Real Club Deportivo Espanyol is a sports club from Barcelona, Spain, best known for its football team. Its former stadium, the Montjuic Olympic Stadium, hosted the Barcelona Olympics. In 2009, Espanyol moved to Cornela El Pratt. The club is the sixth most successful team in Spain. Also known by the nickname "white and blue". It was founded in 1900.

Its founder was a mechanical engineering student, and the team itself was known at the time as the Spanish Football Association. It is the first team in the country to be founded only by Spanish fans. The name was changed to Football Club Espanyol in 1910, during which time the official team was introduced in a blue and white stripe (the same motif is present on the club emblem), and they were chosen in honor of the Catalan Naval Admiral Roger de Luria, who is a famous person from the Middle Ages.

From its inception, the team began a successful career, winning the Catalan Championship in 1903 and then playing for the Copa del Rey. It has been won 4 times. They are four-time champions in the Catalan Cup and winners of 12 Catalan Championship trophies.

Famous Bulgarian footballers who played in Espanyol are Nasko Sirakov, Velko Yotov, Martin Petrov and Mateo Stamatov.

Raul Tamudo holds the record for the most competitive appearances for the Espanyol football team with his 389 games for the team, of which 340 are for the league.

Espanyol was one of the founding members of La Liga in 1928. They played numerous number of seasons in the Primera Division without winning the title.