Imagine La liga without Barcelona. Boring!


Barcelona still supports Catalonia’s push to vote on secession from the rest of Spain despite warnings that independence would mean the club’s exclusion from La Liga.

Barcelona “was one of the first institutions to declare it was in favour of the right to decide,” the club said in a statement on Friday.

Catalonia’s regional government wants to hold a non-binding referendum on independence on 9 November. A Spanish court has suspended the vote to rule on its legality.


On Tuesday, the president of the Spanish football league, Javier Tebas, said Barcelona and the other football clubs in the north-east region would be excluded from Spanish competitions if Catalonia became a separate state.

Tebas said the country’s sports law entitles only one non-Spanish territory Andorra to legally participate in the league or other official competitions. If Catalonia were to gain independence, the law would have to be altered to let Catalan clubs, including Espanyol and the second division teams Girona and Sabadell, back in

Imagine the Nigerian league without Heartland FC in 2015

If it means altering the law to get barce in they will because they and Madrid are their biggest sporting brand. I bet you