The third best start to La Liga ever

Barça's league season has got off to an incredible start! Six games and six wins, four points clear at the top of the table… In fact, it's one of the best starts the club has had EVER. Only on two previous occasions has the team played more than six games without dropping a single point.

Two confidential

It is only the seventh time that Barça has won its first six games. Except for two of those times, six games was the only thing it could achieve. Only Tata Martinowho set the record of eight wins in 2013/14, and Ernesto Valverdewho won seven games in 2017/18, did better than what Hansi Flick has achieved so far. On Wednesday, Barça will play at home against Getafe and could build on the performances of the current Athletic Club coach.

The list of coaches who led the team to six victories begins with the Englishman James Bellamy back then, in 1929/30, at the second edition of the competition ever. Nobody could imitate that until 1990/91, and it was the great Johan Cruyff.

In 1997/98 Louis van Gaal has achieved the performance and Pep Guardiola He also succeeded in doing so in his second season as coach, 2009/10, as did his successor, the late Tito Vilanovain 2012/13.