FC Barcelona now have more than 400,000 registered users of their online community, making them one of the highest ranked clubs in Europe. The Barça Fans community maintains a direct link between fans from 237 different countries.
How do I register as a Barça Fan
The only ‘sine qua non’ condition for becoming a Barça Fan is to share our passion for
the club. To sign up and enjoy all the benefits of belonging to the FCB community, all you have to
do is go to
www.fcbfans.com
and fill in the form. However, you must be over 14 to join.
The Barça Fans community was created in late 2008 to provide a tool to help fans all around the
world stay in touch with the club despite the distances involved. The membership of this community
recently topped the 400,000 mark.
Barça and its fans in constant contact
This link is basically maintained via the internet and email. The Barça Fan
Newsletter is the official electronic newspaper sent to Barça Fans. Registered fans receive
fortnightly updates on the latest news, videos, surveys and exclusive offers. The club also
occasionally sends special announcements related with signings of players and other particularly
important stories.
Fans from 237 different countries
Support for Barça knows no frontiers. The 400,000 members of the community show
that. A total of 237 nationalities have registered all around the world. Spain is top with almost
77,000 users, followed by the United States (27,000), Venezuela (12,000) and Nigeria (10500). The
most common age group is that between 14 and 30 years.
Impact of transfers
Whenever the first team signs a foreign player, this seems to have an immediate
impact on the nationality of new members. The most recent example was that of Ibrahim Afellay,
whose arrival was greeted by a massive surge in the number of Dutch and Moroccan fans.
Advantages of being a Barça Fan
It doesn’t cost anything to become a Barça Fan. As well as receiving first hand
information about the club, members also learn of exclusive fortnightly offers for FCB
merchandising, special videos, exclusive screensavers, the chance to give their opinion via surveys
and other special content designed for Barcelona supporters.
As well as the Newsletter, Barça Fans get to enjoy special downloads such as the interactive
screensavers and can vote for the
Player of the Season
. There are plenty of competitions with top notch prizes and sometimes discounts on tickets
for matches at the Camp Nou or Palau Blaugrana, among the many other benefits of becoming a member
of Barça’s online community.