Spain · Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona metropolitan area)
RCD Espanyol
Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona
Pericos, Periquitos, Blanquiazules
Football club from Barcelona founded in 1900 and one of the founding members of the Spanish league. It has won four Copas del Rey (1929, 1940, 2000 and 2006) and reached two UEFA Cup finals, in 1988 and 2007.
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The club
- Name
- RCD Espanyol
- Full name
- Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona
- Nickname
- Pericos, Periquitos, Blanquiazules
- Founded
- October 28, 1900
- City
- Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona metropolitan area)
- Country
- Spain
- Official website
- rcdespanyol.com
- Colors
- #0072CE, #FFFFFF
- Competitions
- Copa del Rey (since 1911)
- La Liga (1929–1961)
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1961–1965)
- La Liga 2 (1962)
- La Liga (1963–1968)
- La Liga 2 (1969)
- La Liga (1970–1988)
- UEFA Cup (1973–2006)
- La Liga 2 (1989)
- La Liga (1990–1992)
- La Liga 2 (1993)
- La Liga (1994–2019)
- UEFA Intertoto Cup (1998–1999)
- Supercopa de España (2000–2006)
- Europa League (2019)
- La Liga 2 (2020)
- La Liga (2021–2022)
- La Liga 2 (2023)
- La Liga (since 2024)
- In the archive
- 1 crest · 3 shirts
Current crest
Since 2026
Shirts
Club history
Football club from Barcelona founded in 1900 and one of the founding members of the Spanish league. It has won four Copas del Rey (1929, 1940, 2000 and 2006) and reached two UEFA Cup finals, in 1988 and 2007. Since 2009 it has played at its own stadium in Cornellà-El Prat.
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## A club for local players (1900-1912) Espanyol was born on 28 October 1900 in Barcelona under the name Sociedad Española de Football. It was driven by Ángel Rodríguez Ruiz, an engineering student and its first president, together with medical students Octavi Aballí and Lluís Roca. The name had a purpose: other clubs in the city were made up mostly of foreigners, and this one wanted to give a place to local players and to those from the rest of Spain. The first shirts were yellow. After a few years' pause for lack of players, the club was reborn in 1909 as Club Deportivo Español, and in 1910…
The fans
Espanyol supporters are known as «pericos» or «periquitos» (parakeets). The nickname dates back to the 1920s, when cartoonist Valentí Castanys drew the club's small following as «cuatro gatos» (a handful of cats); after Felix the Cat premiered in Spain in 1929, people began to speak of «los cuatro gatos pericos». Their great rival is FC Barcelona, against whom they play the Barcelona derby, one of the most frequently played fixtures in La Liga. At every home game, fans applaud in the 21st minute in memory of captain Dani Jarque.
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