FC Barcelona Atlètic

This article is about the football team. For the basketball team, see FC Barcelona Bàsquet B.

Barcelona B

Full name	Futbol Club Barcelona "B"
Nickname(s)	Barça B La Masía
Founded	12 June 1970 (1970-06-12) as FC Barcelona Atlètic
Ground	Estadi Johan Cruyff, Sant Joan Despí, Catalonia, Spain
Capacity	6,000
President	victor
Head coach	Francisco García Pimienta
League	Segunda División B
2019–20	Segunda División B – Group 3, 2nd
Website	http://www.fcbarcelona.com
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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, holding its home matches at the Estadi Johan Cruyff.

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. They also cannot play in the Copa del Rey.

History

Espanya Industrial

Main article: CD Condal

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

Main article: 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

The Mini Estadi during a match

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.

Former club player Luis Enrique (who also played for Real Madrid) succeeded Pep Guardiola as team manager in the summer of 2008, as the latter was appointed main squad coach. 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

Season Tier Division Place 1970–71 3 3ª 4th 1971–72 3 3ª 19th 1972–73 4 Regional 1st 1973–74 3 3ª 1st 1974–75 2 2ª 10th 1975–76 2 2ª 6th 1976–77 2 2ª 20th 1977–78 3 2ª B 5th 1978–79 3 2ª B 4th 1979–80 3 2ª B 14th 1980–81 3 2ª B 3rd 1981–82 3 2ª B 1st 1982–83 2 2ª 11th 1983–84 2 2ª 7th 1984–85 2 2ª 9th 1985–86 2 2ª 13th 1986–87 2 2ª 13th 1987–88 2 2ª 8th 1988–89 2 2ª 17th 1989–90 3 2ª B 2nd

Season Tier Division Place 1990–91 3 2ª B 1st 1991–92 2 2ª 6th 1992–93 2 2ª 8th 1993–94 2 2ª 8th 1994–95 2 2ª 6th 1995–96 2 2ª 14th 1996–97 2 2ª 19th 1997–98 3 2ª B 1st 1998–99 2 2ª 20th 1999–00 3 2ª B 11th 2000–01 3 2ª B 9th 2001–02 3 2ª B 1st 2002–03 3 2ª B 2nd 2003–04 3 2ª B 8th 2004–05 3 2ª B 11th 2005–06 3 2ª B 6th 2006–07 3 2ª B 19th 2007–08 4 3ª 1st 2008–09 3 2ª B 5th 2009–10 3 2ª B 2nd

Season Tier Division Place 2010–11 2 2ª 3rd 2011–12 2 2ª 8th 2012–13 2 2ª 9th 2013–14 2 2ª 3rd 2014–15 2 2ª 22nd 2015–16 3 2ª B 10th 2016–17 3 2ª B 1st 2017–18 2 2ª 20th 2018–19 3 2ª B 8th 2019–20 3 2ª B 2nd

---

• 23 seasons in Segunda División
• 21 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

Players

Current squad

As of 13 October 2020

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	MNE	Lazar Carević
2	DF	BRA	Igor Gomes
3	DF	ESP	Óscar Mingueza (vice-captain)
4	DF	ESP	Arnau Comas
5	DF	ESP	Mika Màrmol
6	MF	ESP	Oriol Busquets (3rd captain)
7	FW	ESP	Nils Mortimer
8	MF	BRA	Lucas de Vega
9	FW	JPN	Hiroki Abe
10	MF	ESP	Álex Collado (captain)
11	FW	USA	Konrad de la Fuente
12	MF	BRA	Matheus Pereira
13	GK	ESP	Iñaki Peña
14	MF	ESP	Ferrán Sarsanedas

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	MF	ESP	Jandro Orellana (4th captain)
17	FW	BRA	Gustavo Maia
18	MF	ESP	Álvaro Sanz
19	FW	URU	Joaquín Zeballos (on loan from Girona)
20	DF	COL	Andrés Solano (on loan from Atlético Madrid)
21	DF	ARG	Santiago Ramos Mingo
22	FW	ALB	Rey Manaj
24	DF	ESP	Alejandro Balde
25	GK	ESP	Arnau Tenas
28	MF	ESP	Nico González
29	FW	ESP	Gerard Fernández
30	MF	ESP	Ilaix Moriba
—	DF	ESP	Sergi Rosanas

From Youth Academy

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
32	DF	ESP	José Martínez Marsá
37	FW	ESP	lias Akhomach

Other players under contract

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	ESP	Álex Sala
—	FW	ESP	Peque Polo

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Xavi García Pimienta
Assistant coach	Pau Martí Albert Peris
Goalkeeping coach	Carles Busquets
Fitness coach	Marc Guitart
Physioterapist	Chechu Pérez Francesc Guilanyà Jon Álvarez
Juvenil A coach	Franc Artiga

Last updated: 21 May 2018
Source: FC Barcelona B

Former players

See also: Category:FC Barcelona B players

Former coaches

Josep Seguer (1970–72) Luis Aloy (1972–76) Laureano Ruiz (1976–78) Antoni Torres (1978–79, 1980–83) Joan Segarra (1979–80) Jaume Olivé (1980) José Luis Romero (1983–84) Martínez Vilaseca (1984–87) Lluís Pujol (1987–89) Quique Costas (1989–96, 2001–03, 2005–07)

Juande Ramos (1996–97) Josep Maria Gonzalvo (1997–01) Pere Gratacós (2003–05) Pep Guardiola (2007–08) Luis Enrique (2008–11) Eusebio Sacristán (2011–15) Jordi Vinyals (2015) Gerard López (2015–2018) Xavi García Pimienta (2018–)

Top scorers

All competitions

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
5	Spain	Joan Verdú	2002–2006	30
6	Spain	Nolito	2008–2011	29
7	Spain	Roberto Trashorras	1999–2003	29
8	Cameroon	Jean Marie Dongou	2011–2016	29
9	Spain	Thomas Christiansen	1991–1996	28
10	Spain	Jon Bakero	1992–1997	28

Stadium

Main article: Estadi Johan Cruyff

The Mini Estadi, home stadium until 2019

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.

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.

External links

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