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The '''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona''' ({{Langx|es|link=no|'''Barcelona Football Society'''}}) was a [[Association football|football]] [[scratch team]] that existed between 1892 and 1896, mainly consisting of players from the British colony of [[Barcelona]], but also with [[Catalans]] and even [[French people|Frenchmen]]. This entity was initially known as the '''Barcelona Football Club''' (1892–94), before being renamed as ''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona'' following a restructuring in 1894.<ref name=Origin>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2015/11/origenes-nacimiento-y-consolidacion-del-fc-barcelona-1875-1903/ |title=Orígenes, nacimiento y consolidación del FC Barcelona (1875–1903) |trans-title=Origins, birth and consolidation of FC Barcelona (1875–1903) |language=es |publisher=[[:es:Centro de Investigaciones de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol Español|CIHEFE]] |date=17 October 2015 |access-date=16 September 2022 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407173509/http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2015/11/origenes-nacimiento-y-consolidacion-del-fc-barcelona-1875-1903/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was one of the first Catalan football clubs and is considered a predecessor of [[FC Barcelona]] founded in 1899.<ref name=LaSociedad>{{cite web |url=https://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2010/02/la-sociedad-de-footbal-de-barcelona-de-1894-y-el-foot-ball-club-barcelona-de-1899-%C2%BFun-mismo-club-o-clubes-diferentes/ |title=La Sociedad de Football de Barcelona de 1894 y el Foot-ball Club Barcelona de 1899 |trans-title=The Barcelona Football Society of 1894 and the Foot-ball Club Barcelona of 1899 |language=es |publisher=[[:es:Centro de Investigaciones de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol Español|CIHEFE]] |date=17 January 2010 |access-date=29 September 2022 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205152019/https://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2010/02/la-sociedad-de-footbal-de-barcelona-de-1894-y-el-foot-ball-club-barcelona-de-1899-%C2%BFun-mismo-club-o-clubes-diferentes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>  Some historians ascribe this entity as "a group of thirty friends, English workers, who played alternately and without a regular squad".
This entity is best remembered for its pioneering role in the amateur beginnings of [[football in Catalonia]], organizing the first known football match in Catalonia in 1892 and being the catalyst for many other historic landmarks such as the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain and the first proper chronicle of a football match in Spain, both regarding a game between the club's members held on 12 March 1893.<ref name=Primers>{{Cite web |url=https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2020/12/25/barcelona-cricket-club-els-primers-en-jugar-a-futbol/ |title=Barcelona Cricket Club: els primers en jugar a futbol |trans-title=Barcelona Cricket Club: the first to play football |language=es |website=memoriesfutbolcatala.com |date=25 December 2020 |access-date=16 September 2022 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811011124/https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2020/12/25/barcelona-cricket-club-els-primers-en-jugar-a-futbol/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Moreover, they were part of the first known rivalry in [[Football in Spain|Spanish football]], when they faced the [[Escocès FC|Scottish colony of Sant Martí]] a few times during the winter of 1893–94. Their game against a team from [[Torelló]] in 1895 marked the first time that teams from two different cities played against each other in Catalonia.
In 1895, the presidency of this club was given to the British consul [[William Wyndham (diplomat)|William Wyndham]].<ref name=LaSociedad/> Apart from Wyndham as president, little is known about its board of directors, only that [[James Reeves (footballer)|James Reeves]], English, and [[George Cochran (footballer)|George Cochran]], Scottish, were its captain and vice-captain respectively between 1892 and 1894, always acting as captains on the two sides into which the members of the club were divided every Sunday.<ref name=lafutbolteca>{{cite web |url=http://lafutbolteca.com/futbol-club-barcelona/ |title=Orígenes del fútbol en barcelona |trans-title=Origins of football in Barcelona |language=es |website=lafutbolteca.com |access-date=23 November 2022 |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009040408/http://lafutbolteca.com/futbol-club-barcelona/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Reeves was the undisputed leader and fundamental head behind the club's foundation and management, and likewise, upon his departure in the autumn of 1895, this society, which was never officially established, soon declined and seems to disappear around 1896.<ref name=Primers/>
Between 1892 and 1895, this group of football pioneers would meet up in a field near the [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]] in the municipality of [[Sants]], and from 1895 onwards, the club's meetings were held at the [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]] in Barcelona, because it was closer to the city center, thus practicing the sport before the attentive and curious gaze of the local population.<ref name=Origin/>
==History==
===Origins===
At the end of the 19th century, Catalonia enjoyed the most developed industry in Spain, especially thanks to [[History of the cotton industry in Catalonia|its cotton industry]], and for this reason, Barcelona became the home to a vast British colony.<ref name=Primers/>{{efn|According to the 1877 Census, there were 370 British living in Barcelona.<ref name=Origin/>}} Football first entered Catalonia thanks to the British colony that worked and lived there (and later through the Catalans returning from studying abroad), among whom the figures of [[Samuel James Morris]] and [[James Reeves (footballer)|James Reeves]] stand out. The former was an English businessman and engineer who moved to Barcelona in 1889–90 to run two tram companies.<ref name=Lineages>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ara.cat/esports/dues-nissagues-britaniques-futbol-catala_1_1814112.html |title=Dues nissagues britàniques en el futbol català |trans-title=Two British lineages in Catalan football |language=es |website=www.ara.cat |date=6 September 2015 |access-date=23 November 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728235927/https://www.ara.cat/esports/dues-nissagues-britaniques-futbol-catala_1_1814112.