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| Leagues | ACB Euroleague |
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| Founded | 1926 | |||
| History | F.C. Barcelona (1926–present) |
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| Arena | Palau Blaugrana (capacity: 10,000) |
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| Location | Barcelona, Spain | |||
| Team colors | Blue, maroon, gold |
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| President | Sandro Rosell | |||
| Head coach | Xavier Pascual | |||
| Championships | 2 European Championships 2 Korać Cups 2 Saporta Cups 16 Spanish Championships 22 Spanish Cups 4 Spanish Supercups |
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| Website | fcbarcelona.cat | |||
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FC Barcelona Bàsquet, known as FC Barcelona Regal for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish professional basketball club. It is part of the FC Barcelona sports club and was founded on August 24, 1926 which makes it the oldest club in Liga ACB. The club competes in the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (ACB) and the Euroleague. It has won seven of the last thirteen ACB championships and in 2003 completed a Liga ACB, Cup and Euroleague treble. FC Barcelona Bàsquet has played in seven Euroleague finals, with the last being their 2010 win.
The team plays its home games at Palau Blaugrana, which was opened on October 23, 1971. They share the facilities with the roller hockey, futsal and handball teams.
Well-known players that have played with the team have included: Pau Gasol, Rony Seikaly, Marc Gasol, Anderson Varejão, Juan Carlos Navarro, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Ricky Rubio and Tony Massenburg.
FC Barcelona also has a reserve team that plays in LEB Plata.
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The club entered its first competition in 1927, playing in the Campionat de Catalunya de Basquetbol (Catalonian Basketball Championship). During these early years basketball in Catalonia was dominated by other clubs such as CE Europa, Laietà BC, CB Atlètic Gràcia and Société Patrie and it was not until the 1940s that FC Barcelona became established as a basketball team. During this decade they won six Copas del Generalísimo and were runners-up once. In 1956 they were founding members of the Spanish League and finished as runners-up. In 1959 they won Spanish basketball's first-ever league and cup double.[1]
The 1960s and 1970s saw the team in decline. In 1961 the club president Enric Llaudet dissolved the team in spite of its popularity. However, in 1962, the club was reformed after a campaign by the fans. In 1964 the league's Primera División was cut from fourteen teams to eight and the club found themselves in the Segunda División. However they quickly returned to the top division after being crowned Segunda champions in 1965. During the 1970s the club was persistently overshadowed by its rivals Real Madrid and Joventut.
In the 1980s club president Josep Lluís Nuñez gave the team his full support with the aim of making the club the best in Spain and Europe. His support produced results and during the decade inspired by their coach Aíto García Reneses and players like Epi, Andrés Jiménez, Sibilio, Audie Norris and Solozábal, the club won six Spanish League titles, five Copas del Rey, two European Cup Winners Cups, the Korać Cup and the World Championship. However the European Cup remained elusive. They were, however, runners-up in 1984.
The club built on this success during the 1990s, winning a further four Spanish League titles and two Copas del Rey. They were still unable to win the European Cup despite playing in a further four finals in 1990, 1991, 1996 and 1997. They also made a record six Euroleague Final Four appearances. The star player during this era was Juan Antonio San Epifanio.
Their persistence eventually paid off and in 2003, inspired by Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Šarūnas Jasikevičius and Juan Carlos Navarro, they won the Euroleague, beating Benetton Treviso 76–65 in front of a packed Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.
From 2004 until 2007 the club was sponsored by the Winterthur Group, a Swiss insurance company with offices in Barcelona since 1910, which led to the team featuring the birthplace of Joan Gamper, the club's founder, on their shirts. In 2006 the Winterthur Group was taken over by AXA, leading to a change in the club name. In the 2008–09 season, the club's sponsorship changed to Spanish insurer Regal (a division of Liberty Seguros, the Spanish subsidiary of American insurer Liberty Mutual).
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| C | Fran Vázquez | Kosta Perović | Boniface N'Dong | ||
| PF | Erazem Lorbek | C.J. Wallace | |||
| SF | Chuck Eidson | Pete Mickeal | Joe Ingles | ||
| SG | Juan Carlos Navarro | Xavi Rabaseda | |||
| PG | Marcelinho Huertas | Victor Sada |
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Most points scored in a game: FC Barcelona 147–106 Cajabilbao (1986/87 season)
Biggest point differential: 74 – FC Barcelona 128–54 Mataró (1972/1973)
Biggest point differential (against): 60 – Real Madrid 125–65 FC Barcelona (1973) and Real Madrid 138–78 FC Barcelona (1977)
Most games played with FC Barcelona: Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi" (421)
Most minutes played with FC Barcelona: Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi" (11.758)
Most career points scored with FC Barcelona: Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi" (7.028)
Most assists: Juan Carlos Navarro (932)*[3]
Most rebounds: Roberto Dueñas (2.113)
Most blocked shots: Roberto Dueñas (266)
Most three-point shots made: Juan Carlos Navarro (684)*[3]
Most steals: Nacho Solozábal (611) *Playing in FCBarcelona
| 20 October 1989 | FC Barcelona | 103–137 | Denver Nuggets | Palaeur, Rome |
| 10 October 2003 | FC Barcelona | 80–91 | Memphis Grizzlies | Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona |
| 5 October 2006 | Boxscore | FC Barcelona | 104–99 | Philadelphia 76ers | Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona |
| 18 October 2008 | Boxscore | FC Barcelona | 104–108 | Los Angeles Lakers | Staples Center, Los Angeles, California |
| 19 October 2008 | Boxscore | FC Barcelona | 109–114 | Los Angeles Clippers | Staples Center, Los Angeles, California |
| 7 October 2010 | Boxscore | FC Barcelona | 92–88 | Los Angeles Lakers | Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona |
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