1912–13 FC Barcelona season

FC Barcelona

1912–13 season
President	Joan Gamper
Manager	Miles Barron (until December) Jack Alderson (until January) Jack Greenwell
Campionat de Catalunya (FAC)	First
Campionat d'Espanya (UECF)	Champion
Pyrenees Cup	Winner
← 1911–12 1913–14 →

The 1912–13 season was the 14th season for FC Barcelona.

Summary

This season was one of the most successful in the club's history, as Barcelona clinched its second treble after winning the Catalan championship, Copa del Rey and Pyrenees Cup). However, the former two were organized by Barcelona themselves as a rival competition to those organized by the Spanish FA, even though they are considered official too, it still stains this treble as a lesser achievement than the previous one in the 1909–10. Furthermore, Barça was actually knocked out from the 1913 Pyrenees Cup after a 1–3 loss to RCD Espanyol in the semi-finals, but they managed to have the result annulled through protests, and then in the final they comfortably won 7–2, with braces from José Berdié and Paulino Alcántara.^[1] Meanwhile, in the 1913 UECF Copa del Rey Final, Barcelona needed three games to beat Real Sociedad as both legs ended with a draw (2–2 and 0–0), and then beat 2–1 in the play-off with goals from Berdié and new-signing Apolinario Rodríguez.^[2] This season also saw one of the best players of the club join: Paulino Alcántara, the youngest player (15 years old) to have made his debut with the first team.

Squad

^[3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 83 GK  ESP Luis Renyé 95 GK  ESP Lisard Peris 99 GK  ESP Francisco Aramburo 67 DF  ESP José Irízar 77 DF  PHI Manuel Amechazurra 88 DF  ESP Pere Molins 88 DF  ESP José Berrondo 98 MF  GER Walter Rositzky 55 MF  ESP Alfredo Massana 80 MF  ESP Manuel Castejón 62 MF  ESP Josep Costa 87 MF  ENG Jack Greenwell

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Mariano Bori — MF  ESP Manuel Lemmel — FW  ESP Romà Forns — FW  ENG Apolinario Rodríguez — FW  ESP Enrique Peris — FW  ENG Frank Allack — FW  ESP José Berdié — FW  ESP Alexander Steel — FW  SUI Joan Gamper — FW  PHI Paulino Alcántara

Results

Friendlies

Copa Espanya (RUEC)

Campionat de Catalunya (FAC)

• On day 2, the match was played against Avenç, suspended for climatological reasons at 20 minutes when the score was 0-0.
• The championship did not end and Barcelona was awarded as the winner.

Campionat d'Espanya (RUEC)

Copa dels Pirineus

References

External links

• FC Barcelona official website at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 23 August 2010)