FC Barcelona Futsal

Barcelona Futsal

Full name	Futbol Club Barcelona Futsal
Nickname(s)	Barça
Founded	1978; 46 years ago (1978)
Ground	Palau Blaugrana, Barcelona, Spain
Capacity	7,585
President	Joan Laporta
Head coach	Jesús Velasco
League	Primera División
2022–23	Regular season: 2nd of 16 Playoffs: Champions
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Active departments of FC Barcelona
Football (Men's) Football B (Men's) Football U-19 (Men's) Football (Women's) Football B (Women's) Football C (Women's) Basketball Basketball B Wheelchair basketball Handball Handball B Futsal Roller hockey Ice hockey Field hockey Rugby union Rugby league Beach soccer Volleyball (Men's) Volleyball (Women's) Esports

Closed departments of FC Barcelona
Football C (Men's) American football Baseball

Futbol Club Barcelona is a professional futsal club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is a part of the FC Barcelona sports club.^[1]

Originally FC Barcelona begun to play futsal in 1978, until it was disbanded in 1982. Later, in 1986, the club was re-founded and now plays local matches in the Palau Blaugrana, which has a capacity of 7,585 seats. It is one of the most successful futsal clubs in Spain as well as in Europe.

History

First stage of the club

The FC Barcelona started playing futsal in 1976, although it was not officially established until September 1978. At that time it was formed by former Barca players gathered to play friendly tournaments and charity matches. Finally, the implementation of futsal in Catalonia led the bank president Josep Lluís Núñez to officially establish a team.^[2]

The first stage of FC Barcelona futsal was playing in regional tournaments in Catalonia, where they made a good progression and won the regional title in 1980. Although the club became champions in the first two seasons in that division, the Board agreed to dissolve the club in 1982/83.

Admission to LNFS

The club did not regain official futsal status until 1986, when they began to take part in tournaments at the national level.^[2] FC Barcelona was one of the leaders in the sport at the end of the decade, since in the season 1987/88 reached the final of the Copa de España (FEFS) and in 1988/89 was proclaimed winner of the tournament. In 1990 the Catalan club won the European Cup over Italian champions AS Roma Futsal. Though at the time it was an unofficial tournament.

With the union of competitions Spanish Federation and the Football Association Board, FC Barcelona was one of the first participants in the Liga National Futbol Sala, consisting of 48 teams. Barca passed the first stage of the tournament in second place, but in the second phase finished in last place, so they could not qualify for the playoffs for the title.

The Catalan fleet remained one of the leading clubs in the LNFS until the introduction of the regular season in 1995/96. FC Barcelona reduced the budget section of futsal and the team had to be formed from only homegrown players. Finally, Barça went down to the Second Division in 1997/98.

Difficult Years

Although FC Barcelona set the target to be back in the Division Honor the team finished sixth in their first season in the second division. Finally, Barca was promoted in the 1999/2000 season, finishing second in the regular season and won the playoff for promotion.^[2]

However, their return to the Division of Honor was worse than expected. For three seasons the Catalans were at the bottom of the table struggling not to be relegated when in 2002/03 the club finished in 15th place in the standings and were relegated for a second time to the Second Division.

On this occasion, it took FC Barcelona three seasons in the second division before they returned to the top flight. Despite finishing in the top two positions in their three-year spell in the second division Barca fell in the playoffs for promotion. It was not until 2005/06 when, under the coaching of Marc Carmona, that the club was promoted to the first division after defeating Barcelona Gáldar FS in the playoffs.

Professionalization of the club

After climbing back to the Division of Honor, the president of the club, Joan Laporta, increased the investment in the futsal part of the club. Marc Carmona remained as coach and the club hired international players like Javi Rodriguez, star of Playas de Castellón FS.^[2] Although the first season Barca struggled to ensure the permanence, in the year 2007/08 the team finished sixth in the regular season, qualifying for the playoffs for the first time in 11 years.

