Futbol Club Barcelona Hoquei is a professional roller hockey

Roller hockey (Quad)

Roller Hockey is a team sport that enjoys significant popularity in a number of Latin countries. Depending on territories, it is also known as Hóquei em Patins, International Style Ball hockey, Rink Hockey or Hardball Hockey. Roller Hockey was a demonstration rollersport in the 1992 Summer...

 team based in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain

Spain

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. It's part of the FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

 family and plays in the OK Liga

OK Liga

The OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league and is widely regarded as one of the best leagues in the world. Since 2009 it includes also a women's league.-Champions by year:-Performance by club:...

. Due to the sponsoring the team is called FC Barcelona Sorli Discau.

History

The roller hockey section was founded on 1942 but due to venue problems it played only one season till 1948 when begun the great history of this section. In terms of trophies are the most successful team in Europe having won nineteen European Cups.

Current Squad 2011/12

—  Spain Alberto Borregán —  Spain Aitor Egurrola —  Spain Sergi Panadero —  Spain Josep Maria Ordeig —  Spain Marc Gual

—  Argentina Pablo Álvarez —  Spain Marc Torra —  Spain Sergi Fernández —  Argentina Reinaldo García

Famous players

• Ramon Benito
• Joaquim Paüls
• Gaby Cairo
• José Luis Páez
• Jordi Vila-Puig
• Carles Trullols
• Jordi Villacorta
• Joan Torner
• Josep Enric Torner

Trophies

• European Cup/Champions League: 19 (RECORD)
  • 1972–1973, 1973–1974, 1977–1978, 1978–1979, 1979–1980, 1980–1981, 1981–1982, 1982–1983, 1983–1984, 1984–1985, 1996–1997, 1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2001–2002, 2003–2004, 2004–2005, 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2009–2010.
• OK Liga/Spanish league
  OK Liga
  The OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league and is widely regarded as one of the best leagues in the world. Since 2009 it includes also a women's league.-Champions by year:-Performance by club:...
  
  : 23 (RECORD)
  • 1973–1974, 1976–1977, 1977–1978, 1978–1979,1979–1980, 1980–1981, 1981–1982, 1983–1984,1984–1985, 1995–1996, 1997–1998, 1998–1999,1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2001–2002, 2002–2003,2003–2004, 2004–2005,2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010.
• Continental Cup/European Super Cup
  Rink Hockey Continental Cup
  The Rink Hockey Continental Cup was created in 1979 under the name of the European Super Cup and was contested by the winners of the European Cup and the Cup Winners Cup. In 1997 this two competitions merged as the Champions League and, since then, the Continental Cup is contested by the winners of...
  
  : 17 (RECORD)
  • 1979–1980, 1980–1981, 1981–1982, 1982–1983,1983–1984, 1984–1985, 1996–1997, 1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2001–2002, 2002–2003, 2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2010–2011
• CERS Cup
  Cers Cup
  The CERS Cup is an annual European roller hockey club competition organized by CERH, the European Rink Hockey Committee, since 1980. It is the second most important club competition and it features teams who could not enter the European League. It is played in a knockout format, where each team...
  
  : 1
  • 2005–2006.
• Cup Winners Cup : 1
  • 1986–1987
• Copa Ibérica : 3
  • 1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2001–2002.
• Intercontinental Cup : 3
  • 1997–1998, 2000–2001, 2005–2006.
• Coupe des Nations de Montreaux : 1
  • 1995
• King's Cup: 18
  • 1953, 1958, 1963, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007,2010. (RECORD)
• Spanish Super Cup: 3
  • 2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2008–2009

External links

• FC Barcelona Official Website More than club