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=hermanos>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2014/12/los-hermanos-morris-pioneros-del-futbol-barcelones/ |title=Los hermanos Morris – Pioneros del fútbol barcelonés |trans-title=The Morris brothers – Pioneers of Barcelona football |language=es |publisher=[[:es:Centro de Investigaciones de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol Español|CIHEFE]] |date=16 November 2014 |access-date=16 September 2022 |archive-date=16 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616230300/http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2014/12/los-hermanos-morris-pioneros-del-futbol-barcelones/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He brought a [[Ball (association football)|football ball]] from London with him, and on Sunday mornings, he would teach his three sons, [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|Samuel]], [[Enrique Morris|Enrique (Henry)]] and [[Miguel Morris|Miguel (Júnior)]], the practice of football, a sport practically unknown in the city at the time, thus taking them to the outskirts of the city, preferably in [[:ca:Can Tunis|''Can Tunis'']] (''Casa Antúnez''), in some fields adjacent to the [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]] (then known as the hippodrome of ''Marina de Sants''), due to being a lonely place free of onlookers and rowdies.<ref name=Miguel>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2016/06/el-nacimiento-del-futbol-en-barcelona-una-entrevista-a-miguel-morris-de-1948/ |title=El nacimiento del fútbol en Barcelona. Una entrevista a Miguel Morris de 1948 |trans-title=The birth of football in Barcelona. An interview with Miguel Morris from 1948 |language=es |publisher=[[:es:Centro de Investigaciones de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol Español|CIHEFE]] |date=17 May 2016 |access-date=18 February 2024 }}</ref>
Known in Catalonia as Jaime Morris, he and his oldest son Samuel were members of the ''British Club de Barcelona'',<ref name=Lineages/> located on [[La Rambla, Barcelona|''La Rambla dels Capuchins'']], no. 26, and in 1891, the Morris, together with [[Henry Wood (footballer)|Henry Wood]] and [[William MacAndrews]], among other Britons, founded the ''Barcelona Cricket Club'',<ref name=Primers/><ref name=Lineages/> domiciled at [[Ronda de Sant Pere, Barcelona|Ronda de Sant Pere]], which was the first club to play [[football in Catalonia]], as they played [[cricket]] in the spring-summer and then football in the autumn-winter (which was common at the time).<ref name=Primers/> Under the umbrella of the ''British Club of La Rambla'', the cricketers began meeting in Can Tunis in a field located between the hippodrome and the Civil Arsenal,<ref name=Primers/><ref name=Inicis>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ara.cat/esports/inicis-del-futbol-catalunya_1_1815861.html |title=Els inicis del futbol a Catalunya |trans-title=The beginnings of football in Catalonia |language=ca |website=www.ara.cat |date=5 September 2015 |access-date=16 September 2022 |archive-date=20 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320142818/https://www.ara.cat/esports/inicis-del-futbol-catalunya_1_1815861.html |url-status=live }}</ref> not too far from where the Morris brothers had learned to play the game with their father.<ref name=Miguel/>{{efn|Their first cricket matches were disputed between the club's members and on some occasions against British sailors who docked in the [[port of Barcelona]], with the earliest example of this dating back to 28 August 1891.<ref name=Primers/>}}
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|source = [[Agustin Peris|Agustin Peris de Vargas]] of ''El Figaró'' on 18 November 1919.<ref name=Primers/>
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Reeves, on the other hand, arrived in Barcelona at some point in early 1892 due to work reasons.<ref name=Primers/> He was an enthusiastic and passionate lover of the game, but instead of joining the cricket team of the ''British Club of La Rambla'', which was a strictly British entity, Reeves decided to create an organization exclusively dedicated to the practice of football and that would include British and Catalans alike.<ref name=CAPTAIN>{{cite web |url=https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2022/09/04/reeves-el-capita-del-decenni-ocult/ |title=Reeves, el capità del decenni ocult |trans-title=Reeves, the captain of the hidden decade |website=memoriesfutbolcatala.com |access-date=16 September 2022 |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913230533/https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2022/09/04/reeves-el-capita-del-decenni-ocult/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Reeves was a member of [[Royal Barcelona Maritime Club|''Club Regatas de Barcelona'']] (a club of [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]] and [[Sailing (sport)|sailing]] established in 1881), and the spokesman for the club's British members (or ''British Club Regatas''), so he used this position to meet and convince some of them to play football,<ref name=Inicis/> but also some French members and most notably, three Catalans, Figueras, Tuñí, and [[Alberto Serra]], who thus became the first documented Catalans to practice football in Catalonia.<ref name=CAPTAIN/><ref name=Primers/><ref name=Miguel/> They began to play football around the autumn of 1892, the natural beginning of the football season, in the same ground that the Cricket Club was using to play football, and thus, they began facing each other, preferably on holidays, since Sundays were not a non-working day until 1905.<ref name=Inicis/> Their first match thus probably took place on [[All Saints' Day]] on 1 November. The players, no matter the number (they rarely managed to be 22), were divided into two teams, one dressed in Blue (''Azul'') and their opponents in Red (''Encarnado'').<ref name=Origin/><ref name=Inicis/>
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|source = Enrique Font Valencia of ''La Dinastía'' on 9 March 1893.<ref name=Origin/>
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During their matches in the [[Public holidays in Spain|Spanish public holidays]] of [[Constitution Day|6]] and [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception|8 December]], Reeves proposed to the cricketers the idea of creating a well-organized football club, and having impressed some of his countrymen with his passionate and entrepreneurial spirit, he convinced some of the Cricket Club members to join him, including some of its founders, such as Wood, MacAndrews, and the Morris, thus achieving a respectable number of partners in a short period of time, and together, along with the others he recruited, they founded a new club unaffiliated from the British Club of La Rambla.<ref name=CAPTAIN/><ref name=Primers/> Apparently, this group of football pioneers led by Reeves was constituted as ''Barcelona Football Club'', thus following the same structure of English club names, where the name of the town where it belongs, "Barcelona", precedes the purpose of the association, "Football Club", contrary to the associations made up by Catalans, Spanish or imitators of these where the purpose always precedes the town, as in the association set up in 1899 by the Swiss [[Joan Gamper]] together with a few Catalans: [[FC Barcelona|Futbol Club Barcelona]].<ref name=lafutbolteca/>
===Barcelona Football Club (1892–94)===
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|quote  = ''A whole team from the Club de Regatas –then the most important athletic society among us– arrived by sea, in a canoe, to deal with the English, with whom they played for three months.''