The football team took their professionalism and, like other sports sections of Barca, had its own sponsor: Senseit (2007), Mobicat (2008) and Alusport (2010). In 2008/09 Barca finish third in the league, but fell in the quarterfinals of the playoffs. In the following year Barca got back into the fight for the title and reached the final, where they lost to eventual champions El Pozo Murcia. In the 2010/11 season, FC Barcelona made history by winning his first official title in futsal, the Copa de España in the final by beating defending champions El Pozo Murcia and also were crowned champions of the first edition of the Copa del Rey, defeating Inter Movistar. Then on 26 June 2011 they completed the season with a historic treble to become champion of the LNFS.^[2]

With their first league title FC Barcelona was eligible to play in the UEFA Futsal Cup for the first time in the 2011/2012 season. They entered in the Main round and progressed through the Elite round and into the Final Four. In the Final Four they played Sporting CP in the semis and won comfortably 5-1. With that win they progressed to the final and played against MFK Dinamo Moskva and defeated them 3-1. FC Barcelona's first foray into European competition in 21 years ended with lifting the UEFA Futsal Cup. Since that initial tournament Barca have been a mainstay in the competition by making it into the Final Four each season since and winning another trophy in 2013/2014.^[2]

On September 10, 2013 Barca won the Supercopa of Spain, the only title of all the national tournaments that had eluded them. With the Super Cup win, the football club has won all the competitions they have played in.

On May 24, 2016 after 12 years the club announced that Marc Carmona would not continue as the team's coach. Therefore, it ended a brilliant stage of the section under his direction in which the team won 19 titles: 2 Champions (2010, 2014), 3 Leagues (2010–11, 2011–2012, 2012–2013), 3 Spanish Cups (2011, 2012, 2013), 4 King's Cups (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014), 1 Spanish Super Cup (2013) and 6 Catalonia Cups (2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015). Then, Andreu Plaza was appointed the team's new coach.

At the end of the season 2020-2021, Barça won the domestic futsal League title. This was Barça’s fifth domestic futsal league title, and the 12th trophy in total of the Plaza-Lahoz era, which has included one Champions League. The club reported that Andreu Plaza was no longer the team's coach.^[3]

Jesús Velasco was appointed the new FC Barcelona futsal coach, and signed a contract until 2023 with Sergi Altisent named as his assistant.^[4] The futsal team won 4 trophies (Super Cup, Spanish Cup, Champions League and Spanish League) in Velasco's first season (2021-22) for the second time in their history after doing so under coach Marc Carmona in 2012.^[5]

Honours

National competitions

• Primera División: 7
  • 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
• Copa del Rey: 8 – record
  • 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23
• Supercopa de España: 4
  • 2013, 2019, 2022, 2023
• Copa de España (LNFS): 7
  • 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024

European competitions

• UEFA Futsal Champions League: 4
  • 2011–12, 2013–14, 2019–20, 2021–22

Regional competitions

• Catalonia Cup: 11
  • 1999-00, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2022-23

Current squad

As of 8 September 2023^[6][7]

#	Position	Name	Nationality
21	Goalkeeper	Dídac Plana
26	Goalkeeper	Miquel Feixas
4	Defender	André Coelho
6	Defender	Antonio Pérez
17	Defender	Erick Mendonça
3	Winger	Matheus Rodrigues
7	Winger	Dyego Zuffo
8	Winger	Adolfo Fernández
9	Winger	Sergio Lozano (c)
13	Winger	Juanjo Catela
16	Winger	Sergio González
10	Pivot	Pito
11	Pivot	Ferrão
20	Pivot	Álex Yepes

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head Coach	Jesús Velasco
Assistant Coach	Jordi Illa
Physiotherapists	Ramon Giró Héctor García
Club Doctors	Lucas Gómez Carles Miñarro
Kit Manager	Xavier Fernández
Delegate	Julio Gracia

