Walter Wild (1899-1901)
Wild was one of the twelve attendees at the Club's founding meeting, held at the Solé gym on November 29, 1899. This wealthy Swiss man was the oldest among the founding members, and his colleagues appointed him president in a manner unanimous.
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Bartomeu Terradas (1901-1902)
He was part of the founding Board of the Club, of which he was appointed treasurer. Following the departure of Walter Wild, on April 25, 1901 he acceded to the presidency. During his tenure, Terrades contributed to the founding of the Catalan Football Association, which brought together all the entities, except Espanyol and Internacional, which would be added later.
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Paul Haas (1902-1903)
This Swiss acceded to the presidency on September 5, 1902 and directed the Club until September 17 of the following year, during a transition period marked by financial difficulties derived from the maintenance costs of the Entity.
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Arthur Witty (1903-1905)
On September 17, 1903, he assumed the presidency of the Entity after having been a member during the term of Terrades. During his time at the head of the Club, Witty joined the first team with young talents from the quarry such as Comamala, Hornos, Quirante and Soler.
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Juli Marial (1906-1908)
Juli Marial was a player in the first team when he accepted the position of president of FC Barcelona on October 6, 1906, he was the successor of J. Soler (president of Barcelona only one year from 1905 to 1906 and of which there is no image). He had to live, like his predecessor, very delicate moments both in the social field and in the sport.
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Vicenç Reig (1908)
His mandate only lasted 22 days, due to the bad situation and little enthusiasm he resigned and called an extraordinary assembly during which the club would have disappeared if Joan Gamper had not prevented it.
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Joan Gamper (1908-1909 / / 1910-1913 / / 1917-1919 / / 1921-1923 / / 1924-1925)
On November 29, 1899 he was able to make the illusion of founding FC Barcelona come true. Initially, Gamper could not preside over the Entity due to his minority, but in 1908 he had to take the reins to avoid his disappearance, the Club, was sinking sportingly, economically and socially.
He managed to recover partners and in the sports field, Gamper rebuilt the team. He was president of Barcelona with several entrances and exits but he always remained on the board.
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Otto Gmelin (1909-1910)
He acceded to the presidency of FC Barcelona on October 14, 1909. He arrived after Gamper's first term, who had saved the Club from disappearance. During the 344 days that the mandate lasted, the Entity experienced a period of great activity, worthy continuation of the revitalization experienced during Gamper's first stage as president.
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Francesc de Moxó (1913-1914)
The tenth president in the history of the Entity put an end to the existing schism between the Club and the Catalan and Spanish Federations, and managed to get Barça to rejoin both estates.
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Àlvar Presta (1914)
Ell Club lived a strong internal division. At the assembly held on June 30, 1914, a group of new partners appeared, who decided to vote in favor of a new Board of Directors headed by Àlvar Presta. The internal division, however, was maintained, and within three months of being elected, Presta resigned.
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Joaquim Peris de Vargas (1914-1915)
He began his career as a manager in 1910 holding the vice-presidency, a position he held with different presidents. Taking advantage of the resignation of Àlvar Presta, in September 1914 Peris de Vargas assumed the accidental management of FC Barcelona. His time at the head of the Club was marked by constant controversies, since he always wanted to impose his personal criteria and even caused a revolt by the players against him.
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Rafael Llopart (1915-1916)
Rafael Llopart was elected in an assembly held on June 29, 1915 in the field of Industria Street. His appointment marked the beginning of a stage of peace and consensus within the Club
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Gaspar Rosés (1916-1917 / / 1920-1921 / / 1930-1931)
He presided over FC Barcelona in three different stages. The first began on June 25, 1916, when he replaced the resigned Rafael Llopart
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Ricard Graells (1919-1920)
He succeeded Joan Gamper after, on June 10, 1919, the founder of the Club left the presidency for the third time. His mandate was very positive. The Entity reached 3,217 members and the sports balance was also satisfactory, it won the championships of Catalonia and Spain.
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Enric Cardona (1923-1924)
The fifteenth president in the history of FC Barcelona opened his term on July 29, 1923. Joan Gamper succeeded after his fourth stage at the head of the Entity
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Arcadi Balaguer (1925-1929)
President of FC Barcelona from December 17, 1925 to March 25, 1929
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Tomàs Rosés (1929-1930)
This prestigious banker became the nineteenth president in the Club's history on March 23, 1929. He is remembered, above all, because he directed the Entity when Barça was proclaimed champion of the first edition of the League Championship.