|source = [[Josep Elías]].<ref name=Origin/>
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Although the British colony of Barcelona had a large presence in the city, finding 22 individuals (plus the [[Referee (association football)|referee]]) was not an easy task, given that the expatriates came to work and many of them had positions of responsibility.<ref name=Primers/> It was not until the end of 1892 (the winter), after months of hard work, that Reeves managed to gather enough individuals to assemble two teams, although in the vast majority of matches, they did not complete the 11 per side.<ref name=Primers/> This group of football pioneers was made up of the British cricket players of the ''Barcelona Cricket Club'', such as the Morris, Wood, Dumsday, Richardson, [[John Beaty-Pownall|Beaty-Pownall]] and MacAndrews;<ref name=Primers/> the British, Catalan and French members of the ''Club Regatas de Barcelona'', such as [[Ubaldo Noble]] and Lockie; Figueras, Tuñi and Serra; Chofre, Daunt and [[Georges Dagnière]]; and some other figures from unknown whereabouts such as [[Jorge Barrié]], [[Henry W. Brown]], Park, and [[George Cochran (footballer)|George Cochran]].<ref name=Origin/><ref name=CAPTAIN/><ref name=Coch>{{cite web |url=https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2023/03/18/una-agosarada-suposicio-cochran/ |title=Una agosarada suposició?: Cochran |trans-title=A bold assumption?: Cochran |language=es |website=memoriesfutbolcatala.com |date=18 March 2023 |accessdate=18 February 2024 }}</ref> Finally, on 25 December 1892, they were able to play the first known football match in the city (actually in the neighboring municipality of [[Sants]], in the old ''La Marina de Sants''), which was held in some field between the hippodrome and the civil arsenal.<ref name=Primers/> This was their first meeting documented in the press as the local newspaper ''La Dinastía'' reported on the Christmas Eve that "the partners from the Real Club de Regatas have organized a game of foot-ball, which they will play at eight in the morning on Sunday(25)".<ref name=Origin/><ref name=LaSociedad/><ref name=lafutbolteca/> Josep Elías i Juncosa, who played for FC Barcelona between 1900 and 1903, recalled having witnessed matches at the Can Tunis Hippodrome between the English and the members of the Club de Regatas for three months.<ref name=Origin/>
[[File:Barcelona FC 1893.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The two sides of the ''Barcelona Football Club''. Taken on 12 March 1893, it is widely regarded as the oldest documented image of a [[football team]] in Spain.]]
Reeves kept organizing football matches and training sessions between the members of his club, with the last game of the season, which took place at the end of the winter on 12 March 1893, being a [[1893 Blues v Reds football match|historic match]] in many ways.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=Primers/> In addition to being the last game of the season, this match was the subject of the first proper chronicle of the dispute of a football match, which appeared in ''La Dinastía'' on 16 March, written by Enrique Font Valencia, who detailed the aspects of the game, including lineups, the color of the clothes, the name of the referee, the result and the goalscorers.<ref name=Primers/> According to the chronicle, the match took place at four in the afternoon, on the field near the hippodrome, and it was refereed by [[Alfredo Collett]], the manager of the British water company.<ref name=Primers/><ref name=CAPTAIN/> The blue team won 2–1 with goals from the locals, Figueras and Barrié, while the Red's one was netted by Mr. Reeves himself.<ref name=Primers/> Jaime Morris (senior), who played for the Reds as a goalkeeper, was 51 years old at the time, but despite his advanced age, he managed to keep his oldest son at bay, who played for the Blues as a midfielder, while his youngest son, Miguel, aged just 13, watched from the stands.<ref name=Lineages/><ref name=hermanos/> Years later, in 1906, [[Joaquim Escardó]] of ''[[Los Deportes]]'' published a [[photogravure]] of the 22 footballers that played that match, plus the referee and Miguel Morris.<ref name=Primers/><ref name=Lineages/><ref name=hermanos/> The photograph is thus widely believed to be the oldest documented image of a football team in Spain.<ref name=Primers/><ref name=hermanos/>{{efn|The caption names all the figures and even though Escardó did not date it exactly ("The two sides of the then-existing ''Barcelona Football Club'' formed around the years from 1892 to 1895…"), the players and referee in Escardó's photogravure match exactly with the line-ups of the chronicle by Valencia in 1893, which proves that this engraving corresponds to the match played on 12 March.<ref name=Primers/>}} The 1906 article also stated that "The individual from the English colony Reewes was the soul of that Club".<ref name=Primers/>
At the beginning of 1893, the frequency of matches increased notably, with confrontations between red and blue teams becoming common, and they began to take football much more seriously.<ref name=lafutbolteca/> As a result of this, they decided to formally start a football club in Barcelona in the autumn of the following year.<ref name=Primers/>
After the summer of 1893, football returned to the Catalan capital, and the Barcelona club played its first games against neighboring towns as the news in the Barcelona press related several matches between the English Colony from Barcelona and the Scottish colony from [[Sant Martí de Provençals|Sant Martí]] (an independent municipality until 1897),<ref name=Origin/><ref name=Primers/> with the press reporting at least three matches between them, played on 8 December 1893, 11 March, and 15 April 1894.<ref name=AMB>{{Cite web |url=https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2021/04/28/a-voltes-amb-lescoces-fc/ |title=A voltes amb l’Escocès (FC) |trans-title=Around with Escocès FC |language=es |website=memoriesfutbolcatala.com |access-date=17 September 2022 |archive-date=30 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430061909/https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2021/04/28/a-voltes-amb-lescoces-fc/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Local historians claim that this was the first ever 'unofficial' rivalry in Spanish football. The Scottish colony's history began in 1893, when John Shields and Edward B. Steegmann rented the central warehouses of a factory in Sant Martí, to create a branch of Johnston, Shields & Co in Catalonia, which became known as {{ill|Fàbrica la Escocesa|ca|lt=''La Escocesa''}}.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=lafutbolteca/> These Scottish workers would later create [[Escocès FC]], and likewise, the English Colony went on to create ''[[Team Anglès]]'', two teams who were pivotal in the history of Catalan football.<ref name=lafutbolteca/><ref name=AMB/>
===Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona (1894–96)===
[[File:Barcelona FC 1895.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Members of the Barcelona Football Society on 24 March 1895. Standing, from left to right: Alberto Serra, Henry W. Brown, John Beaty-Pownall, Enrique Morris, Matt Wilson, Samuel Morris and Hallam. Seated: John and William Parsons, Sloon, James Reeves and Bruger.]]
