the ground was closed for six months and Gamper was forced to 
relinquish the presidency of the club.[43] This coincided with the 
transition to professional football, and, in 1926, the directors of 
Barcelona publicly claimed, for the first time, to operate a professional 
football club.[39]

On 3 July 1927, the club held a second testimonial match for Paulino 
Alcntara, against the Spanish national team. To kick off the match, local 
journalist and pilot Josep Canudas dropped the ball onto the pitch from his 
aeroplane.[44] In 1928, victory in the Spanish Cup was celebrated with a 
poem titled "Oda a Platko", which was written by a member of the Generation 
of '27, Rafael Alberti, inspired by the heroic performance of the Barcelona 
goalkeeper, Franz Platko.[45] On 23 June 1929, Barcelona won the inaugural 
Spanish League. A year after winning the championship, on 30 July 1930, 
Gamper committed suicide after a period of depression brought on by 
personal and financial problems.[31]

Although they continued to have players of the standing of Josep Escol, the 
club now entered a period of decline, in which political conflict 
overshadowed sports throughout society. Attendance at matches dropped as 
the citizens of Barcelona were occupied with discussing political 
matters.[46] Although the team won the Campionat de Catalunya in 1930, 
1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, and 1938,[42] success at a national level (with the 
exception of the 1937 disputed title) evaded them.

A month after the entire Spanish Civil War began in 1936, several players 
from Barcelona enlisted in the ranks of those who fought against the 
military uprising, along with players from Athletic Bilbao.[47] On 6 
August, Falangist soldiers near Guadarrama murdered club president Josep 
Sunyol, a representative of the pro-independence political party.[48] He 
was dubbed the martyr of *barcelonisme*, and his murder was a defining 
moment in the history of FC Barcelona and Catalan identity.[49] In the 
summer of 1937, the squad was on tour in Mexico and the United States, 
where it was received as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. The 
tour led to the financial security of the club but also resulted in half of 
the team seeking asylum in Mexico and France, making it harder for the 
remaining team to contest for trophies.[50][51]

On 16 March 1938, Barcelona came under aerial bombardment from the Italian 
Air Force, causing more than 3,000 deaths, with one of the bombs hitting 
the club's offices.[52][53] A few months later, Catalonia came under 
occupation and as a symbol of the "undisciplined" Catalanism, the club, now 
down to just 3,486 members, faced a number of restrictions. All signs of 
regional nationalism, including language, flag and other signs of 
separatism were banned throughout Spain. The Catalan flag was banned and 
the club were prohibited from using non-Spanish names. These measures 
forced the club to change its name to *Club de Ftbol Barcelona* and to 
remove the Catalan flag from its crest.[54]

Despite the difficult political situation, *CF Barcelona* enjoyed 
considerable success during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1945, with Josep 
Samitier as coach and players like Csar, Ramallets and Velasco, they won La 
Liga for the first time since 1929. They added two more titles in 1948 and 
1949.[58] In 1949, they also won the first Copa Latina.[59] In June 1950, 
Barcelona signed Lszl Kubala, who was to be an important figure at the 
club.[60]

Coach Ferdinand Daučk and Lszl Kubala led the team to five different 
trophies including La Liga, the Copa del Generalsimo, the Copa Latina, the 
Copa Eva Duarte, and the Copa Martini & Rossi in 1952. In 1953, the club 
won La Liga and the Copa del Generalsimo again.[40]

In 1978, Josep Llus Nez became the first elected president of FC Barcelona, 
and, since then, the members of Barcelona have elected the club president. 
The process of electing a president of FC Barcelona was closely tied to 
Spain's transition to democracy in 1974 and the end of Franco's 
dictatorship. The new president's main objective was to develop Barcelona 
into a world-class club by giving it stability both on and off the pitch. 
His presidency was to last for 22 years, and it deeply affected the image 
of Barcelona, as Nez held to a strict policy regarding wages and 
discipline, letting go of such players as Diego Maradona, Romrio and 
Ronaldo rather than meeting their demands.[72][73]

Around this time, tensions began to arise between what was perceived as 
president Nez's dictatorial rule and the nationalistic support group, 
Boixos Nois. The group, identified with a left-wing separatism, repeatedly 
demanded the resignation of Nez and openly defied him through chants and 
banners at matches. At the same time, Barcelona experienced an eruption in 
skinheads, who often identified with a right-wing separatism. The skinheads 
slowly transferred the Boixos Nois' ideology from liberalism to fascism, 
which caused division within the group and a sudden support for Nez's 
presidency.[76] Inspired by British hooligans, the remaining Boixos Nois 
became violent, causing havoc leading to large-scale arrests.[77]

In 1988, Johan Cruyff returned to the club, this time as manager and he 
assembled what would later be dubbed the "Dream Team".[78] He used a mix of 
Spanish players like Pep Guardiola, Jos Mari Bakero, Jon Andoni Goikoetxea, 
Miguel Angel Nadal, and Txiki Begiristain while signing international 
players such as Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romrio, and Hristo 
Stoichkov.[79]

It was ten years after the inception of the youth programme, La Masia, when 
the young players began to graduate and play for their first team. Pep 
Guardiola, the future coach of Barcelona, was one of the first graduates 
and would go on to receive international recognition.[80]Under Cruyff's 
guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. 
They beat Sampdoria in both the 1989 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final and the 
1992 European Cup final at Wembley, with a free kick goal from Dutch 
international Ronald Koeman. They also won a Copa del Rey in 1990, the 
European Super Cup in 1992 and three Supercopa de Espaa trophies.[81] With 
11 trophies, Cruyff became the club's most successful manager at that 
point. He also became the club's longest consecutive serving manager, 
serving eight years.[82] Cruyff's fortune was to change, and, in his final 
two seasons, he failed to win any trophies and fell out with president 
Josep Llus Nez, resulting in his departure.[72]
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