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Antoni Oliver (1931)
He was elected president of FC Barcelona on October 22, 1931, until then he had held the vice-presidency of the Club, he had an ephemeral mandate, since at the time of becoming president the Entity was going through a difficult time due to internal divisions Oliver put his position at the disposal of the members on December 20, 1931, when he had not been directing FC Barcelona for two months.
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Joan Coma (1931-1934)
He presided over FC Barcelona in two different stages. The first stage as Barça president was testimonial, since the only tasks for the Club were strictly administrative. The beginning of its second stage in 1931, coincided with a period of internal problems. In addition, Coma had to face the economic problem
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Esteve Sala (1934-1935)
He became the twenty-first president of FC Barcelona on July 16, 1934 with the main objective of rectifying the critical situation that the Entity was going through. The two main problems to be solved were the economic and sports crises.
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Josep Suñol (1935-1936)
On July 27, 1935 he was elected president of FC Barcelona by acclamation and closed the season with a considerable surplus. In addition, in the sports field, the team was proclaimed champion of Catalonia and reached the famous 1936 Cup final. He suffered a tragic death, when he was in office, in the early days of the Civil War, shot by the Francoist army in the summer from 1936.
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Francesc Xavier Casals (1937-1939)
He was the president of Barça once the Employees Committee ceased its functions in November 1937. Casals remained in office until the fall of Barcelona into the hands of Franco's troops on January 26, 1939.
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Joan Soler (1939-1940)
The Franco regime ordered the constitution of a Management Commission to take over the management of FC Barcelona. Dr. Joan Soler agreed to head this Commission and on May 6, 1939, he became the first president of the Entity in the new era that began after the war.
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Enrique Piñeyro (1940-1942 / / 1942-1943)
Aristocrat and person related to the Franco regime, he was appointed president by decision of the authorities, he became a man dedicated to the Club and its maximum defender during a period that was very unfavorable to the interests of the Entity.
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Josep Vidal-Ribas (1942)
He was president of FC Barcelona during the brief parenthesis between the two terms of the Marquis de la Mesa de Asta. He was elected to head an interim commission that governed the Club between July 10 and August 13, 1942
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Josep Antoni de Albert (1943)
He succeeded the Marquis de la Mesa de Asta after his irrevocable resignation on August 20, 1943, his mandate only lasted one month after being elected.
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Josep Vendrell (1943-1946)
He was appointed by the authorities, who considered him the most suitable man for the position. Vendrell's presidential stage was positive, since the Club reached 22,000 members and the rostrum of the Les Corts field was expanded. On the other hand, Barça conquered its second League (1944/45), in addition to winning the Gold Cup, an informal tournament, preceding the European Super Cup, which faced the League and Cup champions.
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Agustí Montal i Galobart (1946-1952)
The mandate of this liberal and democratic industrialist began on September 20, 1946 and meant the definitive take-off of FC Barcelona towards greatness. During the six years in which Montal presided over the Entity, Barça finished consolidating itself among the elite of Spanish football, as shown by the two consecutive leagues won in 1948 and 1949, the year in which the Club celebrated its Golden Jubilee with great success. .
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Enric Martí Carreto (1952-1953)
During the season that Enric Martí chaired FC Barcelona, the team continued the streak of titles and won the League, the Cup and the Eva Duarte Cup, but this very positive dynamic was broken as a result of the outbreak of the Di Stéfano case, which would end up causing the resignation of the maximum Barcelona leader.
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Francesc Miró-Sans (1953-1961)
After the resignation of Enric Martí, presidential elections were called by universal male suffrage (the members could not vote). Miró-Sans (Barcelona, 1918 to 1989) defeated Amat Casajuana by only 301 votes difference and on December 2, 1953 he became the new president of FC Barcelona.
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Antoni Julià de Capmany (1961)
On March 1, 1961, a Management Commission directed by Antoni Julià de Capmany took charge of the serious sporting, social and economic crisis of the club. In order to alleviate the lack of cash in the box, Julià de Capmany was forced to transfer the great figure Luis Suárez to Inter Milan for the then astronomical figure of 25 million pesetas.
