"has the consolation of achieving the largest margin win with a 6–0 in 1951. Espanyol achieved a 2–1 win against Barça during the 2008–09 season, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble-winning season. From 1923 until 1997, Espanyol played their home games in Estadi de Sarrià in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona. In 1997, they moved to the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on Montjuïc. For the beginning of the 2009–10 season, Espanyol moved into the newly constructed RCDE Stadium (also known as Estadi Cornellà-El Prat) between Cornellà de Llobregat and El Prat de"
"there is a third UEFA elite stadium () - Estadi Cornellà-El Prat, with a capacity of 40,000. Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta, with a capacity of 20,000 is stadium on the suburbs, during the 1992 Summer Olympics it hosted six football matches. Estadi Olímpic de Terrassa, with a capacity of 11,500; Camp del Centenari, with a capacity of 10,000 and Estadi La Feixa Llarga, with a capacity of 6,700 is other stadium on the suburbs of Barcelona. Also, except Palau Sant Jordi (""St. George's sporting arena""), with a capacity of 12,000-24,000 (depending on use), city has two other larger"
"three different home stadiums with his club: Sarrià, Montjuïc and, beginning in the 2009–10 season, the Cornellà-El Prat. After 12 seasons playing at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, Espanyol moved to the Estadi de Cornellá-El Prat. The new stadium was officially inaugurated on 2 August 2009 with a match between Espanyol and Liverpool. The ""periquitos"" (""budgerigars"") won 3–0, with Luis García scoring the first goal at the ground, followed by a Ben Sahar double. On 8 August 2009, Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque, then 26, died from a cardiac arrest in the Italian village of Coverciano, where the club was at"
"the eighth stadium in the club's history. The stadium is known as the Estadi Cornellà-El Prat because it is located on the borders of the municipalities Cornellà and El Prat. The club hopes to find a buyer for the naming rights for the stadium. After the death of club captain Daniel Jarque, many have proposed that the stadium should be renamed in his honour. However, the club has not taken a definite stance on the subject. Espanyol defeated Liverpool 3–0 in the stadium's inaugural match on 2 August 2009. On July 2014, the stadium was renamed as ""Power8 Stadium"" for"
"Estadi La Feixa Llarga The Estadi de Futbol de L'Hospitalet is the home stadium of Segunda División B football club L'Hospitalet and is located in the Feixa Llarga district of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain. The stadium seats 6,740 and was opened in 1999. The stadium is some from the Hospital de Bellvitge metro station, on line L1 of the Barcelona Metro. ""L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Baseball Stadium"" was originally a baseball stadium. The venue, opened in July 1991 and seating 2500, was one of two used for baseball competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, including the finals. During"
"Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (, formerly known as the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc and Estadio de Montjuic) is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 International Exposition in the city (and Barcelona's bid for the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Berlin), it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The stadium has a capacity of 55,926 (67,007 during the 1992 Olympics), and is located in the Anella Olímpica, in Montjuïc, a large hill to the southwest of the city which overlooks"
"July 20, 1988 and three days later George Michael performed at the stadium with his Faith World Tour. Sting performed at the stadium during The Soul Cages Tour on June 12, 1991. The venue hosted five football matches at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The club's financial problems forced the company to sell the stadium to property developers. The last game played in Sarrià was against Valencia on 21 June 1997. Espanyol won 3-2 and the last goal was scored by visiting defender Iván Campo. The club then played at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on Montjuïc until 2009, when it"
"capacity of 55,926; used for the 1992 Olympics; and Estadi Cornellà-El Prat, with a capacity of 40,500. Furthermore, the city has several smaller stadiums such as Mini Estadi (also owned by FC Barcelona) with a capacity of 15,000, Camp Municipal Narcís Sala with a capacity of 6,563 and Nou Sardenya with a capacity of 7,000. The city has a further three multifunctional venues for sports and concerts: the Palau Sant Jordi with a capacity of 12,000 to 24,000 (depending on use), the Palau Blaugrana with a capacity of 7,500, and the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona with a capacity of"
