Barcelona have made a terrifyingly good start to the 2026-27 season, blowing away the opposition on a weekly basis.

Hansi Flick’s side have scored four or more goals in nine of their opening 11 La Liga matches, although recent defeats to Real Madrid and PSG have taken some of the shine off their extraordinary start.

A 2-1 home defeat to Madrid and a 4-2 loss away to PSG have exposed some vulnerabilities, but Barcelona have otherwise been utterly ruthless. Their latest victims, Alaves, were thrashed 6-1.

It’s very early days, and we’ll see how they fare once the bigger tests roll around again, but this season still has the makings of something special and historic.

We’ve identified five major records that Barcelona could potentially smash if they can keep up this form throughout the season.

After stomaching three years of an all-conquering, era-defining Barcelona side, Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid knocked them off their perch in 2011-12. And they did so in style.

Los Blancos set the record for the most points in a La Liga season by notching 100 points in a stupendously dominant 2011-12 campaign.

The following year Barcelona reclaimed their crown by matching that tally.

There would be very little wiggle room for dropped points, though, and it might be a big ask after club president Joan Laporta plainly stated that Europe is the top priority this season.

“We have a special enthusiasm to win the Champions League,” Laporta told reporters.

Winning their first nine league games was a pretty good start, but the defeat to Real Madrid means Barcelona can now afford to drop just 11 more points if they’re to match that century.

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Pep Guardiola’s 2017-18 Manchester City centurions hold the joint second-best record for points accrued in a major European league season.

Juventus are marginally ahead of them, having notched 102 points at the height of their domestic dominance in 2013-14.

Antonio Conte’s side – powered by Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, Paul Pogba, Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal and Carlos Tevez – managed 33 wins, three draws and just two defeats in Serie A that year.

Barcelona’s defeat in the Clasico has eaten into their margin for error, but the record remains well within reach. With 30 points from their first 11 matches, they can afford to drop another nine points and still equal Juventus’ tally.

Not only did Mourinho’s Madrid get a hundred points in 2011-12, but they scored a whopping 121 goals.

That might be the best counter-attacking side we’ve ever seen, with Mesut Ozil setting up bagloads of chances for Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuain and Karim Benzema. The three forwards notched a combined 89(!) league goals between them that year.

Barca have certainly made a strong start with 46(!) goals from 11 outings so far. Extrapolate that average over a full campaign and they’re on track for… 159 La Liga goals this season. One Hundred And Fifty-Nine. Outrageous.

Last season, Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich scored an astonishing tally of 184 goals across all competitions; 122 in the league, comfortably a Bundesliga record, 17 in the cup, two in the Super Cup, and 43 in the Champions League.

That’s only the second top goalscoring season for a European club, just ahead of Northern Ireland’s Linfield, who scored 180 goals in 1933-34, but behind Guardiola’s Barcelona in 2011-12.

That Barca side played 64 games in all competitions, ending up with a total of 190 goals. Having Lionel Messi at the height of his goalscoring prowess – 50 goals in La Liga, 73 in all competitions – probably helped on that front.

That works out an average of 3.0 goals per match. This season’s side were averaging a ridiculous 4.4 goals per game after their first 10 outings, and they’ve barely slowed down since. Even the defeats to Madrid and PSG saw them find the net three times.

Best La Liga Goal Difference

Unsurprisingly, Madrid’s goal glut in 2011-12 also accounts for the best-ever goal difference in the Spanish top flight. They conceded 32 goals that year, giving them a +89 goal difference.

Luis Enrique’s then treble-winning Barca side matched that record in 2014-15.

Barcelona’s defensive record this season has been a little sketchy, conceding two goals against Rayo Vallecano, Levante and Racing Santander. The defeats to Real Madrid and PSG have further underlined that Flick’s high-risk approach can leave them exposed against top-quality opposition.

That’s all a bit academic, though. Barcelona’s goal difference currently stands at +34. That’s 20 better than closest challengers Atletico Madrid. Continue scoring at this rate and they won’t have to worry too much about their defence; the goal difference will take care of itself.

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