{"id":34122,"date":"2026-06-17T19:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/birmingham-city-blues-to-face-barcelona-in-pre-season-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:25:32","slug":"birmingham-city-blues-to-face-barcelona-in-pre-season-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/birmingham-city-blues-to-face-barcelona-in-pre-season-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City: Blues to face Barcelona in pre-season friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Birmingham City&#8217;s preparations for the new Championship season will include a prestigious friendly at home to Spanish champions Barcelona.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The five-time European champions will be at St Andrew&#8217;s on Friday, 31 July to face Chris Davies&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides have previously met on five occasions, all in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup  &#8211; now the Europa League &#8211; including the 1960 final which Barcelona won 4-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Barcelona are a powerhouse of world football and have chosen to kick-off their pre-season campaign with us,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/bcfc.com\/pages\/en\/media-article\/blues-to-host-fc-barcelona-at-st-andrews-knighthead-park\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham&#8217;s chief executive Jeremy Dale.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are seeing that there is an exciting story unfolding here. Hosting one of the most iconic teams in the world, with such a rich history and global following, is a fantastic opportunity as we build towards the new season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new Championship season starts on the weekend of 14-16 August, with the fixtures published on Thursday, 25 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City&#8217;s preparations for the new Championship season will include a prestigious friendly at home to Spanish champions Barcelona. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/branded_sport\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/cf00\/live\/28dbc720-6a61-11f1-b7aa-49f3a4d630f8.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}