Chapters on the history of the supporters clubs and FC Barcelona
As explained in the previous chapter, as president of the Penya Solera, Nicolau Casaus had a lot of influence. He was almost a board member of the Club despite not holding any position, he followed the team in almost every trip and had friendships with the new players and with the veterans who were already, … Read more
The penya Solera was created in 1944, coinciding with Josep Samitier’s return to FC Barcelona, this time as coach, and prior to the blaugrana team’s second league title. It was the first penya founded after the war, thanks to the auspices of Samitier himself and Jaume Ramón. We can even say that it could be … Read more
If there is a penya that deserves a wider mention and to be highlighted above the rest, this is the Penya Gol de Dalt, official in the 30s but which is said to have already had activity in the times of the pitch in Industria street. The great feature that distinguishes this penya from the … Read more
Nowadays, it is less common to name penyes after players. In fact, if we are not mistaken, the last penya founded with the name of a player was the Peña Pedrito, in the Canary Islands, dedicated to Pedro Rodríguez, who came out of La Masia and is very well remembered by FC Barcelona fans. There … Read more
Currently, there exists in Tarragona the Penya Casal Barcelonista Francesc Serra. This last name has been added lately in honor of the person who at all times was the backbone of a penya that was growing. Francesc Serra left us a few years ago unexpectedly and, despite this hard blow for the penyes in general … Read more
The Penya Sagi Barba is an entity that in 1932 had a powerful football team and organized anniversaries, dances and all kinds of social events. It was a sports and social penya that, with all its activities, brought together a large number of FC Barcelona members. According to La Vanguardia of January 9, 1932, the … Read more
Joan Gamper, founder and five-time president of FC Barcelona, committed suicide in his apartment in Barcelona, located in Girona Street, on July 30, 1930. Ruined by Wall Street Crash of 1929 and suffering from depression since he was turned away from the Club, Gamper had suffered a deterioration of his health in the previous five … Read more
Doing a bit of science fiction and imaginative fan clubs, we could even consider the Penya Levante-Murcia as the first “pedreta” of the current federations of fan clubs that make up the Confederació Mundial de Penyes del FC Barcelona. Even though the supporters’ club was located in Barcelona, it already gathered, on the one hand, … Read more
FC Barcelona had not yet completed its first twenty years when the Club’s members were already moving among sporting groups known as the Fourth Teams and also among opposing internal tendencies, where the polemics between the followers of the military man Peris de Vargas (with monarchist tendencies) and the new friends of Gamper (with Catalanist … Read more
The Penya All i Oli was a supporters’ club based in Barcelona that had a football team and was mainly dedicated to playing matches and organising some events. But they were also people who knew a lot about diplomacy: before asking the FC Barcelona board for something, they sent polite letters to open the doors … Read more