Season to season

Season Tier Division Place Notes 1989/90 1 D. Honor 2nd 1990/91 1 D. Honor 6th 1991/92 1 D. Honor 3rd 1992/93 1 D. Honor 6th 1993/94 1 D. Honor 4th 1994/95 1 D. Honor 5th 1995/96 1 D. Honor 11th 1996/97 1 D. Honor 6th 1997/98 1 D. Honor 17th 1998/99 2 D. Plata 6th 1999/00 2 D. Plata 2nd 2000/01 1 D. Honor 14th 2001/02 1 D. Honor 12th 2002/03 1 D. Honor 15th 2003/04 2 D. Plata 2nd

Season Tier Division Place Notes 2004/05 2 D. Plata 1st 2005/06 2 D. Plata 2nd 2006/07 1 D. Honor 13th 2007/08 1 D. Honor 6th / SF 2008/09 1 D. Honor 3rd / QF 2009/10 1 D. Honor 5th / SF 2010/11 1 D. Honor 1st / W 2011/12 1 1ª División 2nd / W 2012/13 1 1ª División 1st / W 2013/14 1 1ª División 3rd / SF 2014/15 1 1ª División 2nd / SF 2015/16 1 1ª División 2nd / F 2016/17 1 1ª División 3rd / F 2017/18 1 1ª División 2nd / F 2018/19 1 1ª División 1st / W

Season Tier Division Place Notes 2019/20 1 1ª División 2nd / QF 2020/21 1 1ª División 3rd / W 2021/22 1 1ª División 1st / W 2022/23 1 1ª División 2nd / W

---

• 28 seasons in Primera División
• 5 seasons in Segunda División

European competitions record

Appearances: 10

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Opponent	Result	Venue (Host City)	Qualified
2011/12	UEFA Futsal Cup	Main Round (Group B)		FK Leotar	9–0	Zemgales Olympic Centre (Jelgava)	1st place
				Győri ETO	8–2
				Nikars Riga	12–0
		Elite Round (Group B)		Era-Pack Chrudim	6–0	Palau Blaugrana (Barcelona)	1st place
				CF Eindhoven	4–0
				Araz Naxçivan	2–2
		Semifinals		Sporting CP	5–1	Pavelló Barris Nord (Lleida)
		Final		Dinamo Moskva	3–1		Champions
2012/13	UEFA Futsal Cup	Elite Round (Group A)		MNK Split	18–0	Tri Lilije Hall (Laško)	1st place
				Araz Naxçivan	7–1
				FC Litija	3–0
		Semifinals		AFC Kairat	4–5	Sportis Sasakhle (Tbilisi)
		3rd Place Match		Iberia Star	4–1		3rd Place
2013/14	UEFA Futsal Cup	Elite Round (Group A)		Lokomotyv Kharkiv	6–1	Sportovní Hala (Chrudim)	1st place
				City'US Târgu Mureș	10–1
				Era-Pack Chrudim	4–1
		Semifinals		Araz Naxçivan	4–4 (4–2 p)	Sarhadchi Olympic Center (Baku)
		Final		Dinamo Moskva	5–2		Champions
2014/15	UEFA Futsal Cup	Elite Round (Group D)		Lokomotyv Kharkiv	5–0	Palau Blaugrana (Barcelona)	1st place
				FC Berettyóújfalu	4–1
				Baku United FC	5–1
		Semifinals		Sporting CP	5–3	Altice Arena (Lisbon)
		Final		AFC Kairat	2–3		Runners-up
2017/18	UEFA Futsal Cup	Main Round (Group 4)		Győri ETO	7–0	Kioene Arena (Padua)	1st place
				Era-Pack Chrudim	2–0
				Luparense	3–3
		Elite Round (Group A)		ZVV 't Knooppunt	6–0	Palasport Giovanni Paolo II (Pescara)	1st place
				KMF Ekonomac	3–2
				Pescara	3–1
		Semifinals		Inter FS	1–2	Pabellón Ppe. Felipe (Zaragoza)
		3rd Place Match		Győri ETO	7–1		3rd Place
2018/19	UEFA Futsal Champions League	Main Round (Group 1)		K-B United	4–2	Sportcomplex De Bres (Halle)	2nd place
				Benfica	1–1
				Halle-Gooik	7–3
		Elite Round (Group B)		KMF Ekonomac	6–1	Palau Blaugrana (Barcelona)	1st place
				Rekord Bielsko-Biała	3–1
				Gazprom-Ugra	2–0
		Semifinals		AFC Kairat	2–5	Almaty Arena (Almaty)
		3rd Place Match		Inter FS	3–1		3rd Place
2019/20	UEFA Futsal Champions League	Main Round (Group 3)		MFK Tyumen	1–0	Jonava Sports Arena (Jonava)	1st place
				MFC Ayat	7–1
				Vytis	8–0
		Elite Round (Group D)		Sparta Praha	2–1	Sports Hall SCA (Minsk)	1st place
				Prodexim Kherson	4–2
				Stalitsa Minsk	6–1
		Semifinals		KPRF	3–3 (5–4 p)	Palau Blaugrana (Barcelona)
		Final		ElPozo Murcia	2–1		Champions
2020/21	UEFA Futsal Champions League	Round of 32		FC Prishtina	9–2	Palau Blaugrana (Barcelona)
		Round of 16		ACCS	2–1
		Quarterfinals		FK Dobovec	2–0	Krešimir Ćosić Hall (Zadar)
		Semifinals		AFC Kairat	3–2
		Final		Sporting CP	3–4		Runners-up
2021/22	UEFA Futsal Champions League	Main Round (Group 3)		Viten Orsha	5–1	Žalgiris Arena (Kaunas)	1st place
				Levante UD	9–2
				Kauno Žalgiris	7–1
		Elite Round (Group C)		FK Dobovec	8–2	Lokomotiva Plzeň (Plzeň)	1st place
				Halle-Gooik	8–4
				Interobal Plzeň	3–1
		Semifinals		Benfica	5–4	Arena Riga (Riga)
		Final		Sporting CP	4–0		Champions
2022/23	UEFA Futsal Champions League	Main Round (Group 3)		Hovocubo	6–1	Tal-Qroqq Sports Hall (Gżira)	1st place
				FK Dobovec	8–0
				Luxol St Andrews	7–1
		Elite Round (Group D)		United Galați	6–2	Mate Parlov Sport Centre (Pula)	2nd place
				Anderlecht	5–5
				Futsal Pula	7–2

