Barça open Barça Academy Bucharest

The Barça Academy project celebrated the opening of the third new academy this summer with the arrival of the school in Bucharest, Romania which follows on from similar opening in Casablanca, Morocco and Querétaro in Mexico. Now there are no less than 29 Barça Academies around the world with latest addition being the fifth in Europe after Barcelona, Zurich, Budapest and Istanbul. 

The success of campuses last season in which more than 300 boys and girls took part in learning football the Barça way has led the club to decide to open a permanent Barça Academy in a market the blaugranes' present will be a good opportunity to develop youth football in the country. 

29 permanent Barça Academy projects around the world

Barça Academy is a football school model for young boys and girls which is owned by FC Barcelona. It has as its main objective the desire to give all round training to its students. This model, exported around the world, is intended to extend the Barça brand and share its working philosophy and Club values with the rest of the world. 

The schools have their own model, based on the Barça methodology used from the youth teams to the first team: a creative, attacking style and the promotion of values such as respect, modesty, effort, ambition and team work with proven results. 

Currently, there FC Barcelona has 29 Barça Academy projects around the world. There are divided up into the Barça Escola Barcelona, the Barça Academy Pro which are managed by the Club both on and off the field with two sites in the US in Miami and New York; the Barça Residency Academy Arizona (US), which also caters for the players' academic needs and the 24 Barça Academy sites around the world. 

More than 80 clinics and 200 camps

The Barça Academy Clinics are training programmes for groups which allow you to feel like a Barça player and enjoy the exclusive opportunity to train at the FC Barcelona official facilities. This year more than 80 will take place. Barça also has a presence in more than 46 countries thanks to the camps which take place around the world to extend the Barça brand and share its working philosophy and Club values with the rest of the world.