BARCA HAVEN’T PLAYED IN PRESENT SINCE 2020
FC Barcelona is back among the very best teams in the UEFA Champions League. Barcelona will challenge for the quarter-finals of the continental competition after beating SSC Napoli 3-1 (4-2 in global qualifiers) in the eighth-final series thanks to Fermin’s goals. López, Joao Cancel and Robert Lewandowski. An exclusive he hasn’t reached in four seasons. Specifically, it has been 1,306 days, or the same, three years, six months and 27 days, since Barcelona last qualified for the quarter-finals.
It is necessary to look back to the 2019/20 season to find Barca’s last appearance in the Champions League quarter-finals. In this edition, under the condition of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a competition redefined in a single venue in Lisbon and a unique party, the Barcelona team traveled to the Portuguese capital to face Bayern Munich after overcoming the SSC Napoli. with 4-2 in the eighth of the final. The culés lost to the Bavarian group with 2-8 and suffered the biggest goleada in its history in Europe (and one of the greatest ever in all competitions). Luz gives a night to forget at the Estádio, where he signed the blackest page of his history.
Barcelona team’s last participation in the Champions League quarter-final qualifiers, in the traditional format of double parties, starts from in the 2018/19 season. In this campaign, Barca, who reached the eighth round of the final after being eliminated in Lyon (5-1), saw the faces with Manchester United. The culés won at Old Trafford (0-1) and condemned the elimination at the Spotify Camp Nou after overcoming the English 3-0 with two goals from Leo Messi and one from Philippe Coutinho. Barcelona advanced to the semi-finals after a three-year drought at the continent’s top competitionalthough they end up falling ahead of Liverpool FC (3-4 in the global qualifier), who later became the winners of this edition.
All illusions raised in the Champions League
Without Glass of Rey and with the practically impossible League as they mark it bets spanish, Barca is focused on the Champions League. Barcelona have the dream of being in the grand final of the biggest continental competition, which will be played on Saturday 1 June 2024 at Wembley Stadium, London.
Beyond the sporting, the economic factor is also important for the entity chaired by Joan Laporta. Currently, Barca have fulfilled their prediction of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions Leagueas established in this year’s budgets, and already carries ingresados 47.04 million euros in this edition of the ultimate continental competition. If he gets past the quarter-finals he will report to Barcelona another 12.5 million euros, what supondrió a financial break in the middle of financial difficulties.