Club Natació Barcelona is a Spanish multi-sports club from Barcelona established in 1907.[1] It is active in athletics, diving, karate, petanca, pilota, rugby, sailing, swimming, water polo, and triathlon.

Barcelona is the most successful club in Spanish water polo history with overall 59 national titles (40 Spanish Championships and 19 Spanish Leagues). The club has also won European Cup in 1982 and the LEN Trophy in 1995 and 2004.[2]

History

CN Barcelona was founded on 10 November 1907, by Bernat Picornell and a group of 16 friends who regularly attended the Gimnasio Solé, thus becoming the first swimming club in Spain.[3][4] It played a key role in the creation of the Catalan and Spanish Swimming Federations, as well as the Spanish Olympic Committee, which allowed the first Spanish swimmers, all from the CNB, to participate in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp.[4]

It is also the oldest water polo club, playing its first match against a crew of an English ship on 12 July 1908.[4]

Titles

1982
1995, 2004
1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05
1989, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2011

Notable members

References

  1. ^ Profile in Marca's 2003 World Aquatics' website
  2. ^ List of champions Archived 2013-02-07 at the Wayback Machine in allcompetitions.com
  3. ^ "Natació - Mirem el passat - Diputació de Barcelona" [Swimming - Let's look at the past - Provincial Council of Barcelona]. www.diba.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Bernat Picornell i Richier". www.enciclopedia.cat (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Barcelona
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