The Astonishing Stats Behind Barcelona's Nou Camp Fortress

Barcelona's visit of Granada on Saturday marked the 1500th competitive fixture at the Nou Camp for the Catalan side. Rafinha scored the solitary goal of the game to keep Barca's unbeaten run going against the league's bottom side.

Barcelona opened the stadium back in 1957 when they played a friendly game against a Warsaw XI, before they played their first competitive game at the Nou Camp, which was a thumping 6-1 win over Jaen.

The Blaugrana have made their home patch a real fortress, evidenced in some of the incredible stats and figures that Barca have gathered at their ground. They have recorded 1,119 wins in 1,500 games since moving into the stadium 59 years ago - which is quite something.

They have drew on 283 occasions, while they have only lost 143 games in their time at the Nou Camp.

Camp Nou

Remarkably, they have scored a massive 3,873 goals - Messi, Suarez and Neymar will probably surpass that record themselves by the time they get bored of destroying defenders.

Barca have conceded 1,186 goals at the Nou Camp.

Stats don't always tell the story, but they definitely do in this instance. Fortress Nou Camp.

(h/t FC Barcelona)

Topics: Nou Camp, FC Barcelona, Barcelona, Camp Nou

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