Either at the end of 1894 or the beginning of 1895, and as suggested in the press, they formally started a football club in Barcelona by founding the '''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona'''<ref name=CAPTAIN/><ref name=Coch/> (Spanish translation of ''Foot-ball Club Barcelona'').<ref name=Origin/> Between 1892 and 1894, Reeves and Cochran always acted as captains of the two sides into which the members of the club were divided every Sunday,<ref name=lafutbolteca/> but the last example of this took place on 8 December 1894.<ref name=Coch/> In his next and last match with the Barcelona club, Cochran appeared with the loss of the captaincy, which was given to the 20-year-old [[John Beaty-Pownall]].<ref name=Coch/> This was most likely the result of a growing conflict between him and Reeves, probably about the formalization process that the club was going through. Their conflict spread to the rest of the club's members, which caused the entity to split into two groups, one led by Reeves and the other by Cochran, Wood, and MacAndrews.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} Both sides suffered from an immediate lack of players, so Reeves turned to Club Regatas again, recruiting Tordo, Soñé, and Codina, and then to the ''Barcelona Cricket Club'', recruiting new British members such as Quiney, Fallon, Heather, and most notably, another pioneering pair of brothers, the Parsons, [[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|John]] and [[William Parsons (footballer)|William]].<ref name=Primers/> The Parsons would go on to co-found FC Barcelona in 1899 while Fallon went on to co-found Escocès FC in 1900.<ref name=lafutbolteca/><ref name=AMB/> On the other hand, Cochran's group decided to move and settle in the neighboring town of [[Sant Vicenç de Torelló]] in [[Osona]], where they introduced football to the Colonia Borgonyà from the Scottish spinning company J& P Coats Ltd, which resulted in the creation of the '''[[Torelló]] Foot-ball Association''' (which was erroneously translated as ''Asociación de Foot-ball de Torelló'').<ref name=Origin/><ref name=lafutbolteca/>
Together with the change of names, came also the change of [[Football pitch|fields]], as the Barcelona club left the [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]], where they had been playing football, and moved to the [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]], as they were looking for a place of easier access to the city center.<ref name=CAPTAIN/> The first football match played in Bonanova took place on 27 January 1895 and was played by 16 players from the ''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona'' (''SF de Barcelona'') divided into two teams: one dressed in blue and the other one in red, with the former winning 4–1 with goals from William Parsons (3) and Enrique Morris, while the red's consolation was netted by Samuel Morris.<ref name=Velódromo>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/01/28/pagina-2/33402532/pdf.html |title=Fútbol en el velódromo |trans-title=Football at the Velodrome |language=es |publisher=[[La Vanguardia]] |website=hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com |date=28 January 1895 |access-date=17 September 2022 |archive-date=3 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903005945/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/01/28/pagina-2/33402532/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref> From then on, Sunday football games became a regular event at Bonanova, although its vast majority were training matches (Blues vs Reds), such as the one held on 2 February 1895, in which the Reds, captained by the new vice-captain Beaty-Pownall, defeated 10-men Blues, captained by Reeves, in a game that saw both captains score once.<ref name=LaSociedad/><ref name=Reds>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/02/05/pagina-5/33402591/pdf.html |title=Blues 1–4 Reds |language=es |publisher=[[La Vanguardia]] |website=hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com |date=5 February 1895 |access-date=29 September 2022 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205153636/https://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/02/05/pagina-5/33402591/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Also in early February 1895, this group of football pioneers offered the honorary presidency of their society to the British consul [[William Wyndham (diplomat)|William Wyndham]], which he accepted; surely a detail that highlights that this entity was, at least, a serious and very well organized group, but despite that, there is no evidence of ever being legally established.<ref name=LaSociedad/><ref name=hermanos/> The ''SF de Barcelona'' had its headquarters next to the Bonanova velodrome, being uniformed with a red shirt and white pants.<ref name=lafutbolteca/>
The activity of the ''SF de Barcelona'' continued with intensity and news gave reports of several training sessions to prepare for future matches against the Torelló team.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=LaSociedad/> Barcelona only played two non-training matches in the 1894–95 season, both against Torelló team, with Reeves and Cochran being the captain of their respective sides in both games.<ref name=CAPTAIN/><ref name=Coch/> These were the very first football games between teams from two different cities (in Catalonia).<ref name=Origin/> The first match took place on 24 March 1895 and ended in an 8–3 local victory,<ref name=Origin/> and the result was attributed to the fact that Torelló played against both the sun and the wind and that their five forward (or runners as the local press of the time called them) had trouble getting through Barcelona's strong and robust defenders, [[Henry W. Brown|Brown]] and [[Matt Wilson (footballer)|Wilson]].<ref name=Torelló5>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/03/27/pagina-5/33394647/pdf.html |title=Barcelona 8–3 Torelló |language=es |publisher=[[La Vanguardia]] |website=hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com |page=5 |date=27 March 1895 |access-date=16 September 2022 |archive-date=20 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120160045/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/03/27/pagina-5/33394647/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Barcelona's goals were netted by Reeves, John (2) and William Parsons, Enrique Morris, Barrié, Fallon and Beaty-Pownall, while Torelló's goals were scored by Cochran, Englis and Tong.<ref name=Torelló6>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/03/27/pagina-6/33394648/pdf.html |title=Barcelona 8–3 Torelló |language=es |publisher=[[La Vanguardia]] |website=hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com |page=6 |date=27 March 1895 |access-date=29 September 2022 |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929161652/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/03/27/pagina-6/33394648/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
