1916–17 FC Barcelona season

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FC Barcelona

1916–17 season
President	Gaspar Rosés
Manager	Jack Greenwell
Catalan football championship	Third
← 1915–16 1917–18 →

The 1916–17 season was the 18th season for FC Barcelona.

Season highlights[]

• Two players debuted with the team, and left their mark: Agustin Sancho and Emilio Sagi Liñán.
• The Garchitorena scandal exploded when FC Barcelona included a foreign player Juan Garchitorena in their lineup for the Catalan football championship, where foreigners were not allowed to play. Team RCD Espanyol claimed Torena had U.S. citizenship^[1] (although in all the confusion, it was later claimed he was Argentinian), since the Philippines was a territory of the United States at that time; but they only reported it after losing to Barcelona (3-0). A redo of all the matches including this player was ordered, but the club preferred to withdraw. Garchitorena ended up getting involved with cinema, moving to Hollywood and having various liaisons, including one with actress Myrna Loy.^[2]
• On 17 June 1917 club founder Joan Gamper regained the presidency of the club for the third time.

Player roster[]

P	Player	Ctry	PT	fb gols
GOL	[ca; fr]		12	-10
GOL			0
DEF	[ca]		12
DEF			12	5
DEF			1
DEF			0
DEF	Jack Greenwell		0
DEF	[ca]		0
DEF			0
MID	[ca]		12	1
MID	Agustin Sancho		12	3
MID	Ramón Torralba		6
MID	[ca; es]		5
MID			3	1
MID			3	1
FWD	[ca; fr]		11
FWD	[ca; fr]		9	8
FWD	[ca; fr]		10	5
FWD	[ca]		9
FWD	Juan Garchitorena		6	2
FWD	A. Castells		5	1
FWD			3	1
FWD			1
FWD			0
FWD	Emilio Sagi Liñán		0
FWD	[ca; fr]		0
FWD	[ca; fr]		0
FWD	[ca; fr]		0
FWD	[ca]		0
FWD			0

Results[]

Friendly games

Catalan championship games

• The first six matches were counted as defeats due to illegal lineups.

Foronda Cup

External links[]

• FC Barcelona official website at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2010-08-23)
• Season summary, daily, 1899–2008
• Year-by-year results

References[]