Les Corts was built as a result of a long-term plan by the club president, Joan Gamper, to provide FC Barcelona with its own stadium.

[1] During a game, FC Barcelona fans jeered the Spanish national anthem and then applauded God Save the King, performed by a visiting British Royal Marine band.

The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera accused Joan Gamper of promoting Catalan nationalism.

During the 1920s with coach Jack Greenwell and players such as Paulino Alcántara, Sagibarba, Ricardo Zamora, Josep Samitier, Félix Sesúmaga and Franz Platko, the club dominated the Campionat de Catalunya and emerged as one of the top clubs in Spain.

After the closure of Les Corts, the club began a long, ultimately successful, process to rezone the property to allow for residential and commercial use.