Summary

UEFA competitions
Competition	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference	Last season played
UEFA Futsal Cup	31	26	2	3	167	39	+128	2017–18
UEFA Futsal Champions League	35	31	2	2	168	58	+110	2022–23
Total	66	57	4	5	335	97	+238

Barça Atlètic

Barça Atlètic

Full name	Futsal Club Barcelona Atlètic
Founded	1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Ground	Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, Sant Joan Despí, Spain
Capacity	1,000
Chairman	Joan Laporta
Head coach	Sergi Altisent
League	Segunda División
2020–21	Group A, 2nd of 9 Group C, 6th of 8

Founded in 1989 as FC Barcelona Futsal B, Barça Atlètic is the futsal reserve team of FC Barcelona Futsal, and currently plays in Segunda División de Futsal. In the 2016-17 season they topped the Segunda División de Futsal table but were unable to compete in the playoff due to being a reserve team.^[8]

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 Barça Atlètic are ineligible for promotion to Primera División. They also cannot play in the Copa del Rey. Nonetheless, all players from the Barça Atlètic squad are eligible to play with the main team on any competition.^[9]

Current squad

As of 28 September 2022^[10]

#	Position	Name	Nationality
1	Goalkeeper	Óscar Dîrul
13	Goalkeeper	Martí Antolín
16	Goalkeeper	Pau López
3	Defender	Toni
4	Defender	Adrián Tapias
2	Winger	Albert Ortas
6	Winger	Mamadou Touré
8	Winger	Harrison Santos
10	Winger	Marc Campàs
11	Winger	Rubén Sánchez
12	Winger	Aniol Vendrell
14	Winger	Marc Puigvert
17	Winger	Kokoro Harada
7	Pivot	Álvaro Muinelo
9	Pivot	Nicolás Marrón

References

External links

• Official website (in English)
• Profile at LNFS.es