A look at Barcelona's numbers as it clinched its 28th Spanish league title

MADRID (AP) — An impressive attack has highlighted Barcelona's season, which was capped with the team winning its 28th Spanish league title on Thursday.

Barcelona thrived offensively in its first season under coach Hansi Flick, scoring with ease both at home and away.

Lamine Yamal and Raphinha had outstanding seasons, and teamed up well with veteran striker Robert Lewandowski and midfield playmaker Pedri.

Here's a look at Barcelona's numbers as it won the league for the second time in three seasons and completed a domestic treble along with the Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup.

Barcelona blew away the competition by scoring 97 goals through 36 games, with two more matches to come. That means it has scored 61 more goals than it allowed. Compare that to Real Madrid's goal difference of 36 — 74 scored to 38 allowed — even with an attack that included Kylian Mbappé, Vinícius Júnior and Jude Bellingham.

Only Bayern Munich comes close to Barcelona' tally in Europe's top five leagues with 95 goals scored. Across all competitions, Barcelona has 169 goals in 58 matches, also the most in Europe.

Barcelona scored at least four goals in 23 matches across all competitions this season, including in three clasicos against Madrid. A dozen of those four-goal games came in La Liga. The Catalan club twice scored seven times — 7-0 against Valladolid and 7-1 against Valencia.

The 17-year-old Yamal leads the league in assists with 13, with Raphinha joint-second with nine. Yamal also has by far the most dribbles to get past opponents with 149, over 60 more than any other player. Lewandowski, Raphinha and Yamal were in the top four in shots, behind Mbappé. Three Barcelona players topped the list of passes in the league — Pau Cubarsí, Pedri and Iñigo Martínez.

Yamal made all the headlines last season when he swept up records, including for youngest scorer in the Spanish league at age 16. He continued to impress this season and established himself as the team’s top star. He scored in the 4-0 win against Madrid at the Bernabeu to become the youngest scorer in a clasico at 17 years, 105 days, surpassing teammate Ansu Fati, who was about 250 days older in October 2020.

It was the first time Barcelona won every clasico in a season that had at least three matches between the rivals. It won 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in the Spanish league in October, 5-2 in the Spanish Super Cup final in January, 3-2 in the Copa del Rey final last month, and 4-3 — after going down 2-0 by the 14th minute — in the second league match.

The 28-year-old Raphinha, having his best season ever, netted five of the 16 goals that Barcelona scored in the four matches against Madrid. Raphinha has scored 34 goals for Barcelona this season overall, more than tripling his previous best tally. That included 18 in La Liga. The Brazil forward scored only 10 goals in each of his first two seasons after joining the Catalan club from Leeds United.

Lewandowski is having one of his best seasons with Barcelona at age 36. The Poland striker has scored 40 goals in 49 appearances, including 25 in La Liga. It is the most goals in a season for Lewandowski since leaving Bayern to come to Spain.

Flick became the second-fastest Barcelona coach to reach 100 goals overall. His team reached 101 goals in 32 games in all competitions. Helenio Herrera reached the mark in 31 matches in the late 1950s. Luis Enrique and Tito Vilanova each needed 34 games, three quicker than Pep Guardiola at 37.

Barcelona enjoyed its successful season despite a very young squad. Yamal leads the youth movement, and Pedri, Gavi, Pau Cubarsí, Fermín López, Alejandro Balde, Marc Casadó, Pablo Torre, Ansu Fati and Gerard Martín are all under 23 years old.

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Barcelona players celebrate after a goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Espanyol and Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Breton)

Barcelona's Fermin Lopez celebrates at the end of the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Barcelona and Espanyol at Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

BERLIN (AP) — European leaders are expected to cement support for Ukraine Monday as it faces Washington’s pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal.

After Sunday’s talks in Berlin between U.S. envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian and European officials are set to continue a series of meetings in an effort to secure the continent’s peace and security in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia.

Zelenskyy sat down Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the German federal chancellery in the hopes of bringing the nearly four-year war to a close.

Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays. The search for possible compromises has run into major obstacles, including control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces.

The U.S. government late Sunday said in a social media post on Witkoff’s account after the five-hour meeting that “a lot of progress was made.”

Earlier in the day, Zelenskyy voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO if the U.S. and other Western nations give Kyiv security guarantees similar to those offered to NATO members. But Ukraine continued to reject the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia.

Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw its forces from the part of the Donetsk region still under its control among the key conditions for peace.

The Russian president also has cast Ukraine’s bid to join NATO as a major threat to Moscow’s security and a reason for launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine renounce the bid for alliance membership as part of any prospective peace settlement.

Zelenskyy emphasized that any Western security assurances would need to be legally binding and supported by the U.S. Congress.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has spearheaded European efforts to support Ukraine alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said Saturday that “the decades of the ‘Pax Americana’ are largely over for us in Europe and for us in Germany as well.”

“Pax Americana” refers to the U.S.’s postwar dominance as a superpower that has brought relative peace to the globe.

Merz warned that Putin’s aim is “a fundamental change to the borders in Europe, the restoration of the old Soviet Union within its borders.”

“If Ukraine falls, he won’t stop,” Merz warned during a party conference in Munich.

Macron, meanwhile, vowed Sunday on social platform X that “France is, and will remain, at Ukraine’s side to build a robust and lasting peace — one that can guarantee Ukraine’s security and sovereignty, and that of Europe, over the long term.”

Putin has denied plans to attack any European allies.

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Ciobanu reported from Warsaw, Poland.

Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, leaves through a hotel garage for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,stands in his office in the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)

Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Jared Kushner, entrepreneur and former chief adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, watches Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arriving at the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)