FC Barcelona Atlètic

Barcelona Atlètic

Full name	Futbol Club Barcelona Atlètic
Nickname(s)	L’Atlètic Barça B
Founded	12 June 1970; 54 years ago (1970-06-12) as Barcelona Atlètic
Ground	Estadi Johan Cruyff
Capacity	6,000
President	Jordi Casals
Head coach	Albert Sánchez
League	Primera Federación – Group 1
2023–24	Primera Federación – Group 1, 3rd 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) Futsal Esports Basketball Basketball B Wheelchair basketball Handball Handball B Ice hockey Roller hockey Field hockey Volleyball (Men's) Volleyball (Women's) Rugby union Rugby league

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

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 FC 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.

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

• 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

As of 17 September 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 (3rd captain) 2 DF  ESP Trilli 3 DF  ESP Gerard Martín 4 DF  SEN Mamadou Mbacke 5 DF  ESP Sergi Domínguez (4th captain) 6 MF  ESP Pau Prim 7 FW  ESP Dani Rodríguez 8 MF  ESP Aleix Garrido (captain) 9 FW  ESP Diego Percan 10 MF  ESP Unai Hernández (vice-captain) 11 FW  ESP Víctor Barberá 12 FW  ESP Juan Piera 13 GK  USA Diego Kochen

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  ESP Álvaro Cortés 15 FW  GHA Aziz Issah (on loan from Dreams) 16 DF  ESP Edu Sánchez 17 MF  ESP Rubén López (on loan from Deportivo La Coruña) 18 FW  DOM Oscar Ureña 19 FW  ESP Raúl Dacosta 20 MF  ESP Guille Fernández 21 MF  GER Noah Darvich 22 DF  ESP Joan Anaya 23 DF  ESP Alexis Olmedo 24 FW  CMR Iván Cédric (on loan from Las Palmas) 25 DF  GHA David Oduro

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 DF  ESP Héctor Fort 27 DF  ESP Andrés Cuenca 28 MF  ESP Marc Bernal 29 MF  ESP Brian Fariñas 30 FW  ESP Juan Hernández 31 GK  ESP Eder Aller 32 DF  ESP Landry Farré 33 MF  ESP Quim Junyent 34 MF  ESP Xavi Espart

No. Pos. Nation Player 35 MF  ESP Marcos Parriego 36 MF  ESP Pedro Rodríguez 37 FW  ESP Toni Fernández 38 FW  ESP Arnau Pradas 39 MF  USA Pedro Soma (on loan from Cornellà) 40 DF  MDA Leo Saca 41 GK  HUN Áron Yaakobishvili 42 FW  ESP Òscar Gistau 51 GK  ESP Max Bonfill

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  AZE Eidar Taghizada (at Tudelano until 30 June 2025) — MF  ESP Biel Vicens (at Gimnàstic until 30 June 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ITA Pocho Román (at Cartagena until 30 June 2025)

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 Jan Molina — FW  ESP Antonio Martín

Position	Staff
Head coach	Albert Sánchez[5]
Assistant coach	Toni Clavero[6]
Goalkeeping coach	Unai Alba[6]
Fitness coach	Miguel Villagrasa[6] Norbert Callau[6]
Analyst	Joan Vicente[6]
Doctor	Xavier Valle
Scout	Jérôme Bigot
Physiotherapist	Jon Álvarez Chechu Pérez Francesc Guilanyà
Kit man	Carles Busquets
Juvenil A (U19 A) Head coach	Óscar López

Players in bold are still active with club.

All competitions[7] 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 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)[8] 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 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

All competitions[7] 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)[8] 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

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.^[9]

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.^[10][11][12]

Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have represented their countries in international level.

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