Chapters on the history of the supporters clubs and FC Barcelona
We have found little about the Penya Boqueria, which we wanted to add to the list simply because of a doubt that generates us: if it was really a penya barcelonista or simply a group of friends of Hostafrancs, who were also fans of FC Barcelona, who were called by this name. The only two … Read more
Throughout history, supporters’ clubs have been distinguished between sporting and social, although some have covered and continue to cover both aspects of their activity. In the 1920s, there were many sporting penyes that had football teams, and their origin is probably to be found in the existence of FC Barcelona’s fourth teams. In a previous … Read more
In 1928, two news pieces appeared both in La Vanguardia and El Mundo Deportivo referring to a penya called Penya “Els Tres”. In the case of La Vanguardia, in its edition of March 3 of that year, it publishes: “Tomorrow at 11.00 am, the popular penya “Els tres” will inaugurate its new premises at Rambla … Read more
As we have seen in previous chapters, Barça supporters’ clubs already existed and were very active in the 1920s. A very illustrative example of this can be found in 1927 with the Penya Gol de Baix, which organised this peculiar “friendly game” on the morning of the same day that a match was played in … Read more
Josep Samitier was the promoter of the Penya Solera in 1944, when he returned to Barça to take charge of the bench. The prodigal son’s return could not have gone better, as FC Barcelona won the league title for the second time in 16 years. The Golden Age Barça star’s passion for the supporters’ clubs … Read more
The Spanish Championship final held on 16 May 1926 meant a lot in the evolution of the supporters’ clubs’ world and in the collective euphoria of FC Barcelona fans in general. It should be remembered that the Spanish Championship, currently the Copa del Rey (the Spanish Liga would still take three years to appear) was … Read more
These were difficult times. The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera was very hard for the aspirations of Catalonia, where catalanism had already gone beyond the linguistic and cultural borders to enter into more political and self-government fields. All this progress would be cut short with the coup d’etat and new policies that prohibited the Catalan … Read more
The mystery of this supporters’ club has survived to the present day due to its great creation and momentum, but short-lived. What happened? Initially, in April 1923, to celebrate the Club’s silver jubilee, the Penya Esportiva Esquerra was founded, made up only of “independent-minded” members. A year and a half later, on the eve of … Read more
It is sometimes said, with quite convincing arguments, that in football everything has already been invented. In the sphere of FC Barcelona’s most radical supporters’ clubs or groups, these seem to have emerged in the late eighties or early nineties, but in reality they go back much further. The reason: the sporting and political rivalry … Read more
If we analyse some of the events of the second decade of FC Barcelona’s twentieth century, we could come to the conclusion that there is a certain relationship between the appearance of the supporters’ clubs and the first political division in Barcelona, which has lasted until the present day. And that is when we ask … Read more