Special match: Barça and Athletic will reach 3000 games in La Liga

This weekend the party of the FC Barcelona in front of the Athletic Club will allow that both clubs reach the 3.000 parties in First Division. Beside a Real Madrid that also will fulfil them, when it visit to the Seville, the Barça and the vacos are the three teams that have played always in the maximum category from the start of the competition in 1928, by what agrees perfectly that all reach the milestone in the same day.

Until the moment, and as it aims an information of 'Relief', of the 2.999 meetings that already have contested each one, the Madrid is the one who more has won, with 1.799 victories. Very near it follows him the Barça with 1.739 triumphs, closing the trio the Athletic with 1.289 parties won, a considerably inferior figure but that can understand especially with the success of culés and merengues in the last 20 or 30 years inside the Spanish tournament.

The Catalan club also situates in the second position regarding points, 4.785, almost 100 less than the entity madridista (4.888), and already to more than 1.000 points of distance of the ones of the Bernabéu is the Athletic, with 3.684. This distance began to expand slightly in the decade of the 50, last moment in which in Saint Mamés had a similar quantity of points that the others two teams.

Barça and Madrid, very near to the tie when they are visitors

Like data extremely curious, the information ensures that FC Barcelona and Real Madrid have won more than half of his parties (58% and 60%, respectively), but the most common result of both teams is the tie, the 1-1 to domicile, being even more specific. This result has repeated in 161 occasions in the case of the Barça and in 184 in the parties of the Madrid, whereas for the Athletic is the defeat by 1-0 out of house.

The club that the three teams more have confronted is the same, the Espanyol, something also extremely intelligible since it is one of the teams that more seasons have played in First Division, being the current his sixth course that is not in the maximum category. The Real Madrid has won 107 parties against the team blanquiazul; the Barça has won 102 meetings; and the Athletic Club has won in 73 of his 174 duels.