Barcelona constantly strive to be the best football team in the world. Whether it is developing players through their La Masia Academy or spending millions on transfers each year, the Blaugrana continually push themselves to put out the best team possible every season. Barcelona are regular contenders for silverware.

Whether it is the La Liga trophy, Copa del Rey or Champions League, Barcelona are often times favourites to win these competitions. With a new season of football kicking off, Barcelona will be a team for many punters around the world to bet on each week 

About FC Barcelona

Barcelona Football Club were founded in 1899 by Joan Gamper when he placed a newspaper advert in a local paper to attract other football enthusiasts. It didn’t take long for Gamper to find 11 other football-mad individuals and the rest is history. The behemoth of modern-day Barcelona Football Club were born out of one simple newspaper advert.

Success wasn’t far away for Barcelona as they won the Copa del Rey – a tournament that the Blaugrana regularly win – eight times between 1902 and 1928. Success continued over the decades, but the Barcelona fans know and love today didn’t really take shape until the 1970s.

In 1973, Barcelona signed Ajax superstar Johan Cruyff. His influence on the team showed immediately as Barcelona won the La Liga title in 1974 – their first in a decade. Cruyff would have several successful years at the club, but it wouldn’t be until his return as manager in the 1990s that total football would be at Barcelona to stay. 

Even before Cruyff returned in 1988 as manager, he influenced the club to start La Masia Academy to develop future players. The academy took its inspiration from Ajax’s youth academy, a place Cruyff new a lot about having spent so many years in Amsterdam. In the late 1980s, Cruyff assembled a “dream team” which won four La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey, a Cup Winners' Cup, and Barcelona’s first-ever European Cup trophy.

Cruyff’s fingerprints were all over the team’s tiki-taka style that came about years later under Pep Guardiola. The manager helped develop a style of play that led to further success with Lionel Messi, Xaxi, Andres Iniesta, and other greats. 

Bet on Barcelona 

Leading sportsbooks offer betting markets on Barcelona every matchday of the football season. The marathon football campaign provides bettors the opportunity to wager on the capital club in a variety of ways. Bettors can wager on Barcelona as the outright winner of the La Liga, the Champions League, or the Copa del Rey competitions before they kick off each the tournament.

There is the opportunity to bet on one-off matches, players, correct scores, goals, and more. Special offers on big games in the league or European cup competitions are also available with major bookies. Of course, football bettors love to wager on El Clasico, which sees Barcelona and Real Madrid renew their rivalry.

Bettors have the chance to select bets on Barcelona in the transfer market and which player(s) will arrive in the Spanish capital each transfer window. Bettors can even wager on who will be the next Barcelona manager. Barcelona will have a stacked team this season and bettors will have an eye on the club all season long. 

Barcelona Players

There is no player more important to Barcelona than Lionel Messi – on or off the pitch. Messi is the club’s greatest player of all-time and that is saying something as Barcelona have had some greats. Messi has scored 672 goals for Barcelona during his illustrious career. 

However, his depature means that Barcelona are starting a new era with the likes of Ferran Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Adama Traoe joining the Catalan club to join La Masia graduates Pedri and Gavi and Barcelona veterans Gerard Piqur and Sergio Busquets to realise Xavi's vision for the club.

Barcelona Honours

La Liga 

Winners (26): 1929, 1944–45, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1973–74, 1984–85, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19 

Copa del Rey 

Winners (31): 1910, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1952–53, 1957, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21

Supercopa de Espana

Winners (13): 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018

UEFA Champions League

Winners (5): 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15

UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup

Winners (4): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1996–97

UEFA Super Cup

Winners (5): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1996–97

Inter-Cities Fairs Trophy

Winners (3): 1955–58, 1958–60, 1965–66

FIFA Club World Cup

Winners (3): 2009, 2011, 2015

Barcelona All-Time Top Goalscorers

1. Lionel Messi – 672 goals
2. Cesar Rodriguez – 232 goals
3. Luis Suarez – 198 goals
4. Laszlo Kubala – 194 goals
5. Josep Samitier – 184 goals 

Barcelona Legends

Johan Cruyff is arguably the most important person to play or manage Barcelona. Yes, he is more important than Messi. Why? Without Cruyff, Barcelona do not create La Masia and develop players like Messi. As a player, Cruyff scored 61 goals in 189 games. He isn’t the only legend to play for the club as Ronaldo, Romario, and many more players graced the Camp Nou pitch. 

Here is a list of Barcelona legends.

• Xavi
• Ronaldinho
• Lionel Messi
• Samuel Eto'o
• Johan Cruyff
• Andres Iniesta
• Carles Puyol
• Pep Guardiola
• Cesar
• Rivaldo
• Ronald Koeman
• Hristo Stoichkov
• Diego Maradona
• Romario
• Michael Laudrup
• Luis Enrique
• Victor Valdes
• Patrick Kluivert
• Gary Linekar
• David Villa
• Gheorghe Hagi
• Deco
• Thierry Henry
• Ronaldo
• Javier Mascherano

Barcelona Managers 

Two men truly changed the way Barcelona play. One of those men was Cruyff, while the other was Pep Guardiola. Of course, Guardiola played under Cruyff and learned from the Dutch coach. He later used everything he learned and more to craft one of the greatest club football teams ever. Some of the greatest managers of all time have stood in the Camp Nou dugout including the likes of Sir Bobby Robson, Louis Van Gaal and Luis Enrique.