Every football fan in Europe should take a FC Barcelona Football Break at least once in their life and enjoy the experience of a match at the Nou Camp Stadium.
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FC Barcelona Football Club History
FC Barcelona has long been a favourite football club for fans all over the world. This popularity is thanks to its long standing reputation for uniting some of the world’s greatest footballers who are drilled in playing open and attractive football in the club’s famous blue and claret shirts. Fans of “the beautiful game” are …
Seville FC Football Breaks
One of Spanish football’s greatest success stories in recent times has been the promotion of Sevilla FC into European royalty. Their 3-2 victory over Inter Milan in the final of the Europa League in August 2020 was the 6th time they have won the competition since 2006. In that period they have also won two …
Real Betis (Seville) Football Breaks and Stadium Tour
In 1907 Sevilla Balompié was formed by students from the Escuela Politéchnica. A breakaway group from the older Sevilla FC formed a new club which they called Betis Football Club. This club merged with Sevilla Balompié in 1914 and was given royal patronage by King Don Alfonso XIII – becoming Real Betis Balompié. At that …
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Athletic Club de Bilbao Football Breaks
Athletic Bilbao, historically, are the fourth most successful football club in Spain. As well as being one of only three clubs never relegated from the top division of La Liga – there are no prizes for knowing the other two – they are also third in the number of titles won over the years. Sadly …
Spanish Football Debt
Racing Santander We Salute You For those of you following La Liga from outside Spain you can be forgiven for believing that everything’s rosy on the pitches and terraces at the Bernabeu, Nou Camp, Mestalla and Vicente Calderon to name but a few. As the Spanish national team finally realised their destiny by winning the …
Atlético de Madrid Football Breaks
Founded in 1903 by three Basque students at university in Madrid, Atlético Madrid were initially closely linked with Athletic Bilbao – even copying their blue and white striped shirts. It was in 1920 that the club became fully independent. By then, the playing strip had changed to its now famous red and white – and …
Valencia CF Football Breaks
When the G14 group of football clubs was expanded in 2002 to include four teams, the obvious choice from Spain was FC Valencia. Already in two European Champions’ League finals in the new century, with some of Europe’s most coveted players on the books, and with 45,000 season ticket holders and a waiting list of …
Real Madrid Football Club History
Initially, in 1897, a group of students and lecturers of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, including several graduates from both Cambridge and Oxford, organised themselves into a team for football matches on Sunday mornings. During the following years this developed into several different clubs until in 1902 Madrid Football Club was officially formed. From the …