[5] On 28 November, all cycling fans in the city were summoned to a meeting at the "Centro Sport", and those present there formed a Society (Sociedad) for the construction and management of a velodrome.

The chosen location for the velodrome was a 500,000 square span of land in Bonanova given that it was well connected to the city center thanks to the Sarrià train, an area which they agreed to purchase.

[5] A year later, on 26 July 1894, the cyclist Antonio de Sard set the Spanish record for the fastest hour without a coach, with a mark of 32 km and 415 m in 60 minutes.

[6] After the initial euphoria, the velodrome fell into disuse, which in December 1894 caused its owners to negotiate the rental of the facilities to the Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona, a group of football pioneers in the city led by James Reeves, which was made up of members of the English colony of Barcelona who had been playing the sport of football at Hippodrome of Can Tunis and were looking for a place of easier access to the city center.

[14] The rivalry reached its climax on 11 February 1900, in a match between Barcelona, with eight Englishmen in its eleven, and Catalá, combined with Escocès FC, thus being reinforced with a group of six Scots.

The match led to a fistfight between Stanley Harris and Willie Gold that the referee William Mauchan settled with the sending-off of both, an unprecedented event in Catalan and Spanish football.

[15] The ex-velodrome was the home ground of FC Barcelona for nine months, until Català reached an agreement with the owners to exclusively rent it, forcing their rivals to move to Hotel Casanovas.

The Barcelona team won 3–1 with goals from Gamper and Otto Maier, thus winning the club's first-ever piece of silverware: An art object made of bronze offered by José Canalejas.