{"id":3821,"date":"2025-04-16T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/barcelona-overcomes-5-years-of-disappointment-in-the-champions-league_312165_102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:28:57","slug":"barcelona-overcomes-5-years-of-disappointment-in-the-champions-league_312165_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/champions-league\/barcelona-overcomes-5-years-of-disappointment-in-the-champions-league_312165_102.html","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: FC Barcelona leaves behind its ghosts after 5 years of drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bar\u00e7a is in the Champions League semi-finals six years later. Hansi Flick’s team has buried recent ghosts with thrashings and good football<\/h2> \r\n
\r\n \r\n \r\n Calendar of FC Barcelona <\/a>\r\n<\/div>

FC Barcelona is already in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. A goal that the Blaugrana team had not reached for six years<\/a>, a period in which the team had to deal with one of the most complex transitions in its history.<\/p>

Leo Messi’s departure in 2021, added to the financial crisis<\/strong> derived from the covid-19 pandemic and the terrible management of Josep Bartomeu, gave way to a journey through the desert in Europe.<\/p>

Yes, in the middle they won a League (2023), a Copa del Rey (2021) and a Spanish Super Cup (2023), but the continental balance was too discreet for a team that, between 2006 and 2019, had been among the best four teams in the Champions League on nine occasions<\/strong>.<\/p>

Bar\u00e7a manages to leave behind a five-year period of disappointments in the Champions League<\/h2>

Well, the arrival of Hansi Flick has managed to put an end to a five-year period of disappointments in Europe’s top club competition. Between 2019-20 and 2023-24, Bar\u00e7a reached the quarter-finals twice<\/strong>. In the middle there was a fall in the round of 16 and two eliminations in the group stage.<\/p>

The Blaugrana disaster began in August 2020, with the historic thrashing in Lisbon against Bayern Munich<\/strong> (2-8). The following season, Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong> thrashed Bar\u00e7a at Camp Nou (1-4) in the first leg of the round of 16, enough to negotiate a draw in the return leg (1-1) and seal Messi’s farewell in the Champions League with the Blaugrana shirt.<\/p>

The arrival of Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez to the Blaugrana bench in November 2021<\/strong> was not enough to avoid two consecutive eliminations in the group stage, adding just 7 of 18 possible points. The Egarense managed to reach the quarter-finals last season, but PSG came back from the 2-3 first leg in Paris with a very tough thrashing in Montju\u00efc (1-4) against a Bar\u00e7a that played for more than an hour with ten men.<\/p>

In this way, a period of five years of disappointments in the Champions League was consummated, which could well be considered a decade, since before that there were other very painful eliminations against Roma<\/strong> (quarter-finals in 2018) and Liverpool<\/strong> (semi-finals in 2019) that sealed the cycle of Ernesto Valverde. <\/p>