"Camp de Les Corts Camp de Les Corts (), commonly referred to as Les Corts, was a sports stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the home ground for FC Barcelona until the club moved to the Camp Nou in 1957. It was also the home ground of CD Condal for the club's entire history. ""Les Corts"" was built as a result of a long-term plan by the club president, Joan Gamper, to provide FC Barcelona with its own stadium. It replaced the Camp de la Indústria as the home of FC Barcelona. Inaugurated in 1922, the initial capacity was"
"Barcelona Dragons The Barcelona Dragons were a team originally in the World League of American Football and later in the resurrected NFL Europe. Their home field in Barcelona was the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuic, the 1992 Olympic Stadium, and later the Mini Estadi. The Dragons were successful on the field, making it to 4 World Bowls (1991, 1997, 1999, 2001) and winning World Bowl V in 1997. The team was made part of the FC Barcelona organization in 2002 as the FC Barcelona Dragons. Despite these efforts, the franchise's fan support decreased and the team began to struggle financially. After"
"World Cup in Athletics, and three years later it hosted the opening and closing ceremonies and the athletics competitions of the Olympic Games. The stadium served as the home of football club RCD Espanyol from 1997 until 2009. The Estadi Olímpic made its final La Liga appearance during the 2008-2009 season, as Espanyol moved to the newly constructed RCDE Stadium. It also served as the home of the Barcelona Dragons American football team until 2002. Because the size of the playing surface was slightly shorter than the regulation American Football length, the stadium only had 7-yard end zones, three yards"
"to Nottingham Forest, having drawn 1–1 in Camp Nou after losing 0–1 in City Ground, Nottingham. The first victory was in the 1992 edition, when they beaten Werder Bremen 3–2 on aggregate. Since then, Barcelona has won the competition four additional times (in 1997, 2009, 2011 and 2015) and now shares the record of victories (five) with Milan. In 1960, UEFA and their South-American equivalent, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), created the Intercontinental Cup as a way of determining the best team in the world, by pitting the winners of the European Champions' Cup and the South American Copa"
"1992 Olympic Basketball Tournament. It was designed by the architects Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius, who won the 1992 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture for this building. It is also the home arena of Joventut de Badalona, one of the most important professional basketball squads in Spain. Before the Pavelló Olímpic was built, the now 3,300 capacity Pavelló Club Joventut Badalona hosted the city basketball games and most of the other indoor sports. This is a list of attendances of Joventut Badalona at the Pavelló Olímpic. The closest Barcelona Metro station is Gorg, on lines L2 and L10. It"
"sponsorship reasons. In January 2016, the club renamed the stadium as ""RCDE Stadium"" ending the sponsorship of Power8. On July 3, 2010, the stadium received a live concert of American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, during ""The E.N.D World Tour"", in front of 30,000 fans. In June 2019, German metal band Rammstein will perform at the stadium as part of their European Stadium Tour. This is a list of league games attendances of Espanyol at Cornellà-El Prat. RCDE Stadium RCDE Stadium, also known as Estadi Cornellà-El Prat (; ) is an all-seater football stadium on the outskirts of"
"Berlin's Olympiastadion. This made Barcelona the first club in history to win the treble of domestic league, domestic cup and European Cup twice, and Dani Alves, Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Pedro, Gerard Piqué and Xavi the only players to achieve the same feat. On 1 October 2017, Busquets opened the scoring in a 3–0 home win against Las Palmas which was played with closed doors at the Camp Nou due to the ongoing Catalan independence referendum. On 11 October 2008, Busquets earned his first cap for Spain's under-21 in their 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification play-offs first-leg"
"the 1992 games, seating was expanded to just under 7000. Estadi La Feixa Llarga The Estadi de Futbol de L'Hospitalet is the home stadium of Segunda División B football club L'Hospitalet and is located in the Feixa Llarga district of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain. The stadium seats 6,740 and was opened in 1999. The stadium is some from the Hospital de Bellvitge metro station, on line L1 of the Barcelona Metro. ""L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Baseball Stadium"" was originally a baseball stadium. The venue, opened in July 1991 and seating 2500, was one of two used for baseball competitions at"
