FourFourTwo's Dating Game, 18/11/25: Barcelona's commercial breakdown
It's FourFourTwo's Dating Game - today, featuring Barcelona
Welcome to today's edition of FourFourTwo’s Dating Game, the daily quest for a four-digit number that unlocks a pivotal moment in the history of one of the world's biggest clubs. Today, we're looking at a time when tradition finally gave way to commercial reality.
How to play FourFourTwo’s Dating Game
Today's historical query focuses on a major shirt milestone for the Catalonian giants: In what year did Barcelona have a paid commercial sponsor on the front of their shirts for the first time?
For decades, the club's famous stripes remained clean, a symbol of their motto, ‘Més que un club’. But times change, and we're looking for the four-digit year (YYYY) when that famous, untouched space was finally sold to a major corporation. You need the year this significant commercial shift took place.
You have six attempts to guess the correct four-digit year that marked this major break with tradition. The game provides instant feedback: correct digits in the correct spots will turn green, with those in the wrong spots turning orange.
It’s a true test of your knowledge of modern football's commercial history. Can you pinpoint the year Barça officially joined the sponsored shirt era?
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Mark White has been at on FourFourTwo since joining in January 2020, first as a staff writer before becoming content editor in 2023. An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge – both past and present – Mark has also represented FFT at both FA Cup and League Cup finals (though didn't receive a winners' medal on either occasion) and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. He has written cover features for the mag on Mikel Arteta and Martin Odegaard, and is assisted by his cat, Rosie, who has interned for the brand since lockdown.
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