The FC Barcelona will visit this Saturday the capital of Spain to confront to the Real Madrid, in a key crash for both teams of face to consolidate his aspirations of destronar to the Athletic of Madrid in LaLiga. It will be a classical unusual, as it will contest in an unpublished stage: the Stadium Alfredo Gave Stéfano. This 10 April, the field of Valdebebas will turn into the 18º stage that house this crash of titanes.

The prohibition to receive to the fans to the stadiums owing to the pandemia, beside the works that at present carry out in Santiago Bernabéu, forced to the club merengue to contest all his commitments of venue in Valdebebas this season. A field that will have an important place in the list of the stages that have housed the duel between the Barcelona and the Real Madrid, the number 278 between both.

Everything initiated in the Hippodrome of Madrid, that went the first field that received the first crash Madrid-Barça, in 1902, in a tournament organised to commemorate the coronation of Alfonso XIII and that it was the precursor of the Championship of Spain, current Glass of Rey, although no contabiliza like official competition. Likewise, Chamartín (ancient field of the Madrid), the Bernabéu (built in the same place that his ancestor), Them Corts and the Camp Nou are the enclosures where have contested the greater quantity of Classical.

The 18 stages:

1- Hippodrome of Madrid (1902)

Parties: 1 (Glass Coronation)

Victories: Barça 1, Madrid 0

The first duel between the FC Barcelona and the then called Madrid FC, contested on 13 March 1902 in the ancient hippodrome of Madrid. It was with reason of the semifinal of the Glass Coronation in honour to Alfonso XIII, the first competition that confronted to pertinent teams of distinct parts of Spain.

2- Field of the Street Muntaner, Barcelona (1906 and 1916)

Parties: 2 (1 friendly and one of Glass)

Victories: Barça 2, Madrid 0

The group merengue visited to the Barça two years afterwards, when this played in the Street Muntaner. Curiously, in 1916, when it was the field that used the Espanyol to contest his commitments of venue, also was the stage of the gone of the semifinal of the Glass of Rey, in the first official duel between both clubs.

3- Field of the Industry, Barcelona (1913 to 1921)

Parties: 10 (all friendly)

Victories: Barça 7, Madrid 0 (3 ties)

The Field of the street Industry was inaugurated on 14 March 1909 and was the house of the Barcelona picture until the 1922. The white group visited it with reason of 10 friendly between 1913 and 1921, without carrying never the victory.

4- Stadium of O'Donnell, Madrid (1914 to 1922)

Parties: 3 (all friendly)

Victories: Barça 2, Madrid 0 (1 tie)

During the same period, the Madrid FC (already known like Real Madrid from 1920) played in the stadium of the street O'Donnell. The Barça did not fall in any opportunity of his three visits!

5- Field of O'Donnell, Madrid (1916)

Parties: 3 (all in the Glass of Rey)

Victories: Barça 0, Madrid 2 (1 tie)

This enclosure, that does not have to be confused with the Stadium of O'Donnell, was the headquarters of the parties of the Athletic, now called like Athletic of Madrid. The group merengue used the stadium of his neighbour of city by three parties of Glass against the Barça in 1916, included two tiebreakers, one of which finished 6-6.

6- Field of the Delights, Saragossa (1922)

Parties: 2 (all friendly)

Victories: Barça 2, Madrid 0

It was in 1922 when both teams saw the faces for the first time in a neutral field. Had like reason of the Parties of Pilar, in Saragossa. The expulsion of Josep Samitier was the main subject.

7- Stadium Chamartín, Madrid (1926 to 1946)

Parties: 23 (15 in the League, 2 in the Glass, 6 friendly)

Victories: Barça 7, Madrid 13 (3 ties)

The first big stadium of the Real Madrid could receive 22.500 people and was inaugurated in 1924. The Barcelona played for the first time in 1926, triumphing by 1-5 in a friendly, and would go back annually with reason of the parties of League, competition inaugurated in 1929.