The second match took place on 14 April, after the Torelló Football Association, fulfilling a duty of courtesy, accepted the invitation of the Barcelona Football Society to play another match, this one at Torelló's field, a sloped and waterlogged ground.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=LaSociedad/> According to the chronicles of the time, they disputed said "challenge" as an act of revenge, and this time victory smiled at those from Torelló with a 5–3 win.<ref name=LaSociedad/> Barcelona played with the same team except for three changes, replacing defenders Fallon and Wilson with Richardson and Quiney, and midfielder Barrié with Heather. On the other hand, Torelló played with only one change.<ref name=TorellóW>{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/04/17/pagina-3/33395255/pdf.html |title=Torelló 5–3 Barcelona |language=es |publisher=[[La Vanguardia]] |website=hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com |date=17 April 1895 |access-date=29 September 2022 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004024340/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/04/17/pagina-3/33395255/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Cochran netted a [[Hat-trick#Association football|hat-trick]] in the first half to give a 3–0 lead to his side, but Barcelona fought back in the second half and managed to make it 3–3.<ref name=TorellóW/> However, Torelló scored twice in the dying minutes, thanks to an [[Own goal#Association football|own goal]] and pressure on Barça's defender Quiney that forced him to drop the ball for an unidentified Torelló element to score.<ref name=TorellóW/> These meetings gave rise to the curious circumstance that a [[Spanish peseta|peseta]] was charged for the entrance and 2.10 with a seat in the grandstand.<ref name=lafutbolteca/> With a capacity of 3,000, Bonanova was seen completely full on both occasions with the public being interested in the affair as if it was well known to most of them, and after the games were over, the attendees left the venue enthusiastic and satisfied, and with some of the young spectators dedicating themselves to rehearsing some passes and hits with the ball, thus demonstrating the pleasure with which they had witnessed it.<ref name=Torelló5/>
In the spring of 1895, football in Barcelona was already played by several junior and senior teams, and the winning teams were awarded medals.<ref name=Origin/> There are already many Catalans in these teams: [[Guilhermo Busquets|G. Busquets]], [[José Antonio Busquets|J. Busquets]], A. Serra, Puiggener, Arcola, Tordo, J. Suñé, Batlle, Soler, Farré, Montañés, Ramírez, Molera, Cerdá, Codina or Arancitia. But despite this strength, the club's many problems with the owners of the velodrome complicated the existence of the company, which had to look for another course.<ref name=Origin/>
===Decline and collapse===
Coinciding with the closure of the Barcelona Waterworks Company Ltd, James Reeves returned to the United Kingdom in November of 1895, leaving the club orphaned in its [[Manager (association football)|management]].<ref name=CAPTAIN/><ref name=lafutbolteca/> Following the departure of the "club's soul", it was the Catalans who took the reins of the team, but without him, the entity soon began to decline, and by early 1896 he was a shadow of himself.<ref name=lafutbolteca/> Given the difficulties encountered by the concession of the premises (pelouse) of the Bonanova Velodrome, they began to play between the vicinity of the velodrome and the streets and esplanades of [[Sant Gervasi – la Bonanova|San Gervasi]],<ref name=lafutbolteca/> before moving back to the field near ''Casa Antúnez'' (Can Tunis).<ref name=Origin/> Around 1896 this society, which was never officially established, seems to disappear as news about the ''SF de Barcelona'' become non-existent.<ref name=hermanos/> Due to the absence of rivals, the disappearance of the Barcelona club also brought about that of its rivals, Torelló.<ref name=Origin/>
However, it is known that many of the players of the Barcelona and Torelló societies continued to practice football through other societies such as the ''Fomento del Sport Velocipédico'' (Barcelona Velocipedistas Society), the company that managed the installation of the Bonanova velodrome, which decided to encourage and continue to organize football games and other typically English Sports, but such arrangements also seem to be gone by the end of 1896.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=LaSociedad/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/05/05/pagina-2/33395852/pdf.html |title=Referencia al velocipédico de Barcelona |trans-title=Reference to Barcelona Velocipedistas |language=es |publisher=[[La Vanguardia]] |website=hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com |date=5 May 1895 |access-date=14 October 2022 |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014000058/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/05/05/pagina-2/33395852/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Catalan members of the ''SF de Barcelona'', most of whom being part of Real Club de Regatas, also continued to organize football games, especially against a local team known as the Faculty of Sciences, facing each other at the grounds near ''Casa Antúnez''.<ref name=Origin/> The lines-ups of both teams were all made of Catalans except one of the Parsons brothers, and some of them were veterans of the Barcelona Society, such as Alberto Serra.<ref name=Origin/> For this reason, no Briton played football in Catalonia (sept for the Parsons) in 1897 and 1898.<ref name=CAPTAIN/>
Football in the city then crosses its first crisis, a period of lack of interest in football that lasted three years (1896–99), with only the Faculty of Sciences and the cycling fans of the Velocipédico Club continuing to play sporadically.<ref name=Origin/>
===Legacy===
The British Colony of Barcelona only began to play again in 1899, with the emergence of ''[[Team Anglès]]'' and FC Barcelona.<ref name=hermanos/> The Parsons brothers, John and William, played a vital role in the return of football to the Catalan capital, as they were involved in the foundation of both teams.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=eleven>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lesportiudecatalunya.cat/barca/article/1020535-els-onze-apostols-de-gamper-2.html |title=Els onze apòstols de Gamper – John and William Parsons Alexander |trans-title=the eleven apostles of Gamper – John and William Parsons Alexander |language=es |website=www.lesportiudecatalunya.cat |access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref> The Morris brothers and [[Henry W. Brown]] also played for ''Team Anglès''.<ref name=Lineages/> These two sides merged on 13 December 1899, just two weeks after Barça was founded, which meant a big leap in quality for the club, and as a result, Barcelona became one of the strongest teams in Catalonia at the turn of the century.<ref name=Origin/> Some of the British players that joined Barça were prominent figures in the club's early success, such as the Parsons and the Morris brothers, and also the Witty brothers ([[Arthur Witty|Arthur]] and [[Ernest Witty|Ernest]]). Some of these figures even become part of Barça's board of directors with John Parsons becoming the vice-president of the club while his brother William was appointed as the new [[Captain (association football)|vice-captain]] of the team behind [[Joan Gamper]].<ref name=Origin/><ref name=LaSociedad/>
''Team Anglès'', which like its predecessors was also never officially established, seems to have disappeared around 1900, and never to be reformed again, but despite its very short life, the football teams of the English Colony of Barcelona left a big mark in the history of Catalan football.<ref name=Origin/>
==Notable players==
* [[James Reeves (footballer)|James Reeves]]: Founder and [[Captain (association football)|Captain]]. The undisputed leader and main driving force behind the foundations of the original entity and Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona.<ref name=CAPTAIN/>
