{"id":788833,"date":"2026-05-11T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:42:20","slug":"barcelona-fans-celebrate-winning-la-liga-title-in-el-clasico-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788833\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona fans celebrate winning La Liga title in El Clasico | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona, Spain \u2014<\/strong> Draped in club flags and with their faces painted blue and maroon, Barcelona fan Max Dour and his father Nico joined thousands of others celebrating their team\u2019s crowning as La Liga champions<\/a> under the glow of flares lighting up the night sky at the famous Plaza Catalunya in the Catalan capital.<\/p>\n

Playing at home, the football giants sealed their second consecutive Spanish league title with a 2-0 win over bitter rivals Real Madrid<\/a> in a highly-anticipated El Clasico on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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The league triumph was made all the sweeter by a lacklustre performance from Madrid and the tens of thousands of cules \u2013 as Barcelona supporters are known \u2013 packed inside the Camp Nou stadium.<\/p>\n

The iconic venue carried an air of anticipation for what fans believed was an inevitable victory. They chanted \u201cCampeones, campeones (champions, champions)\u201d throughout the match and well past the referee\u2019s full-time whistle.<\/p>\n

Come Monday afternoon, Barca fans will once again pack the city streets when the players join their celebrations with an open bus parade through the streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promised my son if we won La Liga, then we would go to the Canaletas [fountain] to celebrate, so here we are,\u201d said Dour, a businessman who is a Barca season ticket holder, like his 14-year-old son. \u201cHow better could you end the season and win La Liga?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Canaletas fountain at one end of Las Ramblas, Barcelona\u2019s famous thoroughfare, is where fans traditionally gather to celebrate victories, but it was closed off for works on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It is part of Barcelona folklore.<\/p>\n

During the 1930s, the main sporting Barcelona newspaper, Las Ramblas, would record the team\u2019s results here on a blackboard if they were playing away. The blackboard has long gone, as has the newspaper, but the tradition of celebrating victories there remains.<\/p>\n

Dour, 50, praised the team\u2019s consistency throughout the season and credited that quality for their title win.<\/p>\n

\u201cReal Madrid and Atletico Madrid only seemed to play for certain games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Such was the pull of the derby \u2013 and the chance to see Barca crowned champions \u2013 that fans travelled from across the world.<\/p>\n

Vance Sterling flew in from Missouri in the United States just for this \u00a0match, after saving up for the $2,000 match tickets.<\/p>\n

With the azulgrana (blue and maroon) colours painted on his cheeks, Sterling, 33, said: \u201cIt has been worth the journey. This has been a marvellous experience. Winning La Liga by beating Real Madrid in this stadium \u2013 how could you beat it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BarcelonaBarcelona\u2019s players celebrate at the Camp Nou stadium after winning their second La Liga title in a row [Nacho Doce\/Reuters]Barca\u2019s win or Real Madrid\u2019s loss?<\/p>\n

For other fans, however, their joy at winning La Liga was slightly muted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is great that we have won the title of course, but strangely it has not been so emotional or exciting as it was last year when it was coach Hansi Flick\u2019s first season,\u201d Adrian Fabregat, another Barcelona season ticket holder, said<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we may have been a little obsessed with the UEFA Champions League. That is what Hansi said he was determined to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fabregat, 45, a computer worker who has been a fan since 2004, said that Real Madrid\u2019s poor form helped Barca<\/a> win the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey dropped points to clubs they never should have drawn with or even lost to, which has helped. We have been more dependable. It is always great to win the title when Real Madrid do not win anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flick has now won a third major title, including the Copa del Rey in 2025, in his two years in charge of Barcelona. During the same period, Madrid have finished a second successive season with no major silverware.<\/p>\n

Madrid will now limp to the finish of a disappointing season in which Xabi Alonso was fired and \u2013 barring a drastic change of events \u2013 Alvaro Arbeloa is also expected to be ousted in a summer shake-up.<\/p>\n

Spanish football expert Graham Hunter believes the title win does not make for a \u201cgood season\u201d for the Catalan club.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn objective terms, Barcelona have gone backwards this season,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have conceded in every UEFA Champions League game and were knocked out in the quarterfinals of the competition by local opponents Atletico Madrid, rather than the semifinal like last season. They were also knocked out in the semifinals of the King\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIrrespective of whether their winning margin and the date of their league victory is better than last season, they have not played better football, in fact, they have often played less well.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Hunter said two players shone for Flick.<\/p>\n

\u201cLamine Yamal has been outstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has often carried the team. He is, without any doubt in football terms, a genius. Joan Garc\u00eda in goal has played blindingly well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Hunter agreed that Barca\u2019s triumph had a lot to do with Real\u2019s poor form.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is undeniable that Real Madrid have been chaotic and have often gifted points to minor teams.<\/p>\n

Sacking a manager in mid-season and watching his replacement have an even lower win rate was not a good look. The two-horse race was always going to be won by the thoroughbred against the Shetland pony,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Alberto Mart\u00ednez, a football journalist for Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia, said Flick and his players pounced on the opportunity presented by the crisis at Madrid.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarcelona\u2019s continuity, with the manager and players, were key to their victory\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"BarcelonaThousands of Barca fans celebrate at the Placa de Catalunya in central Barcelona after winning the La Liga title on Sunday [Joan Mateu Parra\/AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona, Spain \u2014 Draped in club flags and with their faces painted blue and maroon, Barcelona fan Max…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,440,1318,2961,224,5337,50,128,1926],"class_list":{"0":"post-788833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-sport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116556238176123125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}