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 (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. On 17 June 1917 club founder Joan Gamper regained the presidency of the club for the third time.
Player roster
PlayerCtryPT fb golsGOL Luis Bru 12 -10 GOL Francisco Conforto 0 DEF Eduardo Reguera 12 DEF Josep Costaca 12 5 DEF Joan Pedret 1 DEF Lluís Tudó 0 DEF Jack Greenwell 0 DEF Joan Barba 0 DEF Dimas Fernández 0 MID Francisco Baonza 12 1 MID Agustin Sancho 12 3 MID Ramón Torralba 6 MID 5 MID Rodríguez 3 1 MID Pere Llobet 3 1 FWD Francisco Vinyals 11 FWD Vicente Martínez (footballer) 9 8 FWD Salvador Hormeu 10 5 FWD Augusto Ozores 9 FWD Juan Garchitorena 6 2 FWD A. Castells 5 1 FWD Francesc Serrats 3 1 FWD Francisco Castelló 1 FWD Ernest Rovira 0 FWD Emilio Sagi Liñán 0 FWD Casimiro Mallorquí 0 FWD José Julià 0 FWD Enrique Peris 0 FWD 0 FWD Joaquim Alfaro 0
Results Friendly games
Catalan championship games
The first six matches were counted as defeats due to illegal lineups.
Foronda Cup
External links
Season summary, daily, 1899–2008 Year-by-year results
References