* [[Samuel James Morris]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, he was already in his 50s when he participated in the entity's first matches in 1892 and 1893, playing as a [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]].<ref name=Lineages/> In his civilian life, he was the director of two tram companies in Barcelona.<ref name=Lineages/>
* [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|Samuel Morris]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, he played several [[Exhibition game|friendly matches]] with them at the [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]] and a few others at the [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]] between 1892 and 1896, where he stood out as a great scorer, but he later moved on to play as a goalkeeper.<ref name=hermanos/><ref name=Lineages/>
* [[Enrique Morris]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, he was part of this entity from 1895 to 1896 as a [[Forward (association football)|forward]], netting once in an 8–3 victory over Torelló.<ref name=Torelló6/> He was later a winner of the [[1900–01 Copa Macaya]] with [[Hispania Athletic Club|Hispania AC]], the first-ever official title in Spanish football.<ref name=hermanos/>
* [[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|John]] and [[William Parsons (footballer)|William Parsons]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, but they only joined in 1895. John scored twice for the Reds in a match in 1895 and twice again in an 8–3 victory over Torelló, with William also scoring on the latter.<ref name=Torelló6/> They went on to be co-founders of [[FC Barcelona]].<ref name=LaSociedad/>
* [[Alberto Serra]]: Originally from [[Royal Barcelona Maritime Club|Club Regatas]], he was part of this entity from 1892 to 1896 as a forward. He later became the first to write a chronicle of a [[FC Barcelona]] match.<ref name=Primers/>
* [[John Beaty-Pownall]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, he was part of this entity from 1892 to 1896 as a forward. He captained the Red team in 1895 and netted three goals against Torelló in 1895, one in an 8–3 home win<ref name=Torelló6/> and a brace in a 3–5 loss.<ref name=TorellóW/>
* [[William MacAndrews]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, he was one of the main figures of this entity between 1892 and 1894, where he stood out as a great scorer, although he played in the [[1893 Blues v Reds football match|infamous match]] of 12 March 1893 as a defender.<ref name=Primers/> He later founded the ''Torelló Football Association''.
* [[George Cochran (footballer)|George Cochran]]: He was one of the main figures of this entity between 1892 and 1894, captaining the Blue team in the infamous match of 12 March 1893, and later founding the ''Torelló Football Association'' and scoring in both games that Torelló played in 1895, a consolation goal in an 8–3 away loss<ref name=Torelló6/> and a first-half [[Hat-trick#Association football|hat-trick]] in a 5–3 home victory over Barcelona.<ref name=TorellóW/>
* [[Jorge Barrié]]: Originally from Club Regatas, he was part of this entity from 1892 to 1896 as a forward, netting a goal for the Blue team in the infamous match of 12 March 1893,<ref name=Primers/> and another on Barça's 8–3 victory over [[Torelló]].<ref name=Torelló6/>
* [[Georges Dagnière]]: Originally from Club Regatas, he was part of this entity from 1892 to 1895, playing as a defender. In his civilian life, he was a representative of Credit Lyonnais and a member of the French Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona.<ref name=Miguel/>
* [[Henry Wood (footballer)|Henry Wood]]: Originally from the Barcelona Cricket Club, he was one of the main figures of this entity between 1892 and 1894, playing as both a goalkeeper and defender.<ref name=Primers/> He later founded the ''Torelló Football Association''.
* [[Henry W. Brown]]: He was part of this entity from 1892 to 1896, playing as both a defender and midfielder. He played for the Red Team in the infamous match of 12 March 1893.<ref name=Primers/> Together with the Parsons, he was one of the few players who was part of both the Barcelona Society of 1894–96 and [[FC Barcelona]].<ref name=LaSociedad/>
==Squad==
Source:<ref name=Origin/><ref name=Squad>{{cite web |url=https://estadijohan.com/plantilla-1984-1986/ |title=Plantilla 1894–1896: Medios |trans-title=Squad 1894–1896: Midfielders |language=es |website=estadijohan.com |date=5 February 1895 |access-date=18 February 2024 }}</ref>
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=GK|name=[[Samuel Morris (footballer)|Samuel Morris]]|other=[[Hispania Athletic Club|Hispania AC]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=GK|name=Foggon|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=GK|name=Richardson|other=Retired}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=DF|name=Heucke|other=Retired}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRL|pos=DF|name=[[Matt Wilson (footballer)|Matt Wilson]]|other=[[Lisburn Distillery F.C.|Distillery]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=DF|name=J. Fallon|other=[[Escocès FC]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=DF|name=[[Henry W. Brown]]|other=[[Team Anglès]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=DF|name=Quiney|other=Retired}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Shaw|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Longbottom|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Heather|other=Retired}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Hicks|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Phillips|other=Retired}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=FRA|pos=MF|name=[[Georges Dagnière]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=FRA|pos=MF|name=[[Jorge Barrié]]|other=[[Royal Spanish Tennis Federation]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Sloon|other=}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=GBR|pos=MF|name=Hallam|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=GBR|pos=FW|name=Bruger|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=CAT|pos=FW|name=Codina|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=CAT|pos=FW|name=Tordo|other=Club Regatas}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=CAT|pos=FW|name=J. Suñé|other=FC Barcelona}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=GBR|pos=FW|name=[[John Beaty-Pownall]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=CAT|pos=FW|name=[[Alberto Serra]]|other=}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=GBR|pos=FW|name=[[Enrique Morris]]|other=[[Hispania Athletic Club|Hispania AC]]}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=GBR|pos=FW|name=[[William Parsons (footballer)|William Parsons]]|other=[[Team Anglès]]}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=GBR|pos=FW|name=[[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|John Parsons]]|other=[[FC Barcelona]]}}
{{Fs player|no= |nat=GBR|pos=FW|name=[[James Reeves (footballer)|James Reeves]]|other=}}
{{Fs end}}
Note: Only those who played for the ''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona'' (1894–96). In total 21 Britons (including the Parsons brothers, born in Barcelona, and the Morris brothers, born in the Philippines, as well as the Irish international Matt Wilson), 2 Frenchmen (Georges Dagnière and Jorge Barrié), and 7 Catalans.<ref name=Origin/><ref name=Squad/>
== Results ==
{| style="width: 100%; background:#363636; color:white;"
|-
| '''Barcelona Football Club'''
|}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 25 December 1892
|time = 8:00
|round =
|team1 = English Colony of Barcelona (Reds)
|score = ? – ?
