125 years since Barça's first game

Located very close to the current Turó Parc near Plaza Francesc Macià in Barcelona, the former Velòdrom de la Bonanova was where Barça played their first ever game of football. It was Friday, 8 December 1899, and that day saw a team from the English Colony in the Catalan capital defeat Foot-ball Club Barcelona 0-1. The game kicked off at 3pm, and featured ten players on each side, as no other players could be found to make up the numbers. Mr. Leack is known to have officiated the game, but the winning side's goalscorer's name has been lost to history. What we do know is that Barça hit the woodwork twice during the first half.

Here is the full team for Barca's first ever game – Juan de Urruela, Walter Wild, José Lomba, Luis de Ossó, José Llobet, Adolfo López, Juan Gamper, Bartomeu Terrades, Otto Kunzle and Eduardo Schilling. The team was made up of three players from Barcelona (D'Ossó, Llobet and Terrades), one from Santander in Spain (Lomba), three from Switzerland (Wild, Gamper and Kunzle), one from Germany (Schilling), one from Guatemala (Urruella), and one of unknown nationality (López). The English side coincidentally featured the Parsons brothers (John and Williams), FC Barcelona founding partners. The team also included the Witty brothers (Ernest and Arthur), who were about to join FC Barcelona too.

FC Barcelona still didn't play in blue and maroon that day, as the colours weren't decided until the meeting to found the Club on 29 November. Despite no photos or written records, it is thought that the team probably played in white, as it was the easiest jersey colour to obtain and the simplest solution.