Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; "Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona"), commonly known as Espanyol, is a professional

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based in

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, Spain, that competes in

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, the top tier of the

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. Founded in 1900 in

, Espanyol currently play their home games at the RCDE Stadium, which holds up to 40,000 spectators. Domestically, Espanyol has won the

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...

four times, most recently in 2006. In international competitions, the club reached the

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final in

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and 2007. It has a long-standing rivalry with FC Barcelona.

Name

Initially known as the Sociedad Española de Football on its foundation, the name was changed to Club Español de Fútbol in 1901. In 1906, the club folded due to financial reasons and most of the players joined the

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, which came to win the

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three times in a row before disappearing in 1908 to merge with the Spanish Jiu-Jitsu Club to be effectively relaunched as the Club Deportivo Español, and in 1910, they adopted their present-day colours. Espanyol is one of several Spanish football clubs granted patronage by the Spanish crown and thus entitled to use ''Real'' in their names and the royal crown on their badge. This right was granted to Espanyol in 1912 by

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and the club subsequently became known as the Real Club Deportivo Español. Following the abdication of the same king in 1931 and the declaration of the

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, due to prohibition of royal symbols, the club adopted the more Catalan/republican friendly name, Club Esportiu Espanyol. After the

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, the name was reverted. The club took the Catalan spelling for its name in February 1995. The word "''Deportiu''" in Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona is a Catalanised form of the original word "''Deportivo''" ( Castilian), despite the correct word being "''Esportiu''" in the Catalan language. This choice was made in order to retain the initials "RCD" in the club's name.

History

Foundation and club culture

Espanyol was founded on 28 October 1900 by Ángel Rodríguez Ruiz (1879–1959), an engineering student at the

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. The club's original home was in the well-off district of Sarrià; Espanyol was the first club in Spain to be formed exclusively by Spanish fans of the game, with the other early clubs having links to Britain or central Europe. File:RCD Espanyol campions 1904.jpg, CD Espanyol de Barcelona, Catalan champions in 1904 File:RCD Espanyol 1912.jpg, RCD Español in 1912. Ricardo Zamora Espanyol

The club originally played in bright yellow shirts, with the colour of the shorts being left to the individual player. A friend of the club founder owned a textile business and happened to have an abundance of yellow material left over from a job. In 1910, the club changed its name to the Club Deportivo Español and chose blue and white stripes as shirt colours and as the central colours of the club badge. Blue and white were chosen in homage to the colours appearing on the shield of the great Sicilian-Aragonese Admiral Roger de Lluria, who sailed the Mediterranean protecting the interests of the Crown of Aragon in the

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. The club was successful from the very beginning, winning the first

in 1903 and subsequently playing in the very first

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. In 1906 ''Club Español de Football'' had to suspend its activities due to a lack of players, since most of them were university students who enrolled to study at universities outside

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. X Sporting Club took advantage of this as most of the remaining Español players joined them, which meant a big leap in quality for the club, and as a result, the X won the Catalan championship three times in a row between 1905 and 1908, beating the likes of

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and

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for the title. This historic side had the likes of Pedro Gibert,

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and

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. It was not until 1909 that X and Español were restructured again, when several of the former university students returned to

with the idea of refounding ''Club Español de Football'', which they achieved on 27 December 1908, when X merged with the Spanish Jiu-Jitsu Club. In the 1910s, they won the

three times, in 1911–12, 1914–15 and 1917–18, winning later largely thanks to their backline led by

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. They also reached the final of the Copa del Rey twice in

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and

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, but lost to Athletic Bilbao on both occasions. In 1994, Espanyol created its

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, Espanyol B, currently playing in the Segunda División B.

Two UEFA Cup finals (1988–2009)

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was hired in 1986. In his first season, he took the team to a joint-best 3rd place, qualifying for the

. They defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach,

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, TJ Vitkovice and Club Brugge KV to reach the

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, losing on penalties to Bayer 04 Leverkusen after a 3–3 aggregate draw. Two relegations followed, but the club remained in La Liga from winning the

1993–94 Segunda División The 1993–94 Segunda División season saw 20 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. RCD Español, Real Betis and SD Compostela were promoted to Primera División. CD Castellón, Real Murcia, Real Burgos and Cádiz CF were releg ...

until relegated at the conclusion of the 2019-20 COVID pandemic impacted season. President from 1989 to 1993, Juli Pardo oversaw the transformation of the club into a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva. In the wake of the accumulated debt, the club were forced to sell the Sarrià Stadium, which was eventually demolished in 1997.

