The match was contested by the members of the Barcelona Football Club, who were divided into two teams: one dressed in red led by James Reeves and the other one in blue captained by George Cockram.

[1] The game was won by the Blues 2–1 with goals from the Catalans Figueras and Jorge Barrié, while the red's consolation was netted by the Englishmen Mr. Reeves, but more important than the result and its goalscorers, was its historical significance, given that this match was the subject of the first proper chronicle of the dispute of a football match in Spain, which appeared in La Dinastía on 16 March, written by Enrique Font Valencia, who detailed the aspects of the game, including lineups, the color of the clothes, the name of the referee, the result and the goalscorers.

[1] According to the chronicle, the match took place at four in the afternoon, in a field near the Hippodrome of Can Tunis, and it concludes by assuring that this group will keep promoting the sport of football in the years to come.

He arrived in Barcelona at some point in 1892, a time when football was a sport practically unknown in the city, but since he was an enthusiastic and passionate lover of the game, he decided to create his own club which would include Britons and Catalans alike.

[2][1] Several years after the game, specifically on 6 January 1906, Joaquim Escardó of Los Deportes published a report about the football practiced in the 1890s in Barcelona and especially on this match played on 12 March 1893.

[1][5] Catalan football historian Agustin Rodes wrongly dated this photograph to even earlier, to 1892, identifying it as the team of a Methodist church in Barcelona, which is also not true, since most of them were Catholic.

Notably, both Blue goals were scored by non-Britons, Figueras and Barrié, meaning that Reeves's inclusion of foreigners was paying off, as they showed they could play football just as well as its inventors.