Collections

The Documentation Centre has a support library of more than a thousand sports-themed titles (of which 650 are all about Barça) and about 450 monographs of sports in general, socio-political matters around sport, statistics, yearbooks and biographies, among others.

A total of 280 different publications can be viewed in the newspaper archive, including newspapers, magazines and various historical and current publications.

The club’s own publications include newsletters and match programmes from the 1920s, corporate reports and different official publications.

• Official FC Barcelona publications (historic and current)
  • Newsletters and match programmes (since the 1920s).
  • Managerial reports.
  • BARÇA magazine (2002-present).
  • Barça Foundation magazine.
  • Blaugranes magazine published by Supporters' Clubs World Confederation.
• External publications (general interest and sports publications, both historic and current)
  • Revista Barça (1955-76).
  • Revista Barcelonista (1965-81).
  • Barcelona Deportiva (1946-69, 1972-75).
  • Dicen (1952-85).
  • Mundo Gráfico (1911-24).
  • El Once (1945-63).
  • Stadium (1911-29).
  • Vida Deportiva (1945-65).
  • Etc.

The documentary archive consists of about 7,000 catalogued files and occupies about 60 linear metres.

• FC Barcelona archives is composed of the historic institutional documentation.
  • Statutes (1902-2013).
  • Minutes of the General Assembly (1933-2019).
  • Minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors and commissions (1911-2013).
  • Match records (1922-2004).
  • Electoral processes.
  • Administrative, equity, financial documentation, etc.
  • Sports management documentation.
  • Correspondence
  • Etc.
• Other archives and collections:
  • Peris de Vargas archive.
  • Josep Samitier collection.
  • Miró-Sans collection.
  • Agustí Montal i Costa collection.
  • Josep Lluís Vilaseca collection.
  • Antoni M. Muntañola collection.
• Total: ± 60 linear metres of historic documents.

The photographic archive contains more than 1.5 million photographs, 700,000 in digital format; and 250,000 negatives from the Horacio Seguí archive. Some 550,000 individually catalogued images in the contemporary archive.

• Historic archive:
  • Horacio Seguí archive (1963-2003): ± 250,000 partially catalogued negatives and slides.
  • Corporate Report Archive: ± 9,500 positives.
  • Barça magazine archive: ± 37,000 digitised positives.
• APhotographic Repository (2003-2018): ± 637,000 partially ordered and classified digital images.
• VME/Media Asset Management (MAM): 520,000 classified and catalogued digital images since the 2013/14 season.
• Total: ± 1,500,000 photographs.