FC Barcelona have won LaLiga 29 times, the Copa del Rey 32 times, and the UEFA Champions League five times. The club's La Masia academy, established in 1979, has produced more Ballon d'Or winners than any institution in football history, including Lionel Messi. Their home shirt has been built on blue and red vertical stripes every season since the club was founded by Joan Gamper in 1899, with Nike producing the shirt continuously since 1998. The Rakuten logo, which replaced the Qatar Foundation sponsor from 2017, appears on the front of the shirt in white.
The 2018/19 season saw FC Barcelona win La Liga with 87 points, 11 clear of second-placed Atletico Madrid. Messi won the European Golden Boot for the sixth time with 36 league goals and also added 13 LaLiga assists. In the Champions League, Barcelona reached the semi-finals and appeared certain to reach the final, beating Liverpool 3-0 in the first leg at Camp Nou with Messi scoring twice, including a direct free kick that was his 600th goal for the club. The second leg at Anfield ended 4-0 to Liverpool, one of the most stunning comebacks in Champions League history. Messi ended the 2018/19 Champions League as the top scorer with 12 goals. Barca also lost the Copa del Rey final 2-1 to Valencia. Messi finished the season having scored 51 goals and provided 22 assists in all competitions.
This Barcelona 2018/19 home shirt is made by Nike and was designed around Camp Nou's role as a unifying force across the ten districts of Barcelona. The shirt features exactly ten vertical blue and red stripes, each of equal width, with each stripe representing one of the city's ten districts. The collar is a navy V-neck, connected at the back by a strip featuring a Senyera, the Catalan flag. The gold Nike swoosh references twenty years of the Nike and Barcelona partnership, which began in 1998. The shirt has Lionel Messi printing and number 10 on the back. 894430-456 is the style code for this Barcelona 2018/19 home shirt.
