Barcelona fixtures and results

The answer block at the top is where to check whether Barcelona play, and the fixture list beside it lists the matches still to come. Kick-off times appear in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together, so a football (or soccer) supporter in Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Kampala or Johannesburg reads local time straight away.

A checked fixture list beats memory, because kick-off slots move and an evening at a viewing centre in Kampala is usually planned around work and a shared screen. The live list does the changing, and the words below explain how to read it, from what each time means in your country to why Barcelona have mattered to African supporters since Samuel Eto'o. The club's history and squad sit on the Barcelona page.

What Time Is the Barcelona Match in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa?

Every Barcelona fixture carries four times: WAT for Nigeria, GMT for Ghana, EAT for Kenya and Uganda, and SAST for South Africa. Ghana is one hour behind Nigeria, South Africa is one hour ahead and East Africa is two hours ahead, and none of the five countries changes its clocks. Spain does, which is why the same 21:00 slot in Barcelona lands an hour earlier across Africa during the European summer. That late slot is the one to plan around, because in Nairobi and Kampala it begins at 23:00 in the winter months and ends after midnight.

Barca Fixtures: How to Read the List

Barca fixtures run in date order, the next five to ten matches, and each line names the competition and shows whether Barcelona are home or away, with the venue beside it. La Liga supplies most of the lines, with the Champions League, the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa labelled where they fall. Why does a kick-off time sometimes change after it is listed? League kick-offs are confirmed once the television slots are chosen, and matches shift around European weeks, so 'Barcelona next match' is a question worth asking again on matchday.

Camp Nou, completed in 1957, is the club's own ground, and before it the club played at Les Corts, which opened in 1922 with room for 30,000 and was expanded to 60,000 in the 1940s. African viewers use the venue field to read the occasion: the venue line tells a viewing centre in Kampala whether the crowd noise will be a home one, and it tells a supporter in Lagos or Accra whether the match is at the club's own ground or on the road.

Where Can You Watch Barcelona Live, and Where Is the Score?

Where to watch is listed per country beside each fixture, TV channel and streaming option together, and it is information for that match only, because broadcast rights can move between seasons. Once the game kicks off, the same line becomes a live score, and at full time it becomes the result and passes to the results page, beside the league table (or log).

Why Do African Supporters Follow Barca So Closely?

The short answer is Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon, who scored 130 goals in 199 appearances for Barcelona between 2004 and 2009. The match that defines him is the 2006 Champions League final, when his equaliser set up a 2-1 win over Arsenal. He scored again in Rome in 2009, the opening goal of a 2-0 win over Manchester United that completed the first Spanish treble.

Eto'o's reach went beyond one country. He won the Africa Cup of Nations with Cameroon in 2000 and 2002, and scored 56 goals in 118 games for his national side, so his Barcelona goals were followed in Accra, Nairobi, Kampala and Johannesburg as closely as in Lagos.

When El Clásico comes round, the argument in a viewing centre in Lagos or Accra is about Real Madrid, and it is also about which African will wear blaugrana next. A Super Eagles supporter can read the fixture list in the same spirit, checking each opponent for a Nigerian in the squad, because that is the Barca next match worth staying up for.