Joint second best start to La Liga ever

Seven up! Barça are insatiable in 2024/25, having won all seven games so far. In fact, Wednesday's defeat of Getafe means that Hansi Flick is now just 1 win away from what would be the best start EVER to a Liga campaign!

Matched with Valverde, one short of Martino

Winning the first six games was impressive enough, but was by no means unprecedented. Barça had already done that seven times. But a seventh win is entering the highest echelons on Barça history. It's only the third time that Barça have ever managed that, and has equalled the fantastic start to the 2017/18 season under Ernesto Valverde. There has only ever been one team that has lasted any longer than that, the class of 2013/14 masterminded by Argentine coach Tata Martino, now the boss of MLS side Inter Miami, which went for eight games without dropping a single point.

Valverde's team amassed an amazing total of 23 goals in seven games, conceding just two. Under Flick, Barça have scored 23 goals and conceded just 5. 

Osasuna stand between the record

Valverde's team was (almost) invincible that year. After seven straight wins, they were held to a draw at Atlético Madrid, but remained strong thereafter. So strong, in fact, that they were on the verge of winning the league without losing a single game until the penultimate weekend when they lost that extraordinary match with Levante 5-4.

Barça can now go one better than that side when they visit Osasuna on Saturday at 9pm CEST. It won't be easy, for the side from Pamplona have yet to lose at home this season, having beaten Mallorca, Celta and Las Palmas and drawn against Leganés.

But if Barça do win at El Sadar, they will have matched the all-time best set in 2013/14, and a week later will get a shot at the record in another away fixture, this time at Alavés.