.- There
is evidence that the first groups of Barcelona fans (PENYA) were formed before
1920 (Penya Los apaáticos 1918, Penya Ardèvol 1919, etc.), now we have an
official document, the oldest within the Club dated from
1919 as Penya Barcelonista del FC Barcelona,
but as there is no other official record in the Club, there is no record of
how those first clubs were, from the twenties other new clubs were created,
everything points to one of the The first was the Penya Continental (1921), the
Penya Esquerra de l'Eixample, created in 1923 in the Bar Esquerra, on Aribau
street in Barcelona, Penya La Mosca (1930), Penya d'Hivern-Banys de Sant
Sebastian (1930 ), Penya All-i-oli (1928), Penya Colón (1930), Penya la Escombra
(1930), Penya Casal Barcelonista (1933),
Cercle
Barcelonista, Penya
Sancho,
Penya Gol de Dalt
(1935), are others examples of the
pioneering clubs, together with the PENYA SAGI-BARBA (1931) of President Enrique
Roca and the
Penya els Tres (1928) (in homage
to Piera, Sastre and Samitier), these two are the first clubs dedicated to
Barcelona players. All of them disappeared after the triumph of the National
Bando in 1939 after the fascist coup d'etat of 36.
.- Once the war was over (1939), the repression against our Club began,
following the Law of Francoist Associations, the name was made Spanish (Club de
Futbol Barcelona or C.F.B.), the shield was modified, the Senyera changed by two
bars, more blue than scarlet on the players' shirts, etc ... The "penyes" also
according to the same Law of Francoist Associations were called PEÑAS. The first
legally constituted club of FC Barcelona (PEÑA
SOLERA) bore the name of
Bar Solera, where it was created in 1944 under the impulse of former player
Josep Samitier, together with the then young Antoni Ramallets, Mariano Martín,
César Rodríguez and Gustavo Biosca, who later they would defend the shirt of the
Barcelona first team. La
Penya Solera acquired its
definitive impulse years later with the arrival of
Nicolau Casaus, who opened
several branches of the same in other Catalan towns such as the
Penya
Solera de Calella (1959) and the
Penya
Solera de Castellar del Vallès
(1953), today in These last two clubs are still active today. At the end of the
1940s and throughout the 1950s, new fan clubs emerged, such as
PEÑA AZULGRANA,
PEÑA DEL BAR AGUSTÍ in the Les Corts neighborhood,
GRAN PEÑA BARCELONISTA,
PEÑA KUBALA,
etc ... later, new clubs emerged. of a more Catalan character such as the Gran
Penya Barcelonista, the Penya 1900 de Terrassa or the Penya Blaugrana Foment
Martinenc, among many others.
.-In 1971 there were 89 peñas, in
1978 when Núñez became president, the ‘penyes’ reached one hundred. In 1990, 500
were reached in a sustained progression ..... In the eighties the Club decided
to randomly list them with a credential, regardless of their age, this gave rise
to curious cases such as the
Penya Barcelonista FCB Bangui
from the Central African Republic from 1983 is now the Peña with credential no.
9, or that
Penya Solera de Castellar from
1952, has the Credential no. 46 and that for example
Penya de Cardedeu
with credential no. 43, founded four years later in 1957 or that the Peña de
Arenys de Munt
(1968) has the credential 33 and that of
Arenys de Mar,
founded six years later has the 32 or that the Peña de La Granada de Barcelona
has the credential no. 2, when it was founded in the eighties, this occurred in
approximately the first 300 clubs, from the middle of the eighties the numbers
are all correlative with its year of foundation.
.- The credential number 1 is for the
Agrupació Barcelonista Penya Anguera,
until the last one in 2020 for the
Peña Barça de Basra
(BASORA / IRAK) with the number 2329.
.-
From
1899 to 1910 FC Barcelona never had its own shield, it was
played without a shield on the shirts, in some matches the
official shield of the city of Barcelona was used, but from 1910
and after a contest in which it won a drawing made by Santiago
Femenia, the current shield emerged with some variations over
the years, it was a shield in the shape of a pot, which kept the
Cross of San Jorge and the four bars of the Senyera at the top,
which they are representative elements of Barcelona and
Catalonia respectively. In the middle of the shield, in a
horizontal strip appear the initials of the club, F.C.B. with
its points, at the bottom are seven bars with the Barça colors,
the central bar always in maroon color and with a soccer ball on
top. In short, a shield that affirmed the sporting dimension and
the association of the club in the city and in the country.
.- The
distinctive colors on the FC Barcelona shirt have been blue and
scarlet since the Club's foundation, hence the nickname
"azulgrana", these colors have always been present on the team's
starting shirt, the most widespread version points out that it
was Hans Gamper himself, the club's founder, who decided on
these colors. In fact, it is proven that in the first football
match that Gamper played in the city of Barcelona shortly before
the founding of the Club, those same colors were already
worn.However, during the first ten years of the club's history
the pants were always white, later they switched to black, blue
from the 1920s on, in the 2005/2006 season the team wore scarlet
pants for the first time, something unprecedented so far, it was
due to commercial reasons with its sponsor.
.- In 1950
the land of what would become the New Field (Camp Nou) was
purchased, this began to be built (architects Francesc Mitjans
Miró and Josep Soteras Maurien) in February 1954 and was
inaugurated on September 24, 1957 coinciding with the
festivities la Merçe, patron saint of the city of Barcelona, the
new stadium of the Barcelona Football Club replaced the old
Campo de las Cortes (1922) not far from the current location,
although initially it had no name, in 1957 it was popularly
baptized as Camp Nou, in April 2001 it was made official with
the name of Camp Nou, after a popular consultation, the Members
opted for Camp Nou instead of the Official Stadium of FC
Barcelona, the playing field is 105 mx 68 m with a capacity of
99,354 people, it is currently the largest stadium in all of
Europe and is a 5-star stadium currently pending a total
refurbishment.
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