 Futbol Club Internacional | ||||
| Full name | Futbol Club Internacional | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Estelados (starred) | |||
| Short name | FC Internacional | |||
| Founded | 1901 | |||
| Dissolved | 26 April 1922 | |||
| Ground | Campo de Galileo | |||
| League | Catalan championship | |||
TheFutbol Club Internacional, commonly referred to a was asFC Internacional, was afootball team based inBarcelona,Spain. Founded in 1901, FC Internacional had an "impasse" in its activities after the 1905–06 academic year, resuming them in 1910 to finally disappear in 1922.
In the 1900s, FC Internacional was one of the leading clubs inCatalan football, finishing as runner-up of theCatalan championship three times in a row between 1904 and 1906, before having to suspend its activities.[1]
Great figures emerged from FC Internacional, such asPaco Bru,Enrique Peris,Domingo Carulla,Ramon Torralba andJosep Samitier.
Initially known asClub Internacional de Football, it was founded in 1901.[2] Some players originally from thePhilippines played in this team.[3] From 1902 onwards it adopted the nameFutbol Club Internacional.[4]
In the mid-1900s, FC Internacional side had a great side that includedPaco Bru,Charles Wallace andEnrique Peris, thus being one of the most prominent clubs inCatalonia, finishing as runner-up of theCatalan championship three times in a row between 1904 and 1906, being hedged out by Club Español de Football (nowRCD Espanyol)FC Barcelona andX Sporting Club respectevely.[1] However, in 1906 FC Internacional had to suspend its activities due to a lack of players, as a good part of the first and second team players, university students, had to leave the city to continue their careers outside of Barcelona, some of them even abroad (Español was also a victim of this).[5] Most of the remaining players, such as the aforementioned three, joined FC Barcelona, with Wallace helping Barça win the1910 Copa del Rey with a goal in thefinal while Peris become the first player to reach 200 official matches with the club.
In 1910 the club was reborn with the same name and in the 1910–11 season, it took part in thesecond category of the Catalan Championship, finishing in second. FC Internacional then won that category in back-to-back years, first in 1911–12 with 37 points, just one more than second-placedCE Europa,[6] and again in 1912–13, this time more comfortably as they finished 9 points clear of second-placedCE Sabadell FC,[7] hence ascending to the highest category of Catalan football in 1913–14, a category in which he remained until its disappearance in 1922.[citation needed]
The club's original playing field was located in the neighborhood ofIzquierda del Ensanche (Eixample),[8] in front of theIndustrial School, and when it resumed its activities in 1910, its new location was onLes Corts, where they began to play its matches in the now-defunct Campo de Galileo.[9][10]
On 26 April 1922, it merged with the football club Center d'Esports de Sants (C.E. Sants) to formUE Sants, thus disappearing from Catalan football.[11]
His uniform consisted of a dark green shirt and white pants, although this later changed to a green and white shirt, and in his last years he wore white and black pants, leaving the green badge on the chest badge.[12]
     1901-1906 |    1910-1913 | 1914-1918 |  1918-1922 |
