The latest precedents for FC Barcelona in the quarterfinals of the Champions League

The FC Barcelona goes back to be between the ochos better teams of the UEFA Champions League. The Barcelona team will contest the quarter-finals of the maximum continental competition after imposing to the SSC Napoli by 3-1 (4-2 in the global of the eliminatory) in the turn of the eighth of final, thanks to the goals of Fermín López, Joao Cancel and Robert Lewandowski. An eliminatory to which did not arrive from did four seasons. Specifically, they have happened 1.306 days, or what is the same, three years, six months and 27 days, from the last time that the Barcelona classified for quarter-finals.

It is necessary to trace back to the season 2019/20 to find the last participation of the Barça in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. In this edition, conditioned by the pandemia of the COVID-19 and with a competition redefined in an alone headquarters in Lisbon and only party, the Barcelona team travelled to the Portuguese capital to confront to the Bayern of Munich, after surpassing to the SSC Napoli by 4-2 in eighth of final. The culés lost against the Bavarian group by 2-8 and suffered the greater goleada of his history in Europe (and one of the greater of always in all the competitions). A night to forget in the Estádio gives Luz, where signed the most black page of his history.

 

The last participation of the Barcelona team in an eliminatory of quarter-finals of the Champions League, with the traditional format to double party, traces back to the season 2018/19. In this campaign, the Barça, that arrived after deleting to the Lyon (5-1) in the eighth of final, saw the faces with the Manchester United. The culés won in the gone in Old Trafford (0-1) and sentenced the eliminatory in the Spotify Camp Nou after surpassing to the English by 3-0 with two goals of Leo Messi and one of Philippe Coutinho. The Barcelona advanced to the semifinals after three years of drought in the maximum continental competition, although they finish falling in front of the Liverpool FC (3-4 in the global of the eliminatory), that later turned into the winner of this edition.

All the illusions put in the Champions League

Without Glass of Rey and with the practically impossible League, as they signal the bets ties Spanish, the Barça centres in the Champions League. The Barcelona have the dream to be in the big final of the maximum continental competition, that will contest the Saturday 1 June 2024 in the stadium of Wembley, in London.

 

Further of the sportive, the economic factor also is important for the entity chaired by Joan Laporta. For the moment, the Barça has fulfilled with the forecast to arrive to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, as it was established in the budgets of this year, and already carries ingresados 47,04 million euros in this edition of the maximum continental competition. Surpass the quarter-finals would report to the Barcelona other 12,5 million euros, what supondrió an economic break in the middle of the financial difficulties.