FC Barcelona B

Barcelona B

Full name	Futbol Club Barcelona "B"
Nickname(s)	Barça B
Founded	12 June 1970 (1970-06-12) as FC Barcelona Atlètic
Ground	Mini Estadi, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Ground Capacity	15,457
Chairman	Josep Maria Bartomeu
Coach	Gerard López[1]
League	2ª B – Group 3
2015–16	2ª B – Group 3, 11th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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

Futbol Club Barcelona B is a Spanish football team based in Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia.

Founded in 1970 as FC Barcelona Atlètic, it is the reserve team of FC Barcelona, and currently plays in Segunda División B – Group 3, holding home matches at the Mini Estadi.

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 thus Barcelona B are ineligible for promotion to La Liga and cannot 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 FC 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.

CD Condal

After winning another promotion play-off in 1956, Espanya Industrial became independent of FC 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

Barcelona Atlètic crest

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: UE Catalunya de Les Corts (founded in 1918 as Catalunya Sporting Club) and CD 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.^[2]

Former club player Luis Enrique (he also played for Real Madrid) 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

• 22 seasons in Segunda División
• 20 seasons in Segunda División B
• 4 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Categorías Regionales

Honours

• Segunda División B

Winners (4): 1981–82, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02

• Tercera División

Winners (2): 1973–74, 2007–08

Current squad

As of 31 August 2016^[4]

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

No. Position Player — GK José Aurelio Suárez (3rd captain) — GK Alberto Varo (on loan from Gimnàstic) — DF Borja López — DF José Antonio Martínez — DF Marlon Santos (on loan from Fluminense) — DF Rodrigo Tarín (4th captain) — DF Adrià Vilanova — DF Nili — DF Sergi Palencia (captain) — DF Moisés Delgado — MF Fali (on loan from Gimnàstic) — MF Gerard Gumbau (vice-captain)

No. Position Player — MF Ferrán Sarsanedas — MF Carles Aleñá — MF Álex Carbonell — MF Wilfrid Kaptoum — MF Paik Seung-ho — MF Xemi — MF Nacho Abeledo — MF Jesús Alfaro — MF Alberto Perea — FW Marc Cardona — FW Rafa Mújica — FW Dani Romera

Personnel

Current technical staff

Former managers

Top scorers

Segunda División

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Goals
1	Spain	Jonathan Soriano	2010–2012	37
2	Spain	Thomas Christiansen	1991–1996	28
–	Spain	Jon Bakero	1992–1997	28
4	Spain	Gerard Deulofeu	2010–2013	27
5	Cameroon	Jean Marie Dongou	2011–2016	26
6	Spain	Óscar García	1991–1994	24
–	Spain	Manolo (Manuel Muñoz Navas)	1983–1986	24
–	Spain	Josep Villarroya	1984–1987	24
9	Spain	Martín Domínguez	1986–1988	22
10	Spain	Lluís Carreras	1991–1993	21

• Bold denotes players still playing in Barcelona B

All Levels

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Goals
1	Spain	Jonathan Soriano	2009–2012	55
2	Nigeria	Haruna Babangida	1998–2004	46
3	Spain	Sergio García	2002–2004	34
4	Spain	Mario Rosas	1997–2000	30
–	Spain	Joan Verdú	2002–2006	30
6	Spain	Nolito	2008–2011	29
–	Spain	Roberto Trashorras	1999–2003	29
–	Cameroon	Jean Marie Dongou	2011–2016	29
9	Spain	Thomas Christiansen	1991–1996	28
–	Spain	Jon Bakero	1992–1997	28

Stadium

The Mini Estadi

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.

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 Spanish national team, Guillermo Amor, Albert Ferrer, Iván de la Peña, Carles Puyol, Gerard López, Xavi, Víctor Valdés, and Andrés Iniesta being amongst the most prominent.^[5][6][7]

References

External links

• Team profile at official website
• Futbolme team profile (Spanish)
• BDFutbol team profile