Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-0 on Sunday to clinch the LaLiga title, sealing the championship on the back of a result in the Clásico for the first time in their history. The win gave Barcelona their 29th Spanish title and confirmed back-to-back league crowns under Hansi Flick.
Flick took charge despite the death of his father over the weekend, and his team responded with the kind of control that has defined a remarkable run. Barcelona built an insurmountable 14-point lead over Madrid with three games to go after winning 23 of 25 league games since losing the reverse fixture in October, then strung together 11 wins in a row after a shock defeat to Girona in February.
The title also underlined how young this Barcelona side has been. They had the youngest squad in LaLiga for a second straight season, even as the average age rose from 24.1 years old last year to 24.6 this season. Lamine Yamal is still only 18, and Barcelona are now the two youngest title-winning teams this millennium.
Flick’s first season brought the Supercopa de España, and this league crown gives Barcelona five domestic trophies out of six since he arrived in 2024. The only major setback came in Europe, where they did not go beyond the Champions League quarterfinals after defeat to Atlético Madrid.
Pau Cubarsí said the group was already thinking beyond one title. “I wouldn’t sign to have the exact same season next year,” he said. “We want more. We’re young, hungry and we want to win everything.” That ambition was easy to see after the final whistle, when the players’ families spilled onto the Camp Nou pitch, Raphinha’s son Gael drew attention, and the celebrations spread across the city.
Some of the squad took the party into the streets, with Alejandro Balde and Marc Casadó heading to Plaça Catalunya, Dani Olmo, Pedri and Eric García riding rental bikes around Barcelona, and Joan Laporta later at the Luz de Gas nightclub. The scale of the celebration matched the season: a team that had already become one of Europe’s must-watch sides entered Sunday with higher expectations, and left it with the title in hand and the pressure of next season already starting to build.
