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  • Monday, 24 April, 2023
    FC Barcelona reaches deal to finance €1.5bn Camp Nou revamp

    Spanish club attracts 20 investors to back stadium overhaul and take on Premier League

  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    FC Barcelona pauses €1.5bn Camp Nou stadium financing

    Spanish football club weighs up other options in wake of rise in US borrowing costs

  • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
    News in-depthFIFA World Cup
    Why Messi surpasses Maradona without needing World Cup victory

    Most of the game’s greats marry brilliance and persona, but Argentina’s talisman ruthlessly pursued individual records

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Barcelona races to comply with Spain’s football league financial rules

    Club raises further €100mn by selling stake in its audiovisual studio so it can register new players for the coming season

  • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
    Scoreboard
    FC Barcelona: turning around a financial supertanker Premium content

    Plus, the Lionesses spotlight investments in women’s sport, Lewis Hamilton’s NFL stake, and more

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    News in-depth
    FC Barcelona opens spending taps in bid to revive fortunes

    Football club has already spent more than €150mn on signings this summer and has sold broadcast and sponsorship rights

  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    LexFootball
    Football finances: US money is driving up the price of top players Premium content

    American investors and broadcasters are spending billions on European clubs

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    Barcelona seals further €300mn from US group Sixth Street

    Investment fund secures additional 15% of media rights as football club raises funding for summer signings

  • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
    Scoreboard
    The unlikely alliance between Real Madrid and Barcelona Premium content

    Why golf has a problem with Saudi money, the cost of Raducanu’s Wimbledon exit, and more

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Barcelona sells media rights stake to Sixth Street in bid to repair finances

    Deal with private equity group will deliver Spanish club more than €200mn over 25 years

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Elite football is a meritocracy. Why can’t politics be?

    Failure in sport is clear-cut and gets punished, unlike in government

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    La Liga
    Real Madrid and Barcelona seek to thwart CVC’s €2bn La Liga deal

    Top Spanish football clubs launch counter-offer to head off private equity firm’s cash injection

  • Monday, 27 September, 2021
    European Super League
    Uefa ends efforts to punish breakaway European Super League teams

    Action halted as three holdout rebel clubs push ahead with legal case to shake up game

  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Barca: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club

    The FT’s Simon Kuper reveals how FC Barcelona came to dominate football — and then lost its way

  • Monday, 16 August, 2021
    Michael Moritz
    The Lionel Messi saga is a lesson in how not to handle a prize asset

    Barcelona and other football clubs could learn from how Silicon Valley treats valued performers

  • Friday, 13 August, 2021
    Person in the News
    Lionel Messi: football’s shy magician takes flight

    This week the Argentine left Barcelona, the ailing club that has been his home for 20 years

  • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
    La Liga
    Spain’s La Liga wins backing for CVC deal after last-minute compromise

    Clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona secure opt-out, pushing value of private equity investment down to €2.1bn

  • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
    Football
    Lionel Messi signs 2-year PSG contract after leaving Barcelona

    Move comes days after Argentine footballer bid tearful farewell to former club

  • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    The question of that profit-boosting Juventus and Barcelona swap deal

    We take a look at how football transfers are accounted for.

  • Sunday, 8 August, 2021
    Football
    Tearful Lionel Messi bids farewell to Barcelona

    Paris billed as likely destination for one of football’s greatest stars

  • Saturday, 7 August, 2021
    Scoreboard
    Simon Kuper on Barcelona after Messi Premium content

    This week in the business of sport: corporate Japan counts Olympic costs, Real Madrid opposes CVC’s proposed €2.7bn deal with La Liga, and more.

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Barcelona rejects private equity investment in La Liga as Messi departs

    Football club says deal would not be in its interests, even if it would have been a way to keep its star player

  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
    Lionel Messi
    Lionel Messi and Barcelona part company in end to era

    Split blamed on financial regulations as Spanish league roiled over private equity deal

  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
    Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
    How FC Barcelona blew a fortune — and got worse

    The inside story of why the world’s best and richest football club lost the battle for talent

  • Monday, 19 April, 2021
    European Super League
    Super League clubs net €200m-€300m ‘welcome bonus’

    JPMorgan provides funding as football elite make binding agreement to launch breakaway competition

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