The most popular car in Barcelona FC training is not a supercar

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It is one of the biggest football clubs in the world, packed with international stars, Champions League winners, young wonderkids and players earning the kind of salaries that usually come with a garage full of questionable decisions.

So people can expect the entrance to Barcelona training to look like a rolling motor show.

Ferrari. Lamborghinis. Porsche 911s. The kind of cars you usually hear before you properly see, engines booming off the road as they turn a simple training arrival into a mini event. Maybe the odd McLaren has come to make the morning commute feel unnecessary.

Instead, the recent arrivals reel from the club’s training ground tells a much more surprising story.

Cars are mostly low-key. Obviously, not cheap, but far more practical than the typical footballer stereotype. The major themes are SUVs, crossovers, and everyday performance cars, with CUPRA appearing more often than anything else.

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Barcelona’s car park looks like a CUPRA showcase

The video shows several players arriving in CUPRA models, including Formentors, Tavascans and a León.

Eric Garcia and Joao Cancelo are seen in a CUPRA Formentor-style crossover. Dani Olmo and Gerard Martin arrived at the CUPRA Tavascans. Fermín López drives a CUPRA Leon, while Lamin Yamal and Szczesny are also shown in a CUPRA-style SUV.

This does not happen spontaneously.

CUPRA is the official automotive and mobility partner of FC Barcelona and official car, the two Barcelona-born brands are renewing their global partnership until 2029. The relationship extends far beyond a badge on a press release.

Barça players have been involved in CUPRA events, including choosing and customizing their own cars, receiving new CUPRA models at the club’s Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper training centre, and even testing the new CUPRA Raval.

So yes, there is a sponsor angle here.

But the footage still says something about the image that Barcelona and CUPRA are pushing together. These are not extravagant supercars designed merely to scream from the sidelines.

The Formentor, Tavascan, Leon and Raval are all very close to the world of sporty, practical, urban cars. This makes the training-ground footage feel less like a celebrity fluke and more like a brand strategy playing out in real life.

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The supercar stereotype is missing

There are still expensive cars in the mix.

Frenkie de Jong arrives in a Porsche Macan. Pedri and Ferran Torres arrived in a Porsche Cayenne Coupe. Gavi is seen in a Mercedes-AMG GLE coupe, Raphinha is seen in a Mercedes-AMG G-Class, while Marcus Rashford, Ronald Araujo, Robert Lewandowski and Jules Kounde arrive in Range Rover-style SUVs.

None of these are polite at all. But this is not the usual image of footballers dressed in low-lying foreign attire with doors pointing towards the sky.

Even the attractive options are mostly large, usable SUVs. They are comfortable, private, safe and easy to live with. In other words, the cars are meant for players going to training, not for arriving on the red carpet.

That’s what makes Barcelona Car Park so good as a story. The club is full of global names, but the cars they come in are surprisingly functional.

CUPRA gets most of the headlines, partly because of sponsorship, but also because the cars fit the mood of modern Barcelona. Young, sporty, electric-inclined, design-heavy and not too keen on looking like old-school football money.