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' Espanyol won the 2000 Copa del Rey Final 2–1 against Atlético Madrid at

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, a first cup win since 1940. Six years later, under

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, the club won again, this time 4–1 against

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in Madrid, with goals by

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, Luis García (two) and Coro. With this cup win, Espanyol entered the

. They won all their group games, before dispatching Livorno,

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, Benfica, and

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to reach the final. In the final, held on 16 May at Hampden Park in

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, Espanyol fell to fellow La Liga side

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, losing 3–1 in a shootout following a 2–2 draw. They became the only football team in UEFA Cup history to remain unbeaten in the tournament, yet not take home the trophy. Walter Pandiani, who would leave the club at the end of the season, was the UEFA Cup's top goalscorer that season. On 9 June 2007, Tamudo became Espanyol's highest-ever goalscorer after surpassing the 111 goals scored by

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, and ended the night with 113. On 31 May 2009, Espanyol played its last match at the Estadio Olímpico de Montjuic, a 3–0 defeat of Málaga. Espanyol had played in the Estadi Olímpic after moving from their previous ground in Sarria. With the move, club talisman Raúl Tamudo had the unique distinction of having played in three different home stadiums with his club: Sarrià, Montjuïc and, beginning in the 2009–10 season, the Cornellà-El Prat.

Recent years (2009–present)

In January 2009, former Espanyol defender

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was hired as manager with the club in the relegation zone – his first senior job. He won 2–1 against rivals Barcelona at the Camp Nou in February to help keep the club up; Barcelona, under Pep Guardiola, won the treble that season. After 12 seasons playing at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, Espanyol moved to the Estadi de Cornellá-El Prat. The new stadium was officially inaugurated on 2 August 2009 with a match between Espanyol and

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; Espanyol won 3–0, with Luis García scoring the first goal at the ground, followed by a

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double. Six days later, Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque died from a

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aged 26 in the

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neighbourhood of Coverciano, where the club was at the time after playing several fixtures in Italy. Since then, in the 21st minute – his former shirt number – of every Espanyol match, an ovation is made in his honour for a full minute. After Pochettino left in 2012, the club maintained themselves in the top flight under a series of other managers. In January 2016, Chinese businessman Chen Yansheng took over the club by acquiring a 54% stake. In the 2018–19 season, Espanyol finished 7th, thus returning to the Europa League for the first time since their final run in 2006–07. However, the club suffered relegation for the first time since 1994 the following season, after a 1–0 loss at Barcelona. On 3 August 2020 the club published an official statement urging La Liga to suspend relegation; nevertheless relegation was not avoided. Espanyol won promotion back to La Liga at the first attempt on 8 May 2021 following a 0–0 draw against

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, with four matches to spare in the 42-game season. Since 2022，RCDE has achieved a strategic cooperation with LEYU SPORTS. And LEYU became Official Asian Partner of RCDE.

Rivalries

''El derbi barceloní''

In the first half of the 20th century during the Miguel Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1923–1930), FC Barcelona was seen as a symbol of Catalan identity. This contrasted with RCD Espanyol which cultivated a kind of compliance with the central authority. In 1918, the municipalities of Catalonia promoted a campaign to ask the Spanish Government for a Statute of Autonomy. FC Barcelona joined that request and the Catalan press recognized FC Barcelona as a major cultural arm of the Catalan independence movement. The city's other team, RCD Espanyol, dissociated itself from the claim due to the former's success on the European stage. Today FC Barcelona is the club that is closer to the political powers in Catalonia. Its last presidents have linked the club with the

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and the holding of a referendum, even though this causes discomfort among some Catalan fans and those in the rest of Spain who feel neglected and think the team is biased against them. Although some of RCD Espanyol's directors have expressed pro-independence stances, the club stays out of politics. It is believed that most of the team's fans are against the independence of Catalonia. On numerous occasions RCD Espanyol has complained of unfavourable and sometimes directly offensive treatment towards the club in favour of FC Barcelona by some Catalonian public media like TV3. Despite these differences in ideology, the ''derbi'' (derby) has always been more relevant to Espanyol supporters than those of Barcelona (who hold

