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Our countdown of the 20 greatest club teams of all times concludes today.

And the winner is …

Barcelona 2008-2012

Why are they here?

The stars

Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona dynasty may have only lasted four years, but the noise his team made will echo through time for a lot longer.

Guardiola was appointed in the summer of 2008. Barça had ended the previous season under Frank Rijkaard empty handed having finished 3rd in LaLiga, and it was time for a change.

The club made the bold decision to promote their B team coach to the first team and Guardiola immediately made some bold decisions of his own by shipping out Ronaldinho, Deco.

In came the likes of Dani Alves and Gerard Piqué, while Sergio Busquets and Pedro were mined from the club’s cantera youth set-up.

But the new era got off to a troubling start when they were beaten by newly promoted Numancia on the opening day of the LaLiga season.

What followed was a 20 match winning streak, however, and Barça went on to win the Copa del Rey and the LaLiga title, with a thrilling 6-2 victory over rivals Real Madrid at the Bernabeu effectively sealing the deal.

As if that weren’t enough, they then became the first Spanish club to complete a league, cup and Champions League treble with a 2-0 victory over Manchester United in the final in Rome.

The summer of 2009 yielded more personnel changes, the most notable being a swap deal involving Samuel Eto’o and Zlatan Ibrahimović.

Victories in the Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and Club World Cup followed, before Guardiola lifted the seventh trophy of his fledgling managerial career by guiding his team to the LaLiga title again in 2010.

A third successive league title followed in 2010/11 before the Blaugrana were again victorious against Manchester United in the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley.

The 2011/12 campaign was less successful, however, and after being pipped to the title by Madrid and crashing out of the Champions League at the hands of Chelsea, Guardiola bowed out by winning the Copa del Rey, his 14th trophy in four seasons.

But the reason this team should be considered the greatest of all-time is not just because of what they won, but how they won it.

For a time Barça’s style was labelled “Tiki Taka” but “juego de posición” – the principle that the spaces your players occupy on the field is often more important than what they do with the ball – is perhaps more apt.

Of course, Barcelona’s success during that period is intrinsically linked to Guardiola’s coaching, but the fact they won the treble again in 2014/15 is proof that the players were just as important, if not more.

With the support of two of the greatest playmakers of all-time in Xavi and Iniesta, Messi became the finest player on the planet during those incredible years.

But almost every player who pulled on the jersey played their part in making Barcelona the truest reference point for beautiful, flowing football.

It could be a long time before we see their like again.