What a day. What an absolutely perfect day to be a Culé.
Joan Laporta has been re-elected as president of FC Barcelona with a stunning 68% of the vote — up from 54% in 2021 — demolishing Victor Font's challenge and securing his mandate to lead this great club through to 2031. Font received just 29% and has already conceded, congratulating Laporta on what he himself called an "undeniable victory." The members have spoken. Loudly. Clearly. Emphatically.
Let us put this in perspective. In 2021, Laporta won with 54.28% against both Font and Toni Freixa. Tonight, in a straight two-horse race against Font alone, he increased that to 68%. This was not a close election. This was a statement. The socios of FC Barcelona looked at what Laporta has built, looked at what Font was offering, and chose continuity, ambition and passion by a landslide.
And they were absolutely right.
Laporta took over a club that was on its knees. The debt was catastrophic, the dressing room was broken, and the greatest player in the history of football had just been forced out. What followed was the most remarkable rebuilding job in modern football. The economic levers, controversial as they were, gave Barcelona the oxygen they needed to compete. The Spotify deal, the Nike renegotiation, the Espai Barça project — none of it was pretty, but all of it was necessary. And then came Hansi Flick.
The appointment of Flick was the masterstroke that has defined Laporta's second term. Today alone tells you everything. While the socios were casting their votes, Barcelona were thrashing Sevilla 5-2 at the Spotify Camp Nou — Raphinha with a brace, Dani Olmo with a stunning finish — to restore a four-point lead at the top of La Liga. The players voted. Flick voted. Deco voted. And then they went out and showed exactly what this project looks like in full flight.
To vote for Font today would have been to vote against all of that. To take a functioning, winning, beautiful sporting project and hand it to someone whose primary qualification was that he was not Laporta. Font is not a bad man. But his plan rested on tearing down what is working, promising structural overhauls nobody asked for, and dangling the impossible fantasy of Messi's return to win over wavering members.
Nearly 70% of the members saw through it.
Font himself said after conceding: "There remains a significant portion of the club's social base that wants change." Perhaps. But there is a far larger portion that looks at this Barcelona side — top of La Liga, in the Champions League knockout rounds, producing the best young player on the planet in Lamine Yamal — and says: do not touch a single thing.
So here we are. Laporta stays. Flick stays. Deco stays. The Spotify Camp Nou nears completion. The title race is alive. The Champions League dream continues. And Joan Laporta — the man who has now won three presidential elections for this club — leads Barcelona into one of the most exciting periods in its history.
Visca el Barça. Visca Laporta. 🔵🔴