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in higher regard instead) due to the difference in objectives. Though it is the most played local derby in the history of La Liga, it is also the most unbalanced, with Barcelona overwhelmingly dominant. In the league table, Espanyol has only managed to finish above Barça on three occasions in almost 70 years and the only all-Catalan Copa del Rey final was won by Barça in 1957. Espanyol has the consolation of achieving the largest margin win with a 6–0 victory in 1951. Espanyol achieved a 2–1 win against FC Barcelona during the 2008–09 season, becoming the first team to defeat Barcelona at Camp Nou in their treble-winning

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. Espanyol lost 0–1 to FC Barcelona on 8 July 2020, to be relegated to the Segunda División.

Stadium

From 1923 until 1997, Espanyol played their home games in Estadi de Sarrià in the

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district of Barcelona. In 1997, they moved to the

Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (, formerly known as the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc and Estadio de Montjuic) is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, 1929 Internation ...

Montjuïc Montjuïc () is a hill in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Etymology Montjuïc translates to "Jewish Mountain" from medieval Latin and Catalan, and remains of a medieval Jewish cemetery have been found there. Some sources suggest that Montjuïc ...

. For the beginning of the 2009–10 season, Espanyol moved into the newly constructed RCDE Stadium (also known as Estadi Cornellà-El Prat) between

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and

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Competition summary

*80 ''seasons in Primera División'' *4 ''seasons in Segunda División'' *8 ''participations in

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'' *2 ''participations in Inter-Cities Fairs Cup'' *2 ''participations in UEFA Intertoto Cup''

Achievements

*In 1928, Espanyol became a founding member of

, and in 1929, the team won their first

. Espanyol has completed the highest number of seasons in La Liga without winning the title. *The team has qualified for the UEFA Cup/Europa League eight times (including the qualifications following their

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and 2006 Spanish Cup wins, which in earlier eras would instead have granted entry to the

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) and reached the final in

, losing to

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of then-

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on penalty kicks (3–2), after a two-legged final of contrasts ended level (3–0 in

, 0–3 in

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) and in 2007, losing to compatriots

, again on penalties (3–1) after a memorable match at Hampden Park,

ended 1–1 after normal time, and 2–2 after extra time.

Honours

Men's football

National

: Winners (4): 1928–29,

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, 1999–2000, 2005–06 :Runners-up (5):

, 1941, 1947,

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* Segunda División :Winners (2): 1993–94, 2020–21 * Supercopa de España :Runners-up:

, 2006

International

:Runners-up: 1987–88, 2006–07

Regional

:Winners (11): 1903–04, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1911–12, 1914–15, 1917–18, 1928–29, 1932–33, 1936–37, 1939–40 * Supercopa de Catalunya :Winners: 2016

Women's football

* Primera División :Winners (1): 2005–06 :''Runners-up (3):'' 2006–07, 2009–10,

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:Winners (6): 1996,

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, 2006, 2009, 2010,

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:''Runners-up (4):''

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, 2002, 2007, 2011

Players

Current squad

Reserve team

Out on loan

Retired numbers

;Notes

Players with most appearances

Notes

Coaches

Club officials

Current technical staff

Board of directors

Presidents

Historical departments of RCD Espanyol

Until the 1990s, Espanyol had several sporting sections. In March 2017, the Association of Supporters and Shareholders of RCD Espanyol boosted a project for recovering the sporting sections of the club, but this time without any economic link with the football team. The new multi-sports club was created with the name of Seccions Deportives Espanyol (''Sporting sections Espanyol''). Two months later, the association confirmed that Espanyol would start competing in the 2017–18 season, with a roller hockey team and women's volleyball teams. In the next season, the basketball section was refounded and a new section of handball would be created.

Men's basketball

:Winners (1): 1941 * Catalan championship :Winners (2): 1931, 1932 :''Runners-up (3):'' 1941, 1943, 1954

Women's basketball

:Winners (1): 1943 :''Runners-up (1):'' 1944

Men's rink hockey

:Winners (11): 1944, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962 :''Runners-up (4):'' 1946, 1952, 1953, 1958

Women's volleyball

* Superliga :Winners (3): 1985, 1988, 1991 *

:Winners (5): 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992

Men's baseball

* División de Honor :Winners (2): 1946, 1953

References

External links

Official website

RCD Espanyol
at

RCD Espanyol
at

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