This work was developed as a guided study on the topic of superconductivity (SPC), quantum field theory (QFT) and their relation. We started with the basic phenomenology of SPC followed by a study of Ginzburg-Landau theory (GLT), its parameters and consequential categorization of SPC into types I and II where the solution proposed by Abrikosov was analysed thoroughly. Subsequently, in order to construct the analogy between SPC and the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electromagnectic gauge, we studied concepts from the theory of scalar fields, from basic results, through gauge symmetries to the Abelian Higgs mode.