Barcelona put 12 goals past Real Madrid

Barcelona have qualified for the semifinals of the UEFA Women’s Champions League in emphatic fashion thanks to a 12-2 aggregate victory over bitter rivals Real Madrid in the quarterfinals.

Already 6-2 up from the first leg in Madrid, Barça wasted no time putting Las Blancas to the sword and extending their advantage.

Four goals inside the opening 33 minutes from Alexia Putellas, making her 500th appearance for Barcelona, Caroline Graham Hansen, Irene Paredes and Ewa Pajor opened up an eight-goal aggregate lead for the Catalans and left Madrid fearing the worst.

Graham Hansen added a fifth in the early stages of the second half before Esmee Brugts completed the scoring with a little over 15 minutes left to play.

The 6-0 victory at Spotify Camp Nou is Barcelona Femení’s biggest ever against Real Madrid.

Women’s Clásico still heavily one-sided

Real Madrid’s women’s team was only formed in 2020, and previous meetings with Barcelona show they still have a way to go to catch up with their Clásico rivals. Of the 25 games between the teams, Barça have come out on top 24 times, with Madrid winning just once, a league game in Catalonia in March 2025. In those matchups, Barcelona have scored 92 goals to Real Madrid’s 12.

Prior to Thursday, Barça’s biggest ever victory in the fixture had been 5-0, which they have achieved three times, in the league in March 2022, in the Spanish Super Cup in January 2025 and in the Copa de la Reina in March 2025.

Not quite a Clásico record

However, Thursday’s result does not match the biggest ever victory in a men’s Clásico.

In June 1943, Real Madrid thrashed Barcelona 11-1 in the Copa del Rey, still the largest winning margin in the fixture’s long history.

Barça’s biggest win is by a five-goal margin, achieved six times, most recently in November 2010, when Pep Guardiola’s team dismantled José Mourinho’s Madrid.

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