The color white has been used by Barça on more than one occasion.

Published:27/07/2023 - 11:44h

Updated:27/07/2023 - 11:44h

Barça used white in its first kit until 1913. From the second decade of the 20th century, it became part of the second kit and remained as an alternative kit until the early 1970s.

In the morning of this Thursday, the Barça premièred his second clothing of face to the season 2023-2024, in which it recovers the white colour. For some, this colour is exclusive of the Real Madrid and, therefore, to a lot of Barcelona fans generates them a bit of rejection. However, this colour has been present in the equipaciones of the FC Barcelona from his foundation, although in different 'dose' as the period.

The first uniform that used the founders of the club, with Hans Gamper at the front like captain and trainer, was integrated by a shirt bicolor blue and grana, a sash or belt with the same colours and some white trousers, finished with some black averages. With this equipación contested his first party on 8 December 1899 in front of a combined of the English colony of the city, in the ancient Velodrome of the Bonanova, in which they fell defeated by 0-1.

Until 1910, this was the official clothes of the Barcelona when they entered the vertical bands in the T-shirt, keeping the rest of the configuration. For the year 1913 is when it would disappear the white colour when entering the black trousers. In 1922, the combination strictly blaugrana would become the image of mark 'Barça' of his first shirt, only with light variations in the tonality of the colours or the size of the bands.

The controversy around the white colour

At the beginning of the years 90, the white colour went back shyly to the life of the Barça, more precisely in his first uniform. It was the sportive signature Kappa the one who brought of return this colour, generating some that another controversy. The rivets that adorned the sleeves of the T-shirts and the sides of the trousers of the players of the 'Dream Team' of Johan Cruyff generated an intense debate between the barcelonismo, scandalised by this indirect allusion to the madridismo.

This season, to way of homage to the team of Cruyff of the decade of the 70, the Barça recovers the white colour, but in this occasion would not be for the first equipación but for the second. Further of the controversial that this can generate, as for a lot of this colour belongs him to the eternal rival, this new T-shirt of the Barcelona group is having a lot of success in sales and already was exposed in the first party of the pre-season in front of the Arsenal.