<figure id="attachment_3264403" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3264403" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3264403" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/10e4b5df-joan-laporta-23012026.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3264403" class="wp-caption-text">Joan Laporta leads the odds for re-election following Barcelona’s Super Cup victory and domestic treble. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
BARCELONA: Barcelona president Joan Laporta on Thursday set March 15 as the date for the presidential elections, where he hopes to be re-elected by the club&#8217;s members.
It is the earliest the vote can be held due to the Catalan side&#8217;s statutes, after he was elected for the second time in March 2021 and is approaching the end of his five-year term.
&#8220;Today in a meeting between the board of directors, we have agreed that on March 15 we will hold elections for the presidency of FC Barcelona,&#8221; said Laporta in a video on the club website.
&#8220;We are certain these will be exemplary elections with great (levels of) participation.&#8221;
The 63-year-old is set to be challenged by Victor Font, who finished second in the previous elections with 30% of the vote, behind Laporta on 54%, as well as Xavier Vilajoana and Marc Ciria.
After Barcelona beat Real Madrid to win the Spanish Super Cup earlier in January, lifted a domestic treble last season and reached the Champions League semi-finals, Laporta is favourite to be elected once again.
However, in his 2021 campaign, he pledged to keep all-time Barca great Lionel Messi at the club, which he was unable to achieve because of Barca&#8217;s poor financial health.
During his reign Laporta has overseen the heavily delayed rebuild and partial reopening of the club&#8217;s Camp Nou home.

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Barca president Laporta calls election in March

The 63-year-old is set to be challenged by Victor Font, who finished second in the previous elections with 30% of the vote.

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