FC Barcelona pass 2,000 league goals on the road

This Sunday's goals from Iniesta and Messi at the Bernabéu took Barça past the 2,000 mark for away goals in the league Andrés Iniesta also scored his fiftieth goal for the Club

11:00PM Sunday 23 Mar (GMT)

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23 Mar 14

This Sunday’s game at the Bernabeu was Barça’s 2,639^th league game and it saw Barça pass the 2,000 goal mark in away games in the competition. The total number of goals home and away that Barça have scored in the competition is 5,547, with 3,545 at the Camp Nou.

Those spectacular numbers have taken the Club to 22 League titles from the first win in the 1928/29 season to last season’s historic 100 points. Leo Messi - the Club’s leading scorer – got goals number 2,000, 2,001 and 2,002, to pass Hugo Sanchez in the league’s all time scorer’s list.

Iniesta, 50 goals with the first team

Andrés Iniesta, who came to the Club when he was just 12 years old, got the opener at the Bernabeu and reached his half century of goals with the first team . After his debut in 2002 against Bruges, Iniesta has become one of the world’s best and most successful players.

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