Primera 12/13 calendar announced

[Bojan]

Barca - Real Sociedad, first match of the season

The match will be played on the weekend of 18th and 19th August in the Camp Nou. The last time the two sides met in the opening league game of the season was in 1993/94, when Barça, then coached by Johan Cruyff, won 3-0 with a hat-trick from Brazilian striker Romario, who made his debut that day. The final league game of the season will be against Malaga on 1st June.




A tricky start

FC Barcelona will have a pretty complicated start to the season. After the opening match against Real Sociedad, Messi and Co. will take on Osasuna in Pamplona, where they lost 3-2 last year. Then Valencia will visit the Camp Nou and on match day 4 Barça will travel to Getafe, another ground where they failed to pick up any points last season (1-0). On match day 6 they go to the Sánchez Pizjuán to face Sevilla and finally on 7th October Barca will take on Real Madrid in the Camp Nou in the first “clásico” of the season.

The first derby of the season against RCD Espanyol will take place just after Christmas in the Camp Nou. Barça will make the short trip down the road to the new Cornellà-El Prat stadium on the last match day but one of the season.

Malaga the final opponent

The south coast side coached by Manuel Pellegrini will be FC Barcelona’s final opponents of the league season 2012/13 on 1st June. Malaga, who have qualified for this season’s Champions League, were the last opponents of the 2012/11 season, when Pep Guardiola’s men won 1-3 despite fielding many reserves. The goals came from Bojan, Afellay and Bartra.

The date of the final of the Spanish Cup has also been set for 18th May 2013.





Full Barca calender: http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/first-team/calendar

[impeh]

nice opening day, cant wait

first classico is pretty early.

[Ryan_Cule]

Classico October 7th at Camp nou and March 3rd at Bernacow.

[Galning]

Sociedad, Osasuna (away!), Valencia, Getafe & Sevilla (away), Madrid & then Deportivo (away)..

The first seven games won't be easy at all. I reckon Tito will be eaten alive when we don't have a good start :/
I'm so excited

[FiReFTW]

Sociedad, Osasuna (away!), Valencia, Getafe & Sevilla (away), Madrid & then Deportivo (away)..

Not to mention the spanish super cup is right in the middle of all that.

[Aryagorn]

In Super Cup we have to kick them so hard, they have to feel ashamed to play for 10 gameweeks

[Blue Demon]

In Super Cup we have to kick them so hard, they have to feel ashamed to play for 10 gameweeks

That is the key. If not, that's ten weeks of hearing about the superiority that Madrid has in La Liga.

[Maria]

That is the key. If not, that's ten weeks of hearing about the superiority that Madrid has in La Liga.

The fact that we won the Supercup didn't helped us so much last year though..

[Blue Demon]

The fact that we won the Supercup didn't helped us so much last year though..

True. If we stay healthy it should be different this time around I believe. Injuries were detrimental last year.

[Panna]

^^I wanted it was all about the injuries....
I still blame the referees,a lot of decisions were.....well lets say strange!

[mitkoa7x]

Winning the supercopa should set up the mood for Tito's era.

[Spector]

Barca - Real Sociedad, first match of the season

The match will be played on the weekend of 18th and 19th August in the Camp Nou.

I'm going to Barcelona on that day and I'd like to see this game. The question is, might it be played on the Friday 17th or even Thursday 16th because Barcelona are playing their Gamper Match on Monday 20th?

[El Hefe]

Barca Espanyol same week I am visiting Europe! Hopefully it doesn't get delayed.

[Darko]

why does the league start so early this year?

[soccerbreaker]

Nice match. If it will be a classico match then it will be more better.