8- Field of Them Corts, Barcelona (1927 to 1957)

Parties: 36 (26 in the League, 4 in the Glass, 6 friendly)

Victories: Barça 21, Madrid 7 (8 ties)

Two years before, in 1920, the Barça had premièred the Field of the Courts, with an initial capacity for 20.000 viewers. The Real Madrid visited it for the first time in 1927 in a friendly without goals.

9- Mestalla, Valencia (1936, 1990, 2011 and 2014)

Parties: 4 (all in the Glass of Rey)

Victories: Barça 1, Madrid 3

The Barcelona and the Madrid have confronted in seven finals of Glass. Of all she, contested a total of 4 in Mestalla, with a more favourable balance for the white group.

10- Metropolitan Stadium, Madrid (1946 to 1947)

Parties: 2 (both in the League)

Victories: Barça 0, Madrid 1 (1 tie)

While it built his new stadium, the Real Madrid played in the field of his citizen neighbour.

11- Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid (1948 up to now)

Parties: 98 (73 in the League, 11 in the Glass, 7 in the Supercopa, 3 in the Glass of the League, 4 in European competition)

Victories: Barça 26, Madrid 50 (22 ties)

Santiago Bernabéu is the stadium that more Classical has received along the history. The register, in spite of that favours to the whites, is not at all negative for the Barça, that won by 0-5 in 1974 or by 2-6 in 2009, for quoting only two unforgettable nights.

12- Camp Nou, Barcelona (1958 up to now)

Parties: 87 (65 in the League, 8 in the Glass, 7 in the Supercopa, 3 in the Glass of the League, 4 in European competition)

Victories: Barça 44, Madrid 21 (22 ties)

The Real Madrid triumphed in his first visit to the Camp Nou in 1958, but afterwards the Barça chained an incredible series of 20 parties to the thread without falling in front of the whites between 1984 and 2002.

13- Ramón of Carranza, Cádiz (1959 and 1968)

Parties: 2 (both in the Trophy Ramón of Carranza)

Victories: Barça 1, Madrid 1

One of the most prestigious competitions of pre-season received two Classical, with a victory for each team.

14- Vicente Calderón, Madrid (1974)

Parties: 1 (Final of the Glass of Rey)

Victories: Barça 0, Madrid 1

The ancient stadium of the Athletic of Madrid received the final of Glass of 1974. The Barça had won the title suspender belt for the first time in 14 years, but in the Glass a norm prevented that they played foreign footballers... As Johan Cruyff. The title was for the picture merengue.

15- Farid Richa Barquisimeto, Venezuela (1982)

Parties: 1 (Glass President of the Republic)

Victories: Barça 0, Madrid 1

Venezuela housed the first Classical out of Spain. It was in a competition of summer in which both clubs fell in semifinals and confronted in the party by the third and fourth place. They would win the whites with an only goal of Vicente of the Forest.

16- The Romareda, Saragossa (1983)

Parties: 1 (Final of the Glass of Rey)

Victories: Barça 1, Madrid 0

The capital zaragonesa would receive the achievement of the 20ª Glass of the King of the Barça. A goal of Marcos Alonso at the end of the party would seal the Barcelona victory by 2-1.

17- Hard Rock Stadium, Miami, United States (2017)

Parties: 1 (International Champions Cup)

Victories: Barça 1, Madrid 0

Four years ago, the Classical lived a second chapter out of Spain. The stadium of the Miami Dolphins received a friendly resolved with Barcelona victory by 3-2, thanks to the goals of Lionel Messi, Ivan Rakitic and Gerard Hammered.

A new chapter

Alfredo Gave Stéfano will turn into the stage number 18 this Saturday 10 April. The meeting between both will be decisive, both clubs will split with the only premise to consolidate a victory that keep them firm in his fight by the absolute leadership of LaLiga, threatening very closely to the Athletic of Madrid that no for to trip in his way to the term of the season.