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Full name : Futbol Club Barcelona
Nickname(s) : Barça (team), La Blaugrana (team), Culers or Culés (supporters),Blaugranes (supporters)
Founded : November 29, 1899 (as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona)
Ground : Camp Nou, Barcelona (Capacity: 98,772)
President : Joan Laporta
Manager : Josep Guardiola

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barca , is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is best known for its football team, which was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Spanish men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club).

FC Barcelona is one of the only three clubs that have never been relegated from La Liga and the second most successful club in Spanish football having won nineteen La Liga titles, a record twenty-five Spanish Cups, seven Spanish Super Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most successful clubs in European football having won eight official major European trophies in total. They have won two European Cups, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups and two UEFA Super Cups. They also have a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.

The club's stadium is the Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe with a capacity of 98,772 seats. Barcelona enjoys a high rate of popularity; about 25.7% of Spanish population support the club,[2] while according to a recent survey Barcelona is the most popular football club in Europe with around 44.2 million fans. With 156,366 socis (members) in June 2007, the Catalan club is also placed among the top football clubs in the world with the most registered members, and the number of penyes, the officially-registered supporter clubs, reached the number of 1,782 worldwide in June 2006. The fans of FC Barcelona are known as culers. The club shares a great rivalry with Real Madrid and contest in one of the most famous football matches worldwide, known as El Clásico.

During the season 2007–08, Barcelona was the third richest club in the world with a revenue of €308.8 million. It was also one of the founding members of the now-defunct G-14 group of the leading European football clubs and its modern replacement, the European Club Association. The club also operates a reserve team, FC Barcelona Atlètic, while there was a youth team until 2007, FC Barcelona C.

Full name : Manchester United Football Club
Nickname(s) : The Red Devils
Founded : 1878, as Newton Heath L&YR F.C.
Ground : Old Trafford(Capacity: 76,212)
Owner :Malcolm Glazer
Co-chairmen : Joel & Avram Glazer
Manager : Alex Ferguson

Manchester United F.C. (usually abbreviated Man Utd, Man United or just MU) is an English football club based in Old Trafford, Manchester.


Formed as Newton Heath Lyr F.C. on the 1878 football team as a depot Railroad Company and the Lancashire Yorkshire Railway in Newton Heath, the name changed to become Manchester United in 1902.

Even though the first has been included since one of the most powerful team in the UK, the Manchester United since 1993 to reach the dominance of the domestic championship under the direction Sir Alex Ferguson - the scale of dominance not seen since the end of the era of Liverpool FC in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Since bergulirnya era in the 1992 Premiership, Manchester United is the most successful team with eleven-time champion jockey tropi.

Despite success in the domestic competition, success is still difficult to be repeated in the European championship, their only champion ever to reach the Champions League three times throughout its history (1968, 1999, 2008).

MU became one of the most successful club in the UK; since 86-87 season, they have 21 trofi big - this is the amount that most of the clubs UEFA Main UK. They have won 18 League champion trofi Main UK (including the time still called Division One). In 1968, they became the first British team that successfully wins European Champions League, after defeat SL Benfica 4-1, and won their European Champions League for the second time in 1999 and again in 2008 after the defeat Chelsea FC in the final. They also hold the record FA Cup win as many as 11 times. [1] In 2008, they became the first English club and the second European club to be successful Antarklub FIFA World Champion.

On May 12, 2005, the United States became the owner Malcolm Glazer purchased the club with the majority of shares worth £ 800 million (U.S. $ 1.47 billion) over the protests of many of the fanatical supporters.

History

* Early years (1878–1945)
* The Busby years (1945–1969)
* 1969–1986
* Alex Ferguson era, pre-Treble (1986–1998)
* The Treble (1998–99)
* After the Treble (1999–present)