10 Facts About RCD Espanyol

Reial Club Deportiu RCD Espanyol de Barcelona, commonly known as RCD Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Cornella de Llobregat, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish football league system.

Domestically, RCD Espanyol has won the Copa del Rey four times, most recently in 2006.

RCD Espanyol is one of several Spanish football clubs granted patronage by the Spanish crown and thus entitled to use Real in their names and the royal crown on their badge.

RCD Espanyol was founded on 28 October 1900 by Angel Rodriguez Ruiz, an engineering student at the University of Barcelona.

The club's original home was in the well-off district of Sarria; RCD Espanyol was the first club in Spain to be formed exclusively by Spanish fans of the game, with the other early clubs having links to Britain or central Europe.

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RCD Espanyol had played in the Estadi Olimpic after moving from their previous ground in Sarria.

The city's other team, RCD Espanyol, dissociated itself from the claim due to the former's success on the European stage.

On numerous occasions RCD Espanyol has complained of unfavourable and sometimes directly offensive treatment towards the club in favour of FC Barcelona by some Catalonian public media like TV3.

From 1923 until 1997, RCD Espanyol played their home games in Estadi de Sarria in the Sarria-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona.

In March 2017, the Association of Supporters and Shareholders of RCD Espanyol boosted a project for recovering the sporting sections of the club, but this time without any economic link with the football team.