|report = [https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2022/09/04/reeves-el-capita-del-decenni-ocult/ Report]
|team2 = [[Royal Barcelona Maritime Club|Club Regatas de Barcelona]] (Blues)
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Field near the [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]]
|location = [[:ca:Can Tunis|Can Tunis]], [[Sants]]
|attendance =
|referee =
|result =
|note = First known football match in Catalonia.<ref name=Primers/> Very little is known about that Christmas Day in 1892, only that the venue was near the Hippodrome, and that Reeves was the captain of one of the teams.<ref name=Primers/>
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 3–5 February 1893
|time = 15:00
|round = Training match
|team1 = English Colony of Barcelona (Reds)
|score = ? – ?
|report = [https://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2010/02/la-sociedad-de-footbal-de-barcelona-de-1894-y-el-foot-ball-club-barcelona-de-1899-%C2%BFun-mismo-club-o-clubes-diferentes/ Report]
|team2 = [[Royal Barcelona Maritime Club|Club Regatas de Barcelona]] (Blues)
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Field near the [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]]
|location = [[:ca:Can Tunis|Can Tunis]], [[Sants]]
|attendance =
|referee =
|result =
|note = The English team fielded some "amateur English fans"<ref name=LaSociedad/> and the local press stated that "if this game turns out well, it will probably be repeated often".<ref name=Origin/>
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 12 March 1893
|time = 16:00
|round = [[1893 Blues v Reds football match|Training match]]
|team1 = Blue Team
|score = 2–1
|report = [https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2020/12/25/barcelona-cricket-club-els-primers-en-jugar-a-futbol/ Report]
|team2 = Red Team
|goals1 = Figueras {{goal}} <br> [[Jorge Barrié|Barrié]] {{goal}} <br> {{center| [[Henry Wood (footballer)|Wood]] <br> Park, [[Georges Dagnière|Dagnière]] <br> Lockie, [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|S. Morris]], Barrié <br> Bell, Higgins, [[George Cochran (footballer)|Cochran]], [[Ubaldo Noble|Noble]], Figueras}}
|goals2 = [[James Reeves (footballer)|Reeves]] {{goal}} <br> {{center| [[Samuel James Morris|Morris Sr.]] <br> Richardson, [[Henry W. Brown|Brown]] <br> Tuñi, Chofre, [[William MacAndrews|MacAndrews]] <br> [[Alberto Serra|Serra]], Daunt, Reeves, Dumsday, [[John Beaty-Pownall|Beaty-Pownall]]}}
|stadium = [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]]
|location = [[:ca:Can Tunis|Can Tunis]], [[Sants]]
|attendance = 300<br>[[Miguel Morris]]
|referee = [[Alfredo Collett]]
|result =
|note = The last game of the 1892–93 season.<ref name=Origin/>
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 8 December 1893
|time =
|round = [[Exhibition game|Friendly match]]
|team1 = '''English Colony of Barcelona'''
|score = 4–1
|report = [https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2021/04/28/a-voltes-amb-lescoces-fc/ Report]
|team2 = [[Escocès FC|Scottish colony of Sant Martí]]
|goals1 = [[William MacAndrews|MacAndrews]] {{goal}} {{goal}} <br> [[James Reeves (footballer)|Reeves]] {{goal}} <br> [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|S. Morris]] {{goal}}
|goals2 = [[Jim Dykes|Dykes]] {{goal}}
|stadium = [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]]
|location = [[:ca:Can Tunis|Can Tunis]], [[Sants]]
|attendance =
|referee = {{flagicon|SCO}} [[William Mauchan]]
|result = W
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 11 March 1894
|time =
|round = [[Exhibition game|Friendly match]]
|team1 = [[Escocès FC|Scottish colony of Sant Martí]]
|score = 1–2
|report = [https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2021/04/28/a-voltes-amb-lescoces-fc/ Report]
|team2 = '''English Colony of Barcelona'''
|goals1 = [[Henry W. Brown|Brown]] {{goal}}
|goals2 = [[William White (Scottish footballer)|White]] {{goal}} <br> [[Willie Gold|Gold]]
|stadium = A field in Sant Martí
|location = [[Sant Martí (district)|Sant Martí]], Barcelona
|attendance =
|referee = {{flagicon|SCO}} [[William Mauchan]]
|result = L
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 15 April 1894
|time =
|round = [[Exhibition game|Friendly match]]
|team1 = '''English Colony of Barcelona'''
|score = 3–0
|report = [https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2021/04/28/a-voltes-amb-lescoces-fc/ Report]
|team2 = [[Escocès FC|Scottish colony of Sant Martí]]
|goals1 = [[John Beaty-Pownall|Pownall]] {{goal}} <br> [[James Reeves (footballer)|Reeves]] {{goal}} <br> [[William MacAndrews|MacAndrews]] {{goal}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]]
|location = [[:ca:Can Tunis|Can Tunis]], [[Sants]]
|attendance =
|referee = {{flagicon|GBR}} ?
|result = W
|note = John Beaty-Pownall was still three months shy of his 20th birthday, thus becoming the very first documented teenager in Catalan football to score a goal, official or otherwise.
