.png?itok=_YqRaX2H&ssl=1 "How have Barcelona fared in the Europa League and the old UEFA Cup in history?")
Last season, due to not finishing in the top two of their group in Champions League, Barcelona sentenced to play the Europe Leaguethe second most important competition in Old continent, in which he had last participated on March 25, 2004. Almost 18 years later, in his first season without Lionel Messi, he had to play in this tournament again. In fact, one could say it was the “debut”, since they had never participated in it as it is now known, but as the old UEFA Cup.
And one campaign later the exact same thing happened again. And a day earlier.
It’s little consolation for Barcelona fans to question this tournament while other giants (and not so giants, but with big wallets) on the continent are chasing the Champions League dream. But there’s nothing left to do but win that title, which, if there’s any appeal to it, is the only one of the important trophies missing in the Barca.
Despite their very rich international history, the Catalans have never acquired this title and they haven’t even played a final. On four occasions they came close, losing in the semi-final series.
If you think about the continuation of tournaments and take extinction Fairs Cup, which involved both clubs and selected teams made up of players from clubs in the same city, as the predecessor of the UEFA Cup (which was born to replace the previous one), in this case Barcelona has conquered it: there were three titles, in 1958 , in 1960 and 1966. But the highest entity in European football, understandably because of these characteristics, does not include it as part of the history of the current competition.
How did FC Barcelona do in their Europa League / UEFA Cup?
| Time | example achieved | last opponent |
|---|---|---|
| 1972-73 | 1st. Round | Porto |
| 1973-74 | 1st. Round | Beautiful |
| 1975-76 | semi-finals | Liverpool |
| 1976-77 | Quarterfinals | Athletic Bilbao |
| 1977-78 | semi-finals | PSV |
| 1980-81 | 2nd Round | FC Cologne |
| 1986-87 | Quarterfinals | Dundee United |
| 1987-88 | 4th Round | Bayer Leverkusen |
| 1995-96 | semi-finals | Bayern Munich |
| 2000-01 | semi-finals | Liverpool |
| 2003-04 | 4th Round | Celtic |
| 2021-22 | Quarterfinals | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 2022-23 | ? | ? |
With bold, better performances.
Total matches of Barcelona in the Europa League
- Games played: 84
- Triumph: 42
- Ties: twenty
- Losses: 22
