FC Barcelona in international football

FC Barcelona in international football
Lionel Messi is the top goalscorer for Barcelona in international competitions.
ClubFC Barcelona
Seasons played69
Most appearancesXavi (173)
Top scorerLionel Messi (128)
First entry1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Latest entry2024–25 UEFA Champions League
Titles
Champions League
Cup Winners' Cup
Super Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Futbol Club Barcelona is a Spanish professional football club based in Barcelona. The club first participated in a European competition in 1910, and from 1955 onwards spent every season in one or more European competitions. The first international cup they took part in was the Pyrenees Cup. The competition lasted from 1910 to 1914 and Barcelona won four out of five editions. From 1914 to the beginning of the Latin Cup in 1949, Barcelona did not participate in any international competitions. From the 1955–56 season onward, with the exception of 1956–57 (during the first Fairs Cup, because a Vienna XI withdrew from the competition), they are the only team to have played in the European competitions every year to date.

Barcelona has won the now defunct Cup Winners' Cup four times and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup three times, both tournament records.[1][2] They also took part in the Latin Cup twice as champions of Spain, winning on both occasions, a record shared with Real Madrid and Milan. Though they did not manage to win the premier European Cup, now the UEFA Champions League, during the early decades of the competition, they have since won the trophy five times, with their first triumph in 1992.[3]

Barcelona is second in the ranking of Europe's most successful clubs in terms of number of official international trophies won, behind Real Madrid. With the 2015 UEFA Super Cup victory in Tbilisi against Sevilla and the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup victory in Yokohama against River Plate, the Catalans raised their trophy haul to 22 international titles, the second largest output behind Real Madrid's 33. In the tables, "(H)" denotes home ground, "(A)" denotes away ground and "(N)" symbolises neutral ground. The first score is always Barcelona's.

  1. ^ "UEFA Cup Winners' Cup". UEFA. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference fairs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Champions League history". UEFA. Retrieved 22 June 2010.