1xBet & FC Barcelona Femení: The team that turned winning into a tradition
Press release.- On August 30, FC Barcelona Femení began a new Liga F season with a clear, yet no less challenging goal – to win their eighth consecutive league title. The team already has seven straight Spanish league championships, four Women’s Champions League titles, and a historic quadruple from the 2025/26 season.
Still, the team’s current standing is not the result of a single successful year. It is the product of a long journey during which the conditions, attitudes towards women’s football, and perceptions of its potential have all changed.
From first finals to European tradition
Not so long ago, FC Barcelona Femení had to fight simply to earn the right to stand on the same football stage as the club’s men’s team. Their development was far from easy: football was long seen primarily as a male domain, while infrastructure and conditions for women were significantly inferior to those available to the men.
A turning point came in 2015, when the team gained professional status. This marked the beginning of a systematic approach: developing the academy, investing in medical and coaching staff, improving infrastructure, and creating a fully professional environment. Gradually, the results began to reflect these changes.
In the 2020/21 season, Barça Femení won the Women’s Champions League for the first time in their history, defeating Chelsea 4-0 in the final. There had been setbacks before that, including failures in the 2019 and 2022 finals against OL Lyonnes. However, those losses were part of a long-term process, and the following seasons provided a definitive answer about the Catalan club’s rise to dominance in women’s football.
In the 2022/23 campaign, FC Barcelona Femení won the Women’s Champions League in Eindhoven, defeating Wolfsburg. A year later, the Catalans repeated the feat, claiming the main European trophy again in the 2023/24 season by beating OL Lyonnes in the final in Bilbao. The match’s MVP was legendary Aitana Bonmatí, who subsequently won the award for the world’s best female footballer three times in a row. Despite losing the 2025 Women’s Champions League final to Arsenal, the Catalans returned to the top of women’s football in the following campaign.
A new European reality emerged: Barça Femení was no longer simply a team fighting for trophies. It had become a constant and leading contender.
2025/26: A season of four trophies
The latest season provided yet another and perhaps the strongest confirmation of this triumphant trajectory. On April 22, 2026, FC Barcelona Femení secured their seventh consecutive Liga F title with games to spare, as well as the 11th league championship in their history.
Another European triumph followed on May 23. In the Women’s Champions League final in Oslo, FC Barcelona Femení defeated OL Lyonnes 4-0 to win the competition for the fourth time.
In total, the 2025/26 season brought the Catalans four trophies: the Spanish championship, the Women’s Champions League, the Copa de la Reina, and the Supercopa de España. Polish striker Ewa Pajor became the new face of FC Barcelona, finishing as the competition’s top scorer and earning MVP honors in the European final.
Now the team faces a new challenge – continuing its championship cycle. The Catalans have also demonstrated their ambitions in the transfer market, making the biggest signing in their history this summer: Kerolin Nicoli joined from Man City for €1.5 million.
One team’s story as part of a bigger trend
FC Barcelona Femení’s success comes amid the overall growth of women’s football. The changes are particularly evident in the Women’s Champions League: the tournament’s prize pool grew from €24 million in the 2021/22 season to a projected €37.7 million in 2025/26. The maximum payout for the winner has increased to €1.995 million and could reach €2.8 million from the 2027/28 season.
The audience is growing too. According to official figures, matches in the 2025/26 edition attracted 44.5 million viewers, while broadcasts reached 207 territories. On social media, the tournament’s official accounts generated 947 million video views – 50% more than the previous year.
This is an important development for the entire women’s sports ecosystem. The larger the audience, partner interest, and commercial opportunities, the more resources become available to develop competitions, clubs, and players. At the same time, the European system itself is expanding: last season featured 86 clubs from 50 national associations. The introduction of the Women’s Europa Cup has also allowed more teams to compete regularly at European level.
The story of FC Barcelona Femení illustrates this development in practice. In Catalonia, the team’s success has been accompanied by growing interest in women’s football: the number of registered female players has increased significantly in recent years, while clubs and football organisations are expanding opportunities for girls.
1xBet: Supporting women’s sports as a long-term strategy
In this context, the partnership between 1xBet and FC Barcelona Femení is developing as part of a broader strategy to support women’s sports.
1xBet’s portfolio includes projects across several disciplines: FIBA in women’s basketball, the Billie Jean King Cup in women’s tennis, Volleyball World in women’s volleyball, CAF in women’s international football, and MIBR Female in esports.
For the 1xBet partner ecosystem, this means supporting not just individual events, but the long-term development of different sports. For 1xPartners affiliates, it is an opportunity to work with the steadily growing audience for women’s sports.
New season, new test
Barça Femení begins the campaign as a team tasked with defending its championship status on two fronts – domestically and in Europe. An eighth consecutive Liga F title would be a historic achievement even for a club that has set the standard in women’s football.
For 1xBet and its partners, this is an opportunity to continue following a story that has already grown far beyond a single season or a single team. Whether Barça Femení can once again live up to its status will be revealed in the new football year.
