The Penya Barcelonista Cinc Copes was organised in October 1952 by some members of FC Barcelona to commemorate the five cups won in the 1951-1952 season: League, Cup, Latin Cup, Eva Duarte Cup and Martini Rossi Cup. For just over a year, they celebrated the occasion and followed the team everywhere. On 3 December 1953, … Read more
The Penya Solera Barcelonista de Castellar del Vallès was officially founded in 1952, which makes it the oldest active FC Barcelona supporters’ club in existence today, and one of the few that was present at both the old Les Corts ground and the inauguration of Camp Nou in 1957. The penya was born in the … Read more
The 50’s meant a new impulse for some penyes that had been affected by the Civil War, of which only one survived. At the end of the 50s, full of ups and downs, there were more than 30 supporters’ clubs. They witnessed the initial excitement with the Barça of the Cinc Copes, the disillusionment with … Read more
Nowadays, there is a Penya Barcelonista Collblanc-Sants, which has its headquarters in front of access 15 of the FC Barcelona stadium. It is a penya that has a rather interesting history due to the great metamorphosis it has undergone over the years, which makes it an unprecedented case in the world of supporters’ clubs. It … Read more
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
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
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
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