Barcelona Champions League History

The uefa champions league is a seasonal football competition established in 1955.

Barcelona champions league history. We re officially down to the last eight of the 2019 20 champions league. By winning their fifth champions league trophy on 6 june 2015 barcelona became the first european club in history to achieve the continental treble twice. Official uefa champions league and european cup history. Club president arthur witty organised the club s first trip abroad which resulted in their first game against a non spanish team.

On 1 may 1904 barcelona defeated the french team stade olympien des étudiants toulousains. If champion league and european cup titles is combined real madrid is still the best performing club with 13 titles 6 and 7 in european cup and champion league respectively. By 1910 the international friendlies evolved into the pyrenees cup. A comparison between countries show that spanish clubs has been the most successful through history in the champions league concerning the seasons 1992 93 to 2018 19.

The uefa champions league is open to the league champions of all uefa union of european football associations member associations except liechtenstein which has no league competition as well as to the clubs finishing from second to fourth position in the strongest leagues. The highest paid sports team in the world in november 2018 barcelona became the first sports team with average first team pay in excess of 10m 13 8m per year. Barcelona and bayern munich s victories over napoli and chelsea yesterday evening confirmed the final quarter final ties. Lionel messi made more champions league history as he scored the opening goal in barcelona s 2 1 win against slavia prague although it was an unconvincing performance.

Their run of 35 home champions league games without defeat winning 31 and drawing four is the second longest in the history of the european cup champions league only behind bayern munich s 43. In the club s museum on show are the the four european cup champions league titles won in wembley 1992 2011 paris 2006 rome 2009 berlin 2015 and the fifa club world cups won in abu.