FC Barcelona B

Founded on 1 August 1934 as Societat Esportiva Industrial Espanya, the club was originally the sports team of the factory with the same name, and its shirt featured blue and white vertical stripes. The company was owned by the family of Josep Antoni de Albert, who was briefly president of FC Barcelona in 1943; during Albert's presidency the club, now known as Club Deportivo Espanya Industrial, became Barcelona's reserve team and began to play home games at Camp de Les Corts.

Initially, Industrial played in the local regional leagues but, in 1950, it was promoted to Tercera División, reaching Segunda División two years later. In 1953 the club finished as runners-up in both the league and the promotion play-off but, being a nursery club of Barcelona, it was unable to move up a division.

After winning another promotion play-off in 1956, Espanya Industrial became independent of FC Barcelona and was renamed Club Deportivo Condal. The club wore blue shirts with two white diagonals stripes.

Condal competed once in La Liga, in the 1956–57 season, being relegated as 16th and last. In 1968 the club rejoined the Barcelona family as its reserve team, and adopted the blaugrana colours.

Barcelona Atlètic crest

The Mini Estadi during a match

In 1970, Barcelona president Agustí Montal decided to merge Condal with another junior club, Atlètic Catalunya, and formed Barcelona Atlètic. Atlètic was founded in 1965 as a result of the merger of two other teams: UE Catalunya de Les Corts (founded in 1918 as Catalunya Sporting Club) and CD Fabra Coats (1926).

Under the new denomination the B-team played a total of ten seasons in the second level. At the end of 1988–89 the side returned to Segunda División B – the new third level created in 1977 – after ranking 17th.

In 1990 the team was renamed Barcelona B, but 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.[1]

Former club player Luis Enrique (who also played for Real Madrid) succeeded Pep Guardiola as team manager in the summer of 2008, as the latter was appointed main squad coach.[2] 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.

• Segunda División B

Winners (5): 1981–82, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2016–17

• Tercera División

Winners (2): 1973–74, 2007–08

As of 29 January 2021[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  MNE Lazar Carević 2 DF  BRA Igor Gomes 3 DF  ESP Óscar Mingueza (vice-captain) 4 DF  ESP Arnau Comas 5 DF  ESP Mika Màrmol 6 MF  ESP Oriol Busquets (3rd captain) 7 FW  ESP Nils Mortimer 8 MF  BRA Lucas de Vega 9 FW  JPN Hiroki Abe 10 MF  ESP Álex Collado (captain) 11 FW  USA Konrad de la Fuente 12 MF  BRA Matheus Pereira 13 GK  ESP Iñaki Peña

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ESP Roger Riera 16 MF  ESP Jandro Orellana (4th captain) 17 FW  BRA Gustavo Maia 18 MF  ESP Álvaro Sanz 19 FW  URU Joaquín Zeballos (on loan from Girona) 20 MF  ESP Nico González 21 DF  ARG Santiago Ramos Mingo 22 FW  ALB Rey Manaj 24 DF  ESP Alejandro Balde 25 GK  ESP Arnau Tenas 29 FW  ESP Gerard Fernández 30 MF  ESP Ilaix Moriba

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 FW  ESP Jaume Jardí 32 DF  ESP José Marsá 37 FW  ESP Ilias Akhomach

No. Pos. Nation Player 38 MF  ESP Pablo Gavi 39 FW  ESP Ángel Alarcón

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP Sergi Rosanas — DF  COL Andrés Solano (on loan from Atlético Madrid) — MF  ESP Ferrán Sarsanedas