}}
{| style="width: 100%; background:#363636; color:white;"
|-
| '''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona'''
|}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 8 December 1894
|time =
|round = Training match
|team1 = Red Team
|score = 3–1
|report = [https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2023/03/18/una-agosarada-suposicio-cochran/ Report]
|team2 = Blue Team
|goals1 = [[George Cochran (footballer)|Cochran]] {{goal|3–1}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = [[Hippodrome of Can Tunis]]
|location = [[:ca:Can Tunis|Can Tunis]], [[Sants]]
|attendance =
|referee =
|result =
|note = Cochran led the Red Team while Reeves captained the Blues.<ref name=Coch/>
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 27 January 1895
|time = 15:00
|round = Training match
|team1 = Blue Team
|score = 4–1
|report = [http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/01/28/pagina-2/33402532/pdf.html La Vanguardia]
|team2 = Red Team
|goals1 = [[William Parsons (footballer)|W. Parsons]] {{goal}}{{goal}}{{goal}} <br> [[Enrique Morris|H. Morris]] {{goal}}
|goals2 = [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|S. Morris]] {{goal}}
|stadium = [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]]
|location = [[Barcelona]]
|attendance =
|referee =
|result =
|note = First match at the [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]].<ref name=Velódromo/>
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 2 February 1895
|time =
|round = Training match
|team1 = Blue Team
|score = 1–4
|report = [http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/02/05/pagina-5/33402591/pdf.html La Vanguardia]
|team2 = Red Team
|goals1 = [[James Reeves (footballer)|Reeves]] {{goal}} <br> <br> <br> {{center| Foggon <br> Heather, [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|S. Morris]], Heucke <br> Shaw, Longbottom <br> [[Alberto Serra|Serra]], [[Enrique Morris|H. Morris]], Tordo, Reeves ([[Captain (association football)|c]]).}}
|goals2 = [[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|J. Parsons]] {{goal}}{{goal}} <br> [[John Beaty-Pownall|Beaty-Pownall]] {{goal}} <br> Phillips {{goal}} <br> {{center| Richardson <br> [[Georges Dagnière|Dagnière]], Phillips, Hicks <br> [[Henry W. Brown|Brown]], [[Jorge Barrié|Barrié]] <br> J. Parsons, [[William Parsons (footballer)|W. Parsons]], Beaty-Pownall ([[Captain (association football)|c]]), Suñé, Codina.}}
|stadium = [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]]
|location = [[Barcelona]]
|attendance =
|referee =
|result =
|note = The Blues played with only 10 men.<ref name=Reds/>
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 24 March 1895
|time = 15:00
|round = [[Exhibition game|Friendly match]]
|team1 = Sociedad de Foot-Ball<br>de Barcelona
|score = 8–3
|report = [http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/03/27/pagina-5/33394647/pdf.html La Vanguardia5]<br>[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/03/27/pagina-6/33394648/pdf.html La Vanguardia6]
|team2 = [[Torelló]] Football Association
|goals1 = [[James Reeves (footballer)|Reeves]] {{goal}} <br> [[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|J. Parsons]] {{goal}}{{goal}} <br> [[Jorge Barrié|Barrié]] {{goal}} <br> Fallon {{goal}} <br> [[Enrique Morris|H. Morris]] {{goal}} <br> [[John Beaty-Pownall|Beaty-Pownall]] {{goal}} <br> [[William Parsons (footballer)|W. Parsons]] {{goal}} <br> {{center| [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|S. Morris]] <br> Fallon, [[Matt Wilson (footballer)|Wilson]], [[Henry W. Brown|Brown]] <br> Barrié, Sloon <br> J. Parsons, W. Parsons, H. Morris, Beaty-Pownall, Reeves}}
|goals2 = [[George Cochran (footballer)|Cochran]] {{goal}} <br> Inglés {{goal}} <br> A. Tong {{goal}} <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> {{center| C. Torella <br> [[Henry Wood (footballer)|Wood]], Inglés <br> Park, Dumsday, Daunt, <br> Bell, A. Tong, [[William MacAndrews|MacAndrews]], Cochran, Greaves}}
|stadium = [[Velódromo de la Bonanova]]
|location = [[Barcelona]]
|attendance = 3,000
|referee =
|result = W
}}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 14 April 1895
|time = 15:00
|round = [[Exhibition game|Friendly match]]
|team1 = [[Torelló]] Football Association
|score = 5–3
|report = [https://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1895/04/17/pagina-3/33395255/pdf.html La Vanguardia]
|team2 = Sociedad de Foot-Ball<br>de Barcelona
|goals1 = [[George Cochran (footballer)|Cochran]] {{goal|1T}}{{goal|1T}}{{goal|1T}} <br> ? {{goal|2T}} <br> ? {{goal|2T}} {{center| C. Torella <br> [[Henry Wood (footballer)|Wood]], S. Inglés <br> Park, Dumsday, Daunt, <br> Bell, A. Tong, [[William MacAndrews|MacAndrews]], Armstrong, Cochran}}
|goals2 = [[John Beaty-Pownall|Beaty-Pownall]] {{goal|2T}}{{goal|2T}} <br> [[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|J. Parsons]] {{goal|2T}} {{center| [[Samuel Morris (footballer)|S. Morris]] <br> Richardson, Quiney, [[Henry W. Brown|Brown]] <br> Heather, Sloon <br> J. Parsons, [[William Parsons (footballer)|W. Parsons]], [[Enrique Morris|H. Morris]], Beaty-Pownall, [[James Reeves (footballer)|Reeves]]}}
|stadium = A field in Torelló
|location = [[Torelló]], [[Osona]]
|attendance = 3,000
|referee =
|result = L
|note = The field was a sloping and flooded ground.<ref name=Origin/>
}}
{| style="width: 100%; background:#363636; color:white;"
|-
| '''Club de Regatas'''
|}
{{football box collapsible
|date = 1895
|time =
|round =
|team1 = '''Club de Regatas'''
|score =
|report = [http://www.cihefe.es/cuadernosdefutbol/2015/11/origenes-nacimiento-y-consolidacion-del-fc-barcelona-1875-1903/ Cihefe]
|team2 = Faculty of Sciences
|goals1 = {{center| [[Isidre Artús|Artús]] <br> [[Guillermo Busquets|G. Busquets]], Castellví <br> [[Alberto Serra|Serra]], [[John Parsons (footballer, born 1875)|Parsons]], Pascual <br> [[José Antonio Busquets|J. Busquets]], Germá, Solé, Suñé and Perdigó}}
|goals2 = {{center| C. Torella <br> G. Rodríguez, Urcola <br> Brugués, Gallifa, Moles, <br> S. Inglés, Vilardebó, M. González, Roca, Montañés}}
|stadium = Field near [[:ca:Can Tunis|''Casa Antúnez'']].
|location = [[Barcelona]]
|attendance =
|referee =
|result = W
|note =
}}
==Notes==
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==See also==
[[Football in Catalonia]]
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:English Colony of Barcelona Football Team}}
[[Category:Defunct football clubs in Catalonia]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1892]]
[[Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1896]]
[[Category:1892 establishments in Spain]]
[[Category:1896 disestablishments in Spain]]
[[Category:Football clubs in Barcelona]]