El Clasico is the name given in football to any game between Barcelona and Real Madrid. However, it is considered one of the biggest club football matches in the world.

Facts

It was first played on 13 May, 1902 (Barcelona 3–1 Madrid, Copa de la Coronación).

The total El Clasico game is 278, 245 games are Competitive matches and 33 games are Exhibition matches, EKO HOT BLOG gathered.

The Largest victory is Real Madrid 11–1 Barcelona (Copa del Rey) on 19 June 1943.

Lionel Messi is the top scorer (26) while Sergio Ramos (45) has most appearance follow by Lionel Messi (44)

Record

Real Madrid won 97 competitive matches while Barca won 96 competitive matches.

But for exhibition matches, Barca have 19 victories while Madrid have 4 victories and in total matches with 115 wins to Madrid’s 101 as of the match played on 24 October 2020.

23 different players have scored a hat-trick in El Clásico games as of 18 December 2019, 15 of the 28 hat-tricks came from Barcelona players. However, four of these came in friendly matches.

The players that scored more than one hat-tricks are Jaime Lazcano, Santiago Bernabéu, Paulino Alcántara, Lionel Messi and Ferenc Puskás

Lionel Messi has delivered the most assists in El Clásico history (14)

Summary

Real Madrid wins: 101

Real Madrid goals: 451

Barcelona wins: 115

Barcelona goals: 483

Stats

This El Clasico is the first to be played at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium.

Messi hasn’t scored since May 6, 2018. Saturday could be a great day for Messi to score his 30th goal in all competitions

Ansu Fati scored Barça’s 400th goal against Real Madrid. César Rodríguez, Bernd Schuster and Luis Enrique Martínez scored goals number 100, 200 and 300.

Sergio Ramos and Leo Messi, the current captains of both teams, are the players who have played the most Clásicos in history.

It all started on May 13, 1902. That was the first day that FC Barcelona and Real Madrid played a match against each other.

Saturday’s games will be exactly 11 years since Laporta experienced a Clásico as president of FC Barcelona.

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