Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona

The Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona was the most important sports and feminist organisation in pre-war Barcelona, linked to progressive and Catalanist political proposals.

[1] The club was founded on the initiative of Teresa Torrens and Enriqueta Sèculi on 14 October 1928, a few years before the other important cultural space for women in the city during the 1930s, the Lyceum Club [es].

[2][3] The latter followed a European model and was frequented by intellectuals, while the Club Femení i d'Esports was the first exclusively female sports organisation in Spain, with an aim to being accessible to all women.

[4] In December 1928, shortly after its foundation, the Club already had five hundred members and on 1 May 1929, there were already one thousand.