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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.
It is the women's football section of FC Barcelona and competes in the Liga F, playing home games at the Johan Cruyff Stadium in Sant Joan Despí, and occasionally at the Camp Nou or Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.
The club was formed in 1970 with some financial and logistical support from FC Barcelona, but without being an official section. In its inaugural season it competed in matches against other Catalan teams and was known as Selecció Ciutat de Barcelona, taking the name Peña Femenina Barcelonista in 1971.
It was a founding member of the Liga Nacional, in 1988, when it became known as Club Femení Barcelona, and in 2002, when it officially became a section of FC Barcelona, it took the official name Futbol Club Barcelona.
Since the club's professionalisation in 2015, Barcelona cemented itself as dominant women's football team, becoming the league's most successful team in the UEFA Women's Champions League, and one of the most successful women's football teams in Europe. It won the Champions League in 2021, 2023 and 2024.
Women's football in Barcelona, had a certain level of popularity in the 1960s, but was amateur and unofficial. The embryo of Barcelona Femení was the Selecció Ciutat de Barcelona, formed in November 1970.
In at least as early as the 1960s, FC Barcelona had women's teams play in exhibition games at the Camp Nou; the club does not consider these antecedents to its current women's team as they were teams that had been created only for that occasion, unlike Selecció Ciutat de Barcelona, which was created with the idea of continuity and laying the groundwork for a future project.
Upon Barcelona announcing Selecció Barcelona as its new women's team, El Noticiero Universal reported that the club had almost pioneered women's football many years earlier, having gone so far as to organise a game that could not be played for reasons beyond their control.
In 2020-21, they won the Champions League for the first time by defeating Chelsea 4–0 in the final.
In 2022-2023, they won the Champions League for the second time by defeating Wolfsburg 2–3 in the final.
On 25 May 2024, Barcelona completed the second continental treble and first continental quadruple in the club's history by defeating Lyon 2-0 in the 2024 Champions League final; it was their first defeat of longstanding European rivals Lyon.
Barcelona Femení has a fan base distinct from that of the men's team, even when the team has sold out the main stadiums. The popularity of the team grew vastly in the years after it became professional.
The team moved to the Johan Cruyff Stadium in 2019, located in Sant Joan Despí, a town north of the city of Barcelona. They previously played at the Mini Estadi, next to the Camp Nou. Despite playing outside of the city, by 2022 the team had averaged crowds four times larger than when they played at the Mini Estadi.
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Blaugrana al vent
Un crit valent
Tenim un nom, el sap tothom
Barça, Barça, Barça
Blaugrana in the wind
A brave cry
We have a name that everyone knows
Barça, Barça, Barça
FC Barcelona Anthem
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