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Real Club de Polo de Barcelona ( en, Barcelona Royal Polo Club) is a
country club A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining. Typical athletic offe ...
in
Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, Spain. Established in 1897, it had 9000 members at the time of the
1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
. Normally used for polo,
field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...
,
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
,
squash Squash may refer to: Sports * Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets * Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling * Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ...
, and
swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
by its members, the club was the venue for the Olympic
equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
competition (dressage, jumping, and the eventing finals) and the riding portion of the modern pentathlon events.


Trophies


Men's hockey

* División de Honor de Hockey: 15 **1958, 1959, 1970, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015,
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* European Cup: 1 **2003–04 *
Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...
: 31 **1916, 1917, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1941, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017,
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, 2020


Women's hockey

* División de Honor Femenina: 9 **1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 2003, 2006 * Copa de la Reina: 3 **2003, 2004, 2005


Current squad


Men's squad

Head coach: Roger Pallarols


References


External links


1992 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. pp. 221–24.
Official website
1897 establishments in Catalonia Field hockey clubs established in 1897 Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic equestrian venues Olympic modern pentathlon venues Sports venues in Barcelona Sports clubs in Barcelona Catalan field hockey clubs Polo clubs {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub