FC Barcelona Atlètic

Barcelona Atlètic

Full name	Futbol Club Barcelona Atlètic
Nickname(s)	L’Atlètic Barça B
Founded	12 June 1970; 53 years ago (1970-06-12) as Barcelona Atlètic
Ground	Estadi Johan Cruyff
Capacity	6,000
President	Jordi Casals
Head coach	Rafa Márquez
League	Primera Federación – Group 1
2022–23	Primera Federación – Group 2, 4th of 20
Home colours Away colours

Active departments of FC Barcelona
Football (Men's) Football B(Men's) Football U-19 (Men's) Football (Women's) Football B (Women's) Football C (Women's) Basketball Basketball B Wheelchair basketball Handball Handball B Futsal Roller hockey Ice hockey Field hockey Rugby union Rugby league Beach soccer Volleyball (Men's) Volleyball (Women's) Esports

Closed departments of FC Barcelona
Football C (Men's) American football Baseball

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 2, 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.

History

Espanya Industrial

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.

Condal

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.

Barcelona Atlètic/Barcelona B

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.

Season to season

• 23 seasons in Segunda División
• 2 seasons in Primera Federación
• 23 seasons in Segunda División B
• 4 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Categorías Regionales

Honours

• Segunda División B

Winners (5): 1981–82, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2016–17

• Tercera División

Winners (2): 1973–74, 2007–08

• Primera Catalana

Winners (1): 1972–73

Players

Current squad

As of 26 January 2024^[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Ander Astralaga 2 DF  ESP Trilli 3 DF  ESP Gerard Martín 4 DF  SEN Mamadou Mbacke (on loan from Los Angeles FC) 5 DF  ESP Sergi Domínguez 6 MF  ESP Marc Casadó (captain) 7 FW  ESP Ángel Alarcón 8 MF  ESP Moha Moukhliss (on loan from Andorra, vice-captain) 9 FW  ESP Diego Percan 10 MF  ESP Aleix Garrido 12 FW  ESP Iker Goujón 13 GK  ESP Marc Vidal (on loan from Andorra, 4th captain) 14 FW  BOL Jaume Cuéllar (on loan from Lugo)

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  SEN Mikayil Faye 16 DF  ESP Edu Sánchez 17 FW  ESP Lamine Yamal 18 FW  ITA Pocho Román 19 FW  ESP Pau Víctor (on loan from Girona) 20 MF  ESP Unai Hernández 21 MF  GER Noah Darvich 22 FW  ESP Naim García (on loan from Leganés) 23 DF  ESP Pelayo Fernández (3rd captain) 24 GK  USA Diego Kochen 25 DF  ESP Pau Cubarsí 32 DF  ESP Héctor Fort

From Youth Academy

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 MF  ESP Pau Prim 27 MF  ESP Marc Bernal 28 MF  ESP Cristó Muñoz 29 FW  ESP Marc Guiu 30 FW  ESP Dani Rodríguez 33 FW  ESP Juan Hernández 34 DF  ESP Alexis Olmedo 36 DF  ESP Andrés Cuenca

No. Pos. Nation Player 37 DF  ESP Albert Navarro 38 DF  ESP Joan Anaya 39 FW  ESP Nil Calderó 40 MF  ESP Guille Fernández 41 GK  HUN Áron Yaakobishvili 42 MF  ESP Brian Fariñas 51 GK  ESP Aáron Alonso 61 GK  ESP Max Bonfill

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ESP Biel Vicens

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP Rubén Cantero (at Calahorra until 30 June 2024) — FW  GUI Saidou Bah (at Badajoz until 30 June 2024) — FW  ESP Josep Cerdà (at Ponferradina until 30 June 2024)

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Rafa Márquez[5]
Assistant coach	Albert Sánchez[6] Juliano Belletti[7]
Goalkeeping coach	Unai Alba
Doctor	Xavier Valle
Fitness coach	Marc Guitart Adrián Aguirre
Scout	Jérôme Bigot
Physioterapist	Jon Álvarez Chechu Pérez Francesc Guilanyà
Kit man	Carles Busquets
Juvenil A (U19 A) Head coach	Óscar López

Former coaches

Records

Players in bold are still active with club.

Most appearances

All competitions[8] Ranking Nationality Name Years Apps 1  Spain Antonio Pérez Ayllón 1978–1985 192 2  Spain Cándido Viana Valentín 1977–1983 176 3  Spain Jesús Angoy 1988–1995 164 4  Spain Albert Albesa Gasulla 1983–1988 160 5  Spain Pere Gratacós 1978–1983 150 6  Spain Juan Carlos Rojo 1978–1988 146 7  Spain Arnau Riera 2001–2006 143 8  Spain Francesc Guitart Sáez 1979–1984 141  Spain David García 1999–2004 10  Spain Joaquim Ferrer Sala 1978–1983 137

League matches (2ª and 2ª B)[9] Ranking Nationality Name Years Apps 1  Spain Antonio Pérez Ayllón 1978–1985 172 2  Spain Cándido Viana Valentín 1977–1983 164 3  Spain Jesús Angoy 1988–1995 158 4  Spain Albert Albesa Gasulla 1983–1988 141 5  Spain Juan Carlos Rojo 1978–1988 139  Spain Arnau Riera 2001–2006 7  Spain Pere Gratacós 1978–1983 138 8  Cameroon Jean Marie Dongou 2011–2016 132 9  Spain David García 1999–2004 130  Nigeria Haruna Babangida 1998–2004  Spain Joan Verdú 2002–2006

Top scorers

All competitions[8] Ranking Nationality Name Years Goals Apps 1  Spain Jonathan Soriano 2009–2012 59 84 2  Nigeria Haruna Babangida 1998–2004 47 136 3  Spain Antonio Pinilla 1988–1992 39 102  Spain Ramón Calderé 1977–1984 135 5  Spain Sergio García 2002–2004 37 66 6  Spain Luis Alonso Cebada 1981–1983 33 83 7  Spain Roberto Trashorras 1999–2003 33 119 8  Spain Mario Rosas 1997–2000 32 103 9  Spain Paco Clos 1979–1983 31 110  Spain Joan Verdú 2002–2006 134  Spain Antonio Pérez Ayllón 1978–1985 192

League matches (2ª and 2ª B)[9] Ranking Nationality Name Years Goals Apps 1  Spain Jonathan Soriano 2009–2012 55 79 2  Nigeria Haruna Babangida 1998–2004 46 130 3  Spain Sergio García 2002–2004 34 60  Spain Antonio Pinilla 1988–1992 90 5  Spain Ramón Calderé 1977–1984 31 118 6  Spain Mario Rosas 1997–2000 30 97  Spain Joan Verdú 2002–2006 130 8  Spain Nolito 2008–2011 29 101  Spain Roberto Trashorras 1999–2003 107  Cameroon Jean Marie Dongou 2011–2016 132  Spain Antonio Pérez Ayllón 1978–1985 172

Stadium

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 will undergo renovation.^[10]

La Masia

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]

Notable players

Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have reached international status.

References

External links

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