Barça reaches the main round with four points and four tough opponents

The 22-36 in Bucharest and the 34-27 at the Palau against Dinamo de Bucarest allow Barça to start the main round as leaders with four points. They won’t have to face the Romanian team again: the results from the previous phase already count.

Four tickets to the quarter-finals

The main round brings together two groups of six teams, and each team will play 10 matches between 19 November and 3 or 4 March. Barça will need to finish among the top four to reach the quarter-finals.

Kielce opens the schedule and GOG visits the Palau

Sporting de Portugal and Magdeburg are among Barça’s rivals. Also in the group are the Danish side GOG and Kielce, whom Barça will visit in their opening match on 19 November at 18:45.

The first match of this phase at the Palau Blaugrana will be against GOG. The final match against Kielce is also scheduled at the Palau, during the week of 3 March, although the exact date and time have yet to be confirmed.

A perfect preliminary phase

Before reaching this round, Barça shared a group with the Danish team Skanderborg and Montpellier. Dinamo de Bucarest completed the preliminary phase, in which the Barça team won all their matches and finished top.

The Champions also includes Atlètic-Barceloneta among its Catalan representatives, featured in this report on their European campaign. For Barça, the last match of the main round will be against Kielce at the Palau, with the date and time still to be confirmed.