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Enric Llaudet (1961-1968)
After the managerial administration, on June 7, elections to the presidency were called by the restricted system of compromise partners, and Llaudet surpassed Fuset by a very narrow margin of only 24 votes. From there, the new Barça president began a difficult management, marked by difficulties both in the sports field
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Narcís de Carreras (1968-1969)
Narcís de Carreras took over the management of FC Barcelona on January 17, 1968, leading a candidacy for unity. That day he pronounced the phrase “Barça is more than a club” during his inauguration speech.
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Agustí Montal i Costa (1969-1977)
Son of the former president Agustí Montal Galobart, he was the representative of the most Catalan current of Barcelona. In 1973 he signed the great Dutch star Johan Cruyff, then the best player in the world.
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Raimon Carrasco (1977-1978)
He acceded to the interim presidency of the Club on December 18, 1977, and held the position until July 1, 1978, the day on which Josep Lluís Núñez took over the reins of the entity.
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Josep Lluís Núñez (1978-2000)
On July 1, 1978, Josep Lluís Núñez, the 38th president in the history of FC Barcelona, began his mandate and the beginning of the longest presidential period in the history of FC Barcelona. The first major objective was the recovery of the economy of the Entity. In addition, Núñez set out to make FC Barcelona the largest football institution in the world. During his 22 years of presidency, Barça increased its assets in a spectacular way, remodeled the Camp Nou and its surroundings, built a residence for the youth players at the Masía (1979), the Miniestadi (1982) and the Museum (1984). ) and the soccer team won a large number of titles, both in state and European competitions
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Joan Gaspart i Solves (2000-2003)
Before acceding to the presidency on July 23, 2000, Joan Gaspart was vice president of the Club during Josep Lluís Núñez's 22-year mandate. Despite good social management, sporting successes did not come and the economic situation became delicate, so in February 2003 Gaspart resigned from the presidency.
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Enric Reyna i Martínez (2003)
He acceded to the presidency of FC Barcelona on February 12, 2003, after Joan Gaspart publicly announced his resignation as head of the Entity. In this way, in compliance with the provisions of the FC Barcelona Statutes, Enric Reyna became the top Barcelona leader and chaired the Entity until the Extraordinary Assembly of May 5, 2003. The following day, after the simultaneous resignation of Enric Reyna's Board of Directors took over from a Management Commission, chaired by Joan Trayter
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Management Commission (2003)
After the joint resignation of the Board of Directors chaired by Enric Reyna on May 6, a Management Commission, led by Joan Trayter, president of the Economic-Statutory Commission, as regulated by the Statutes, assumed the direction of the Club. This commission governed the Club until the elections of June 15, 2003, which had as the winner the candidacy headed by Joan Laporta.
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Joan Laporta (2003-2010)
He came to the presidency after winning the elections held on June 15, 2003. In the seven seasons of the presidency, the soccer team won a Club World Cup, two European Cups, a European Super Cup, four Leagues, a Cup del Rey, three Spanish Super Cups and three Catalunya Cups. In the economic and social sphere, the evolution of the data is also significant: the budget went from 170 to 405 million euros, and the social mass, from 106,135 to 173,701 partners.
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Management Commission (2006)
A court ruling interpreted that the mandate of the Board of Directors of Joan Laporta had expired on June 30, 2006. In this way, the board of Barcelona resigned and a management commission was set up led by the president of the Statutory Economic Commission, Xavier Sala Martín focused solely on calling elections It was focused on the calling of elections for September 3. However, only Joan Laporta presented the necessary signatures, for which he was automatically proclaimed president on August 22.
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Sandro Rosell i Feliu (2010-2014)
He became president of the Club by winning the elections on June 13, 2010 with a record of popular support. Sportingly speaking, under his presidency, the figures of FC Barcelona were extraordinary, since a total of 60 titles were won, among all the sports sections of the club. The economic aspect was capital, austerity measures were applied aimed at reducing the Club's debt.
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Josep Maria Bartomeu (2014 -)
He became president of FC Barcelona on January 23, 2014, after Sandro Rosell presented his resignation, a position that he revalidated in the elections of July 18, 2015, when his candidacy won with almost 55% of the votes. He resigned on October 27, 2020
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