With the transfer market closed, the blaugrana numbers for the season are now official

The 2024/25 season has started in the best possible manner for FC Barcelona with four wins out of four in La Liga. With the transfer market now closed, the shirt numbers for the campaign are now set with 13 players from the Barça Atlètic squad also included.

Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor, the arrivals

New boys Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor have had their shirt numbers assigned with the former inheriting the number 20 left free by the departure of Sergi Roberto and the latter taking over the number 18 from Oriol Romeu.

Three players who are now officially first team members also have new numbers with Pau Cubarsí taking João Cancelo’s number 2 shirt; Marc Casadó now wearing 17 with Marco Alonso departed and finally Lamine Yamal wearing the 19 jersey with Vitor Roque on loan at Betis.

Ansu sticks with ’10’, Eric ’24’ and Pablo Torre takes ’14’

Three players who have returned from loan also have their shirt numbers. Ansu Fati keeps the number 10 shirt he wore before a loan spell at Brighton and Eric Garcia retains the 24 he wore before his season with Girona. Pablo Torre, also on loan last season at Girona, now wears the number 14 shirt left free by the departure of João Félix.

Ten blaugranes called up for international duty

The international break in the month of September sees the European tournament get under way

The first international break of the 2024/25 season sees FC Barcelona players heavily involved as always. After this weekend’s week four fixtures in La Liga, seven blaugranes will head for international duty in the Nations League which gets under way in September whilst three more will be involved in U21 games and friendlies.

Nations League call ups

On Friday 30 August the Spain coach Luis de la Fuente called up Barça’s Dani Olmo, Ferran Torres, Pedri and Lamine Yamal for his side’s upcoming Nations League fixtures. The Euro2024 champions take on Serbia in Belgrade on Thursday 5 September at 8.45pm CEST and then face Switzerland in Geneva on Sunday 8 September, also at 8.45pm CEST.

Jules Kounde is in the France squad for their Nations League games against Italy and Belgium whilst keeper Ter Stegen is in the Germany squad for fixtures against Hungary and the Netherlands.

Finally, Robert Lewandowski is in the Poland squad for their clashes with Scotland and Croatia, and Fermín and Cubarsí have been called up to the Spain U21 squad. A first call up for Barça Atlètic keeper Diego Kochen to the US national squad for their upcoming friendlies against Canada and New Zealand makes it a round 10 the number of Barça players on international duty.