Joan Gampar Trophy

The Joan Gamper Trophy is an annual friendly football competition held in August, before the start of Spanish club FC Barcelona's La Liga season

The competition is hosted by FC Barcelona at the Camp Nou stadium and is named in honour of Joan Gamper, a founding member, player, and later President of the Club

The competition was inaugurated in 1966 by Enric Llaudet, one of Gamper's successors as club president

Trophy

The trophy itself is an 800 grams (1.8 lb) silver cup with five micrometres of gold finishing, on top of a 10 kilograms (22 lb) marble plinth base

No of Teams
Initially, four teams participated in the competition, which featured two semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a final

First Trophy
For the first competition in 1966, Barcelona were joined by Belgium's RSC Anderlect,France's FC Nantes and Germany's 1 FC Koln
FC Barcelona beat the German team 3–1 in the final.

 Most Title Winner
Of the 48 tournaments held between 1966 and 2013,FC Barcelona have the title 36 times