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Barça has topped the league table from beginning to end of the season, a feat only matched once before in the 1984/85 season.

Barça kicked off the campaign with a thumping win against Real Sociedad and stormed to five victories in the following five matches.

The team led the table after beating Real Sociedad 5-1 in the opening game of the season.

 For only the second time in history, FC Barcelona has topped the league table for all 38 rounds of the championship. From beginning to end.

Barça seized first place in the opening match of the season thanks to 5-1 win against Real Sociedad, with goal difference separating them from the other sides that won their matches. It was the start of a superb run of six wins in the opening six matches of the season, equalling the best ever start to a league campaign. This gave Barça a lead that they would not lose for the rest of the season.

Venables the precedent

The only other time Barça has led the league from beginning to end was in 1984/85. That year, the team managed by Terry Venables won their opening match 0-3 in the Bernabeu and went on to win the next four matches. They clinched the league title with five games still left to play with a 1-2 victory away to Valladolid which featuried a penalty save from the goalkeeper Urruti . It would be remembered as the league title of ‘Urruti t’estimo’ (‘Urruti I love you).

The celebrations of the 22nd Liga title at the Camp Nou, following the game with Valladolid, will be shown live on Barça TV and will also be streamed on www.fcbarcelona.com

Camp Nou to celebrate Liga title on Sunday

The team will be receiving the championship trophy after the match with Valladolid on a night of many surprises

The celebrations of the 22nd Liga title at the Camp Nou, following the game with Valladolid, will be shown live on Barça TV and will also be streamed on www.fcbarcelona.com

On Sunday night, the Camp Nou will be celebrating Barça’s Liga title. It’ll all be happening after the game with Valladolid (which kicks off at 21.00)). The trophy arrived at the club this Friday ready for presentation to FC Barcelona for the 22nd time.

The party gets going at about 23.00, with the president of the Spanish Football Federation presenting the all-important silverware to FC Barcelona captain Carles Puyol.

Champions honours

The night will continue with a sound and light show that includes a host of different surprises, including highlights on the video scoreboard of the team’s triumphant March to its fourth title in five years. Also, as is only to be expected on a night like this, fans can rest assured that there will also be plenty of music, fireworks and confetti!

History repeating

Curiously enough, just three years ago, in 2010, Barça also celebrated the Liga title at the Camp Nou with a game against Valladolid, which the home side won handsomely, 4-0. But that was not the last time that the Barça fans were able to celebrate winning the Liga trophy. Last year, in the penultimate and otherwise largely meaningless game against Deportivo, Barça were able to celebrate title number 21.

LA LIGA CHAMPIONS

On May 17th 2006,Rijkaard’s Barça of Ronaldinho, Deco, Eto’o and co. hit the heights in Paris with a Beletti goal

May 17^th is an important day for Barça fans. On this day in 2006 the Club conquered their second European Cup in Paris at the Saint Denis Stadium against Arsenal in a game full of suffering and tension that ended in elation. Despite playing with 10 men after keeper Lehmann had been sent off, Arsenal took the lead in the first half, but after the break in the pouring rain, Eto’o and Belletti turned the game around and coached by Frank Rijkaard, the Ronaldinho-led team’s great European run ended in glory.

Five three time winners

The Barça fans had had a fourteen year wait to celebrate their second European Cup after the famous win at Wembley against Sampdoria, but the third and fourth didn’t take so long, coming in 2009 and 2011. Five of the current squad have lifted the Champions League trophy three times: Valdés, Puyol, Iniesta, Xavi and Messi and they’re bound to be celebrating their first this Friday.

The only other time a side has appeared five times on the run was when Barça were in the Super Cup from 1990 to 1994

Barça have won the trophy more times than any other team – 10 in all – and Leo Messi is the competition’s all time leading scorer with 10 goals – so far!

As this year’s league champions, Barça will be taking part in next season’s curtain raiser – the Spanish Super Cup – against the winner of Friday’s Spanish Cup Final. It’s the fifth year on the trot that the team have made it through to the game, equalling the record of the 1990-1994 Barça side.

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Super Cup Kings!

The game will see Barça face either Atletico or Real Madrid and give them the chance to win their fourth Spanish Super Cup in five years, having beaten Athletic Bilbao in 2009, Seville in 2010 and Real Madrid in 2011. Last year saw Real Madrid beat them to take their total of titles to nine, one behind leaders Barça with ten.

At the start of the 1990s, Johan Cruyff’s team also appeared in the Super Cup on five successive occasions, beating Atletico Madrid in 1991 and 1992 and Zaragoza in 1994, whilst losing in 1990 and 93 to Real Madrid.