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The Grandma loves football, and she is a great supporter of all FC Barcelona sections, especially women's team, that was formed in 1970.
Johan Cruyff Stadium, in Catalan Estadi Johan Cruyff, is a football stadium operated by FC Barcelona in Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Catalonia, located in the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, the club's training facility and youth academy, about 7 km from Camp Nou.
The stadium is home to FC Barcelona women's team, FC Barcelona Atlètic and Juvenil A (U19 A team). It is named in honour of legendary Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. It is a UEFA Category 3 stadium and houses 6,000 supporters.
Estadi Johan Cruyff broke ground on 14 September 2017 and was completed in Summer 2019. It was opened on 27 August 2019 with a friendly match between the under-19 teams of Barcelona and Ajax. The match ended up in a 0–2 score where Ajax was the winner.
On 26 August 2019, a day before the stadium was officially opened to the public, FC Barcelona paid tribute to Cruyff by unveiling his statue at Camp Nou.
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Futbol Club Barcelona Femení, commonly referred to as Barça Femení, is a Catalan professional women's football team based in Barcelona, Catalonia.
It's the women's football section of FC Barcelona and it competes in the Primera División, the top tier of Spanish women's football.
Formed in 1970 by 18-year-old Immaculada "Imma" Cabecerán, the club was an establishing member of Spain's first recognized women's league, the Primera División, founded as the Liga Nacional.
Although being closely associated with the club for decades, the team was not established as an official section of FC Barcelona until 2002, when the club definitively incorporated Club Femení Barcelona into its sports structure. Through battles with promotion and relegation, the club won their first league title in 2011.
Domestically, Barcelona Femení has won a record 18 trophies: 7 Primera División, 9 Copas de la Reina, and two Spanish Supercups titles.
By winning the Champions League, FC Barcelona became the first club to win a Champions League title for both its men and women's footballing sections.
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Barcelona Femení plays its home games at Johan Cruyff Stadium in Sant Joan Despí, and occasionally at the Camp Nou.
FC Barcelona is not a sports corporation (SAD), as its ownership rests with its memberships, called socis.
One morning in November 1970, 18-year-old Catalan amateur footballer Immaculada Imma Cabecerán Soler met with former FC Barcelona president Agustí Montal Costa to discuss the formation of a women's team associated with the club.
On 17 November 1970, in a way akin to Joan Gamper, Cabecerán posted a print advertisement in an FC Barcelona fan magazine called La Revista Barcelonista. She called for women between the ages 18-25 to play in an exhibition match the following month at the Camp Nou.
The team came to fruition and was formed of 17 individuals- Maria Antònia Mínguez, Llera, Giménez, Pilar Gazulla, Lluïsa Vilaseca, Aurora Arnau, Anna Jaques, Maite Rodríguez, Immaculada Cabecerán, Núria Llansà, Alicia Estivill, Blanca Fernández, Lolita Ortiz, Consuelo Pérez, Carme Nieto, Fina Ros and Glòria Comas- all of whom were all trained by Barcelona legends Antoni Ramallets and César Rodríguez, although the latter left after a few days. The team played their first match on Christmas Day, 1970, winning on penalties against Unió Esportiva Centelles in front of a crowd of around 60,000 people.
The match, played under the name Selección Ciudad de Barcelona, was a charity match organised by Ràdio Nacional to raise funds for local children's hospitals. Although the team was not officially recognized by the club, it was the first match played by a women's team associated with FC Barcelona (then known as CF Barcelona). The team later evolved into Penya Femenina Barça, and Ramallets coached them until 1972.
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During the 1980s, the team was renamed Club Femení Barcelona. They reached an informal integration agreement with FC Barcelona where they were allowed to use the colors, badges and facilities of the club, but it took a few more years to adopt the crest. On 29 June, 1985, the team won its first competition- the Generalitat Cup.
In 1988, Club Femení Barcelona, which was sponsored by FC Barcelona, was a founding member of the Liga Nacional, now known as the Primera División, the first women's league recognized by the RFEF. They had a successful 3-year run in the early 1990s, winning the 1994 Copa de la Reina and being the championship's runner-up in 1992 and 1994, but they subsequently declined to bottom table positions.
In the summer of 2015, the club made the decision to professionalize the women's section.
In the seasons that followed, Barcelona placed a greater priority on competing in the UEFA Women's Champions League. The club reached their first Women's Champions League semifinal in the 2016-17 season, and also defeated Atlético Madrid Femenino in the 2017 Copa de la Reina.
On 16 May 2021, Barcelona won the UEFA Women's Champions League title for the first time after they beat Chelsea 4–0 in the final in Gothenburg, with all four goals coming within the first 36 minutes of the match.
In doing so, Barcelona became the first ever club to have been European champions in both men's and women's football.
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