Barcelona's Salary Limit Reduced in Latest La Liga Financial Figures

FC Barcelona have had a solid start to the 2025/26 La Liga campaign as they have won three of their four matches so far. As the Blaugrana look to successfully defend their league title in their second season under Hans-Dieter Flick, they have now been struck with an unnecessary financial setback after the release of the official salary limit for all La Liga clubs for the ongoing campaign.

How Have Barcelona Been Impacted By 2025/26 La Liga Salary Limit Regulations?

The Spanish giants Barcelona had a tricky 2025 summer transfer window in which they made three signings, including two prominent ones for the first team. They signed Joan Garcia and Marcus Rashford on loan from Manchester United. After undergoing the hurdle of registering them, the Spanish club have received a setback with La Liga revealing the salary limits for every club for the 2025/26 season.

Barcelona have been allotted a maximum salary limit of €351 million for the current campaign. This is actually a major drop-off from their salary limit from the 2024/25 season, which was around €463 million.

The reason for this major decrease for Barcelona is because of the controversy around the viability of their earnings from selling the future revenues of VIP boxes at the new Camp Nou stadium. The Blaugrana had claimed last season that they'd raise €100 million from the sales, which was approved by an auditor earlier in 2025. However, after Barcelona's current auditors failed to approve this as income, the league body decided to subtract that from their salary limit. Barcelona have faced financial issues since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the club's debt as of December 2024 was reported to be €1.9 billion, with their financial troubles causing La Liga to lower their salary limit.

How do the Salary Limits Look for Every La Liga Club?

La Liga works to create a squad cost limit for each of its clubs every year to ensure that the teams aren't breaching any financial regulations or massively overspending. La Liga's squad cost limit equates to the maximum amount of money that any club can spend on its entire operations, which includes the money paid to players, coaches and the operations of youth teams. This is not a reference to only wage bills for payments made to players or coaches within clubs, but also transfer fees, bonuses and other expenses that can be made by the club.

Real Madrid have been granted the highest Salary Limit for the 2025/26 season, being allotted a whopping €761 million limit by La Liga. Atletico Madrid have also been granted a pretty impressive €326 million salary limit, while Villarreal have been granted around €173 million limit. When considering the entire amount allotted for the squad cost limits for all 20 La Liga clubs, the figure exceeds well over €2.7 billion!