"Mini Estadi Mini Estadi (, meaning in English ""Mini Stadium""), officially named ""Miniestadi"", is a football stadium located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The 15,276-seat stadium is situated across from Camp Nou, the home stadium of FC Barcelona. The stadium is currently home to FC Barcelona B, FCB's reserve team, as well as FC Barcelona's women's team, and Juvenil A. The stadium was home to FC Barcelona C until July 2007, when they disbanded. It has also been home to the Barcelona Dragons, an NFL Europe American football team, until they were disbanded in 2003. It occasionally hosts the national team"
"RCD Espanyol Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; ""Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona""), commonly known as RCD Espanyol, or simply as Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain. Founded in 1900, the club plays in La Liga, the highest division of Spanish football and play their home games at the RCDE Stadium, which holds up to 40,500 spectators. Espanyol have won Copa del Rey four times, most recently in 2006, and reached the UEFA Cup final in 1988 and 2007. The team competes in the ""Barcelona Derby"" against FC Barcelona. Espanyol was founded"
"1950s when players such as Ramallets, Velasco, César Rodríguez, Joan Segarra, Ladislao Kubala and Luis Suárez saw the team win numerous trophies. By the late 1940s, FC Barcelona had outgrown Les Corts. The stadium had been extended on several occasions, reaching a final capacity of 60,000. However, there was no room for further expansion and in 1950 the club began to make plans for a new stadium, the Camp Nou. Camp de Les Corts Camp de Les Corts (), commonly referred to as Les Corts, was a sports stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the home ground for FC"
"between the Oklahoma City Thunder and local team FC Barcelona Regal. The 3,000-seat Sant Jordi Club opened in 2007 and is located behind the main building. Palau Sant Jordi Palau Sant Jordi (, ) is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose installation that is part of the Olympic Ring complex located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, it was opened in 1990. The maximum seating capacity of the arena is 17,960. It is the largest indoor arena in Spain. The Palau Sant Jordi was one of the main venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics hosting"
"and Colombia. On 2 November 2009, it was announced that Dutch legend and former Barcelona manager Johan Cruyff would be the new coach of Catalonia. On 22 December 2009, they played a friendly against Argentina, which ended in a Catalonia win, 4–2 at Camp Nou. On 28 December 2010, Catalonia played another friendly against Honduras winning 4–0 at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. On 30 December 2011, Catalonia played Tunisia in a goalless draw at the Lluís Companys. In their last game under Cruyff, on 2 January 2013, Catalonia drew with Nigeria at the Cornellà-El Prat, 1–1. Former player Gerard was"
"club president Joan Laporta changed the name back to Barcelona Atlètic in 2008. Two years later, his successor Sandro Rosell returned to the previous denomination. Former club player Luis Enrique (he also played for Real Madrid) succeeded Pep Guardiola as team manager in the summer of 2008, as the latter was appointed main squad coach. In 2009–10 the club finished second in Group III and returned to division two after an absence of 11 years; this was followed by a third-place in the following campaign, but the team was not eligible for promotion. On 23 September 1982 the Mini Estadi"
"editions). Several major FM stations include Catalunya Ràdio, RAC 1, RAC 105 and Cadena SER. Barcelona also has a local TV stations, BTV, owned by city council. The headquarters of Televisió de Catalunya, Catalonia's public network, are located in Sant Joan Despí, in Barcelona's metropolitan area. Barcelona has a long sporting tradition and hosted the highly successful 1992 Summer Olympics as well as several matches during the 1982 FIFA World Cup (at the two stadiums). It has hosted about 30 sports events of international significance. FC Barcelona is a sports club best known worldwide for its football team, one of"
"are matches. The stadium is a significant away from the El Prat International Airport which is a 40-minute drive considering the city's traffic. It is possible to use the L9 from the airport directly to Collblanc, and walk for about 9–12 minutes to the stadium as an alternative route. The stadium was one of the venues of the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and held the following matches: Camp Nou Camp Nou (, ""new field"", often referred to as the Nou Camp in English) is the home stadium of FC Barcelona since its completion in 1957. With a seating capacity of"
"the new home of Barcelona's reserve and women's teams. It is expected that the Mini Estadi will be demolished following the conclusion of the 2018–19 season, when the Estadi Johan Cruyff is finally opened. Mini Estadi Mini Estadi (, meaning in English ""Mini Stadium""), officially named ""Miniestadi"", is a football stadium located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The 15,276-seat stadium is situated across from Camp Nou, the home stadium of FC Barcelona. The stadium is currently home to FC Barcelona B, FCB's reserve team, as well as FC Barcelona's women's team, and Juvenil A. The stadium was home to FC Barcelona"
