This is a list of all matches contested between the Spanish
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
clubs
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
and
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, th ...
, a fixture known as ''
El Clásico
El Clásico (in Spanish, also in lowercase letters; ) or El Clàssic (in Catalan, ), both meaning "The Classic", is the name given to any football match between rival clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid. Originally referring to competitions he ...
''.
The club name in bold indicates a win for that team. The score is given at full-time and half-time (in brackets), and in the goals columns, the goalscorer and time when goal was scored is noted.
Competitive matches
Primera División matches
Barcelona and Real Madrid have faced each other in every
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest ...
season since its inception in 1929, as inaugural members and two of the only three teams (the other being
Athletic Bilbao
Athletic Club (; ), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao (), or simply Athletic, is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Southern Basque Country, Basque Country, Spain. They are known ...
) to have never been relegated from the Primera División.
Summary
Copa del Rey matches
The
Copa del Rey
The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...
is the oldest competition in the history of Spanish football.
Summary
Copa de la Liga matches
The
Copa de la Liga
The Copa de la Liga (League Cup in Spanish) was a Spanish football tournament created in 1982.
Due to time constraints, saturation and club pressure, the competition only lasted four years, being cancelled in 1986. Winning the trophy helped two ...
was a tournament created in 1982, but low support from the participating clubs saw it disbanded four years later.
Summary
Supercopa de España matches
The
Supercopa de España
The Supercopa de España, also known as the Spanish Super Cup, is a super cup tournament in Football in Spain, Spanish football. Founded in 1982 Supercopa de España, 1982 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2 ...
is a
super cup
A super cup is a competition, in association football, basketball, handball, volleyball and rugby union which often forms the 'curtain raiser' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competi ...
competition. Between 1983 and 2017, it was a two-legged match between the previous season's La Liga and Copa del Rey winners.
The current format was introduced in the 2019–20 edition, and now features four teams (the previous season's top two teams in La Liga, and the winners and runners-up of the Copa del Rey).
Summary
Copa de la Coronación
The
Copa de la Coronación is an official tournament recognized by the Spanish Football Federation, but is not recognized as part of the Copa del Rey tournament.
Summary
UEFA Champions League matches
In Europe's most prestigious continental tournament, Barcelona and Real Madrid have faced each other on several occasions. The
Champions League was known as the European Cup prior to 1992.
Summary
Summary of all competitive matches
Friendlies and other matches
Real Madrid and Barcelona have played 43 friendly matches. Before the start of
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest ...
championship in
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
, the two clubs played exhibition matches and friendlies on a more frequent basis than after the national league commenced. After 1929, such games have been tributes or part of pre-season tournaments of a friendly nature.
The last friendly match took place on 3 August 2024.
Summary
Summary of all matches
Reserve teams matches
Barcelona Atlètic was founded as the Barcelona's reserve team in 1970 with the merger of
Condal (Barcelona's previous reserve team) and
Atlètic Catalunya.
Castilla
Castile, Castille or Castilla may refer to:
Places Spain
*Castile (historical region), a vaguely defined historical region of Spain covering most of Castile and León, all of the Community of Madrid and most of Castilla–La Mancha
*Kingdom of ...
was founded as Real Madrid's reserve team in 1972, after the folding of A.D. Plus Ultra (Real Madrid's previous reserve team). Both teams would meet for the first time during the third round of the
1974–75 Copa del Generalísimo
The 1974–75 Copa del Generalísimo was the 73rd staging of the Spanish Cup. The competition began on 30 October 1974 and ended on 5 July 1975.
First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
*Bye: ...
and then again during the
1982–83 Segunda División season.
The reserve teams normally meet only when both are competing in the second tier, as they are placed in different regional groups at lower levels, and they are not permitted to enter the Copa del Rey.
Summary
Copa del Rey matches between first teams and reserve teams
Until 1990, reserve teams could participate in the Copa del Rey, so there was a possibility that one of the two Clásico teams would face the other team's reserves in the competition, which happened on two occasions, once with Real Madrid against
Barcelona Atlètic, and once with Barcelona against
Real Madrid Castilla
Real Madrid Castilla Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team that plays in . It is Real Madrid's reserve team. They play their home games at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium with a capacity of 6,000 seats.
Reserve teams in Spain play in the ...
, with the senior teams winning both times.
See also
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El Clásico (basketball)
El Clásico (; , ; ), is the name given to the basketball matches between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona (named after the cities they are based in; both cities are separated by 621 km), the two most successful and most supported basketball tea ...
Notes
References
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FC Barcelona-related lists
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