{"id":30153,"date":"2026-05-26T23:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/30153\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:07:26","slug":"fc-barcelona-announces-alexia-putellas-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/30153\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona Announces Alexia Putellas Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FC Barcelona has announced the exit of its pioneering female player Alexia Putellas.<\/p>\n

UEFA via Getty Images<\/p>\n

FC Barcelona<\/a> has announced<\/a> that its legendary Femeni player Alexia Putellas will leave the club after 14 highly successful seasons in blaugrana.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of Alexia Putellas is one of talent, resilience and love for a player who has become much more than a footballer. A Bar\u00e7a Femeni icon who arrived at the age of 18 in 2012 from Levante, and who has grown with the team since then. Now, 14 years later, the midfielder from nearby Mollet del Vall\u00e8s is set to leave Bar\u00e7a on a high after writing herself into the history books of her childhood club,\u201d it wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

To honour arguably its greatest female player alongside fellow Ballon d\u2019Or winner<\/a> Aitana Bonmati, Bar\u00e7a will hold a special farewell event at 11AM local time in the Spotify Camp Nou<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

With 507 matches to her name, Alexia is second on Bar\u00e7a\u2019s all-time female appearances leaders list to Melanie Serrano, who played 516.<\/p>\n

She does lead the goalscoring rankings with 232 strikes, however, which have helped bring a trophy haul of four Champions Leagues, 10 La Ligas<\/a>, 10 Copa de la Reinas, six Spanish Super Cups and eight Catalunya Cups.<\/p>\n

In her own statement made via an emotional video, Alexia said that she has lived a \u201cperfect story\u201d which took in a \u201cbeautiful and unrepeatable transformation\u201d of the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

She recalled going to the Spotify Camp Nou for the first time with her father, a hardcore Culer, as a six-year-old, and the joy of him seeing her don blaugrana before passing away when Alexia was 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will always say that, in my worst moment, Bar\u00e7a saved me,\u201d Alexia added, in reference to her father\u2019s death. \u201cFor all that, I will always be indebted to these colors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though nothing has been confirmed or announced yet, Alexia Putellas is expected to join former Bar\u00e7a teammate Jana Fernandez at the London City Lionesses in the immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona has announced the exit of its pioneering female player Alexia Putellas. UEFA via Getty Images FC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3326,3447,15055,92,15056,223],"class_list":["post-30153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-aitana-bonmati","tag-alexia-putellas","tag-alexia-putellas-exit","tag-barcelona","tag-culer","tag-fc-barcelona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}