"section was refounded and a new section of handball would be created. RCD Espanyol Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; ""Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona""), commonly known as RCD Espanyol, or simply as Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain. Founded in 1900, the club plays in La Liga, the highest division of Spanish football and play their home games at the RCDE Stadium, which holds up to 40,500 spectators. Espanyol have won Copa del Rey four times, most recently in 2006, and reached the UEFA Cup final in 1988 and 2007. The"
"der Rohe's German national pavilion was constructed at the foot of the hill, near the Plaça del Marquès de Foronda. It was demolished in 1930 but was rebuilt in 1988. Also completed in 1929, the Olympic stadium was intended to host an anti-fascist alternative Olympics in 1936, in opposition to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. These plans were cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The stadium served as the home for football team Espanyol, until the club left for a new stadium in Cornellà/El Prat upon its completion in 2008. The roads in the slopes facing the"
"that this facility is fully operational, all the youth teams that previously used the Camp Nou facilities, mainly the Mini Estadi and the Palau Blaugrana, train there. FC Barcelona's first team moved to this facility on 19 January 2009. This brought to an end a 30-year history that the first team had of training on the small pitch (known as the La Masia pitch) annexed to the Camp Nou. The first team facilities are the same as those at the Camp Nou and at the start of the 2009/2010 season it included a full pool and saunas for player recuperation."
"promotion to Segunda División. The club's greatest success came in 1994 when FC Andorra won the Copa Catalunya. The Andorran team eliminated FC Barcelona in the semi-finals (aggregate 2–1) and defeated RCD Espanyol in the final played in the Municipal Stadium of Vilassar de Mar, winning 4-2 on penalties after no goals were scored during ordinary and extra time. At the end of the 1997–98 season the team was relegated to Tercera División (fourth tier). They are currently playing in Primera Catalana (the fifth tier of the Spanish football system). Their best performance to date in the Spanish Cup was"
"Sarrià Stadium Sarrià Stadium (in Catalan: Estadi de Sarrià ; in Spanish: Estadio de Sarrià) was a football stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The stadium was the home of RCD Espanyol from 1923 to 1997, and was located in the district of Sarrià. The stadium was named after the road in which it was constructed, which linked Barcelona and Sarrià. Construction began on 31 December 1922 under the supervision of architect Matías Colmenares, and the cost was 170,000 pesetas. The initial forecast capacity was for 40,000 spectators, but due to the bankruptcy of the construction company the initial capacity was"
"Cup win) and reached the final in 1988, losing to Bayer Leverkusen of then-West Germany on penalty kicks (3–2). Barcelona has two UEFA elite stadiums (): FC Barcelona's Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe with a capacity of 100,000 and the publicly owned Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, with a capacity of 55,000; used for the 1992 Olympics. Also, the city has several smaller stadiums such as Mini Estadi, with a capacity of 15,000 and Estadio Narcís Sala, Nou Sardenya with a capacity of 7,000 and Camp de la Verneda, with a capacity of 5,500. In the suburbs of Barcelona"
"several storage and reversing sidings. The station opened in 1989, when line L1 was extended from Avinguda Carrilet station. It was originally known as Feixa Llarga, after the Estadi La Feixa Llarga, the football stadium of local team CE L'Hospitalet. It was given its current name in 2003. Future plans are for L1 to be extended from this station towards El Prat de Llobregat, where it will provide interchange with the planned joint section of lines L2 and L9 towards Barcelona Airport. Hospital de Bellvitge (Barcelona Metro) Hospital de Bellvitge, formerly known as Feixa Llarga, is a Barcelona Metro station,"
"six occasions (in 1933, 1947, 1964, 1975, 1992 and 2016). Espanyol achieved a 2–1 win against Barça during the 2008–09 season, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble-winning season. Barcelona's rival in European football is Italian club A.C. Milan. The team against which Barcelona has played the most matches (19), it is also the second most played match in European competitions, tied with Real Madrid–Juventus and both after Real Madrid–Bayern Munich (24). Two of the most successful clubs in Europe, Milan has won seven European Cups to Barça's five, while both clubs have won"