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FC Barcelona is a polideportivo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, British and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. Its motto is El Barça és més que un club (Barça is more than a club). Its main stadium is the Nou Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona, popularly known as the Camp Nou.

FC Barcelona is very much more than a football club. It is perhaps the best example of a polideportivo. Although best known for it La Liga football team and its reserve football team FC Barcelona B, the club also incorporates other professional sports teams, having expanded into basketball, handball, roller hockey and American football. The teams involved in these sports are subsidised by the football section and wear the same colours. These include Winterthur FCB, FC Barcelona-Cifec and the now defunct FC Barcelona Dragons.

The club also includes number of prominent amateur sports teams that compete at rugby union, women's basketball, women's football and wheelchair basketball. These include FCB Rugby, UB-Barça, FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman. Other amateur teams represent the club at ice hockey, five-a-side football, athletics, baseball, cycling, field hockey, figure skating and volleyball.

Barça have to date refused to allow sponsorship logos on their football shirts. This is because the Barça colours are traditionally seen as a symbol of Catalonia and logos have been regarded as intrusive. Even their kit manufacturer, Nike's swoosh was controversial. However since 2005 Barça have worn the TV3 logo of Televisió de Catalunya on the left arm.